I like Ctrl there, Unix/Sun layout. Backspace is also an interesting idea

You’ve got me wrong, but do what you think is best.

A comprehensive reading involves slowing down and taking context into account. It was included for a reason.

To take that passage (Romans) and to interpret it to mean that Homosexuality should be persecuted is to ignore Jesus’ lessons in favor of one’s own hatred. That’s not Christian at all.

Found Brendan Eich’s sockpuppet :)

A conservative can’t be a Christian, and vice versa. Jesus was absolutely clear: He cares as much about the sex of who you sleep with as He does about the fabric of your underwear.

Homophobia is a plenty good reason not to use a browser. Eich is an unscrupulous person at best, and his name leaves a stink on any project he is involved with. Unsurprising that Brave has decided to embrace the crypto fad and is moving towards becoming an ad platform.

Brave is a scammy project founded by a scummy person. I’m not sure FOSS development can fix that as long as he is in charge.

“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"

i am using Lynx launcher, which is also pretty GNOME-like

side loading apps? or files?

Thanks! I didnt realize iTunes was still supported.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/12/transfer-music-ubuntu-iphone/amp/

Seems like you can also use the iOS VLC app to get mp3s on there

Another method is to use KDE connect to transfer the files, which would also work for your game backups

What do you use iTunes for? That stood out to me.

Also Chrome works fine on Linux, though Firefox is a better browser even on Windows.

Re: packages

What software specifically are you not finding in the repos? If it’s FOSS there should be a simple way of getting it. If it’s proprietary you kind need to pick your least hated option:

• Third party repos - very hit and miss, easiest to troubleshoot, can be awesome rock solid or buggy as hell
• nix package manager - i have no experience but very popular right now
• Flatpak - can be managed by Gnome Software or KDE Discover, no system theme integration, config files are in weird places
• Snap - similar to Flatpak on Ubuntu, YMMV elsewhere
• Appimage - if no other option, similar to Windows binaries, cant self-update

I’d pick one and stick with it as much as possible. Mixing several solutions is where things get confusing (for me at least)

Re: settings

UI scaling is a rough edge on Linux. Non-integer scaling (1.25, 1.5, 1.75, etc) doesnt always give perfect results on X11, and Wayland scaling only works on Plasma, Gnome, and the various compositors. Themeing isnt really a thing on Gnome, so only Plasma has both good scaling and themeing, and Plasma is especially guilty of the “settings in 3 places” phenomenon. If you want simple menus and good themeing you can use MATE, Cinnamon, or XFCE but then you lose wayland scaling.

I have run into the same bug with Display Manager not scaling on Plasma, but i dont have this issue on Gnome or on x11 desktops. Plasma may be the common denominator here.

Re: laptop

My advice is to try to like Gnome. It’s got the best scaling support right now. Disable all extensions, learn the keyboard shortcuts for window and desktop management, learn the touchpad swipe gestures, and pretend you dont miss themeing. If you can get past the initial apprehension, you might find a modern desktop with an elegant workflow. Add back in as few extensions as you can live with; each one is a potential source of instability/bugs but as long as you keep it to a small number you should be fine. I have 4 extensions currently enabled, and i wouldnt go too much higher.

If you end up hating it then Plasma is the next best option for your hardware. Plasma is in heavy development and still has lots of small issues, but things should improve over time

or you could try Hyprland

Re: photo editing

Curious about your workflow. I do a lot of wildlife photography as a hobby and I find just Darktable to be too much. I usually end up cropping, adjusting brightness and colors, and then exporting to a jpg.

What sorts of things are you doing with your photos? I dont think i have a solution for you, just curious. Also, can you run an older version of Blender? There might be a containerized solution for that already.

The new kid probably because of new users, rather than it being a new distro.

They probably moved from one school district over, so they know a few other kids but not that well.

Yes but the janitor plays bass in a band with some of the students

“jk" means “just kidding”. i couldn’t think of a better way to show i was not serious

very fast, especially considering how underpowered they were on paper

Posted from my:

• Blackberry Passport :)

jk

I’ve had iPhones, Oneplus phones, and a Pixel since. The Blackberry was the best experience overall.

The Blackberry Passport was the best smartphone I ever used:

• Blackberry Hub let you manage texts, emails, whatsapp/messaging apps, and facebook/social media messages all from the same app, accessible at any time by swiping from the left side of the screen

• You could sideload and run Android apps for anything that didnt have a Blackberry native app

• The physical keyboard was also a touchpad

Same. I’m not worried, just confused by the new language. It seems unnecessary, but I could end up being flat wrong.

I wish Mozilla would refocus on improving Firefox instead of the AI nonsense they’ve pursued lately. They havent been perfect, but if i’m going to give any faceless entity the benefit of the doubt, it’s Mozilla.

That said, i want the forks to thrive. Librewolf is pretty good. I might check out Pale Moon again to see what has(n’t) changed.

Waterfox is also good from what i remember. I used a build of it with KDE global menu support on OpenSuse for years, and i was happy with it the whole time.

RIP TenFourFox. Hopefully a new fork will emerge for powerpc and other retro computers

Also remember to be nice. I see heated arguments regressing into ad hominems by the third comment pretty regularly. We can be better than Reddit

These AI-generated thumbnails are awful

Windows doesn’t run every game i want. I couldn’t get the first Command and Conquer to be playable at all. I have had the same experience many times with older strategy and simulation games: they just don’t work very well on modern Windows.

By contrast, so far Linux does play every game i want. My entire library going back decades works just fine with Wine or Proton. It’s easy once you get used to using a translation layer.

I don’t play Apex, League, or Fortnite, so that’s probably why i dont feel like i’m missing anything on Linux.