I’ve noticed this too. I’ve given up on it and instruct others to look for programs in the start menu alphabetically instead of searching because even that is bad. Same with Outlook searches, I instruct people to use webmail because the searching works there.

Nice yeah I gave snaps a fair shot when they rolled out but then I witnessed firsthand the horrible upgrade experience that is snap with a Firefox upgrade and removed it. Fuck snaps.

The way I see Arch upgrades you really have 2 choices with their own pros and cons:

Upgrade infrequently (say once a month):

Pros: software stays the same so nothing breaks, no forced restarting of anything. Cons: If a new package broke something, you now have a much more difficult time picking out which package out of hundreds caused the trouble. I’ve heard that waiting too long to upgrade can cause things to break.

Upgrade frequently (every day which is what I do):

Pros: If a package caused an issue, you can more easily narrow it down and exclude it from updates. I had to do this for a few months after Plasma 6 was released, it was unusable. Cons: More restarting of services and reboots to ensure you’re on the latest version. When there are KDE core upgrades I’ll relog my session because sometimes things get weird with old and new libraries being used at the same time. There’s also just more useless system activity this way, for example sometimes I’ll update my kernel twice in a week but not reboot for a week or two. I now exclude kernel updates until I’m ready to reboot to avoid disk writes.

I really like how Debian and most other distros explicitly tell you that the update you’re doing is a security update. On Arch a typo fix warrants you installing a whole new version of the package.

KDE’s great. The Arch derivatives have that same constant new software churn and sometimes broken bleeding edge packages too. I went full time a few years ago and I’ve been extremely happy. Best of luck to you!

It’s clickbait, the title implies that something wrong happened in this situation when no such thing occurred.

Nothing, because the author explicitly chose to allow this kind of behavior. Paraphrasing one of the Youtube comments on the video: the author picked a cuck license and then got cucked, what a shock!

It’s funny how apropos cuck really is here. We all recognize that a woman (Microsoft) cheating on her husband (the guy in question) is a bad thing, but we no longer view it that way when we learn that the man consented, video taped, and gets off to it. If you really want to stop this kind of thing, simply choose a better license like the GPL that forbids this behavior.

I think you need to go commercial recovery. If it was a file you accidentally deleted, that can easily be recovered, but you wrote directly to the device.

Gaming on Linux is great, steam isn’t porting games for SteamOS, instead they released Proton which allows you to play just about every Windows game without issue.

I don’t know about LibreOffice supporting Excel Macros, I’d assume not.

There are many good mail programs, but I think only one that properly integrates with Microsoft’s cloud stuff.

Visual Studio straight up runs on Linux, it should be familiar.

Try it out and see if you get your system how you want it :)

This is clickbait. tl;dr a guy released MIT-licensed software, Microsoft forked and renamed it as they’re legally allowed to do. Hell they could even close the source and sell it if they wanted to.

Endeavour, it’s pretty nice for gaming and different in some ways. I continue to run Debian stable on all my other machines. I really hated where Ubuntu has gone with snap and terminal ads, yet I still recommend it for people. My dream would be for Mint to make a KDE version instead of cinnamon, although I’d probably stick with Endeavour for myself.

Kubuntu is a good choice for a first timer, I ran it for years. KDE is easy to use and beautiful, and it’s easily themeable including the mouse cursor. You don’t really need to use the terminal if you don’t want to, but sometimes it’s the easiest way to do something when you just need to copy and paste a command from a website. It’s nothing to be afraid of or hate. It looks like Proton VPN does have Linux packages, although they’re all for the Gnome desktop. You can still install and use it KDE, the only issue is it might look a little different from your other KDE apps. Installing Linux is easier than installing Windows these days, you won’t fuck it up :) The way software updates work is better than on Windows; it works a bit more like the app store on your phone: You install all your software from the repositories (the app store) and then you get updates to all of them and the whole system at the same time. You can always decide whether to update or not, but there’s really no reason not to. Free software and Linux software are generally designed for users rather than to make companies money, so new versions typically bring security fixes, new features, and improved performance instead of “features” nobody asked for. As a plus, you can always go read a real changelog to find out what’s new rather than the lame “minor improvements” cop out we see elsewhere.

My advice to everyone curious like you is to not worry so much and just dive in! Lots of things could go wrong, but lots of things could also go right!

I’ve never heard of the SUNXI kernel before, turns out it’s just Linux that focuses on support for ARM SoCs from Allwinner.

Thanks for sharing! My ls is already aliased to ls -h --color=auto

For desktop use, the biggest thing as of late has been compromised flatpak’s or appimages. Like others have said Linux users are usually more technical but more importantly we install almost all of our software from trusted repositories instead of exe’s from random websites. Flatpak and appimage brings the bad security hygiene of Windows to Linux. Honorable mention goes to typosquatting programming libraries, but that mostly affects developers and not normal desktop users.

Hey OP, consider using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR instead of /tmp. It’s now the more proper place for these kinds of things to avoid permission issues, although I’m sure you’re on a single user system like most people. I have clipboard actions set to download with yt-dlp :)

My favorite aliases are:

alias dff='findmnt -D -t nosquashfs,notmpfs,nodevtmpfs,nofuse.portal,nocifs,nofuse.kio-fuse'

alias lt='ls -t | less'

I made a speedrun timer for gzdoom: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gzdoom-speedrun-timer/

I’m not a programmer or cheater or anything, but I think the answer is yes and no. Yes it could technically be done and even work as intended as long as the device is locked down to prevent the user from replacing the shipped kernel (which would be a bad thing for users). However, savvy people could (in theory) make custom kernels that lie to the kernel module, causing the module to report there is no cheating when there is. It’s my understanding that it’s close to the current situation with Windows and virtual machines and anticheat: you can cheat by running your game in a VM and then have that virtual hardware extract secret information or flip bits in the right spots. Most competitive games will refuse to run in a VM for this reason.

The funny thing is that these are the people that say college is a waste of time. Could you imagine if you or your kids were a student of this guy? I’d sue to get my tuition and lost time back.

He’ll never answer any question because it’s an easy way to avoid being pinned down on any position, which makes him immune to all criticism (in his eyes).

You know he does ketamine, right? The drug that makes you feel like you’re not yourself but someone else instead?

Exactly! EndeavourOS, my first Arch distro. It’s nice and easy to use, although Arch package updates are very different from say Debian. They don’t differentiate between security fixes and typo fixes so you’re either updating all the time like me or updating less frequently and being vulnerable. And then there’s also the issue of rarely broken bleeding edge packages; I had to pin a bunch to prevent upgrading from KDE 5 to 6 for a while.