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GolfNovemberUniform, to privacy in Advice on cleaning bloatware off of a new PC
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Well yea that’s true. But viruses are still really hard to avoid on Windows

GolfNovemberUniform, to privacy in Advice on cleaning bloatware off of a new PC
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LTSC is usually in a grey legal area on personal desktop PCs

GolfNovemberUniform, to privacy in Advice on cleaning bloatware off of a new PC
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Automatic updates can also destroy her work in case she happens to fill an online form or edit a document without autosave. The active usage time thing is there but ehh you can’t set all 24 hours as no-reboot time unfortunately

GolfNovemberUniform, to privacy in Advice on cleaning bloatware off of a new PC
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Unfortunately that stripped down versions are very unsafe because of removed antivirus features and sometimes they even include malware. I don’t recommend that for a casual user who doesn’t know what safety on the internet is

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in [Rant] A few days ago, I asked if Mint would run okay on a Lenovo T460 (I appreciate all the advice). I got it working, but the installation was a big pain and I totally blame Lenovo.
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Some distros support it but it’s only like 4 or 6 of them. I guess it’s really hard to support and maintain such feature

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in [Rant] A few days ago, I asked if Mint would run okay on a Lenovo T460 (I appreciate all the advice). I got it working, but the installation was a big pain and I totally blame Lenovo.
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Idk. I use Etcher and it never asks for any modes. Rufus is different though

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in [Rant] A few days ago, I asked if Mint would run okay on a Lenovo T460 (I appreciate all the advice). I got it working, but the installation was a big pain and I totally blame Lenovo.
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It’s impossible to make the situation with BIOS easier. Incorrect boot order and secure boot are enabled by default for security and Windows compatibility reasons. Though I never heard that it’s required to turn on legacy mode and change it back. Probably it’s a highly model-specific thing. And btw secure boot is Mint’s fault. It just doesn’t support it yet

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in Fedora 41 will drop GNOME's X11 session
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RIP

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in Linux Mobile Distro postmarketOS Adopts systemd to Better Support GNOME, KDE Plasma
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I’ve never heard of that. I only heard that other init systems usually have better performance. And well even if it’s not the case, security is another massive concern

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in Linux Mobile Distro postmarketOS Adopts systemd to Better Support GNOME, KDE Plasma
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Don’t believe. Do you have any proof of that?

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in Linux Mobile Distro postmarketOS Adopts systemd to Better Support GNOME, KDE Plasma
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It does have disadvantages. The only real advantage of it is the completeness of system administration tools. Since they aren’t that much needed on a phone and the performance of that class of devices is not groundbreaking, using another init system is a good idea. Though it depends on what the specific user wants of course. As long as there is a way to change the init system, it shouldn’t be a problem

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in Linux Mobile Distro postmarketOS Adopts systemd to Better Support GNOME, KDE Plasma
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Well you’re right but the more postmarketOS grows, the harder it is to switch to another init system

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in Switching from GNOME to Plasma 6 on Ubuntu - what makes the most sense?
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Not yet. I’m a GNOME user and I also use Plasma 5 for customization (idk if 6 is compatible with old themes and stuff). Though I want to try it and see if there are any performance improvements

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in Switching from GNOME to Plasma 6 on Ubuntu - what makes the most sense?
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Installing 2 DEs alongside will double the amount of apps and can break theming. The choice is yours

GolfNovemberUniform, to linux in Which one do you prefer? htop, btop or top?
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htop because it’s much more user-friendly than top, has the feature of sending all kinds of signals to processes, has mouse support and it generally looks good. Not a fan of btop at all. Idk how to use it and I don’t like the UI. I personally love the idea of no bloat. It’s just such a nice little philosophy. Sometimes I even want to use a CLI only computer tbh. Though htop weights only a few kilobytes and it has features top doesn’t have so I don’t consider it bloat. I had it on my server as well

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