• @[email protected]
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        102 months ago

        Would you like to back up your folders to OneDrive?
        It would be a shame if something were to happen to your files!

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    Without windows and macos, we would all be divided on what is the better distro, but thanks to shitty corpo trash, we can unite to hate them together. Fuck windows!

        • @[email protected]
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          232 months ago

          Amazon based search results integrated in the Unity dash beg to differ. Canonical has a history of being shitty.

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            There was backlash, they removed it and never tried anything similar since. But I’m with you on that, the idea was insane and if they pull anything like that again, I’ll be switching away from ubuntu immediatly.

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              Well. in the modern day, there’s Ubuntu 22.04 and up with their insistence on snaps for many otherwise native apps. For example, Firefox as a snap and taking anywhere from 30 seconds to up to 2 minutes to launch when you first open it.

              I used Ubuntu for years, pretty much from 16.04 all the way up to 22.04 but that was a line for me and I ditched it for Manjaro. The experience has been much better overall.

              Snaps should be for applications that may not receive updates on current systems or have a hard dependency on old libraries for some reason. Things like Spek come to mind. To use if for something like Firefox, and not only use it, but insist on it to the point you can’t install the native version without ridiculous workarounds… it’s absurd. And on top of this, it’s especially dumb because flatpak already existed prior to snap, but as usual Canonical had to be special instead of working with community standards.

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                But that delay in opening is only for the very first time after installation, it does not affect any subsequent app starts, even after you reboot. In real world performance, snaps are basically just as fast as any normal app in my experience. And you need to keep in mind what the idea behind ubuntu is - they want it to be useful to experienced users as well as newbies and tech-illiterates. Snap automatic updates are honestly really nice if you don’t want to think about updates and canonical have done a lot of work to make the experience as smooth as possible, and the sandbox is a nice bit of added security. They are very versatile too, allowing any type of software to be a snap, from little terminal tools to full-featured nextcloud instances

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                  Not OP, but… the reason why I won’t use Ubuntu is that whole snap thing. I’m not hating on snaps in general (although I prefer flatpak), but I hate what Ubuntu does with them. You apt install firefox and yet it still ignores your command and do whatever it feels like doing. Why? Why not leave both options available while maybe prefering snaps for inexperienced users (I mean like gui store default to snap)? This is just one thing now, but what might be next? This smells whole lot like Microsoft approach (light version). And I don’t like this direction.

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                  That delay happens on first launch every boot. Also the automatic updates happening basically whenever is nonsense. It should tell me an update is needed, not just kick it off whenever it feels like. That kind of crap is why I use Linux and not Windows, and now why I don’t use Ubuntu.

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    My wife started joking about " if I update it at this point it’s gonna brick it" and I laughed so hard because she’s not even an IT person

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      Due to all the registry and group policy changes I’ve made to decrapify Windows, I’m legitimately worried that every major update will brick my install. Luckily so far they’ve only make it worse in the ways that Microsoft intended.

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    Anyone remember the early Windows 10 update that booted back up with a black screen that said “Don’t Panic”?

    That was the most panic inducing moment I’ve ever had with any PC.

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      I remember reading a post from some person who struggled with hallucinations and was absolutely creeped out when that large, semi-ominous text appeared on their laptop screen out of nowhere lol. Then again, this was on r*ddit, 97% chance they were making it up for upvotes.

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    Boss/teacher: Is your project ready to present yet?

    Linux user, still tweaking colors and theme options in their DE after 4 years: Let me finish setting up my device!

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      Linux user, still tweaking colors and theme options in their DE after 4 years: Let me finish setting up my device!

      switch to gnome; customizations are intentionally buried because a huge majority of users don’t go very deep w with them.

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    I wonder what I’ve said no to more all-time - Microsoft’s spy- and bloatware or the YouTube tv free trial.

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    Heard you loud and clear. Maybe Later it is then.

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    i plan to move to linux very very soon but winaero tweaker can take care of most of this stuff in windows

    …still insane that it exists at all though. especially with the only options being continue and remind me in 3 days

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    “Let’s check this one off the list.” Bitch I only installed you to play The Void. One more peep out of you and you’re derezzed.

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    Jesus, I don’t miss that shit. Now, it has to be something way the hell out in left field to not be picked up and installed silently. linux-firmware ftw

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    Windoof on my computer got an update last week. I wonder when it’s done. /j

    (But seriously, it took almost the whole evening.)

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    I admit to being old and out of touch, but why is this meme a sandwich?