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After the last experience, very proudly homophobic.

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That’s a very nice website and everything but listen I don’t have time to scroll all of that amazing new apps. You’re making me way too distracted with this one. Oh btw look there’s a Google Analytics alternative. Let me write down its name real quick

Advice on cleaning bloatware off of a new PC (www.bestbuy.com)

I helped my 77 year old mother purchase a new laptop, and I want to be sure to get all the bloatware off of it, and set her up with with some better privacy options. I am aMac guy at home so I haven’t done this kind of thing for many years. (I use Windows at work, so I’m quite familiar and capable, but obviously I have to...

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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

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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

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LTSC is usually in a grey legal area on personal desktop PCs

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Well yea that’s true. But viruses are still really hard to avoid on Windows

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Never heard of a timer or opening documents. Maybe it’s a new feature idk

[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.

I got the T460 refurbished and I really didn’t want to run Windows 10 on it. I last used Linux for any real length of time a good 20 years ago, so I’m pretty inexperienced with it at this point and I had to figure out how to install it myself....

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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

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Idk. I use Etcher and it never asks for any modes. Rufus is different though

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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

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Hmm then I guess I made a mistake

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RIP

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Well you’re right but the more postmarketOS grows, the harder it is to switch to another init system

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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

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Don’t believe. Do you have any proof of that?

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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

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Installing 2 DEs alongside will double the amount of apps and can break theming. The choice is yours

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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

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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

According to Google Plasma 6 for Arch was cancelled :D (beehaw.org)

I don’t use Google directly, but as part of the open source meta search engine SearXNG, where we can specify what search engines it will use. And the top result is from Google and I can confirm that Plasma 6 for Arch is now officially been canceled. And it’s linked to Reddit. :smiley:...

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Google search is dying and it’s good

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Well privacy and quality always come with some drawbacks

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I know there are some search engines that use Google’s search but add some privacy stuff to stop tracking. Maybe take a look at one of them?

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I mean, if nobody uses the instance, you absolutely can delete it. Oh and the Lemmy devs should fix the deletion issues asap. It’s really not ok for quite a big social media to have them

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Well anything you upload to the Internet is very hard to delete. It’s just on Lemmy it’s more obvious. Anyways gtk admins can delete stuff

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Hmm it should show both Flatpaks and native packages on Debian but GNOME generally prefers Flatpaks for its ecosystem and not every package manager is even supported by GNOME Software

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And of course nobody is going to fix these vulnerabilities because the governments want to be able to view that data

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Modified user agent?

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How old is the computer? I had that when tried to install any modern distro on a 20 years old PC

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Hmm open the BIOS boot order and make sure USB UEFI is the first. There can be USB without UEFI too. That should be below. If doesn’t work, make it the other way around and try again

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10/10 would definitely buy (seriously)

Can Linux be dual booted on a computer with Windows?

I have a Lenovo Yoga running Windows 10 on a 1TB SSD and at some point will probably have to upgrade it to Windows 11. I use it for school and have to keep Windows on it for now because of what I’m currently doing. I want to start getting into Linux in hopes of making the switch sometime down the line. Is partitioning the disk...

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Dual boot exists for a long time. You just have to make sure your drive is partitioned with the GPT table and not the MBR one

(SOLVED) Linux Laptop Gets Stuck on Black Screen After Suspending, No Way to Use Unless Restarted With Power Button

Recently bought a new laptop that comes with an AMD Radeon gpu and installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed on it which I had installed on my previous laptop as well but never had issues with suspending and resuming. However, with the new laptop, I am unable to resume after suspending or closing the lid unless I force it to shut down by...

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I have exactly the same issue (though in my case sometimes there are artifacts instead of just a black screen). I would love a solution but I never found one unfortunately

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I have a cheap USB drive that doesn’t work as a bootable medium too (except for Ubuntu and maybe some other specific distros). Though I suspect this issue apppeared after I dropped it from like 1.3 meters height. Anyways it can be a malfunction or your drive just doesn’t properly support it. What is your hardware though? Are you sure you need the UEFI mode and not the legacy BIOS mode?

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  1. How old is your computer’s motherboard?
  2. Aliexpress=questionable. You don’t need more facts. Getting something cheap always comes with a risk
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Hmm then I’m almost sure it’s working in UEFI mode. I’d say try another USB stick

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Don’t do that. Many malicious actors can put malware on Aliexpress tech products and sell it to get credit card information, create a botnet (similar to gaining remote access) or spy on you for the government

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You don’t know how far people from poor countries can go to save money. Some of my relatives literally buy everything non-critical there

Whats your thoughts on Ai in your terminal? (www.warp.dev)

Today i was doing the daily ritual of looking at distrowatch. Todays reveiw section was about a termal called warp, it has built in AI for recomendations and correction for commands (like zhs and nushell). You can also as a chatbot for help. I think its a neat conscept however the security is what makes me a bit skittish. They...

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Nice idea for fun and diversity (you can’t prohibit people to make such apps after all) but in daily usage? No, no, no and no

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On the Github page it says that the app has anonymous login feature. Idk how exactly it works though

Encrypted hard drive asking for password every time

I recently switched to Linux (Zorin OS) and I selected “use ZFS and encrypt” during installation. Now before I can log in it asks me “please unlock disk keystore-rpool” and I have to type in the encryption password it before I’m able to get to the login screen....

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Afaik you can’t. Disk encryption requires entering the password every time and it asks for it BEFORE the OS is started so you can’t use biometric login either

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Sorry idk much about Windows and Mac. But what you said sounds like their encryption systems aren’t full disk encryption, they somehow found a way to store the password for login or they just disable the login password completely when the encryption is enabled

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Oh then I guess idk what TPM actually is

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Steam Deck if it counts as a game console here

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Then Xbox Series X as I said in the first version of the comment

I dislike wayland

Quite the unpopular opinion, but I just wanted to post this to show the silent majority that we still exist. We have reached a point where voicing criticism against wayland is treated like the worst thing ever and leads you to being censored and what not. The red hat funded multi year long shill campaign has proven to be quite...

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I actually agree. Wayland is good on new AMD hardware with high refresh rate triple monitor setups. But on common non-gaming hardware it’s just a disadvantage, especially in terms of accessibility (yes I know it’s improving now but it’s still far from X11). If you’re an advanced Linux user, Wayland is a good thing. But if you’re a regular person who uses the computer for office work and YouTube, it is not. The problem here is that the most popular distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL) enable it by default or completely remove X11 support. If you’re a gamer and you need Wayland’s features, you’re most likely advanced enough to use it but there are limitations and bugs that regular users will not want to deal with and/or fix using terminal commands. Wayland is probably the future but it is not the today. Making it the default makes Linux desktop a little bit more of a hacky tool for geeks than it was with X11+optional Wayland support. Oh and good luck using Wayland on NVidia 800 series and older

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Ubuntu Touch is almost dead, Sailfish is proprietary and many many phones have that kind of postmarketOS support. I’m talking about things that are already usable

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Oh I thought they weren’t planning to update it further than 20.04

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It’s a thing in many languages. My first language has it too and it’s not hard to speak it (though I still make a lot of mistakes lol) because if you’re a native, you just remember the gender of every single word. But English is still undoubtedly much much easier to learn

Windows 11 vs Ubuntu vs Fedora 39 vs Arch Linux - Speed Test! (youtu.be)

Even though different Linux distros are often fairly close in terms of real-life performance and all of them have a clear advantage over Windows in many use cases, we can’t reject the fact that Arch Linux has undoubtedly won the competition. And now I’m so glad to have another reason to proudly say “I use Arch btw”...

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APT doesn’t have parallel downloads by default either. But in my case it’s still 100 times faster than DNF, especially in terms of fetching. As I remember, once I had to wait for like 10 MINUTES to install htop on a Fedora live ISO. That’s why I gave Fedora and DNF itself a big red DNF and started using Arch btw

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