thanksforallthefish @ thanksforallthefish @literature.cafe

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PIA were taken over by a very dodgy company a couple of years ago, I don't recommend people use them.

"Who knows what a company that had hidden malware in their software in the past is capable of today"

https://www.vpnranks.com/blog/kape-acquires-private-internet-access/

One of the first lessons to learn is how to ask questions.

The doggedness on tripling down on "I want to know everything" is remarkable but it is not going to get you a result.

Your best starting point until you are able to articulate a more focussed question is the Arch wiki as already suggested.

Do a bare bones arch install on a PC you don't care about breaking (a very old one with limited hardware perhaps) while following the arch install instructions on the wiki.

If you're a noob then you'll constantly run into terms you don't understand look them up as you go.

Ciao and good luck.

End of lime

Yeah, I mean for linux in general, everything around linux

Waves hand in the general direction of the internet. It's all there.

Seriously, hone in a bit. Like "I'm a complete noob where do I start" or "I installed Mint and it works fine, now what?"

Something like that

Yeah I had to unsub from technology for that reason the Musk-derangement is so strong there it just made it unusable.

(Musk derangement in the sense that he does whatever his latest idiocy is then a thousand people pile in with increasingly deranged comments. )

That depends on your threat model. All lemmy posts are publicly visible and can be scooped up by Farcebook, google et al. Discord is very definitely not properly private but all posts aren't public. They are undoubtedly doing the same thing FB does and selling a semi anonymised set of meta data about you, but the world doesn't have direct visibility

I know the three letter acronyms have access to everything I do, hidden or not, I don't like it but I don't see anyway around it.

I can however do my level best to keep FB, google, M$ out of my stuff to some extent

Interesting. I'm using the 6600 on arch kde wayland with no problems. I wonder what caused your issues.

Anyway as you say if you've got a working setup great.

Would depend on the distro. Mint keeps a few older kernels and puts an option in grub to choose them. Debian family doesnt do rolling release in the same way as arch so it's a different paradigm

Definitely not subsidised in any way. This is roughly equivalent to a US "bake sale" where the school P&C or a sporting organisation sells them as a fundraiser. The govt has zero involvement. It's purely citizen driven.

Yes they're usually fairly cheap/low quality snags though

Great analysis, very readable and a clear message

$3.50 aussie is about $2 US so it is a pretty cheap sausage sandwich

As I was witheringly told by an American lecturer a decade ago when I bitched about Oz becoming the 51st state.

"Don't get too big for your boots son. The 51st state is Canada and if you're lucky you might squeak in at 60 after we've sorted Puerto Rico, Guam Mexico and whichever Middle Eastern countries seem like a good idea"

Just a suggestion, I always have both the latest and LTS versions installed concurrently. Have the current version as what boots and pacman will update both when you -Syu.

Then if you have any problems just boot the LTS. Grub automatically offers it in the advanced menu or you can manually point to it

1 Varies by brand and model, but usual a cellular connectivity module, aka telematics. Some cars you can simply pull a fuse, some make it hard

2 Killing the telematics by pulling a fuse can cut off inbuilt navigation functions or the entire display and control system depending on how integrated it is. Work arounds can include pulling the GSM module or faraday caging the antenna.

Need specific models for more specific answers.

Good call, just be aware that while you can (pretty much) install any DE on any distro. Many distros will have a ready prepared install that may feel quite different to you adding the DE later.

If that's not clear, Ubuntu with cinnamon DE is very different to Mint Cinnamon. Same with Kubuntu (KDE Ubuntu) and KDE Neon (Debian KDE).

All of the differences are of course replicable, they're themes and tools and configs. But for example it took me literally most of a day to get Arch with cinnamon to feel like Mint cinnamon.

Not for beginners, that's just mean

Ubuntu is doing an annoying attempt to generate lock-in and profits by forcing snap on everyone and making it annoyingly difficult to avoid.

Consider one of the ubuntu derivatives (there's a number of them, Mint, Pop etc) in preference to ubuntu itself, a debian derivative (KDE neon for example) or go with Fedora if you're a business orientated user.

Hmm I am using Wayland on KDE for 6-12months with no problem, why did you need to swap to Gnome to get it working ?

Just curious, no tribal warfare intended (the gnome vs kde fight is a bit silly to me)

Well given op said download it from microsoft then yes it will be riddled with spyware but that's the genuine windows experience® for you...

The downvoted guy you replied to is right. You can download the (genuine) iso off microsoft and install it without paying M$ anything, it will work fine other than not being able to change wallpaper etc.

If that small restriction annoys you the MAS (linked elsewhere in thread) is the answer

Whispers back not a chance, we don't want 'em