Most people don’t know what a DE is or how to change it and training wheels are best kept on till they get the hang of all the things.

Everyone is different and learning should be in small steps rather than leaps. Always ask yourself, can my mom do this?

Just cuz KDE works well on one distro, doesn’t mean it works well on others (idk why it’s weird like that). Another thing is that sometimes it’s nice when everything is setup out of the box with no need to configure anything except theme and wallpaper.

I get most Linux users like to rice the crap out of there systems, but sometimes you just need to get work down and don’t have time for that.

Also also, there are times software maintainers don’t always release versions for your distro and not everyone wants to compile things themselves, or rewrite scripts cuz author only made it with Debian distros in mind, or something.

If you lack experience with Linux and want a more windows like UI, then go with Linux mint, you will eventually distro hop either way so start off with the easy option and enjoy it as much you can before trying new things.

I feel like everyone treats Donald Trump like a kid, whenever he closes his eyes, everyone goes “Where did he go, I can’t find him, oh there he is, oh and he’s gone again”

I guess it’s time to switch to developing apps for Linux mobile distro

The only reason I like android is cuz I can make my own apks and use them without issue.

Not a big user of AI but a suck up chat bot sounds like pain to interact with

We need to go back to the time when comupting power was limited so everything needed to be hella efficient, cuz I feel like we have so much of it that we don’t know what to use it on.

Yeah, I also was disappointed that proton wallet was for crypto and not credit cards. Unless someone can recommend an alternative to Google wallet, preferably from F-Droid

It works, has minor quirks, but it has replaced a lot of things for me, switched from Google gmail, drive, and calendar to Protons and it has been good. (Though the whole Lumo AI release move confused me) Oh yeah VPN too, well for other countries, still use my wireguard vpn when traveling.

But personally, I’mma continue sticking to Aegis as my authenticator app. (Can’t recommend it enough)

I heard they are adding a desktop mode to android 16, curious if it would be possible to use phone and have a similar experience to an actual PC by connecting monitor and mouse/keyboard, well just using a browser, at the very least.

EDIT: found it

Future updates will also bring even more productivity enhancements to Android, allowing you to connect tablets and phones to an external display for an expanded desktop experience

MicroG?

I still need it for 2 games I like to play on my phone, maybe other things too, it was only recently that I started slowly moving away from being dependent on google

Honestly, even if you need some Google services, just get things like gapp (or whatever its called, forgot) and you are good to go.

I want to try GrapheneOS, but no one I know owns any old (or new) pixel device and compiling and running as emulator (like for developing purposes) requires like 500gb of storage on PC for it.

PostMarketOS sounded fun but I couldn’t get waydroid to start without crashing

Time to invent one xD

All power is steam power, fossil fuels are burned to boil water. Heck nuclear reactors are also just boiling water to create steam.

It’s all Steampunk but we grew out of our punk phase :P

Saying EU AI Act felt like I was saying my vowels, just needs O and sometimes Y somewhere in there

My understanding of the different operating systems

MacOS: One time hardware payment for their service (plus for every other device)

Linux: Free as in price free and freedom

Windows: 30+ subscriptions to edit 1 file, then cooldown till next day or upgrade subscriptions to enterpise version for a kidney/per user/per month.

The year of the Linux Desktop is coming!!!