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For holy heavens, he’s striving to hit every 'Murican stereotype
Communist, parent, techie and hobbyist artist. Learning Rust and tired of frontend development.
For holy heavens, he’s striving to hit every 'Murican stereotype
Almost like an “intentional and kinda aggressive lib takeover”. I wouldn’t put it past the admins to try monetizing their users at some point.
Lemmy is advancing so much and so fast even Spez has competition rising up to the challenge.
I don’t have any issues about lemmy.world existing though, it keeps some users I wouldn’t like very much farther away from me. I consider it as a “buffer zone” of sorts.
I did it the moment they decided not to defederate from Meta. I don’t like admins who can’t take decisive actions to protect their users (and apparently seem to bend their knees to any big corpo out there)
You’re welcome, hope you enjoy your new Linux, whichever you choose ✨
Technical differences:
Fedora uses RPM for package format, and is made to work with the latest versions of software, so it’s almost a rolling release, and receives VERY constant updates (but it’s still solid). The only other release model is the SilverBlue/Kinoite which is all about having an immutable base system and managing your applications through Flatpak.
Debian OTOH uses the DEB package format, and comes in 3 update models:
Project differences:
Fedora is on paper “community driven” but it’s actually backed and steered on by RedHat. There’s also a current proposal about implementing telemetry (turned on by default).
Debian is entirely community-made and driven, with no big corporation being its owner and/or main sponsor, and it has a stronger focus on FOSS. It’s about as old as RedHat (both have their origins in the early 90s), so you can bet they’ll both be around basically forever.
Edit: both are great distros, mature, stable and easy to use. Fedora was previously my most beloved, but my relationship with it soured over RedHat’s leadership decisions. Don’t let my current salt take away from the review :')
My main tips are: get the live ISOs of a few of the most used Linux distributions, I’d recommend in particular: Debian (my current one), Mint, Fedora and OpenSUSE.
For Debian and Fedora, get both the KDE and GNOME editions. OpenSUSE is mainly only KDE, and Mint uses Cinnamon. Those are the “desktop types”.
Try each live system on a virtual machine and see which one you like best. Your main choice tbh is the desktop environment you like the best (mine is KDE, also called Plasma), each distribution has it’s own way of doing a few things as well.
Then pick the one you enjoy the most. All of those are long-lived, stable and well-supported and documented.
Source: me, I’ve used Linux since 2003 and introduced all my family it and they have been using it for years with no issue.
Time to learn some c++, it’s a good cause to help with
Many people already said stuff I agree with, but I’d also include low-income families being “justified” in pirating stuff, be it for work, study or entertainment (as entertainment is a basic right imo)
If you want some 80s badassery, Hokuto no Ken.
Listen to the opening, “Ai wo Torimodose” and decide if it’s to your liking or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9hhDEfV4uo
https://piped.video/watch?v=T9hhDEfV4uo for the Piped buddies
Cult classic! Duvet is such a great song
When it isn’t the USA it’s their daddy Britain, ffs.
This game is a fucking masterclass in story telling. I was floored when I finished it for the first time. Also, the worldbuilding is fantastic.
I'd rather someone's first choice about Linux was which DE to use. This plays a way bigger part in first impressions.
The obvious choice is KDE, ofc
Ooohhh that’s new to me, definitely a cool possibility. One more app to host on my wishlist
It’d be really nice if a peertube instance was easier to setup individually and had built-in donation support. Some non-mainstream folks would probably appreciate the option for a more cozy and intimate platform they could set up as they please.
Firefox sync is really neat as well, though. I like not needing to configure Firefox for each system I use when I can have everything sync’ed. I know Mozilla ain’t the greatest but they’re fine enough for my daily usage.
If I need full privacy I can go Librewolf or Tor browser.
I’ve been using it for years and can’t live without it anymore. It’s too goddamn useful.
This is really neat and you just gave me my new hobby, thank you!
So damn based. Makes me NOT wanna pirate their games. Hell, I’d even purchase even if I wouldn’t play it (if I could rn, but currently I’ve got hefty cat veterinary bills to pay).
Edit: OH MATE! THEY’RE THE POSTAL STUDIO! Goddamn I played it so damn much in my early teens. Goddamn I gotta pay my bills faster!