Neshura @ neshura @bookwormstory.social

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Also an important aspect for companies is liability. If the app they paid money for screws up customer data they have someone on the hook for that. If the FOSS version does the most they have on the hook is the 40 year old dude living in his parent's basement maintaining the project they used. Not much money to be got there for damages.

Distros being so similar is the entire reason why the comments about which is best for beginners usually descend into a mud slinging contest. Honestly most "popular" distros are perfectly reasonable for any beginner nowadays. But there is just so much choice it creates decision paralysis in people wanting to switch.

IIRC Plasma 6 is planned to launch with HDR is some form or another of Testing Stage so it shouldn't take too long anymore.

as I said nothing wrong with it, just wanted to add some info in case the decision was made based on some misunderstanding. If you think that's the best fit for you go for it

Think I'll go with Mint on one drive for school and such and on the other drive Arch for gaming

Nothing exactly wrong with that but I don't think you'll need the extra layer of separation. Most Apps on Mint should be available Arch as well and run generally as Bug free as on Mint (Edit: a "graphical" representation of what level of Bugginess you can expect: Many Bugs > Some Bugs > Few Bugs > Windows 10 (personal experience) > Arch Linux > Almost no Bugs > Linux Mint > No Bugs). Not splitting the OS would save you some hassle (for example after school work is done you can start gaming faster as well as simpler disk partitioning) on the other hand depending on yourself it might offer advantages (can't get as easily distracted from schoolwork with games if you have to reboot the PC for it)

Depends on your use case honestly. Do you play a lot of games? If so I would recommend against stable distros like Mint. Without knowing more I'd probably say:

• Mostly Browsing or Work in Office Editors: Linux Mint or Kubuntu since Updates are stable and generally don't break anything.
• A lot of gaming: Arch via Archinstall or ArcoLinux (ArcoLinux is imo a bit more confusing while getting the image file, after it is superior to ArchInstall for newbies because the installer is a bit more familiar) since you'll benefit from a shortened update cycle. The drawback here is that occasionally (or often depending on what you install) updates break things.

Edit: Also a general recommendation: Stick to Windows-like Desktops for the beginning, these are (to my knowledge) XFCE and more prominently KDE Plasma. It will save you the additional task of getting used to your desktop environment while you get familiar with how Linux "works" as your main OS.

well let's get rid of those 10 then, the other 2990 should be able to pick up whatever positive effect those 10 species have without building nests and swarming our homes

Not too deep in that conversation but afaik it's a series of choices that just continuously make Ubuntu less usable.

from what I "know" it seems to be mostly:

• the baffling decision to keep riding the dead Snap train instead of the now widespread Flatpak one.
• some drama around them switching from Gnome 2 -> Own Desktop -> Gnome 3 and related decisions, not sure what the problems there were but apparently a lot of people didn't like it.
• some stuff about telemetry, not sure how relevant this is currently but I heard some people complain about it.

Again, not really sure that's it but it's what I recall hearing here and there.

Always love to see the Bishop lady crush hard on Goblin Slayer.

That Soundtrack is very fitting for DoomGoblin Slayer going off to slaughter some DemonsGoblins

My Mother was on that whole trip for a long time, she still has some around but now admits and recognizes that the most you'll get out of those damn pills is a placebo effect (ideal for children with minor woes like a scratched knee)

Was one hell of a ride getting her to that point though

I guess the problem with modern medicine usually isn't that treatment is unavailable but that the person in front of you is too arrogant or incompetent to properly diagnose that treatment is needed and which treatment would work best.

Doctors can be so incredibly hit or miss and the worst part is there is no good way to check the reputation of a doc beforehand.

Nothing serious but when I was a kid my doctor regularly forgot to mark my blood samples with my age, resulting in me having to take Vitamin supplements on and off because the values flip-flopped between "way too low (for an adult)" and "way too high (for a 10 year old kid)"

Luckily my parents wizened up to that after a year and we switched doctors, was not a nice experience but still on the more harmless side of things

Edit: I do have a really messed up one. Back when I was a little toddler crawling on all fours my parents gave me milk in glass bottles, which is a good idea because plastics are obviously bad until you consider toddler behaviour. Well things inevitably happened and toddler me dropped the bottle while sitting on a bench. Toddler me then had nothing better to do than to follow the bottles course and fall into the glass pile. Parents rushed me to a child surgeon, he removed "all" glass pieces from my elbow. A few days after the OP the wound starts watering badly, so my parents go back to the doc. Nope he says, all the glass is removed. Wound doesn't get better so my parents go to a normal surgeon. Dude looks at the wound, cancels his plans and essentially emergency operates the wound because lo and behold there were still glass fragments in my elbow. Scars being what scars are I now have a ~10 cm and a ~5cm scar stretching across my left elbow. Guess the only good part about it is that I was too young to remember that shitshow.

exactl, issues, discussions, merge requests anything like that

I mean that's fair enough, I'm not arguing Big Tech is solely to blame. Heck before big Social Media was a thing you still had your forum trolls trying to make everyone else's life as miserable as possible, among other infamous archetypes of insufferabiltiy. But I think (I have no data on this) that the environments found in the Fediverse are, on average, healthier than what you find on Big Tech platforms.

Whether that's down to fewer people using the Fediverse or the approach being better I cannot back with data. It's just a gut feeling that the entire structure is more geared toward facilitating a healthy community (let's ignore lemmy's absolute lack of moderation tools here for a second)

Forgejo is developed by the people at Codeberg, they just rebranded their own Forgejo instance to Codeberg and added some extra around it (like Pages or the FAQ sections)

afaik none of the current options offer fedi support.

Forgejo is a Fork of Gitea made because Gitea is managed by a For-Profit company. Their code is almost identical, in fact Forgejo is a drop-in replacement for Gitea. Gitea and Forgejo are (iirc) both working on the same federation support but Forgejo seems to be further ahead since they announced that they'll upstream the Federation code to Gitea.

Gitea is under the MIT license, so FOSS, but the For-Profit managing it could at any point switch the license going forward. For example to lock Features for Self-Hosters behind a Paywall like Gitlab does

I know of one case where a city has switched over to FOSS software quite successfully. Ultimately the problem in Germany is that everything is decentralized and nobody works together. So instead of the state or country government providing a FOSS solution for the schools needs every single school has to figure it out individually. So they usually end up picking the "easy" option and just pay astronomical prices for Micro$oft Services. I really hope this pilot is successful because frankly the systemic issues causing the lack of FOSS in government funded services will not be solved by anyone in power for the foreseeable future.

Can't say they're particularly wrong but I feel like this is going at it the wrong way. It's not like TikTok is particularly problematic, it's just that the platform is so massively popular the general problem with big tech social media has become so big it can't be ignored anymore.

(for profit) Social media has an inherent interest in fostering an unhealthy environment because angry people tend to argue with the people they're angry at more so than people agreeing or politely disagreeing with each other. It's no wonder everyone is shouting at each other when the media everyone is doing the shouting on have a vested interest in making sure that the shouting be as loud as possible.