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  • When they say WhatsApp I gotta think that would be the same for any third party conversation app right? I would never use whatsapp, and I would hope any security minded person wouldnt either. But I do rely on an opensource sms launcher and signal. I would assume the framework would make it mess with those too.

    This sucks. Horribly sucks. I can’t stand apple products, they cant do anything. I know that even having google play on my android device means I am fucked anyways, but this is a new low from google.

    Feels weird to buy a google pixel, only to be able to expect it is the best way to not have google on it. (grapheneos or similar).




  • I don’t care about AI in video games, seems silly to give a shit.

    I DO care if they are using AI to analyse or harvest my data. Otherwise… its a freaking video game. Whatever. Is it a good game?

    And I say this because I know people who really have interesting ideas, but they cant afford artists, musicians, and some even need a little help creating meshs and rigging. I would hope they are honest about it, but if they use AI as a tool to bring their vision together that seems fine. If they do translations it definitely would be worth saying “AI generated” as it never is as good as a native speaker. But it is something that is better than nothing.

    And I will add: If you are concerned about the “executive class” and workers, you shouldnt be buying from the big studios anyways.

    Edit: I guess the down otes indicate that you don’t give a shit about artists, you just have a knee jerk reaction to technology. Probably because you do not even understand it.






  • when introducing new people to Linux it’s best to acknowledge there may be some tinkering and adaptation needed to get things working as they should.

    Depends on what “should” means. My printer for example will not work with windows. It works fine with linux. So… that really is a printer driver issue. No matter which one it works with.

    As for the OS out of the box, everything works on a fresh install of either - although linux is far more loaded with ready to go software, and windows requires you to add it. And any of the software you add to either can cause breakages, that is computing.

    I noticed over the years that Linux works fairly well for people who did not start with windows first. Both have learning curves, but habits are habits.

    I am going to take my linux laptop for an example: 2 years. No tinkering. There is nothing to do, it just works.

    My other laptop (windows): damn thing need tinkering all the time: turn off this, regedit that, just to get the nagware and crap out. Won’t allow remote desktop with the license, needs drivers to be updated, software that came with it is bloatware garbage.



  • Yes mounting is different, but that is not a Linux issue. Same as when you boot into windows, but an EXT formatted drive will not appear AND it will never mount. Windows helpful choice is “unknown” and offer to format. These are just OS differences, not breakages.

    Cinnamon might be part of your problem with shortcuts…

    Yeah SMB shares can be tricky. I have issues with them in Windows as well, not linux specifically.

    I am not saying linux is perfect. All computers rely on a person being able to deal with them. I just find it much more stable then windows ever was. You add bottles and Lutris into the mix, and now it is a third party software issue: just like plenty of software in windows as well.


  • I agree that computers can have issues. But none of these are linux only. Windows does all this stupid shit too. My printer wont work with windows, only linux (how the hell this can be true is beyond me). Bluetooth drops in windows, works fine in linux. The latest nvidia update on windows broke all games making it black screen until I used some regedit fixes. A windows update broke my firmware on a video card for a while, almost got RMA’d. I could go on, talk about Jankiness. I don’t use windows as my main computer due to it being so all over the place. I say this as a MSDN dev and windows server and azure dev and support person. I remote entirely from Linux, I need to have an OS that works.

    My point is windows does this shit too.

    But: That is your issues are a long list that seems to have a repeating theme: OpenSuse.

    You don’t need to edit FSTAB to add a drive, there is a gui for that, for whatever that’s worth.

    I have not had any of these issues on the 5 or so linux computers I use daily. I have had a few upgrades in Arch cause me to update grub or roll back, but that is about it.

    Over the last two years I have found Fedora KDE has been amazingly easy to use and update.

    I still can’t find a horizontal page scrolling PDF app.

    That one has me curious: what is that? (I mean by definition - scroll - that can’t be a thing, lol) But I am sure it is, got examples?