By design, they don’t know how they work. It’s interesting to see this experimentally proven, but it was already known. In the same way the predictive text function on your phone keyboard doesn’t know how it works.

And none of those y axes start at zero, which is additionally misleading as it exaggerates the level of change.

Honestly default GNOME is probably less confusing than this for old people, and even less confusing once you customise it a little.

Seriously, this is good effort! But anything based on XFCE or Plasma is going to look technical and confusing.

Sorry, I should have mentioned in the post: curl worked by itself, just not with curlftpfs. Someone else suggested using rclone, so I’m going to try that

Yeah, I tried without the mount point too, but I think that’s just the same as what Nautilus does. There is nothing under /run/user/1000/gvfs

aarvi@fedora:~$ gio mount ftp://jack101:correct%20password@oncilla.mythic-beasts.com /mnt/jack101
gio: file:///mnt/jack101: volume doesn’t implement mount
gio: ftp://jack101@oncilla.mythic-beasts.com/: Location is already mounted

I think it is already mounted, but under the annoying computer:/// virtual directory, not where I want it, and what does it mean by ‘volume doesn’t implement mount’?

Idk how to downgrade it, it doesn’t seem to be working

aarvi@fedora:~$ sudo dnf dg curl-8.8.0
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: curl-8.8.0
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages
aarvi@fedora:~$ 

Hmm, I did try that. It didn’t work, still same error.

Hmm, that also says it should have been fixed last year

This bug is fixed in current master, set to be released in curl 8.10.0 on September 11, 2024.

I know, right? But even with -d, -v, or -o debug, that’s all I get

I hadn’t, I just did, unfortunately it gives the same error.

I tried out it and Jerboa on Android (from F-Droid) and besides for not showing user PFPs, Voyager is generally better.

If you choose the app first, and you choose Voyager, everything else - browsing, creating an account - is intuitive and just works.

Android technically uses the Linux kernel, but is not GNU+Linux, and has had all the good parts of Linux taken out. I didn’t know iOS was based on Linux, but it’s even worse than Android, locks you so much into Apple’s services and spending money. Freedom over your device is the point of Linux, and iOS fails at that even more than Android, at least with Android you can install custom ROMs.

That’s really interesting, because I’ve had a very different experience. Almost anything I wanted to do could be done through a GUI, which looks pretty.

I’m not sure how Android and iOS relate, they are mobile OSs, and both have their flaws, although some more than others.

I never see Fedora recommended enough, but it’s really good for beginners. And by that I mean people new to computers, not just Linux. GNOME is a good looking by default, intuitive to use, simple DE.

Flatpaks let me isolate app files and disable permissions, RPMs give me greater access to the system files.

Please don’t. I like having options, sometimes RPMs are useful, sometimes Flatpaks are useful. Let me choose.

Have you tried Fedora GNOME? Looks pretty nice to me, and the UI is powerful and intuitive as well as attractive.

If you care for looks, GNOME looks far better than KDE, I would recommend Fedora GNOME to a newbie that wants a pretty and intuitive Linux experience.