I’ve put Fedora on my mum’s pc after it became clear that Win10 will EoL soon, and that Win11 would refuse to run on it. Have had significantly fewer support requests since then.
Her work is mostly done via Citrix, which has an official Fedora Client. Everything else happens in the Browser, or sometimes in OnlyOffice, which so far has worked as a drop-in replacement for MS Office.
As always, it really depends on the use case.
Finally someone who actually uses a Vostro. Always found that name unreasonably funny.
I set up my current desktop while reading Gaiman’s The Sandman, so it’s called Morpheus. Because I felt I needed to keep with the theme, my laptop is hades, my phone persephone, my server apollo, my router helios, the media centre PC is orpheus, the pi that boots and updates it outside of usage hours is eurydice, and the pi that runs home assistant is zeus (because it’s responsible for light(n)ing.
Oh, and the work profile on my phone is sisyphos.
Someone who pretends to be cute and wants to talk about finance? Pretty sure they’re gonna try to get you to ‘invest’ in their totally legit trading platform.
There’s also qobuz. They have a streaming service, but you can also straight up buy a lot of albums and download them drm free.
Looking at my friends who use Instagram, it’s basically for stuff that’s either too many photos for a single post, so it’s made into a themed story, or for stuff you wanna show off, even though it isn’t quite good enough for it’s own post, so it’s on your profile for a bit, but not permanently.
Different use case. Look at this.
Thunder interprets both as communities, probably because a mistyped community is much more likely than a random email address.
In Germany, it’s currently 696€ a year to use all local and regional public transport (metro, bus, regional train, etc.) nationally, 4899€ a year to also use all long distance public transport (IC, ICE).
Unless you travel around the country a lot, the first plus a long distance discount card is usually enough to get around.
Still, there has been too little investment into public transport for decades, and the 696€ Ticket is partially funded by the federal government, so let’s see whether that lasts past the next election. All in all, could be better, but could also be a lot worse.
The younger ones didn’t mind it, for the older ones I did it myself while on visit.
The server stays on, always. I have like ten people using the services on there over tailscale. There’s a kvm, should something really unexpected happen.
You activated my trap card! My sickness was but a simple ruse to lure you into complacency! Your attack was weak, unfocused! I jump up, standing on my bed, your face is now easy prey for my unnaturally sharp knees. The structural rigidity of your nose is now forfeit!
Oh, yeah, that also annoyed me. I actually meant the settings menu, though. I have set up KDE for friends/family a few times, and depending on screen size and scaling, even in conditions that shouldn’t be edge cases, there where sometimes scrollbars in both directions.
I also just, kinda don’t like the vibe, I guess? That’s extremely subjective, I know, just something I noticed every time I worked with KDE.
Well, use the time to try it, I guess.
Yeah, it usually takes a week for the official versions of the extensions I use to work again after a gnome version update. It’s easily worked around, usually, but that hard break every update sucks.
I just dislike the way KDE structures it’s menus more, and while I suspect that I could tweak KDE to be something I like using, I also suspect that that would be much more annoying to fix for the next mayor Update.
I sometimes think about swapping over to i3, but I haven’t yet had the leisure to give it a try.
I absolutely love (slightly tweaked) gnome. Fight me if you want, I’m sick in bed and have time.
That heavily depends on what you mean by writing music. Musescore (the software, not the website) is pretty good for writing notation, and open source.
If it’s more about producing a track, there’s Ardour, also foss. If you wanna pirate an “industry standard” daw, there’s FL Studio and Ableton, I guess.
Depending on what you want to do exactly, there might be a lot of other software that fits the bill.
Somehow, I feel called out.
I see Jeff Bezos.
I’m sure it’s a common enough occurrence in a community with lots of computer nerds.
I do recognise that there are a lot of usecases in which Linux isn’t currently the sensible choice for most users, but I also feel the ready/not ready thing is quite as clear cut. While I’m obviously rather biased, I do genuinely think that there is a subset of casual users that would do better with Linux than with Windows.
I could talk about how Windows has been a lot more problematic for me than Linux, but that has been mainly down to driver issues with a specific network adapter, and we both know that isn’t the reason I prefer Linux anyway.