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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

I won't speak to the distro part of this, as this is too broad a subject, and there are too many distros I like for different use cases. Now, about Gnome, which is my favorite DE, second only to Cosmic (yes, the Gnome based one), has 1 issue since version 45 that made me jump ship to KDE 6 (which I've been able to set up fairly close to how I used Gnome, with some trade-offs) and that is Gnome's choice of not allowing any Screen Shot app to work, other than their own, using the current Apple justification that "it's for the user's own security", which is complete and utter bullshit. Sure, I can force run Flameshot from the terminal, but who wants to do that? I want mi screnn shot app to work from the Print-Screen key, as it should. I do miss everything else about Gnome, for sure, but I screen shot and annotate them too much to go through all the steps that are required to make it happen in Gnome 45.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago
[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I had no idea the whole world was capitalist, but I guess I don't know everything. And there's the fact that I mentioned the world, not a form of political economy. But yeah, capitalism is weird.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

I had no idea. That's good information to have. And my wife doesn't get why I spend so much time in Lemmy. I learn more here than with all the online courses I take regularly put together. I love this community.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't use either OS, but the apps are .DMG (Mac) and .exe (Windows), so I believe they are, yes.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

That's why I put "security and privacy" between quotes. I have absolutely Jo way to confirm if they are secure and private or if they're not, other than all the contradicting mentions all over the internet. Also, while security and privacy may not be mutually dependent in the physical world, it stands to reason that something insecure cannot be private, and something not private is inherently insecure, as @pixelscript@lemmy.ml clearly pointed out. As for controlling my own email infrastructure, I'd love to, as everything else I do self-host, and only with FOSS software. However, email hosting is a seriously complicated animal that requires too much effort and maintenance, and most of us dont have the knowledge and time to invest in that, so compromises need to be made. I am well aware that there's always risk on using something I have no real control over, but the alternative meets the reason for the phrase "the treatment is worse than the decease".

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 71 points 8 months ago (29 children)

Yeah, Proton is awesome, that's for sure. Now, being a "security and privacy" company, it blows my mind that they put so much effort on making apps for Windows and Mac first, leaving Linux behind, and when they finally get to it, they just dump in a glorified PWA. This world is really weird 🤣🤣

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

That makes sense. My kids were exposed to Chromebooks at some point (when I was still a Google tool), but the freedom to break and fix whatever that want with Linux just dazzled them, which adds to my happiness 😏

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to do my best to "wait" for PopOS 24.04 before I hop out again. It seemsbI finally got Endeavour right, with hybrid graphics and all. The only pain was actually how long it took to install Lubre Wolf. Ah, and that the first attempt at installing flatpaks, nothing was showing up after install until I rebooted. But now they work as expected.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Did too 🤣🤣. Have slept 7 hours summing up the last too nights 😪

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Wao, I'd forgotten how easy and straightforward it is to use yay. This is going to be awesome. Thanks again.

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