They’re blaming Biden, either for starting the war, or for giving nukes to Iran. I wish I was kidding. I hear it all day at work.

I just don’t want to have to memorize keyboard shortcuts or have my screen covered in terminals just to do basic tasks. I like the convenience of a desktop environment, but I don’t want the BS that comes with Windows.

Yeah, I started with KDE 2.2.2, and outside of the KDE 4 era, I always find myself coming back to it. I used GNOME 2 during that time, so I understand the appeal of MATE and Cinnamon.

I tend to prefer traditional desktops with overlapping windows. I’ve tried various tiling wms and hated all of them. I don’t want my screen covered in terminals or to have to learn keyboard shortcuts just to do basic tasks, and I often feel like I’m the only longtime Linux user who feels this way.

When I worked at a convenience store that is now owned by 7-Eleven, we always honored deals on the next size up if we ran out. So yeah, it does appear malicious to me.

Tiling wm aren’t for everyone so why are they all so excited for this?

There seems to be an expectation in the Linux community that everybody who sticks with Linux long-term will eventually “graduate” to a tiling wm someday. Even though I’ve used Linux for 20 years and still prefer KDE.

No, electricity bills have been skyrocketing all over the US because electric companies have been passing the costs incurred by AI data centers onto the nearby residents. The AI companies don’t want to pay for it.

The vast majority of people I know offline think all these protests are staged by paid actors because they can’t imagine that anyone would want to go do the right thing without asking “What’s in it for me?” It’s insane.

They should be forced to upgrade existing infrastructure and pay for it. They are refusing to pay for it, and the electric companies are passing the costs onto the residents near these data centers, which is grossly unfair.

Not to mention the water depletion and electricity costs that the people who live near AI data centers have to deal with, because tech companies can’t be expected to be responsible for their own usage.

I’m also a Fedora KDE user and I agree with you. The only real gripe I have with it is that if you don’t know about the full version of RPM Fusion, you’ll get frustrated that certain things are missing or don’t work right, and the GUI button to enable third-party repos after installation isn’t enough. I personally just skip that button and enable the full version following the directions on their site and then use Discover to enable Flathub.

A version of Ubuntu that’s nearly 4 years old?

winget install Mozilla.Firefox
winget install Google.Chrome

Whether or not any of it was a bug, the fact that it has this bad of a record when it’s been around for less than 10 years means that they should not be trusted to provide the most important application on your computer. And if they are bugs, then that’s even MORE of a reason you should stay far away, since they’re obviously too clueless to be trusted with such a responsibility.

There are more problems with Brave than just the CEO. The Brave browser itself has quite a history of deceptive and ethically questionable practices, such as replacing ads with its own, conning people into donating to crypto wallets by making them think they’re donating to creators, and sneaking in affiliate codes. A browser with that kind of record should never be trusted, especially by people who care about privacy.

And IMO, that needs to change. Mint has released ISOs with updated kernels which does help. But expecting everybody to eventually graduate to a rolling release distro by the time they want to buy a new PC is just going to send people back to Windows.

The guy behind Nobara does a LOT of important work to make Linux usable at home, especially when it comes to gaming. And in case anyone doesn’t know, he is a software engineer at Red Hat, the company sponsoring Fedora, the distro that Nobara is based on.

IMO, you shouldn’t have to learn Arch just to be able to get a new PC. Eventually, people who like Ubuntu and Mint are going to want to upgrade to a new computer, and they might be in for a shock once they do. That kind of thing is what pushes people back to Windows.

My experience has been the opposite. I built a new PC last year, and only Fedora and Arch recognized the Radeon GPU and the Intel Wi-Fi. Mint was shipping a kernel that was too old to recognize either one.

“Yes, do as I say!”

I miss the days when their slogan was “Don’t be evil”