GigglyBobble

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make sure you don’t do the XY problem.

Thanks for the link. That’s funny because translating Y to X is basically the core task when developing client-specific solutions.

I had no idea how to properly set up the filesystem, so I mounted them to /mnt/f and /mnt/h. It caused me many hours of headache later.

Can you elaborate? What kind of headaches? How would you set it up now? While I’ve been using Linux quite a while I don’t have multiple hard drives and am always interested in best practices.

I still can believe the world to rally together when it means to kill something.

The enemy must be simple though. Too complicated or invisible or something and the conspiracy nuts will take over.

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Schon, nur beschreibt Gaslighting eine Form von Manipulation of persönlicher Ebene. Das passt in dem Kontext überhaupt nicht, weil da ein Politiker nur einfach wieder Blödsinn faselt. Niemand fühlt sich dabei in seiner Realitätswahrnehmung beeinträchtigt.

gegaslightet

Warum nicht einfach “verarscht”?

It’s mandatory for online boasting.

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Why are there so many paru fans? Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don’t scream code quality. I prefer yay.

Emphasis on medieval though. Muslims can drive lambos, they can also arrive in this millennium on other topics.

“just”… Enshittification is too real. :(

It’s what set me free to move to Linux for good! It’s such a relief to not be affected by all the bullshit Microsoft brings to the world with Windows 11+.

Your quote is worthless, that summary doesn’t give any reason what’s problematic about the browser.

It’s also unfortunate that the article’s author chose to start with politics - I prefer technical reasons to stop using technical tools.

The crypto bullshit and injection of affiliate codes to URLs are indeed problematic. However, to me that just says to stay vigilant when using Brave but it’s still not as bad as Chrome.

Personally I use Firefox anyway but unfortunately, webdevs get lazier every year and only test Chromium browsers and sometimes some stupid website doesn’t work correctly on Firefox. If it’s something like an airline checkout I need a fallback browser and today that’s Brave.

You also had to manually cut your partitions, then to manually setup everything after install - himem, mouse, sound… It was mostly loading drivers and in Arch it’s installing and configuring packages. Sure, it’s more complex due to vastly more possibilities but the actual doing is pretty similar. And there was no wiki back then. ;)

I’m confused. You start doubting what I said and continue to confirm my point…?

what a nightmare it was, like Arch today

Disagree. Arch is smooth sailing in comparison. More like installing DOS in the early 90s.

Naive Linux users and gatekeepers.

There’s another kind I count myself to: realistic Linux users.

Linux can be a real alternative - if you have issues with Windows/Mac and are willing to tinker every once in a while. And you don’t mind playing AAA competitive shooters since those come with rootkits that won’t ever fly on Linux.

If you have to ask, don’t do it. People moving away from Windows usually have strong enough motivation to be able to tolerate the occasional tinkering Linux will require (any distro will, some more than others).

Personally, I switched a couple of years ago because I was fed up with Windows telemetry bullshit. But I admit that’s mostly ideological because you don’t “feel” it if you choose to ignore privacy rights violations.

I then discovered Linux to be much faster (booting, I/O, program start-up, basically everything) and not becoming shitty just by using it like every single Windows version does. Also, if you run into problems it’s much easier to find and understand the root cause. Windows is just a black box.

I have no relevant data locally. My Documents is a symlink to a Nextcloud directory running on my Synology NAS on a RAID1 that backups to cloud storage via one of their tools (forgot which one).

I never liked having to backup working machines. If it breaks I’m fine with having to install again. I won’t lose data though.