I did consider that but im trying to build a website and its painful and the thought of doing anything more with css makes me wanna die.

Is there any plug and play home pages you could suggest?

I live in a remote country and the other providers are slow. I could switch to cloudflare i guess

Ok thanks ill give that ago tonight. I never would have thought of a proxy manager.

Sorry, a cert for https because im sick of the annoying browser warning. Self signed is fine and I can use certbot for that I believe.

We aren’t allowed to talk Linux anymore or we’d have to leave

I get this, in my own house. We need speakeasy for linux.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country

Majority of the world works 40hr or less which is basically a 5/7 schedule.

Been on it permanently for years now

Haha we can tell by the fact your complaint is about filesystem differences. Thats such a linux user complaint.

Take a look at systemd boot then plymouth for a nice splash. I find it to be much better than grub for just simply booting 1 distro quickly. Try systemd-analyze blame to see whats slowing down the boot. Sometimes there are drives that take awhile to mount and speed can be improved by adding them into fstab by UUID.

I saw it on youtube through the recommendation algo

It should be viewed on youtube. The reasoning being: we are trying to get as many people to watch this as possible. Watching the video on youtube boosts it and shows it to more people at the moment its reached 75k people. Watching it on CCC.de is nothing but a few hundred nerds jerking themselves off about being decentralized.

Most content should be watched decentralized where possible but for “messaging” posts we need them on mainstream platforms boosted by engagement as much as possible.

I think anyone who talks like this “linux is obv way better then windows” should just be brushed off. If he cant give you the actual reasons why you may WANT to switch then I dont think you should switch just as a present.

Fedora with KDE desktop and non foss repo’s enabled is a good. Do not start with Arch unless you enjoy troubleshooting and learning and repeating the same steps over and over.

You could put your website behind a cloudflare anti bot check. But realistically, your website is public facing and these bots are scraping the public web. They will eventually get the data from your website.

Public - for everything im seeding and sharing

Apps - for all app images

Games - for all lutris spam and random failed attempts at installing mods.

As soon as I saw this i knew I had to go to the phoronix comments and bask in the shit flinging

xwayland makes things a near drop in replacement for wayland and people still complain.

yeah the wayland effects are way nicer than what was possible on x11.

I think its some gymnastics being preformed. They really want the new macbook and they’re telling themselves they HAVE to spend that because their old device isnt good enough. If their old devices suddenly starts doing the job then shelling out 2k for a new laptop becomes unreasonable.

My friend said they didnt want to try linux on their laptop because they wanted to buy a new laptop.

I wish I had that problem, I’d jump at the chance to save $2000 and preserve my current device by switching to a free operating system.

seriously hate modern implementations of AI and am willing to make concessions in my life to avoid using it

Props for standing on business and actually taking the steps to make a change

My advice is dont even both teaching to much about the file system at first. Just explain the home directory and root. Then setup shortcuts to any weird locations she may need to access for modding. After shes used linux for a few months then you can start showing her the different locations and structure.