One example I encountered was with someone I know who mentioned Linux, and I said I use it and he suddenly got fascinated and started asking me how I get anything done when all I have is just a command prompt and how does that work. Somewhere along the way he'd gotten the idea that Linux has no GUI at all and you just do everything in the terminal. Not sure where that idea came from but I was like no dude, it works pretty much like any other OS, it has Firefox and Chrome and stuff. I think he was a bit disappointed lol.
CrabAndBroom
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He may well have broken the law, and he may well be a bit of a dick (I don't know, but I'm basing this off off comments I've seen), but the thing that's confusing me about this is, why is this America's business?
As far as I can tell Dotcom is German-born with New Zealand residence (so presumably still a German citizen?) and the article says:
The site was formally based in Hong Kong until 2012, when the US seized the domain names and closed down the website. But it survived, relaunching in 2013 as Mega, with a New Zealand domain name.
The only connection I can see this having to the US is that it cost some US corporations some money, but then that's surely true for a bunch of other countries as well. I highly doubt it was only US content being pirated. Why does the US get to be in charge of this?
Also, if this is illegal, why aren't they arresting the CEO of Google for Google Drive? You pay for that, and there's a ton of pirated stuff on there. Same with Discord. And those are actually based in the US.
No worries! From other comments and a couple of tests I did it seems to get somewhat mixed results, but it's easy enough to undo so you might get lucky! It worked for me at least lol.
I tried it out on another laptop since I posted this, and that had the inverse - download speeds went up by about 20% or so, but the upload speed seems have taken a hit of about 10%. On my 'main' laptop both improved quite drastically.
So yeah definitely a 'your mileage may vary' type of situation, but it's easy enough to reverse I guess so worth a shot if anyone has a bit of a speed problem. You might get lucky!
Yeah same here, everything is ext4 'cause it's always worked and has never given me any troubles. But next time I have to reinstall I am tempted to give Btrfs a go.
Just set it up in a VM, I haven't done a deep dive yet obviously but it definitely looks very slick so far!
Yeah that's kind of where I'm at with Ubuntu now. I personally got tired of using it because I find Canonical tends to fixate on whatever shiny thing they currently think is cool (Unity, that hybrid phone/desktop OS thing, Mir, now Snaps), then they let a lot of other stuff stagnate, get the thing they're fixated on to the point where it's almost really good, then they get bored and ditch it and go chasing something else.
But none of that's a killer technical issue necessarily, if you don't care about that you can still install it and have a good working/stable computer that'll still do probably 99% of what you need it to.
Even with Linux though, so much of it relies on Github (think Nix Flakes, the AUR, and just general random apps that live there etc.) which is owned by MS. Not that they would necessarily just nuke Github one day (because that would be an insane thing to do) but just the general idea that MS is in a position to disrupt so much of the Linux ecosystem if they really wanted to makes me uneasy.
If money wasn't an object I think I'd get a Framework but I've always had a good experience with Lenovo for a more budget-friendly option. My last two laptops have been Lenovos and have both worked super well with Linux.
Those and Bannerlord are the games I've got the most hours with on Steam so that was my basis lol. I thought about including Bannerlord cause its a bit different but less of a time sink I think. Maybe with mods though!
Just a standard issue Lenovo, Linux, and a VPN. Nothing too wild or likely to stand out lol.