It’s not as fancy. No graphs, blinking lights, paneled layout.

apparently it has it all

https://lemmy.today/comment/20055580

as I understood you are complaining that they don’t have a package manager. they do, but not for system software.

you did not read the article

note taking apps often dont sync and don’t keep the timestamp when you “sent” it. vikunja does not work offline. a selfmessaging chat app can keep the message until it can send it

Because Windows updates take long and cause downtime. Also forcing reboots is not great (though I dont know if they just do that if there was a real vulnerability, that would be fine)

and also the fear that whatever will break. I often hear that people are afraid of temporarily broken drivers, but also windows updates often reset (unknown!) settings, things like audio device IDs that matter for pro audio software and systemwide audio effects (think device specific EQ and filters).

but on linux the system updates your software too, which is then again, if you are doing something professionally on the system, you are almost guaranteed from time to time to come across bugs that are in the way

But I guess Windows updates are more stable than typical Linux updates, more tests etc.

It’s weird because it’s true even though the filesystem and updates are much better organised on Linux. I mean the weird part being that windows is that stable even with the chaos it does in its system files.

from what OP said I think the sites’ DRM blocks watching on linux. I mean, why wouldn’t they try the website?

And also, are you too lazy to update your system occasionally, which is a simple command or a few clicks? Because how is needing to click a few buttons every few weeks/months “bad UX”?

It’s not the point whether they do. the average people wouldn’t. that’s why it needs to be automatic, or why the easiest way should also do that.

What? Linux mint is based on Ubuntu because that is supposed to be the great distro.

mint is supposed to undo shit decisions of ubuntu

LMDE was reported to work way less well than regular Mint. But for sure that is a good path onwards.

I don’t get it either, LMDE is treated as a testing project by mint

Distros apply updates, and users should not need to press buttons and wait all the time.

distros should let the user be able to defer updates, but make them effortless to install. people complain about forced windows updates all the time and for good reasons.

did you see how kde plasma 6 does it nowadays? its on the shutdown button. that is the way.

There’s a “Cinnamon on Wayland (Experimental)” session for that. And also, installing a new DE.

why would you recommend an experimental DE to a newbie? it breaks in 2 weeks and all you hear is “linux from shit”. not even directly, but through a friend of a friend, because they won’t ask for your help again.

when I was looking at the viability of installing mint for common people, one of my criteria was to have kde plasma, because it’s user friendly and evolves relatively quickly, in a good way. a common theme I was reading that yeah it is possible to install it manually, but it’s less stable. I think I cannot afford the burden of taking upon the yech support for people and fixing an unsupported DE when it breaks, because it is complex software, with many moving parts that if the distro does not focus on always packaging correctly, if they don’t test it but only rely on users to report issues, then that won’t work reliably. If I want kde, I need a distro that takes it seriously and allows it as a default DE.

opensuse is ending slowroll. I had a pretty good experience with fedora kde edition though

I don’t think the average consumer knows about those issues. what makes you think they do?

its here:

• https://get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0/#download
• click release notes
• release notes HTML
• 2.2 migration from leap 15.6

and SmartTubeNext and YouTube with Sponsorblock both give me about a minute of black screen

I just read somewhere that it’s because clients need to wait until the pre-roll ad ends. until that the servers will block requests to the actual video for your client

Out of curiosity - have you tried any of the fully Mv3 compatible adblockers yet?

I’m not using any chrome browsers.

and… it just works. Still blocks ads as well as uBlock ever did.

so your benchmark is what you see? that’s far too little in my opinion. I want to block tracking more than ads. but Mv3 blockers don’t have the capabilities for that anymore. Mv3 is useless for that, google knows full well what they have done.

I can’t find them now, but I saw some articles saying that actually Mv3 offers some new tools that help achieve adblock goals easier than Mv2 allowed.

I highly doubt there’s any truth in that. Mv2 blockers can do whatever they want with any asset that gets loaded.
ok, no, there’s an exception. on chrome, Mv2 blockers could not filter traffic at browser startup (when previous tabs are automatically loaded), but that’s a chrome defect and this was not an issue on Firefox for a very long time (if ever)

some wiki article s from the developer:

• https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-Google-Chrome’s-“This-extension-may-soon-no-longer-be-supported”
• https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)

all up to date chromium browsers support Mv3.

if you meant Mv2, I doubt they will be able to keep up with the support for long. for now it’s very easy, because all the code is still there in the engine (recently you could still reenable it even in google chrome), but once chromium starts to refactor code, to make it simpler or more modern, those changes will not be done with kerping Mv2 support in mind, and fork devs will have an increasingly harder time to patch back support for it (safely!) as time goes on.

panic about the change from Mv2 to Mv3, and also a lot of misinformation. It’s correct that Mv3 adblocker are somewhat less effective (independent tests don’t show much difference, but in change offer a way better security).

what do those test measure? only what is visible, that is percentage of ads hidden? or does it take into account all the tracking shit regular ublock origin can thwart? I don’t buy that it’s “somewhat” less effective, and neither that it is more secure.

Mv2 will disappear sooner or later,

that’s not a problem with browsers like firefox, where the webrequest api was kept for Mv3.

Only problem exist for uBO,

there are plenty of other addons that make use of the webrequest API, they are just not so well known that half of the average desktop users know it. those are affected too.

due to it’s specific structure need to be practically remade from scratch to be compatible with Mv3,

that’s false. ublock simply cannot do lots of things with Mv3 that it can with Mv2. lite is lite for a reason, and not because in short time thats all he could put together.

then your quote just brings up google propaganda. restrictions of useful features are dressed up as “security”, just like google does it again but now with android with a different approach.

I was answering forking and how realistic it is. You’re changing the conversation into specifics around chrome.

I’m not changing anything. they are powerless. if google decides to change chrome for the worse in a more significant way than UI design, they cannot avoid accepting that change.

and what can they do against the manifest v3 migration? they cannot afford to keep maintaining the code for mv2 addons. it is an important topic for efficient content blocking.

its funny you bring up edge as an alternative. brave too has opt-out telemetry and other shenanigans.

the “supposedly” fascist guy: has an opinion wants to get rid of people not like him and who did not do any wrong

So when they do just fork it?

say the same for chrome, and think again if you mean it seriously.