All that aside, just based on looks alone, way better flag. The other flag of the emperor with the chrysanthemum is cool too, but I’m sure that one is seen similarly.

That is odd, aaand now I have to do a deep dive on the Angolan civil war, great. Lol

The old one was better!

Mozambique for sure, I’m not from there, never been there, don’t even really want to go, idt I’ve even met someone from there, but that flag with the AK goes so hard I want it on a shirt.

Not me!

It was me before I switched. When I made the plunge I took the effort to learn the basics, and within a week I was pretty comfortable (but still needed a cheat sheet for stuff like ffmpeg).

One of the things that pushed me into the loving arms of GrapheneOS actually.

I’ve been meaning to ask, what is HDR, why do I need it, and (new question) what do lice eggs have to do with it?

Tbf this would be the same on windows (well, if there was a fix other than reinstall…), unless you just already know the fix, which then would be the same on linux, you just don’t know it yet.

Besides, since windows only fix would be to reinstall, no second pc needed, just keep the installation drive and treat it like a windows reinstall, bam same same.

Ayy alright! Here’s hoping, thanks!

Thank you! I had no idea what “bloom” was (clearly, because I called it glow lmao).

This is at least close enough, if not perfect, especially if I can (and I expect so) change the background to the aperture logo (which can easily be found in the correct orange/brownish color online).

Good question, I’m not sure. From using a desktop wallpaper on my android before however I can tell you that in practice, whatever happens with your cache, it just crops the image to fit your screen. It can be a problem if you want the full design, but with a one color image, you’d never be able to tell.

But hell yeah I can understand being way too lazy to care, though still then I wouldn’t be saying “there’s no option…” because there is, you just have to supply the image, which is really very easy if you did care to do it.

Ok then,

Prntscrn your home, crop out taskbars.

Or open gimp and make a one color image in any color you can imagine.

Then send that file. There’s ways.

On my Android phone, for some inane reason, there’s no option to just use a fixed color background

Uhhh…

Literally just use the same one that’s on your pc? Just KDEconnect that file over (or find any online pic of a solid color wallpaper, whatever you choose of course), and click:

settings>wallpaper and style>change wallpaper>my photos>nav to your file>set wallpaper

(This is why all linux help is CLI, damn GUI nav trees lmao.) But yeah why not that? Works on my machine.

I’m still just trying to get my terminal to look like the Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver, but for some reason last time I tried I couldn’t get it just right. Now that I have KDE (and thus color picker and Konsole), I should try again…

The hardest part is the glow effect on the text I think.

Tbftbf, that’s not the correct way to do anything, you should always research before big purchases (like a laptop) or big changes (like an OS), even completely divorced from computing (like buying an anything).

We need to bring back the concept of the “informed decision.”

Can I hazard a guess?

Did you complain that linux needs to ditch the CLI to become more usable, to which people responded “actually I like the CLI and it’s necessary to keep for these 14 reasons even if you never had to use it due to gui, and help will always be offered through the CLI commands because it’s easier to offer a simple one liner that fixes the issue instead of walking you through 15 screenshots of some arcane GUI program they may never even have used?”

Gotta be honest, people can be dicks for sure, but usually when I see it, it’s because instead of learning the operating system that exists they demand the entire FOSS community bend to their specific need instead of them learning anything. It’s the digital version of moving to CA from Texas because of their shitty laws and then trying to make CA’s laws match the ones you’re used to, that you just left, because they sucked. Sometimes the answer is to learn the new thing instead of reshape it into the old, and that’s ok! Frankly when I switched I saw it as an exciting learning opportunity (even if it was kinda frustrating sometimes, so was biology class and that was fun too!)

I may be wrong about it in this case, but I would def be interested in what was said preceding them being dicks to you (which I totally believe they were dicks, I’m just curious if it was completely unwarranted, or if it was in response to the usual unreasonable demand.)

That’s insane, neither mac nor windows have gotten rid of their CLI, why would linux? That’s a damn microsoft psyop to keep customers scared of linux I swear!

Thanks, I’ll definitely have to try these, they look neat!

I have to check out some of these!

As for the browser, how does it display sites? Does it display images/video/play audio or is it mostly for just the text based stuff? How about ads/adblockers?

Damn, I preordered mine, and definitely remember the option despite not choosing it. I wonder why they took it off. If I had a guess it’s because anyone ordering a framework probably wanted to install the OS themselves for encryption like me or whatever other reason, so almost nobody chose that probably lol.