Ah, that’s actually what I was thinking of in my previous comment

For sure and I agree that should be enough but the average person is not good with computers and they don’t want to learn. They won’t understand the nuances of different distributions of Linux. Like try explaining the difference between a .deb, a .tar.gz, and a .rpm to a person who’s already hésitent about using Linux. Flatpak solves that by just having one download that any Linux install can use

Oh 100% but have you tried to explain how to use one to a computer novice? Like yes, the answer is usually “they should just…” but novice users will never. With flatpak, they get an experience similar to how MacOS works and a bit like how .exes work and it Just Works™️

Edit: like I’ve had trouble showing people how to use the GNOME App Store which could not be any more simple. Anyone who has been convinced to install Linux already feels way out of their element so making everything feel as natural as possible is essential (and I mean, flatpaks are awesome anyway)

I love installing things from the CLI and prefer to only do it that way but Linux needs a single click install method for applications if it’s ever going to become a mainstream OS. The average person just wants to Google a program, hit download and install. If not that then they want to use a mobile-like App Store.

Flatpak is kind of perfect at achieving both those things

1906 or earlier from what I can see from historical rental listings in our local newspaper

It’s been a while since I installed arch manually, but wouldn’t that only help you understand a bit on disk partitioning and some basic commands like copying files/chrooting? You generally learn that stuff the first time your install breaks on any distro

I think people can vote to kick people but that’s it really

I have an m3 pro MBP but I’m still sad about the end of Intel support just for what it means about Hackintosh

I don’t really. I just sort of reinstall things as I need them

I just keep my home folder backed up safely. The software installed doesn’t really matter to me since I can redownload things pretty quickly

That’s what I’m hoping but I believe the instruction set is different enough that there’d have to be emulation which would tank performance? Admittedly this isn’t really my area of expertise though so I have no idea

Took them like two decades but they finally almost killed Hackintosh :(. All it took was developing their own CPU

ARM macOS doesn’t but x86 CPUs are still supported by macOS for the time being. It’ll be a sad day for the Hackintosh community when they drop that support though

Step 1: be a mega rich corporation

Just install Hackintosh and use that dmg file 😎

I find it’s really good for asking extremely specific code questions

Oh! I use something somewhat similar for when I do need to browse Reddit on mobile. It’s called Sink It for Reddit . It doesn’t affect old Reddit so much but makes the mobile site bearable

I just refuse to use the official mobile app. When they killed Apollo, I left. I’ll use old Reddit sometimes when on my desktop but all my mobile browsing is on Lemmy with Voyager

I’m not as into rap lately but I used to really like Noname

Wine is a tool that lets you run Windows programs on Linux or MacOS and WineHQ is a database of how well certain programs or games work with it