Decker108

Nice, looking forward to it! So much money and time wasted on pipe dreams and hype. We need to get back to some actually useful innovation.

Did you try to hack a Gibson from your home?

I lost my home to an accident. An rm -rf accident... :(

Whoa, that's early KDE? They really went all in on looking like contemporary Windows.

I've used Linux since the mid 00's and, well, I've seen some shit. But nowadays? It's the best desktop OS I've used. I recently had to start using a Mac for work and realized just how far DE's like Gnome and KDE have gotten. It feels like I have to fight MacOS every single day to get it to do the absolute basics, the things that Gnome and KDE does out of the box. And the most ridiculous thing is that the app ecosystem for MacOS is so heavily focused on monetization that if you purchase enough apps to customize the MacOS DE to an acceptable level, you'd likely have spent enough money to buy another laptop. Madness.

TL;DR: Turns out that this year is actually the year of Linux on the desktop!

Wait, encryption counts as bullshit now? ;)

What brand is it? I'm waiting for my crowdfunded mini PC which will definitely be running Linux, so I'm curious as to other people's experiences.

I think I've used it once in 15 years or so. It's typically easier to go with bash or Python.

I think a lot of people dislike Ubuntu because of Gnome and Snaps, which is weird to me. You can fairly easily change desktop environment and most Snaps have apt or Flatpak alternatives.

Back in the early days of Ubuntu, I was blown away by the amount of interesting free stuff on Synaptic, so I started installing everything that caught my eye. A few hours later and my Ubuntu install was completely borked. I think the install scripts back then we're pretty unregulated, so there was probably a ton of conflicting dependencies causing trouble.

I eventually reinstalled the os. Then I did the same thing again. Twice. Then I learned.

Same here, but lately I've also been pushed towards Snap and Flatpak. I miss the old visual Synaptic tool though...

What about Intraastral Peace Corps?