Peasley

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[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Fedora has gotten much more stable and reliable in the past decade. 15+ years ago it was generally regarded as nice but unstable. I'd say nowadays for a moderately technical user it offers a better experience overall than Ubuntu or Mint. There are still unfortunately some pitfalls for new users (media codecs come to mind). In fact, the only issues i've had in most of those 10 years have been related to GNOME plugins or the Plasma 6 transition, problems that also occured on Ubuntu.

I have 2 computers: one running Ubuntu, one Fedora. This has been my setup for over a decade. I have lately been finding Ubuntu more and more cumbersome to use, with less of the "just works" experience i remember having in the past. Perhaps the focus on cloud computing has caused the desktop to languish a bit.

I would like to try Pop!_OS, but i haven't had a free evening for a while to do a backup and reinstall on one of my computers. It's also been a while since i used Mint, so my impression could be out of date.

The nice thing about Linux overall (compared to macOS and Windows) is that each update generally improves on the experience. On commercial platforms the experience gets worse as often as it gets better, usually both at the same time. GNOME and Plasma are both overall much better than they were a decade ago (despite a few regressions) while macOS and Windows are both worse in general.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Any distro will work once you install Nvidia drivers.

For Fedora and Ubuntu you can do it from the software center application.

If you go with Fedora you want to also look up how to install proprietary media codecs. That's the one other thing you need to do after installation. Ubuntu has them built-in.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I did History and Computer science and had no issues whatsoever. Most of my history work was LibreOffice writer saving to PDF or .docx formats. Printing, scanning, and using library wifi was always fine.

Computer Science kind of expected Linux, everything we did there was cross-platform already.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Built my first PC in High School from scraps. Decided to try Ubuntu 10.04 (current at the time).

I was very impressed with how much performance a free OS could get out of my awful hardware. Have been using Linux in some form as my OS ever since.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks! This is probably the phenomenon i've been observing

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Gnome seems to swap out default apps pretty often. Are the old apps getting abandoned? Or are they always jumping to the next cool new thing?

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like Ctrl there, Unix/Sun layout. Backspace is also an interesting idea

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You've got me wrong, but do what you think is best.

A comprehensive reading involves slowing down and taking context into account. It was included for a reason.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

To take that passage (Romans 1) and to interpret it to mean that Homosexuality should be persecuted is to ignore Jesus' lessons in favor of one's own hatred. That's not Christian at all. It also ignores the rest of Romans.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

Found Brendan Eich's sockpuppet :)

A conservative can't be a Christian, and vice versa. Jesus was absolutely clear: He cares as much about the sex of who you sleep with as He does about the fabric of your underwear. Hatred is never justified.

Homophobia is a plenty good reason not to use a browser. Eich is an unscrupulous person at best, and his name leaves a stink on any project he is involved with. Unsurprising that Brave has decided to embrace the crypto fad and is moving towards becoming an ad platform.

Brave is a scammy project founded by a scummy person. I'm not sure FOSS development can fix that as long as he is in charge.

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