It might be the other way around too though… You might be thinking of buying something, because Facebook or google have convinced you that you need it

That said, I had to create an account in FB due to work and studies. I did some research and decided to run it only on a browser and use a seperate browser only for FB. Along with some strict privacy rules.

My account was flagged within 30 seconds of creation. They asked for a selfie ID that they got and they did a manual assessment but banned the account nonetheless for not following community guidelines

You can’t even read their community guidelines without accepting their cookie policy

Not sure if this helps, but don’t you need to right click and under permission allow it to run as a program?

Then I can often just double click and run

I only use the terminal to resolve issues. This was more often at the start, when I just swifted from windows but now I rarely use it.

That said, I have no idea what I’m doing. I only copy paste commands that I find online or what they tell me to use in the forum/discord

I use Mint

I haven’t missed Windows one bit. There were a few things that were tricky to get right int he beginning and also I had to get used to using some other software for some of the things I used on windows but honestly it’s been worth it.

I do but still on search results from qwant and Ecosia the top results are always paid results

Yeah - this is the post that keeps popping up every time someone mentions Kagi.
To me it seems more like a personal issue between the writer, and the owner of Kagi.

For me, I don’t find it quite as suspicious, and have used it with great results some time ago. My main issue is that it is based in the US

Thanks! I’ll try one of the public instances and see how that goes!

I do want to go back to Kagi, but I may have to compromise on me not wanting to support a company based in a country that I can’t support

I have heard about this, but every time i’ve looked into it, it is a link to github, and I am not very technically versed. I do use Linux, but just have Mint installed and it seems to work. I would want a webbased search engine though, that I can use across all of my devices, without having to host a search engine.

Unless you buy the newest Nvidia, and then have to wait half a year for the drivers

Only improvement would have been to translate the texts to the local languages (and maybe make the text shorter). Maybe also add each recipient as BCC instead of them all being able to see each other

But all in all it’s a great help!

I feel like the world is full of TLA these days and it is mostly annoying /s

God I hate abbreviations… I had to put that into a search engine to figure out it was Resident Evil 3

Best transition for me was to go in and define my own keyboard shortcuts that matched the ones from Photoshop

For me, even if it wasn’t better, I’d be willing to sacrifice launching times, in order to get rid of windows

My apologies guys. I’ve had a busy month. I plan on being back on track this month

Changing the shortcuts to copy the ones from Photoshop was the main thing that worked for me!

So from my personal experience I have a few pointer

Don’t dualboot because you’ll keep switching to windows instead of finding solutions to your issues that you inevitably will encounter

There is no replacement to Photoshop but you can do mostly all things with Gimp. It is just different and you’ll need to figure out how. This in itself can be very frustrating because you know how to do a thing in Photoshop but will need to learn it again in Gimp. This is part of it though and imo worth the time. Just like when you learned Photoshop

You may need to use the terminal a few times when you start but in the long run when things are setup you rarely need it unless you really want to mess with things under the hood. For me, I haven’t used the terminal for well over a year

I switched to Mint 2 years ago

Be patient and use the forums or discord servers. And also be thankful and kind to people offering their help for free. Try to find a solution first, and if that does not work, give them as much information as possible when asking for a question. In Linux, find system info and export the system information as a txt file. Share that whenever you ask questions

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Honestly, I haven messed with any of this. I just installed Mint, made sure everything works and haven’t messed with it since. It’s a tool and nothing more. It is also the reason why I left Windows. They were trying to force too many features and ads on something that I didn’t want to be more than an operating system

The main customization has been that i added app snap store for the software that I couldn’t find in the default software store