SteamOS uses an immutable filesystem, and Valve curates the snapshots of the packages before pushing them to the end user. That pretty much removes the entire issue we’re talking about, and is completely different than running rolling release distros.
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If you update once or twice a week, chances are there are literally hundreds of packages to upgrade every time. There’s no chance someone will look into every single one of these packages to verify what could potentially ‘break’ their system or not. They just upgrade the whole thing and THEN, if something breaks, they work around it.
As someone who uses CachyOS daily as my main distro, I wouldn’t install it on a device for someone that doesn’t want to do some maintenance from time to time. Maybe I wouldn’t go as far to say that it is UNSTABLE, but point release distros such as Mint or Debian are definitely more stable and require much less maintenance. Rolling release distros are, naturally, much riskier.
I love how even modern Linux distros run so damn well on what’s considered today ‘outdated’ hardware.
I love Linux Mint btw! I think you did a great choice! Even though it’s known as the beginner friendly distro, I think it’s just a damn great distro for pretty much anyone, experienced or newbies. Fantastic choice!
I was partially kidding. I mean, sure, if that’s what they want, then what could anyone do about it.
But since they came from Windows, wouldn’t they adapt to something like Linux Mint Xfce or Q4OS (that mimics Windows XP)? These are very lightweight distros.
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27·6 days agoIt doesn’t surprise me. After all it’s the default way to start using WSL.
But for people running full distros, it seems to me most are avoiding Ubuntu these days except if they are required to use it by their employer or something. In DistroWatch it seems Ubuntu’s popularity is slowly sinking.
Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping!
Yaaaayyyy!!! Nice one!! Congrats on pulling that off!
So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex
Sorry, you what???
13·7 days agoIf I had to guess, most of these ‘books’ are some kink bullshit. Ever since I looked for the rankings in the Kindle section, it was flooded by books with men or women stripping on the cover and some random erotic titles. Among them some rare exceptions (and most of these were some cheap self-help stuff).
That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised this is what’s being actually affected. I can’t see the actual data or content of the article though, because it requires me to subscribe and I definitely won’t.
Exactly what I wonder. I have a list of 110 (and growing) books I want to read, all of them written by human beings, and I discover something new all the time. There’s no way I will buy a random book on Amazon, be it from AI or by some author I’ve never heard anything about.
I really like Foliate. Great interface, easy to use, enough customization. It’s available through Flatpak.
If you want something more feature rich and don’t care too much about UI, then Calibre.
I particularly couldn’t care less about Game Pass at this point. I’m just fine without paying Microsoft for anything. But I suppose that’s good for those who still use Windows just for that.
At least I find it interesting to have Linux supporting software that it wasn’t technically suppose to.
3·14 days agoNot sure if I understand the thread, but it seems to me it was trying to find out how many people actually reply to posts on Lemmy, rather than just reacting or seeing and ignoring them. And what it seems to find out, is that Lemmy is actually very active. According to it, the median community replies to 74% of all posts, which doesn’t look bad at all imo.
It also seems to compare the numbers to Farcaster, and concludes that Lemmy’s lack of rigged algorithms, focused on chronological feed, creates more active communities with higher visibility and replies. It also seems to conclude that the chosen server heavily impacts the response rate (Lemmy.world with 93% of active threads, compared to 56% on Lemmy.zip).
The biggest problem though, is that it compares Lemmy to Farcaster, which are completely different platforms. Farcaster is a microblog like X / Mastodon / Bluesky, that, by design, is a whole different beast, and also way too niche. Without comparing it directly to Reddit or other comparable social networks, I don’t think it actually means anything that useful (at least not in a comparison).
Also, the data is too short (1 day, 50 posts each community) to draw conclusions, which makes it fundamentally flawed. If the data was extended for an entire week or a month, and done in different times of the day (considering that time zone matters), the conclusions could have been much more interesting.
Do they want to make the switch? If they don’t, they won’t.
You can’t force or convince the mainstream to get to the Fediverse when pretty much all of their connections are on the mainstream network.
That’s why I think Lemmy/Piefed are the ones that have the biggest chance of sticking, because they’re aimed to a public that’s not necessarily mainstream.
I know they exist and I totally respect it, but I’m not even sure if it makes much of a sense an Instagram/TikTok alternative on the Fediverse, considering these social media are aimed around getting visibility either by personal relationship or by popularity (volume over quality). And I don’t think that the Fediverse public as of now is looking to become that.
I’ve just tried it, and although the idea is interesting it doesn’t seem to be working as intended.
I’m pretty sure all of these are FOSS, and thy were tagged as proprietary:
And these are also FOSS but were flagged as ‘Unknown’:
And there are others I’m not entirely sure if theyre FOSS or hybrid, that were also flagged as proprietary.
Also not a fan of needing to subscribe to give feedback (like pointing out FOSS alternatives or false positives).