Making your point with Blender is a new level

Thanks for setting the record straight!

I’d argue voting system is overrated.

I had quite a few comments downvoted into oblivion because my opinion was unpopular in some corners of Lemmy.

Like, go ahead and make a same political statement at .ml or .world, or come to some specific community to argue against the OP.

Or, in reverse, there are plenty of examples when hateful or wrong BS was upvoted to infinity.

I’ve seen this again and again with others, and I can confidently say voting is not a good metric for reason.

Five.

I only block people if they actively harass me online. Otherwise, I’m fine with disagreement and do not tend to rage ban.

Still, if someone follows me around Lemmy to spite on everything, I’d rather have them blocked to keep this place nicer.

Oh, and there’s Nicole in there, of course.

Nice! Some minor design alterations would be great (sentence about news by the people for the people doesn’t have to go back and forth in width; selected section should be highlighted instead of news being seemingly selected at all times), but overall, it’s a great job!

Man pages in Linux are commonly meant for people already familiar with command structures, specific terms etc.

They are often borderline useless for an inexperienced user.

To be fair, we only recently actually saw a black hole, and before that, it was just assumed to exist by its gravitational effects.

Thanks!

Sad all this effort has to be put into making sanctions and then into evading them.

Any TL;DR on this? Nvidia secretly ships sanctioned GPUs to China?

I would actually recommend against Cachy, as it is not very friendly out of the box.

Decent choice, but not for a novice user. Still, can be turned into same thing as everything else.

Nah, it’s a mature take. Desktop environment means more for everyday user experience than the distro choice.

I have OpenSUSE Slowroll on one machine and EndeavourOS on the other. Both have KDE installed with exactly the same configuration. Aside from package management and other technicalities, the experience is 100% identical.

Fundamentally, they’re all the same and they all are Linux. As long as you use the same desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, you name it) across different distros, you may not notice a single difference in your experience.

That’s not to say there are no differences, but for someone just dipping their toes into the Linux world, the main piece of advice is not to stress that too much.

Ubuntu is a fine distro choice - there are controversies, and it is arguably not the best at X, Y or Z, but it’s well-rounded, stable, and user-friendly, which is all that novice user needs.

Of course, if you want, you can always explore other options and see what’s absolute best for you - this kind of thing is called distro-hopping. Start with something Ubuntu-based for familiar experience (Linux Mint is a common recommendation, if you don’t mind Cinnamon desktop), check out Debian as this is what Ubuntu is based on, and then try Fedora, OpenSUSE and stuff. After gaining experience with these, you can explore Arch and derivatives, such as CachyOS, EndeavourOS etc.

But again, if what you have works for you - you’re not missing out on anything special. What you have is true, real, actual Linux experience, and there’s no best way to approach it.

I still wonder who ever thought cobbled roads are a great idea.

Terrible to ride. Terrible to walk. Bad at just about everything.

I’d say go KDE.

GNOME looks like it will be good for portable devices, but it’s kinda not.

First, in my experience, Fedora on GNOME completely ignores battery limits (which are also set by jumping through so many hoops you can’t even imagine). It just drains this thing to 0, which is not great for longevity. KDE, on its end, has it all in the GUI and it works flawlessly on all distros I tested.

Second, KDE has made plenty of great optimizations for touchscreens. A while ago, it was not great, but now it’s just the best at handling them, especially if you theme it respectively and do not rely on defaults.

Third, customizations are so much better in KDE. You can make her laptop look and feel like a MacBook in no time, and edit everything to be touch-friendly.

One thing GNOME does well though for the use case you describe, though, is app theming, namely Adwaita. Luckily, Adwaita-themed apps and style editors for the rest are freely available on KDE, and you can even change their look as you like.

So, yeah, go KDE.

To clarify against what many people jump to assume: Collective Shout is not a religious organization. Its stated goal is protecting children against content they believe may help form dangerous and abusive behaviors in real life. (Needless to say, science does not seem to back these claims)

This doesn’t make them right by any means at all, but we need to understand our enemy if we want to be productive in fighting it.

Alright, you bought me with this

Amazing presentation and nice that you have a demo!

My apologies, I missed that one!

This is probably going to seem wildly low-effort compared to my usual posts here

My man, you just compiled tons of obscure posters from the corners of the Internet. I admire your dedication, and this does take an effort.

That’s a useful addition, thanks!

Florence + the Machine - June

Just to open it gently