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arthur,

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Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good

I’m sick of Windows, and especially what it’s become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I’ll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I’d like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I...

arthur,

If buying a graphics card is in your plans, but AMD. Nvidia does better cards, but AMD works with less bugs on Linux. I just switched and I’m quite happy with the results.

For distro, Mint is a safe bet.

Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn’t my first language )....

arthur,

Man, you will have some pain as any change will cause. But I think you will like it. Have a second USB to be safe.

arthur,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/c02bf97b-da09-45c4-8ef6-d293adc7f0a9.webp

arthur,

My problems with this text:

  • it equates state and business, they are not the same and business should not be treated as a viable substitute for a state.
  • it make it look like all places have the same set of problems when it’s more like same places have same of the problems and probably nowhere have all of them.

In an ideal world… We don’t live in an ideal world.

arthur,

Interesting, but seems difficult to enforce

arthur,

The malicious code is not on the source itself, it’s on tests and other files. The building process hijacks the code and inserts the malicious content, while the code itself is clean, So the co-manteiner was able to keep it hidden in plain sight.

arthur,

Nice tech surrounded by scams.

arthur,

That sounds like a bad transition plan. For sure there’s some lessons to learn from that experience.

arthur,

It will depend on how many instances will join the extensions…

arthur,

I have a different argument for why Meta could kill the Fediverse. Even before they engage on Embrace Extend Extinguish strategy, the simple fact that Meta will have an extremely large user base from the start may kill financially the rest of Fediverse.

All projects that embrace ActivityPub are not prepared to deal with the volume of data that a Meta’s facebook-like or twitter-like project would bring.

In a best case scenario it would force the development of current Fediverse projects to focus on sustentability earlier than necessary, and the missing features would be delayed. And that alone would cause problems to the future of such projects.

On the other hand, the smaller nodes would see the storage costs rising fast and would be at a higher risk of dying simply because they would not be able to pay.

arthur,

Valve created gamescope, that’s a microcompositor just for games. Other Wayland compositors may still break games.

arthur,

Expect this and they killing some of their products.

arthur,

But possibly more damaging, and less accountable.

arthur,

How low the barrier is depends on how good is your prior knowledge. If you are a millennial that remember the internet before Facebook, it’s probably very easy to understand the gist. For older people who never got into how computers work, or younger people that only saw the internet through smartphone apps, that barrier may be higher than we feel.

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