I agree with you, lol. The other day I tried windows 11 at a store, and it was a pain. The learning curve was bigger from windows 10 -> 11 than from windows 10 -> KDE.
I’m curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she’s hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?
Love to read this, I’m exactly on the same journey! Was using Mint until a few days ago, and now I’m on Aurora. There is a bit of a learning curve due to the atomic factor (some apps aren’t in Discover), but overall I’m happy with the stability.
Linux is truly wonderful and I look forward to learning more and seeing it grow. Fuck Microsoft, I’m done with their crap.
NGL that smiley face from Finder looks so condescending lmao. My wife’s laptop is a Mac and it’s hilarious every time how it shows up so often. Like Clippy from Word lol.
I’m currently testing fedora (upgrading from mint) and since I’m fairly new I don’t want to venture into the fairly unknown territory that is Immutable atm.
Plus, I using a VPN, its crucial for my work, and I already see there are some issues with it because it has to be layered and blá bla bla.
Basically I’m just giving Atomic distros one or 2 years more so that the technology matures, software developers start taking it seriously enough to work around them, and for guides to start coming out.
Nah, 7 was pretty good, although it was the last good one.
Anything past that was garbage but frankly I tolerated it as as a teenager I was too busy being horny all the time to notice how my computer was increasingly antagonistic towards me.
I tolerated all the way to windows 10 but windows 11 was the last nail in the coffin for me. I probably am indeed late to the party but tbh Linux didn’t inspire me until recently when I saw its became way more user-friendly than it was in 2015 when I first tried it.
I thought Fedora didn’t either? That’s a Ubuntu exclusive I think (not sure!). In any case, its a couple lines on the terminal and it’s gone.
I think because other distros don’t have half the issues Arch has, pacman isn’t as important in keeping the system “stable”.
But I understand why someone using Arch would be fascinated by pacman.
Can you confirm Mullvad VPN (if this is your vpnVPN) works on the latest atomic fedora after reinstalling?
Word. Unfortunately I cannot like Ubuntu for all of canonicals decisions, but there’s no doubt they have designed the most iconic Linux DE there is.
So much so that if someone who doesn’t use Linux thinks of Linux, they imagine Ubuntu.
“I set my house on fire damn why did my house burn down its the builders fault.”
Not only that, but it keeps getting re-shared every week like it’s breaking news.
Like, I get it’s exciting to see an European government giving the middle finger to a huge US multinational for once, but we need to move on. If anything, these examples should be given to pressure other governments to do the same.
Ah, interesting, that’s currently my approach. Hoped there was a better approach. Oh well!
Question, in what format do you save your documents for best compatibility, odt or docx (or another)?
My setup exactly. I can highly recommend this approach.
Not all of us use older PC’s. I really don’t care what other people use but I like being on the latest version of whatever software I’m using
I stopped reading about here. I can already tell the rest is a “me, me, me!” ramble about how the world should appeal to you and you only.
Just don’t use Zorin, you’re not their target market.
Kind regards.
Why are you guys so obsessed with the latest packages? A lot of new stuff doesn’t work on older PCs which is also Linux’s target market.
I don’t know the details, but I hope they will at least remove the VPN and crypto wallet integrations from the default installed version.
You still have to double check for mistakes. But even that takes less time than writing a 3-4 sentences semi-formal email from scratch.
In any case, your emails aren’t safe either, mate. Even if you don’t use AI, the person on the other side most likely will and your emails will be scanned just the same. Nobody is safe. Which is why this Thunderbird feature doesn’t excite me in the least.
We probably never sent as many emails as we do today, and there are bigger priorities. Wanna blame someone, blame the overly pompous corporate world.
Hmm, you may be onto something here.
I think I’ll test drive it and consider the same for my wife. She has a Mac, and she says she prefers Windows (clearly she hasn’t used it in nearly a decade), and this might be an option for her if I can just put all the stuff she uses on the bottom docker.
Thanks for the tip, and best of luck in your Linux journey! 🐧