Gamey @ gamey @feddit.rocks

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Definitely AMD, they give people enough data to build open source drivers and you will simply have better support and integration with those. It's not like Nvidia drivers are awful or anything but they just cause annoyances and especially with new technologies like Wayland (Display server protocol that most of Linux is about to adopt) they can be a pain. AMD GPUs work great on Linux, have far better pricing rn and they have no issues with Windows ether, even if you used Windows more I would recommend AMD rn for the pricing alone!

KDE should run fine on those specs, I would try to replace the hard drive, I had one of those slow down a Laptop to a point where I almost threw it away but with a new one everything worked fine again. If it doesn't I would say as a beginner Linux Mint with ether XFCE or Mate should be a great choice but I doubt you need it with those specs tbh!

I bet the dev gets a lot of angry comments over that, a absolute hero!

Lucky you, those idiots are fucking everywhere!

There are just too many terms, just give enough context and people will understand it regardless tho!

It can mess with configs, themes and some other annoying stuff so I never did it again but there is no big risk or anything, it's just a little tedious to fix small things afterwards!

My recommendation isn't to ditch Signal for contacts that have it to, it's simply to avoid adding another app with access to your SMS if you are worried about security, there is nothing that app will do better than your default SMS app.

The SMS reliance existed before the name changed to Signal and it was a online messanger ever since so no clue what you mean with that.

Did you read my comment at all? Flatpak and Snap share dependencies while Appimage doublicates all of them so unless you have no big dependencies on your system (literally impossible with Linux systems) Flatpaks and Snaps become more efficient in terms of storage usage the more you use them because they share big parts while Appimage still dublicates every single dependency because it's a single binarie with everything in it...

Well, that's your choice, I like and use Flatpaks but noone has to do so!

That's because SMS isn't end to end encrypted in general, you need a encryption client on both sides to achive E2E encryprion aka Singal to Signal or something comparable.

I won't use it myself because I don't think it's a good idea to give Canonical or any other company that much power and don't think it's centralized nature should be how such package systems work but I don't think it's a bad system at all! The sandboxing has it's hurtles but it's really good and I am a huge fan of proper sandboxing so if it works for you it's certainly a good option!

Well not really, Docker dose run another Linux system but on your actual hardware so you don't have the overhead of emulation, it's really cool for a lot of things!

Flatpaks aren't very relevant for servers if I am not wrong but Canonical definitely tties to push Snaps for that usecase, I feel like other container technologies like Docker or Podman are a lot more relevant in that context and containerization in general is really nice especially for server use and not that hard to wrap your head around! ;)

Your preinstalled SMS app is usually the best way to receive SMS, I wouldn't give and unnecessary app permissions to access them!

Damn, that's awful!

Both have laws like that in the making and beside tiny formalities the UK sadly didn't abandone it at all! :/

Have you ever touched a Google phone? You CAN'T uninstalled preinstalled apps on ether of them, if you don't root your device third party app stores suck, the law allows you to get rid of preinstalled bloat, messager interoperability is included and so on, that's a huge law and the first against silicon valley giants with enforcment that will actually hurt them!

Appimage literally requires more storage for the apps because it dublicates all dependencies so in terms of storage flatpak and dnaps win by FAR, there are valid reasons to criticize all three but your comment is a sad joke!

They literally ad d ed the tagging function on images to improve their facial detection so I doubt that this is a surprise to anyone!