The Quuuuuill

my journey was notepad++, vim, atom, vim again, neovim

(i agree entirely but if you say that to people who think linux is scary, they think you’re being a dismissive jerk)

“the fuck do you mean the windows can’t detect the laptop’s builtin keyboard?”

100%. We tried it first but her laptop was simply too low powered to run it so we stepped back to MX Linux, which is somewhat of a light to middleweight distro. I really wanted her on Mint since it would be more her speed, but even the XFCE edition was too much for the machine. Also, credit where credit is due, when mom found out MX Linux was developed in conjuction with the antifascist distribution (AntiX) she really wanted to go that route, or even all the way to AntiX 🤣

None of their docs for 10 or 11 are gaurunteed to be accurate either because they keep changing where things are in what menus to “be more intuitive” only it wasn’t intuitive before, and it’s not intuitive now, and when you do a web search for a problem you get instructions from 2 months ago that reference settings and options that don’t exist anymore. (this is me agreeing with you by the way, I’m piling on, not refuting)

I genuinely think at this point if you, dear reader, have a computer, and you want to use your computer, you should be strongly considering installing Linux Mint, MX Linux, or AntiX depending on your hardware not because it will be easier to use than windows, but because it won’t be any harder to use than windows, and you can start building up the knowledge and skills for how to use and troubleshoot linux just like you did when you first started using windows, and it will be easier long term because Windows is just going to keep getting worse and worse and more unusable and less documented and harder to troubleshoot and use.

I accept that I am biased by that I have years of Linux experience, but I switched my 68 year old mother to Linux because she couldn’t update her laptop anymore because of Microsoft shenanigans and she finds MX Linux to be neither harder nor easier to use. It simply is, to her. There are things she doesn’t know how to do on it, but those are things she already didn’t know how to do on windows.

My fiance is constantly fighting with windows 10 and 11 because shit breaks on there all the time. The challenge isn’t that Linux breaks more often, or that troubleshooting it is harder, it’s that if you have experience with how Windows breaks, and how to troubleshoot windows breaking, Linux breakages and troubleshooting feels entirely alien.

Also waterfox. Can’t forget about waterfox. That said, I’m daily driving Zen at this point and am extremely happy with it

sure. i also dislike that it’s a closed source product created by a private company that could rug pull all the users to turn a quick buck at any time. they haven’t in the last 10 years, and come from a legacy of a company that was very respectful of their customers (opera) but you could also argue the legacy of opera being bought by a spyware company was the last rugpull and that vivaldi will inevitably do the same. but that’s a more abstract complaint

further contribution to the google chrome hegemony

But why vivaldi of all things?

What a terrible terrible example. Bottled water is just theft

For me it was joining 45’s business summit in 2016

hmmmm sounds like he hasn’t quite learned the lesson yet

tech, food, anything

i’d be willing to give tesla buyers benefit of the doubt up to 2016. after 2016, no excuse.

no for sure. it’s just we live in hell and there’s gonna be times you’re gonna be somewhere and you’re like “even a pretend friendly stranger who sucks will be better than nothing”

i assume, if this were real, which it isn’t, the idea would be that everyone on the app has to pass a background check, so if you’re walking through an unfamiliar neighborhood and you’re a class of person who has reason to fear walking alone, you’d have someone there with you to help you be just a little more safe. obviously not as good as an actual trusted friend, but for certain people in certain situations, better than nothing

the problem is our bosses, and too many people too broken to stand up and fight them

it’s legit a problem. some of the leftists i meet have no interest in engaging in silliness when silliness is what got a lot of us involved in the first place