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  • MTK@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWindows doesn't "just work"
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    7 days ago

    In my experience, a stable beginner friendly distro such as mint, is 10x closer to “just working” but…

    I do think that the windos DE tends to be more reliable than any linux DE I have tested. The only DE that compares is gnome, which I find very very stable (but I hate it)

    I think that non-technical people are just used to a simple playbook of:

    1. GUI is rarely the issue, so you never need to see the terminal.
    2. If there is an issue, restart
    3. If that didn’t work, ask for help from your local techy

    And for linux step 3 usually doesn’t work because your local techy is probably someone who just knows how to google and paste into cmd.



  • MTK@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhich browser do you use and why?
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    12 days ago

    Ungoogled chromium, sadly FF has been getting worse over the years (partially because it is getting worse and partially because web developers happen to ignore it’s existence) also Chromium has superior security.

    I’m hopeful about the future of ladybird but it will take a long time until it is a possible daily driver.





  • Nc is great, it really is amazing that it is foss. Sure it isn’t the slickest or fastest, and it does need more maintenance than most foss services, but it is also more complex and has so many great features.

    I really recommend nc, 99% of the time it just works for me. It just seems that their docker was done pretty poorly imo, but still it just works most of the time.


  • MTK@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldRant! 100GB Log file in Nextcloud.
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    16 days ago

    This is a docker! If your docker is marketed as ready to go and all-in-one, it should have basic things like that.

    If I were running this as a full system with a user base then of course I would go over everything and make sure it all makes sebse for my needs. But since my needs were just a running nc instance, it would make sense to run a simple docker with mostly default config. If your docker by default has terrible config, then you are missing the point a bit.







  • The whole point of Linux is to be a FOSS kernel/OS, that’s it.

    Anything you want to (legally and morally) do with it is fine and you should not have to conform to arbitrary limitations set by others.

    If you think that Linux is only for tinkering, not only are you completely wrong (since most machines running Linux are meant to be stable and not tinkered with, think servers, iot, embedded devices, etc) you are also missing the point of FOSS, since it aims to give the user freedom to do as they see fit, which includes preferring stability and security over tinkering.