It’s not any more secure. The point that “installing random debs is insecure” has been running around for at least the last 16 years I’ve been a Linux user.

While it’s technically true, AppImages are as secure as random debs. Same with random repositories that are not provided by your system. Same with flatpaks.

And unless you’re an extremely basic user, you’ll eventually have to install an application not in your repositories. The method doesn’t really matter, it’s all equally (in)secure.

Well, NixOS is mostly for enthusiasts and it’s very much the opposite of beginner friendly.

The idea is that you configure your system in a configuration file, then run a command that makes your system match exactly what you configured.

So instead of apt install or similar you just add the package to your config, run a single command to rebuild the system and you’re done.

Which also means you’re mostly on your own, most guides for other distros don’t work and the documentation on how to do the things in NixOS are very incomplete. It’s nice and fun, but definitely not for an average user.

Please, no…

You probably missed the word “better” in there.

Syncthing, runs in background, synchronises everything between machines. Use it on my phone, tablet, NAS, desktop, Steam Deck.

I mean, they can’t really tell you “here is a torrent with the necessary assets.”

They have to pretend they don’t know what pirating is so that Ubisoft’s lawyers can pretend that’s not what’s really happening for a huge chunk of the users.

So yeah, you can buy it (it’s usually cheap on GOG) or you can pirate it if that’s your thing.

Yeah, that one would be huge, it’s pretty much the only thing I envy Mac users.

Unrelated, but thanks for that site! Now I know what my neighbours download.

I started using CTRL+R with McFly and now I don’t use the up arrow, except if I remember it’s in the last ~10 commands.

Nice. Always wondered whether there was such a software, but was too lazy to actually search for it.

Nah, Nintendo decided to offer the dev money so he stops working on it.

Unless there’s someone to work on the actual emulation layer, yet another Yuzu fork won’t help anything.

Somewhere in between that weird guy and jaded outcast.

Wayland replaced a shitty protocol with equally shitty one. So it’s still shit, but different.

That is, if Wayland works for you. If it doesn’t, running X inside Wayland won’t solve much.

Sure is! Especially when Wayland is broken all the time. Last year I had to be on X because Wayland was laggy as fuck and my eyes hurt from the constant flickering.

A year before that it worked flawlessly and now it works too. Can’t wait for the next major update, I just love the thrill of not knowing whether my PC will work well or not.

Modern or not, X just works. Wayland is broken all the time.

Android is not Linux, it only uses (modified) Linux kernel. Android experience is not transferable to any other Linux distro. While Steam Deck’s is. You’re not saying your smart bulb runs Linux just because it uses its kernel.

Well, we got Steam Deck on that front, so at least there’s something. Not a desktop, but a regular consumer device with Linux is still nice.

Not even close. Most hardware issues I had were with Windows. Additionally, that thing gets slow over time, no matter what you do. If you use it often, it’ll get to an unusable state in a year or two. And you can’t do anything about it except fresh reinstall. It spies on you so much even Google could learn from them. And nowadays it even has ads. You pay for the OS and then you still have ads, classy. And as a bonus, all the spying and ads are so unoptimised that they make your computer slower.

Anyone who uses Finder as a file manager is a masochist. That’s the worst file manager I’ve ever used. And that includes shitty Android file manager which have more ads than file managing capabilities.