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[–] jack@monero.town 6 points 1 week ago

I mean, the models are open source, so of course the military is also permitted to use them

[–] jack@monero.town 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess there was no way to honk?

[–] jack@monero.town 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sooo where's the video? Can't find it anywhere

[–] jack@monero.town 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The android app has native touch support

[–] jack@monero.town 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yup, the other side is pretty counterproductive with saying the project is dehumanizing etc. They're absurdly exaggerating.

It wasn't just a report tho, it's a PR that could've been merged with a single click

[–] jack@monero.town 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Open mindedness is a key factor for success (especially in open source). Inclusivity demonstrates open mindedness. The fact that the lead dev goes out of his way to prevent such a minor change (it's not even like people demanded a strict CoC or something) is a bad signal

[–] jack@monero.town -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Open mindedness is a key factor for success (especially in open source). Inclusivity demonstrates open mindedness. The fact that the lead dev goes out of his way to prevent such a minor change (it's not even like people demanded a strict CoC or something) is a bad signal

[–] jack@monero.town 4 points 4 months ago

As per my other comment:

Do your latex work inside a distrobox and you're fine.

I'm not sure if you can layer another window manager on top. You may have to create a custom image for that

[–] jack@monero.town 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Basically installing packages. You're fine if you default to using

  • flatpaks for gui apps
  • brew for cli programs
  • distrobox when building from source or when you need good control over the package environment (e.g. when installing a latex editor and only the latex packages you want)
  • layer packages on host with "rpm-ostree install" when the program needs tight integration with the host (e.g. VPN software)

Also, you shouldn't edit files in /usr, but I've never run into that limitation. You can still edit other top-level directorys like /etc .

That's about it.

[–] jack@monero.town 2 points 4 months ago

Just use brew for non-gui programs. Really easy. It's the recommended way by the ublue devs and should be pre-installed

[–] jack@monero.town 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Biggest benefit for me is automatic updates in the background which are also safe. On a normal distro, if your pc shuts down for whatever reason during kernel updates you have an unbootable system. That can't happen on bazzite

[–] jack@monero.town 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The solution is to not be cconfident and remain open minded. You can switch any time

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jack@monero.town to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

A friend might let me install Linux on his secondary laptop he uses for university. He's not a tinkerer and wants something that just works.

Linux Mint is known for being very user-friendly and stable. Also easy to get help online.

However, in my opinion Mint seems rather outdated, both with its Windows-like workflow, default icons and look and also Xorg. When I tried it I had some screen stuttering I couldn't resolve, probably due to Xorg.

Instead, Fedora with GNOME is very elegant and always uses the newest technologies. It feels and looks actually nice and not outdated. But I'd have to install media codecs via terminal first which suggests that Fedora is for experienced users. Also university wifi eduroam doesn't work on Fedora for me because legacy TLS connection is not supported in Fedora (at least I couldn't get it to work). I'm at a different uni than him tho, so it might work there. In general, less help on the web for Fedora than Mint.

What do you think? (Btw, KDE is too convoluted in my opinion. Manjaro too, it breaks too often. I will not consider it.)

EDIT: From what I've gathered so far, I should probably install Mint. He can try Fedora with a live usb or on my laptop. If he prefers that then I can warn him that this may be less stable and ask what he wants.

I've only tried Ubuntu-based Mint, but LMDE is more future-proof so it will probably be that.

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