My windows 10 install broke itself after running an overnight update. I tried to fix it using the Microsoft tools and stuff I read online and ended up needing to do a fresh install. I couldn’t recover the windows activation key.

At the time I’d been listening to the WAN show talk about their upcoming 30 day linux challenge. So I thought fuck it why wait until that comes out to see if linux is good. I shouldn’t have to re buy a license for an operating system that just killed itself.

And I picked mint. It was an absolutely horrible experience, nothing worked out of the box and I spent at least 5+ hours troubleshooting display, WiFi and drive mounting. I got it to s point where I was happy and I could do what I wanted. Then decided to try out some other distros. Tried endeavour, it was broken out of the box. Tried Ubuntu and realised I do not like gnome. Tried garuda it was ok but ugly and WiFi didnt work. Tried arch… Did NOT know enough to get a nicely working system. Then I tried Manjaro and it had a nice clean KDE plasma setup out of the box everything worked, updates were lighting fast so I stayed on that for a year and loved it.

When the 30 LTT linux video came out I was shocked by how bad their experience was. For me I had a working system minus a few bits of hardware not working and software was pretty easy to install and worked very well. I was also mad that Linus uninstalled his GUI and then blamed linux dude you ran that command without reading it. Thats day 1 shit you learn. You have some responsibility to know your system.

Everything is compiled from source. This allows a few advantages, hardware specific optimisation, choosing which parts of the software you actually need eg disabling bluetooth support and being able to patch and modify the packages. Plus the gentoo community is friendly, smart and very Helpful.

Why isnt updating a one liner?

I’d rather teach my grandma to install gentoo than ever touch nixOS again.

Split view, tabs, drag and drop to the addressbar. The ui looks cleaner compared to win 10.

Negative is that one drive got even more embedded and they fucked up the right click menu.

Explorer on windows 11 has gotten better in a lot of ways and only worse in a few.

no its because they’re on selling another service and you’re paying extra for the Mozilla brand

Free cad in 2d mode

$5 a month is way to pricey for such a service.

Linux subsystem for linux

I’m a diehard Firefox user but i can instantly notice the preformance improvement when I’m using edge and chrome. I dont need my tech to be the best in class it just needs to work well which firefox does.

Is there much on any of the altnets? Its so hard to find anything more than a boring blog or two.

Larain is just aura farming at this point. They dont need to do half the shit they do but the choose go do it anyway.

What command are you using to update on the terminal? If its pacman then it will miss KDE store and flatpak updates. You can add a hook in I think.

I think the reason is because chromeOS is not open source and goes against the ethos of what people consider a linux distro. ChromeOS markets itself as its own standalone thing. “linux” as we refer to it is more than just a kernel otherwise we’d count pretty much everything as Linux.

The good thing about linux is a lot of the stuff can be done via bash in the CLI. If you need automation for browser tasks you can use python and selium. Which desktop environment are you using? There is a KDE kdotool and ydotool for general use.

Ddg gets its results from more than just bing as well as doing some curation on top.

I always laugh at German memes. I have absolutely no idea what they are. When I see them i imagine a German person crafting a meme which is just a statement of fact and laughing to themself.

thats steamOS not arch

There is some laptop hardware that isnt well supported, it is annoying but it is what it is people are writing drivers for a lot of stuff but it doesnt compare to having manufacturers actually support their hardware.

As for convoluted menu and installing apps via terminal thats user error. Linux is for those that are willing to learn and if people cant use an app store and get frustrated when they see a different menu they’re beyond reach.