It’s comparing hardware, not OS
elucubra
joined 1 year ago
Slackware was my first distro, in the 90s, installed from diskettes, downloaded with a 9600 baud modem, FUN! (actually it was, wizard stuff at the time). I moved to Mandrake I think, then RH or another, and whenever I took a look at Slackware, it felt ancient when compared with these "glitzy", for the time, distros. Maybe I should take a look again.
You being unable to install something in kinoite is just lack of research on your part,
OFC, That's what I implied in my post. That I don't want to tinker more than necessary. I've been doing Linux things since the 90s, installing from diskettes, spending hours and hours on the CLI, compiling shit on a 40Mhz 486... Right now I want something that mainly just works, mainly being the key word here. I don't mind doing the odd tweak here and there, I just don't want the tweaking to be a main feature.
In Spain a lot of stors disabled the system during covid, for highiene reasons. Some have returned and some still have tbe coin system disabled. Most people return them anyway. There is always the occasional asshole.
The only problem I have with Mint is that they are super conservative, which translates to stability, which in turn makes it less up todate in certain applications. While based on Ubuntu it un-shittifies by using flats instead of snaps, for example. I have not noticed any shennanigans like Ubuntus
I know SUSE's been around since forever, but how is package availability?
Ubuntu was very good, changed a lot of people's perception of Linux, and made the user experience much nicer. It still is very good, but many have caught up, or are surpassing Ubuntu in user experience. The issue with Ubuntu is the progressive enshittification.
Mint is, so far, the un-enshittified Ubuntu alternative. Plus it's main DEs. Cinnamon and MATE provide a fairly Windows like experience for those landing from the Windows world.
I doubt that. I'm going to guess that Google is going towards a sort of "P2P AI"
Me neither. I have the combination of Firefox+uBlock origin+privacy Badger and I'm a pretty happy camper.
When I query an AI I always end with "provide sources and bibliography for your reply". That seems to get better replies.
Also, I seem to remeber that the Affinity CEO made those statements, but Canva are calling the shots now, so...
Not being able to say “I run Arch BTW” is a dealbreaker.