curiousgoo

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Being in a highly technical field I agree with you in wondering the point of tablets, but I am observing a couple of people -in a local transport medium, use it as a replacement for pen-paper with an added advantage of collaboration on a document with multiple people.

I'm not bothered to check, but tablets might be cheaper than 2-in-1 or otherwise touchscreen PC laptops.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (7 children)

TL;DR of the article - Arcane > Cyberpunk Edgerunners > Castlevania > Sonic Boom > The Last of Us > The Witcher.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep, it ran for a whole season.

Edit: I don't remember which season it was on, it was a couple of seasons ago. Probably just after the Ben Swolo thing became popular.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The entire joke that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ran about this was fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I was gonna write about the fascist aspects of the country, but I wouldn't say that it's something completely unknown; many of my peers are okay with fascism just because there is no centerist alternative, as what we have already seen leftists are not going to be better given the same amount of power.

When it comes to religion, it should have been a personal thing rather than systematically integrating it with each aspect of our lives like how it was initially intended.

Sometime earlier in my life I took a decision of not going to my place of worship; this helped decouple my belief in something bigger that I don't understand, and a cult made by man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Warez piracy is anyway not "stealing" since you're not taking the digital item away, tis something which can be infinitely copied.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No problem mate !

Once you're on Mint's page, just have a look over the other desktop environments (DE) offered. Screenshots will not tell you the entire picture, but at least you can have a look at what you don't find appealing.

But remember not to really worry about the DE, you can always install another one and remove the one you don't like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Like Adobe / Microsoft / Google / Meta / ... maybe most large enterprises ? No question about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Mainly from a security standpoint PPAs are something I would want to avoid.

I've not used Snap since I tried it out a couple of years ago, it wasn't as good as Flatpak in terms of performance, and there were concerns which got highlighted like it's entirely proprietary and hosted by Canonical only, I heard Snap was being forced even when you would want through system packages, and something about forced updates.

I get why Flatpak is better in terms of sandboxing each application, but I personally prefer to use system packages wherever I can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I just moved from Windows to Linux (currently, PopOS) this year around.

You can try out beginner friendly distributions like PopOS, Linux Mint, ZorinOS which are Ubuntu-Debian based or Fedora. Like others have mentioned, applications made on Linux are expected to be cross-compatible with all distributions so your choice will mainly come down to what desktop environment you like as there are many with different feel to the user experience.

To know what works for you try these out in a VM if possible before biting the bullet so you know what all packages are present in Linux, and what all of your usecase will need to be managed through WINE/Proton compatibility layers.

You would want to avoid Ubuntu, and installing anything through Snap or PPA repositories if it ever comes up in your searches.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

This didn't tickle my fancy, but I can see why the videos are popular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

.7z is supported by most popular applications, and offers better compression than a .zip or .rar in my experience.

Unless you're saying normally people rely on Windows Explorer for their (de)compression needs ? (⁠・⁠o⁠・⁠;⁠)

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