Tippon @ Tippon @lemmy.fmhy.ml

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Imagine buying a book only to find out that you can't read it anymore because the store you bought it from decided to remove it from sale and stop all downloads of it. You can't restore it from a backup because the DRM prevents that.

They're for me to test. I've got an SSD in a USB3.2 enclosure, so the live ISOs run fast enough that there's no noticeable difference to an installation on my main PC.

I've been using Xubuntu on my server for years, and Mint on my laptop for the last few years, and have been trying to switch to Mint on my PC, so I thought it's about time to try some other distros before I fully commit.

I've got all the main distros, so will be distro hopping for a while to see how I get on, and if any of them jump out at me. I've always used Debian based distros, so I can see me sticking with one, but I've added the others to see if they've changed much in the last 20 years, and if I like the way they do things :)

Have you tried Bluefish? I started using it recently for editing a web app, and I really like it. It loads quite quickly on my laptop, and it's got a mini file browser on the left hand side that lets you open files directly with a double click. Handy for when you need to edit a few files at a time :)

A potato is a very slow computer. Usually old and / or low quality. I've got no idea where it comes from though.

I'm actively trying to switch to Linux, so it's not from a lack of effort.

The main two reasons are Photoshop and scanning. I'm a photographer, and I'm scanning and restoring old photos of the family. There's no decent alternative to Photoshop, especially now that it has the neural filters, so editing and colouring photos is in a different league.

As far as scanning goes, I was getting better results in Windows 20 years ago. I've got an Epson scanner, and the software can automatically crop, as well as restore the colour balance of a photo. Using Linux, I was lucky to get more than a dodgy .bmp through an interface that would have looked clunky in the 90s. I could open it in GIMP, but then couldn't save as a jpeg without either exporting the file or installing addons.

On top of problems like these, there are issues that crop up because of an apparent need to be different to Windows.

My Xubuntu server won't let me resize windows unless I grab the top left corner. Any other edge of the window is apparently half a pixel thick, and too small for my mouse to register.

Smooth scrolling by clicking the mouse wheel has been replaced with the paste command, as if pasting into a browser window is something that people do dozens of times a day.

Mint's settings window constantly resizes itself, no matter what I set it to. I can resize it, open a setting then click back, and it's back to the default size again!

The universal paste keyboard shortcut, ctrl & v only works in some programs. Others need shift, ctrl, and v!

Silly little things like this spoil my workflow and take me out of what I'm doing. They're the minor annoyances that frustrate people and encourage them to switch back to Windows. Yes, they can probably be changed, but why were they changed in the first place? I could paste with ctrl v in DOS 6.22 and could trust a window not to resize itself in Windows 3.1, long before any modern distro was dreamed up, so why are the basics different?

I spent an hour last night adding new distros to my Ventoy drive. It's so much easier than anything else I've tried :)

Wants to, but can't. I set up two installations in the last few weeks, and set up local accounts using this.

Ironically, I had to wipe and reinstall one because I accidentally set up Pro instead of Home >.<

Depending on what you want to use it for, you may be able to set it to another location in your country. I'm in the UK, and setting mine to London or Edinburgh gets around a lot of location blocks for some reason.

I've recently started using it to edit a web app, and even though it might seem like a simple feature, the mini file browser on the left that lets you open files to edit is a godsend. I was using Notepad++ on Windows, and never realised how often I was switching to the folder and back.

They would have had a bigger impact if the previous season hadn't turned them into friends who were then completely forgotten about.

One scene saying something like 'Oh, the Borg are here. I wonder why Agnes didn't contact us first' would have made it a bit more believable, rather than 'We made friends with the Borg but now we're scared when they're mentioned'.

Didn't they hand wave it to say that he'd been alive inside the simulation for years?

Just disconnect the internet connection before you start setup 👍

In the mid to late 90s and the early 2000s. PC gaming magazines and PlayStation magazines used to give away demo discs for you to trial new games.

Even they aren't as bad as the sites that ask for feedback as soon as they open >.<

I'll second this, especially if you don't mind 'cheating'.

I've got a Java world set up with cheats turned on, so that if I need to stop, I can make a note of my current location and teleport back to my base. When I next play, I just teleport back.

The downside is the temptation to just teleport everywhere instead of managing your resources, or to use the other cheats.

That's a good point. It's been so long since I had to buy a new copy that I can't remember what version I have.

Depending on your location and internet speed, you might be better off dabbling.

Some places let you own a backup copy legally, and if you've got decent internet, it might even be faster than ripping and converting it yourself.

Ass is very rarely used to mean the body part in the UK

I like them for the opposite reason. I'm still quite new to Linux, so I'm figuring out which software is best for me. I set up my server with Xubuntu and installed everything through Apt. I uninstalled a lot of software, but inevitably missed some things like libraries and config files.

Using Flatpak seems to keep track of everything, so uninstalling gets rid of everything that I would otherwise miss.

If it's doing what it says on the tin, Flatpak is making my life much easier :)

It would also help if we could block a community from the main feed. I've blocked a few communities that I don't like today, and I've had to go into each one to do it.

In my case, they've been normal communities that I just don't like, but having to go into a NSFW community to block it seems wrong.

Separate to this conversation though, I'm really enjoying the app so far, it's great, thanks :)