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Why ? Don't you geddit ? :) (Guess cause languages and dialects)

Well I never used command line in 30 years of Windows.

That's 30 years of using closed source software from strangers (Or do you have many good friends at Redmond WA USA ?) :-)

It’s pretty much a requirement for Linux that you copy and paste random commands you don’t understand from strangers on the internet.

Maybe decades ago it was. Nowadays that's not a requirement as there's GUI applications for a lot more things than before. And as a Linux user I simply find it much more convenient and faster to share some commands with another person than making screen shots and creating a howto of a few pages or making a video. Also documentation has improved. For the average Linux user the Arch Linux wiki is a nice resource, even when not using Arch Linux.

That reminds me : Last time I tried Garuda Linux it came with a local Whoogle instance.

No need to have an account. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=riseup

OP was banned. Time to move on.

I prefer to use debs (apt) for most packages and just a few Flatpaks. Avoiding snaps (Among others because I find the Snap Store too messy) and I do not bother with AppImages. But if you (OP) would need certain software that is only available as AppImage then go it.

Note that ext4 is damn old

Hmm ? Linux kernel is way older than ext4. And before ext4 there was ext3 and ext2. Linux users also have the choice of using XFS file system and for IT persons working for corporations XFS can have some advantages. Let's see, XFS was born in 1993.

more modern ones like btrfs or bcachefs

Years ago I thought that bcachecfs looked interesting but last thing I read about it this year was not very promising regarding reliability. Not sure whether it was in comments on Lemmy but here I found something from Linus himself : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs#Stability

This bug report is maybe relevant ? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4630

• The city where I live in has several few Little libraries that people have in their garden or hanging at the wall of their home. And I know that other cities have them as well. Today I went biking and brought back two books and I was pretty sure that I did not want to take any because I have more than enough to read, but I noticed an interesting book and took it home. This is something you can do yourself. Build a small wooden box, and have other people put or take books. You don't have to do this yourself, you could ask friends, family and co-workers to help you build it or ask them to provide such. Then you could take a little bit care of it and promote the idea.
• What I like about bigger cities are public parks. I like to go to parks and just sit, listen to birds, enjoy the green and in Springtime, Summer and Autumn enjoy the colors.
• Public libraries here have magazines and books to read for any visitors. I've learned about open source software thanks to the Internet but also a little bit thanks to public libraries. I find that reading paper books or magazine can also be a nice break from staring at a screen of a device.

Good that you mentioned that. Reminded me that I have an Arch Linux install here where I forgot that I did choose BTRFS during installation. Within maybe a month I noticed FS errors. Looked scary. Nervously searching for documentation was even more scary :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/btrfs#btrfs_check -> This article or section is out of date. (Discuss in Talk:Btrfs) Warning: Since Btrfs is under heavy development, especially the btrfs check command, it is highly recommended to create a backup and consult btrfs-check(8) before executing btrfs check with the --repair switch.

What is this? My beloved Arch Wiki is not 100% perfect!

Then found this :

WARNING: Using '--repair' can further damage a filesystem instead of helping if it can't fix your particular issue.

Warning

Do not use --repair unless you are advised to do so by a developer or an experienced user, and then only after having accepted that no fsck successfully repair all types of filesystem corruption. E.g. some other software or hardware bugs can fatally damage a volume.

I figure this explains the popularity of BTRFS snapshot configurations. Luckily I had some backups :)

I've tested the Beta of Ubuntu 24.04 and during the installation it bailed out as well which I've never seen before.

Normally the installation disk has Try and Install mode. If you go for the Try mode and then choose install you should be able to navigate to the log files and check the contents which can give you an idea of what went wrong.

There's other flavors of Ubuntu, like Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu. Try one of them and see whether the same error happens. After you would successfully install for example Xubuntu you can use apt to install the ubuntu-desktop package which is a meta package which will install the default GNOME of Ubuntu. Then proceed to remove the XFCE4 packages and you're done.

Thanks.

Depends on use case and the country. I use Mullvad and Riseup VPN and something private (and Tor). Sometimes when a site has Mullvad in Europe blocked, it works when I try one of their servers outside of Europe. In my experience Mullvad is awesome, and you can try it for one month. And Mullvad, the no nonsense VPN provider, has had the same prize since years! (And no discounts like Proton trying to get you sign up for a year or more trying to keep you with Proton).

A glitch in the Fediverse I guess. Here's my view.

They are not pioneers, they are Microsoft funded group (at the beginning, at least)

In the beginning in 1997 GNOME was a direct response to KDE using Qt toolkit with a license that GNU with RMS did not like at all. Not sure why you mention Microsoft and funded ? When I search for it I see that M$ gave 10K to GNOME in 2022, more than two decades later.

Thanks

Actually, i thought about merging rdo and ssu, both a bit over 100 loc in C.

Found ssu here : https://github.com/illiliti/ssu Can't find rdo. What is it ?

Thanks for the nuanced comment. Of course the signs don’t only say ‘stop killing of children in Gaza’, but often ‘from the river to the sea’, which of course is antisemitism.

Of course antisemitism ? That is what the repeated front-page news of mainstream media tried to make me believe a while ago, and then lots of politicians started to believe that as well, even banning that sentence in some countries. Here's some information on it :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea

Many Palestinian activists have called it "a call for peace and equality" after decades of Israeli military rule over Palestinians while for Jews it is seen as a call for the "destruction" of Israel.

I think the progress we’ve made on driverless vehicles is pretty amazing and I really want to live in a world where they work - but we’re not there yet and some idiots are under the impression we are.

Who is the "we" you mentioned three times ?

No worries. When I saw the image on Mastodon I thought I did not get it but still looks funny.

• "RunAs" is apparently the Windows equivalence of sudo in Linux.
• Administrator in Windows == root in Linux.
• Furries are popular among some users on the Fediverse, for reasons.