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Gnome is certainly the most polished. They just need to get over the ultra minimalism though, because it is completely non functional without installing a thousand extensions.

Why they aren’t bringing back the dock is beyond insanity though. 3 million+ people agree, the dock needs to come back along with the application and places drop-down like it was in gnome 2.

Grammatically it can be properly read either way, but I think you’re right that’s probably how they meant it.

Metaverse. mozilla.social is the fediverse

fediverse*

I believe the general consensus is that hooking a smart TV to the Internet is generally a bad idea.

The two PCs were identical hardware btw, so in my case Live just worked 10x better.

I mean the Vero V seems to be a nice polished experience. It’s just a lot of work to setup a linux box and get it to work, the latter being the hard part. The wiimote and the flirc have some comments in reviews about being poor experiences, and I just want it to be on par with the Roku or it’ll wind up in the trash heap. I don’t mind paying a little bit extra for a finished solution, and it seems like a plus that the Vero is a community/libre project.

trying to get away from Google services / looking for a libre solution.

I would 100% do this (minus the pirating part) if there was a way to get a tv style remote for the box. That’s the biggest obstacle for me because I’ve never been able to find a PC/tv remote and non technical users will be using the TV.

Android/Google telemetry.

I’d like just one piece of technology that doesn’t use my information to sell to the highest bidder.

I’ve only recently switched to Debian after a couple decades with Ubuntu (because snaps) and I had a few issues during installation.

The net install failed to configure my wifi so I had to download the DVD/CD install. That worked but then I had to manually nano several config files to fix about 5 broken things for some reason.

I installed it recently on a different system, and went with the Live option (gnome) and it installed 10x easier and smoother than Ubuntu. It installed in about 4 minutes (on a new/fast computer).

So I would say Debian Live is VERY beginner friendly, but the other install methods are all messed up for some reason. Ubuntu’s default option is the Live option so I think that if Debian just kinda hid the other options on their website it would be 100% beginner friendly…

why flatpaks? Aren’t they more insecure and bloated? They seem like the wrong direction for Linux.

I see - thanks for taking the time to explain the backstory, very interesting.

serious question… not everyone on Lemmy is a computer expert, lol

I don’t quite understand, why would Microsoft sue you for a lemmy comment?

what’s with the link in every comment? just curious

I just looked up the definition of excel power user, and it’s mostly stuff I deal with on a daily basis, so I guess I’m a power user.

That being said I am switching to libreoffice currently because I’m tired of proprietary bullshit. I also like the idea of being able to change libre for my needs if I want. I haven’t seen any degradation other than a rough around the edges UI. What is libre lacking that MS has?

We use windows at my work (I’ve been using Linux for 2 decades on home computer). I’m trying to migrate our work CPUs to Linux but the biggest road block is my unfamiliarity with librecad, I’m used to autocad. I use cad command line a lot and it’s hard to live without auto suggest commands. Libre has the capability but it’s very rough and not mature.

Well not entirely true. There are a few Linux phones, like Pinephone that break free of Google.

I don’t own one but I’m leaning towards getting the pinephone pro, even if it’s a little rough around the edges.

I’m not sure what sort of applications are available in it’s “store” but I think it would work as a daily driver for basic use.

I personally hardly use any apps anyway, mostly just phone, sms, and Firefox.