Unpopular take:
A more complex installer that lets me choose what I want to use:
what de?
what theme of de?
what package manager?
all the video codecs or minimal?
what office programs?
graphics card? Nvidia or AMD?
developer pack? (Python, java, some other stuff, vscode/codium)
graphics suite (Krita, incscape, gimp)
KDE connect, syncthing?
Firefox or chromium?
cloud connections? (OneDrive, Google drive, nextcloud?)
I don't know what else could be interesting, but I think that would take away the annoying "what distro to I want" and would make Linux more like "I like gnome, everything installed, I'm a developer" or "KDE plasma, graphics and office, the rest inwant to install myself"
Maybe I totally don't understand what distros are, but isn't all the same, just some differen configurations?
I mean if you consent, they can do it. Maybe you can opt out like with meta.
I think the issue will be, that ai can reveal secrets it is not supposed to
There is the recycling fabrik in Germany. They take orders from outside Europe as well as far as I know. It has a minimum weight of a few kilos though, so maybe collect with friends and local communities before?
They take pla and petg
I Dualboot as well, because the programs I want to use are not available on Linux and this keeps me from switching 100% to Linux. If I would need to use Adobe for my job, or just like it, it would keep me from switching to Linux as well.
To be honest, if all programs would run in Linux as well without tinkering, the market share would go up to 10% immideately almost guaranteed.
The thing is, Linux and most open source and free software feels like it's not quite there yet. A lot of things are a little unpolished and weirdly complicated.
I am happy to pay for good software, as I did in the past. I don't need to have everything open source. Yeah, there are alternatives for almost everything but comparing them side by side shows what the free tools often lack, like freecad vs Fusion or solidworks. Or gimp Vs Photoshop. It's not the same. You can get it working if you want it to, but most people are lazy and want stuff to be working like they are used to. Or just require it to work fast without workarounds.
I could not find a good alternative for Ableton, and all my project files are from Ableton. So I sometimes hesitate if I want to boot into Linux or windows, because everything I need just works in windows and is already there
I have a power key on my Logitech keyboard. (K800 or something?)
As far as I could find out, I could not turn it off, but you can change the action. Like sleep, shutdown, and restart or something.. very.. interesting feature?
I don't have this much trust in the system anymore to be honest. If the data is available, it can be misused or leaked or hacked. Maybe I am paranoid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I recently heard the episode of darknet diaries about it. I would think a simple PIN-Code that is mandatory would solve this issue? Or a letter send to the owner of the SIM?
Everyone has different opinions.
In the end the different versions, or distributions, are basically the same.
It starts with the Linux vernal, that as far as I know, handles communication with the hardware, and things like directories, storage, users, permissions.
On top of that, every distribution creator puts a destropenvioment, like gnome or KDE (plasma?). Gnome is kinda like Mac is, KDE can be what ever you want, very customizable.
Than there is the package manager. Fedora for example uses yum or dnf (dnf is the new version I think) and Ubuntu uses apt. The package manager is like your app store, that you access over the command line. It is managed by the owners and ist mostly safe to download anything. (Installing Spotify would by 'sudo apt/dnf install spotify'. So pretty easy to use.
On top of that the distribution has preinstalled programs, like the browser, writing tools, and some useful apps
That is basically the only difference between distros. You can even get different spins of a distro. If you like fedora, get it with the KDE desktro envioment. It's all the same basically.
So put something on a usb drive and boot from that, try it out for a few minutes and than look at others. There are also websites that allow you to boot into different distros.
If you like something, just install it, maybe as a Dualboot first next to windows (best is on a different drive) and just try it out. If you don't like it, just jump to another one.
Linux can be a little bit pain sometimes, but in my opinion it's worth to invest the time.
Have fun!
I am sorry to hear that. I hope she is fine now!
It sounds like system is just overwhelmed, because it would be a lot cheaper and faster and easier to help people like your mom right away and not half a year later when the disease got worse..
Is the Canadian healthcare so bad you rather go to the us?! I saw memes about bad healthcare in Canada but don't know any facts or talked to anyone about it yet
Unpopular take: A more complex installer that lets me choose what I want to use:
I don't know what else could be interesting, but I think that would take away the annoying "what distro to I want" and would make Linux more like "I like gnome, everything installed, I'm a developer" or "KDE plasma, graphics and office, the rest inwant to install myself"
Maybe I totally don't understand what distros are, but isn't all the same, just some differen configurations?