I mostly found it funny they felt the neet to upgrade from mint on a family members computer to anything else, because I can’t imagine mint not already working fine for them.

I fail to see the benefit in “Upgrading” to kubuntu (or anything else) in this case.

But yes u right hehe arch btw but also mby mint btw 🤔

Upgrade Mint to Kubuntu 💀

Punchable is a bit far, probably wanna tone it down a bit, big guy.

Just kidding, but it’s only funny and also is it this guys fault?

I don’t even know if it’s true, but in any case, the guy who tasked a react (native) developer on the start menu is responsible (not the developer).

Example: If I managed a product and hired a python developer and told them to do x, they would likely use python, right? (In this scenario, It is I the manager wjo failed everyone, not the developer).

Also the other commenter is correct. It’s like the common saying “use the right tool for the job”. The saying doesn’t make sense, because the right tool is always the one you know how to use…

Mint is just Ubuntu with a different default desktop, but way less reliable

I have never heard this, why?

The default desktop is better so why not use it. Especially for beginners, the default being a better option, that’s a good thing.

Mint is a more polished ubuntu as far as i’m aware.

As long as you don’t pick Ubuntu, you’re good to go!

(p.s. not to scare you lol, if you pick ubuntu you’d be fine, just some of their decisions on where they are taking their os have been bad imo)

Fair enough

My work provides me a laptop that I use for what I need to do.

I hope nothing personal (from a opsec pov)

Correcto X11 just works for me, never had any issues, there is literally zero benefit for me swapping over.

Every time I am booted into a Wayland session, something doesn’t feel, look or work right which causes me pain and suffering through my OCD which i don’t have.

I’m planning on trying hyprland soon though because it can look very pretty so if I swap over to that then yes I’ll be a wayland pleb, but in that case there’s a real reason to me swapping… not just for zero benefit.

I’m gonna stuff that unlimited budget between the fabric layers of mine and take it home with me.

I never had, but after being told I figured out that he was that meme face.

It is beautiful. I haven’t even thought of using a database server for personal projects in years. SQLite all the way. It’s so simple and performant (for my use cases).

I don’t think your use will be effected. I believe the only thing is your database will be less bloated with deleted items that have never been removed previously.

If you add a file back after it’s removed from the database, It should sync as usual.

(This is my interpretation of the change notes, i’m no experto, maybe a real experto can confirm this is true or not).

That’s all me ur welcome gais

I don’t think it would go that far, I don’t think they can go that far? Stopping people from editing text files basically is what you are saying?

Them tryna suck us back into their dysfunctional os, not gonna work on me Mr Micro

Yeah here’s to hoping these game devs/publishers get their heads on straight when we all move to linux and stop playing their games because of lack of support.

That’s the thought I use to cope anyways ;(

I’m lucky all the apps I use worked on linux when I swapped over, native or otherwise (through wine).

Sounds like if you fully migrated over, you’d have to give up quite a lot of software and relearn different tools, which is probably close to impossible (given the ones you listed).

Hope the Windows 11 transition is at least a smooth one for you!

They don’t have to, I was simply providing a solution to a problem they don’t have.

If they want to, but can’t because of they decade old configurations, this solution could ease the process or allow them to figure out if it’s even a possibility.

Basically just letting them know they can try it without destructing their existing Windows setup.

Pretty much every online competitive game cuz they all use invasive anti cheats and scapegoat linux as the cheater platform.

CS2 is the only outlier that I know of (VAC is server side mostly & CS2 is native anyways so). Probably some other games that are linux friendly too, but 99% are not.

Slowly switching may be an option for you. You could always dual boot a Linux distro alongside your current Windows install.

Then once you have Linux running with all your apps, etc, you can see what you’re missing from your Windows install and if you can move stuff over, etc.

You could even try it in a VM, see if you can set it up in a VM to how you like first before doing the whole install, may or may not be a bit easier (easier in the sense that you can directly compare whatever you do on Windows with the Linux install in a vm).

The problem is that content rights holders setup bots that track who is torrenting media that they own (all the peers they can connect to).

Then they use your ip to ask your ISP to stop you.

As far as i am aware (and possibly wrong), magnet links aren’t any more secure than using a .torrent file, it’s just another form of it that can be easily clicked (or copied) to open in your client (i’ve never looked but it might just be a link containing the info that would be in the torrent file).