noo wtf :(

It might not be on the same level of “easy and quick” as some of the other suggestions here but chili is really simple once you get the hang of it and you can kinda just dump random things from around your kitchen in and make a large amount of food relatively quickly and without a ton of effort.

also you can easily add more protein with some deli meat, not super budget but its definitely easy

They had to go out of their way to design their own proprietary system for these drives instead of using existing technology and making it possible to upgrade or repair by users. They went out of their way to develop a way to create more useless e-waste throughout their entire line of products by making them as unrepairable as possible and then they go out and say they’re caring for the environment by not shipping chargers with their phones (made over $6.5 billion USD in profit by no longer providing chargers and earphones with their phones)

Unbelievably based as always

okay you’re right about the root topic.

Mainly the idea is that gnome is nice because it has generally pretty solid defaults and doesn’t expect you to do anything drastic to get the most out of it (except dark mode which is coming in a few weeks in gnome 42). This helps productivity out of the box and makes it more approachable. KDE is also good, I’m running it right now and it’s defaults are also good, but it took me a long time to get anywhere near to getting the most out of it.

For some people that’s good, they want to be immersed into their desktop and know and control every part they use. Other people prefer a simple setup to use as a medium to get work done and put that effort into other things like their work or games or anything else. It’s really up to the type of user.

None of the points in the comment you’re replying to said less options = good because options = distracting. I said that less options can be less confusing, and that KDE has what can be considered an overwhelming amount of options by comparison.

the jar would probably be the most convenient since the packages are probably still the same java application just bundled in a repo

You also don’t need endless customization in a desktop for it to be good. Gnome is a decisive desktop with a decisive development vision. KDE is a lot more customizable but it can feel more disjointed sometimes and it’s app ecosystem is beyond what you need. KDE and it’s ecosystem is known for having an overwhelming amount of options and customization, but there is such a thing as too much. I run KDE on my main PC right now but I’m about to switch to Gnome 41 comes out with system-wide dark mode and the libadwaita redesign is released.

As for extensions, gnome extensions aren’t great because they aren’t officially supported but they aren’t awful either. I only really use the blur-my-shell extension to spice it up a bit. If you rely on extensions like dash-to-dock or other extensions to change the workflow you shouldn’t use a rolling release because you’ll generally want to wait for a little while after a release to update to make sure it wont break any extensions. In my opinion its probably wiser to get adjusted to gnome’s workflow instead of trying to fight it because once you do it’s really productive and smooth, way more polished than KDE feels for sure.

At the end of the day though that’s all up to personal choice. if you want more options go with KDE for sure, but if you want something that “just works” gnome is a great choice.

Yeah I’m really excited about phosh. Gnome has been building up to something like this for a long time, being able to run on everything from a phone to a desktop workstation. And it looks great.

Unfortunately you probably can’t. You have to port linux to each phone you want to use it on and because most android drivers are proprietary you’ll have to reverse engineer everything from audio to graphics. You could check around the XDA forums to see if anyone has at least gotten the bootloader unlocked though.

Yeah it’s all things that’ll become second nature pretty quick. Most of my gripes come from being spoiled by the AUR.

touchscreen needed

Sounds like Gnome is your best bet in that case, no other desktop comes close. Like @LIESGREEDMISERY@lemmy.ml suggested, fedora might be worth a shot. I don’t like how it’s software repositories work but it shouldn’t be that bad if you’re ok with using the command line to unlock the expanded repos. Once you got that you got one of the best Gnome experiences you can get on linux and a very solid linux distribution underneath.

Yeah I appreciate how our 2 biggest desktop environments are so unique from each other. Imagine if we had just KDE and XFCE or Gnome 2 and enlightenment. We got multiple different desktop environments that go in entirely different directions and smaller desktop environments that make a sort of gradient in between as well.

definitely

yeah lemmygrad.ml rocks

That’s an unproductive argument

I still can’t get my head around why anyone would voluntarily use a touchpad when they can connect a mouse to their laptop

I used to think the same until I broke my mouse and went without one for a while and ended up just sticking without one because its a lot more convenient than always bringing a mouse around having to find a good flat surface to use it on. I usually end up using my laptop on my lap or at a small desk where a mouse would be clunky and unnecessary.

The ui reminds me of the boost app for reddit which I really liked

You can search users from peertube apparently, though their posts don’t show up yet. For example if you search @thelinuxexperiment@tilvids.com in lemmy.ml his account shows up, but again no videos because that part hasn’t been worked out I guess.

Anonymous analytics are useful for developers though. As long as it’s opt-in and clear there’s no problem.

Thanks for explaining, I wasn’t sure how it worked inside but I thought I knew the basic idea.

It’s a third party theme. Firefox uses GTK as it’s toolkit but almost all of the browser is styles through html/css, this theme replaces most of the browser with GTK styling instead.

Darwin (unix/BSD) is open source […] and by law, they can’t close that source code

Darwin is open source to avoid having to open source other components to macOS while still adhering to various licenses for software it depends on for. If Apple could legally close source that part of the OS they would in a heartbeat, they’ve already gone out of their way to make it nearly impossible to use by (iirc) obfuscating the compiler forcing users to reverse engineer the compiling process for newer versions of darwin.

I think it’s possible to host a lemmy instance over TOR, though I’m not sure if you could federate with clear net instances over Tor. There is also Lemmy Lite, which is a JS-less interface for lemmy instances. Their repo is a bit stale but in theory it should still work with modern versions of lemmy.

this sounds like a great idea, invite the big tech corporations who make almost all their profit off of closed source software to discuss the security of open source software with the US government

That makes sense

I mean when the same place sells that exact burger but without the single ingredient you don’t like it would make more sense to get that instead

I’m not really sure why you’d choose to run ubuntu if you’re going to go this far to avoid using one of it’s core products.

It looks cool, but their license is really weird.

it is a pretty great ui though

It does but I don’t get why

On linux it has a very small footprint but as some desktops are branching off from the GNOME path and into using the EFL instead of GTK, I imagine it will get a bit more attention going forward.

the fact that this is possible is cool af

Just wanting to play some weird games with your friends isn’t toxic

from what I understand haiku and beOS were UNIX inspired, with some posix compliance, but it’s not a unix-like or unix-based. Kind of like plan9 was.

The new GTK/Adwaita theme looks really nice, the devs are doing great work with it.

There should probably be some ability to crosspost without being a symlink, maybe as a secondary option, but this is a great idea

ed: For proprietary software, as silly as it may sound, the best approach to supporting “Linux” seems to be supporting Windows and then waiting for Valve/the community to support it using Wine/Proton.

terrible take, beyond the fact that a flatpak is infinitely more convenient than using wine to run a windows program, most programs outside of games are much more difficult to run on wine because most windows software makes their own toolkit among other components. Games are one of the few things that can be done so well through wine because they are generally built on similar base toolsets and engines.

Also games are only being made to work so well on linux because the have a direct benefit to valve who wants more independence to sell their games without worrying about the platform they sell on being owned by microsoft/xbox. There is no software marketplace on desktops that would incentivize anything even remotely on that scale for regular software.

I hope this goes through, it would be great to have another major instance doing it’s own thing and would help avoid the semi-problem of lemmy.ml being the de-facto instance with the most activity by far. As it is hexbear has locked new comm creation, which if brought over through the lemmy migration would incentivize using existing communities on other lemmy instances.