IAmNotACat

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Interesting given that he is actually preparing for an apocalypse scenario where he hides out in a bunker only to emerge a leader of men.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s called a community. If Reddit doesn’t seem like this anymore, it’s because half those people are actually AI.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty much just that Arch Linux will be more secure, stable and reliable.

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

That’s a number you just made up.

Either way, use a blacklist then. If you really care about what sites they access, use a whitelist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Exactly. It’s like a tacit admission that the only reason to have this stuff is for people like Joe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They don’t need to know what a distro is, the same way they don’t know the difference between Windows Enterprise, Professional, LTSC, etc.

If it’s not OEM, people like us are going to be the ones installing it for them anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don’t think Linux will displace Windows meaningfully any time soon, but I do think people underestimate the fact that most people don’t install their own OSs. They get people like you to do it for them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The reason for NATO’s involvement is quite irrelevant because they were still happy to step in and do the work. The fact is that it was ultimately NATO-led and their efforts did not lead to peace in the region.

To call NATO’s involvement in Libya ‘anti-war’ is sheer lunacy.

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

The invasion of Libya was a NATO-led effort.

Stop lying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

anti-NATO

A “harmful ideology”? Is someone paying you to spout this propaganda?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm responding to the more general sentiment you and BearOfaTime expressed, which is that one is 'always trying to solve strange problems on Linux.' KDE is being offered as a solution in this instance, but it's also just a default in its own right. Contrary to how you're characterising it, it's not a distro, it's not difficult to install, and it absolutely is not obscure.

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

And that’s just bizarre. That Windows needs 4GB of RAM and can’t have a low idle processor is trivial to you, but the app launcher icon being in a slightly different place in a Linux DE provokes your bewilderment is actually just lunacy.

Again in trying to make your point, you’re giving your reaction to examples you don’t provide. I get that you find Linux irritating, but you’re not really attempting to qualify why that is. When I provided examples of how Windows wastes my time, you just dismissed them as trivial. So all I can conclude is that the problems you’re coming up with Linux’s design are so trivial that you can’t even think of them.

I actually move the taskbar to the side of the screen in any OS that will let me. Why? Because screens are wide and documents are vertical. Makes sense to me. Just because you can’t fathom a design reason for it, doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Does it being on the left really necessitate research or a learning process on your part? No, so why are you pretending it does?

A unified position for every program toolbar doesn’t objectively increase functionality, but it has the downside of forcing the user to focus the window before they can access the toolbar. In my opinion it’s a slight net decrease in UX. It seems like it’s mostly done to be different.

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