ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace

Do no evil.

In most companies, your contract forbids you from talking about your employer on social platforms or in the media if it’s going to affect the company’s reputation.

Friendica isn’t that great in my experience. I thought it’d make a good facebook replacement, but it’s missing groups and pages as a feature.

As for peertube, I have yet to find an instance that would allow me to create an account so I can follow channels and comment. And yes, I know I can comment with my other accounts like Mastodon. But the average person won’t understand it that way because they’re not used to that paradigm. And I much prefer to have an account for each platform myself.

I was able with Proton.

Just have it open in your home router configuration to forward traffic somewhere.

Or you can have an SSH server running on a small VM and you can route traffic there and watch the logs. Like a honeypot type of thing.

For desktop apps you’ll be fine for the most part. But if you need to install a module for your hardware or some other system software it gets more complicated.

Ah sorry. I was referring to Bazzite.

It’s not that they can’t be installed. But that the process is highly technical for newbies.

See? That’s why Satya Nadella doesn’t care about Windows. Soon nobody will be able to afford a PC anyways.

Just don’t bring it. Bring a digital pocket camera instead to document stuff.

Nowadays, you can’t use a mobile phone without signing in to some Google service or Apple. It’s mandatory. Giving them access to every data you own.

I can’t recommend to a newcomer a distro that can potentially break or introduce bugs or vulnerabilities with software that’s too bleeding edge. That’s why I’ll never recommend Arch or even Fedora. And Bazzite is really too gaming focused and you can only install software through flatpaks. (I know there’s other ways, but we’re talking about newbies here. We need to keep it simple.)

I think Zorin OS did a really good job at customizing Gnome to make it the way it should have been. As for limiting customizeability, I don’t think that’s necessarily bad. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by KDE’s customization options. Vanilla Gnome has too little. Zorin’s desktop is just right.

But that’s my opinion.

kubuntu is trash

That’s like… your opinion, man.

Hey! Welcome to the fediverse!

You’re not wrong. I think there’s definitely room for some improvements.

And sometimes too many customizations can become confusing. I tend to keep everything vanilla to avoid things breaking, except for a few things. I installed a Win 10 theme and even a Win 10 style Tile start menu because I love the concept so much.

I know it’s controversial in a Linux community, but I absolutely LOVED the Windows 10 ergonomics. Square, flat, predictable, and your eyes can quickly pick up the necessary information and you can navigate faster with a mouse. Plus with the Powertoys that added the fancy zones feature, that was perfect. I get all of this in KDE.

I’m using Kubuntu LTS and I’m gaming just fine.