SpaceCadet
LOL, what the fuck is this?
Note: Limited features after 30 days of evaluation period
It's also closed source, and the developer has like 30 of the most generic trash apps on the snapstore: https://snapcraft.io/publisher/keshavnrj. My advice would be to stay away from this. Looks shady as hell.
I guess the playstorification of flathub and the snapstore has begun.
No 7 sucked too. It just came off the back of Vista which was a real hot mess, so 7 appeared better.
The thing is, Microsoft has always had an adversarial (or abusive) relationship with its customers, forcing things on them that most of them don't want. Like active desktop and IE integration in Windows 9x, "activation" and Fisher Price UI in XP, bloated (for the time) Aero UI that required a 3D capable GPU in Vista, UAC in Vista, forced automatic updates in 7, abandoning the start menu in favor of that awful tile UI in 8.x, telemetry you can't disable in 10, a start menu that acts more like an app store and advertising place in 10, forced TPM and Microsoft accounts in 11 ... the list is endless. And then when they back down on one thing, people are like: "Hurray, the czar heard us! Windows is actually good now!" ... forgetting all the other things they have been forced to swallow in the past.
No. They're all bad, some are just worse than others. You've all just been stockholm syndromed into thinking better of the "less bad" ones.
The new plasma-systemmonitor is garbage. The UI is very clunky, and it's missing a lot of sensors that were visible with its predecessor ksysguard, for example network sensors are entirely missing for a lot of people, and nobody knows how to fix it. I think it's beyond fixable to be honest, they should dump it and create something new.
For the time being I use ksysguard6, a port of the old ksysguard that's been fixed to work with plasma 6.
For example, the octa-core Ryzen 7 9700X is much more efficient than the 7700X
This has been proven untrue by several reputable reviewers, like Gamers Nexus.
$100 though ... a Chromecast used to be like $35.
Most issues like these are recoverable manually, but Timeshift takes away most of the headache from the process.
You gain a lot more understanding from manually fixing entirely recoverable problems though. Something like Timeshift is more like a last resort sledgehammer tool.
Iโve always thought of dependencies as equivalent to dlls. Is that right?
Usually, but not always. Most of the times a dependency is a software library contained within a shared object file (a .so file), and that is indeed analogous to a dll.
A dependency can be other things as well though, like a specific program that a software package depends on being present. For example, the handbrake program to reencode videos will call ffmpeg under the hood. So naturally ffmpeg is a dependency.
Why is Linux so fiddley with dependencies?
I don't think it is? I mean, software depending on external shared libraries isn't exactly a Linux only concept, and if anything I think most Linux distros' ways of handling dependencies are superior.
The main difference with Windows is that third party software tends to bring their own dlls for anything that's not a standard part of Windows, which is wasteful because of duplication, and less secure because the included libraries may be out of date and contain known security holes.
On Linux, distributions usually have every library under the sun in their repositories, managed by the package manager and kept up to date by the maintainers. As long as you stick to software included with your distro, or software packages for your specific distro, dependencies should be resolved automatically by the package manager. For example: if you download the Google Chrome .deb file, and install it with apt-get, it will pull in all the dependencies it needs to run.
If you go outside of that, for example compiling software yourself, or downloading non-distro specific binaries, you will have to take care of dependencies yourself. Perhaps that's what you mean with the fiddly bit.
Exfat4
this hurts my brain
Very simple, they learned not to care and the ones who did care got weeded out.