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 Anyone who says Linux is difficult to use, annoying, or requires a lot of user time and input to work needs to watch the latest video from @snazzyq. Just seeing the amount of pop-ups, updates, issues, and hoops you need to jump through to use a new Windows PC is insane (granted, some issues in the video are because it’s an ARM PC, but most of the annoying interactions aren’t dependent on that). As Quinn says, it’s likely faster to install Arch than to setup a new Windows PC… Microsoft now blaming the EU for the crowdstrike issue, because the EU made them open their APIs to third party developers in 2009 is hilarious. If your APIs had any kind of gracious error handling, this wouldn’t be an issue. Fix your bad code, Microsoft, stop pointing fingers.
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@thelinuxEXP This is obviously something they would want to do, but I have no idea if they would think it would be worth the reverse engineering efforts, monkey-patched kernel files, probably need to re-sign everything to be secure-boot-compatible, etc...  @thelinuxEXP my understanding is that in kernel mode you can’t gracefully crash without BSOD. At least based on Garry Explains video and Primeagen interview. @thelinuxEXP Kernel extensions on Linux would make the system crash just like Crowdstrike did. You can't really blame Microsoft here.
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 @thelinuxEXP I went to the trouble of filling it out and got an "error"--with no indication as to why. I left some answers undone because your pole depends a great deal on my only using one computer regularly. Oh well.  @thelinuxEXP I have a dell laptop and it came with freedos, not Windows, so in my case neither Linux nor Windows was pre-installed. That question put me in a weird dilemma (ツ)  @thelinuxEXP ah yes, a classic case of Nextcloud being too slow ~~rewrite it in Rust when?~~
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 @thelinuxEXP Speaking of AppArmor: “The Snap sandbox heavily relies on the AppArmor Linux Security Module from the upstream Linux kernel. Because only one "major" Linux Security Module (LSM) can be active at the same time, the Snap sandbox is much less secure when another major LSM is enabled. As a result, on distributions such as Fedora which enable SELinux by default, the Snap sandbox is heavily degraded.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(software)#Configurable_sandbox) @thelinuxEXP I'm avoiding Flatpaks and Snaps, and any distro which forces users to adopt them. They just want to lock people into their "Snap App store". @thelinuxEXP Ireally don't know how the results of the speedometer benchmark could be explained differently... After using @kde for a bit, I found out about a few handy tips, tricks, apps and widgets to fix some small issues and improve my productivity. So, I might as well share them with you:
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 @thelinuxEXP @kde aw, nice trick on Dolphin, almost as handy as Haiku (right drag would propose the format list in the context menu)! btw, seems a ctrl-shift drag of something from Firefox to Dolphin makes a .desktop link to the URL. @thelinuxEXP @kde thanks for info but is kde buggy or distro is , like i used opensuse with kde it was buggy for me, but i kde neo it worked fine #Apple announced the new version of their OS more than a month ago, macOS Sonoma. And there are a few cool features in there, that we’ve enjoyed on #Linux for a while now. I still wanted to see how well Apple implemented them, and if what we have on Linux is better, or if we could learn a thing or two, so here’s a look in video form: (Also, this is the first video on the channel that I didn’t edit myself, let me know what you think about it!)  @thelinuxEXP I really appreciate that you do this. We should never blind ourselves to the competition, and always learn from it. Kudos! With the recent moves from #Twitter, #Reddit, and even #Youtube, I think it’s becoming clear that ads are not a sustainable business model in the long run (and yes, I know I run a YouTube channel funded by ads 😅) I took a look at a few examples, at how this decline is also making the web worse for everyone, at alternative platforms, and tried to imagine what an internet without ads to fund content creation and big platforms could look like:
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@thelinuxEXP That said, I also look forward to people finding a new revenue model. One that isn't privacy invasive or obtrusive. Maybe sponsorships will get more popular, maybe subscriptions will get more popular. Hell maybe something entirely new may also come up. @thelinuxEXP Honestly that’s sadly been the case for a while. I think YouTube and Reddit will start charging fees just to access sites, due to the exclusive mountain of info they have.  Final thoughts on the Red Hat thing: every supporter of the Red Hat move told me that "it's normal to want to prevent people from stealing the hard work and making a clone of it". If you think grabbing the code and reusing it is "stealing", you don't understand FOSS. No matter what RH clones contribute, or if they're worth it. That's not the point. The point is, RH builds their stuff using the GPL, and they have to redistribute using the GPL. Making access to a specific part of that code harder on purpose goes against the principles of Free Software. Period. Money doesn't factor into this, value, contribution, they don't matter. FOSS is free to use, whether you contribute or not. FOSS is for everyone, "freeloaders", developers, anyone. That's the very point. Yes, the code is still technically available with a bit more work in Stream's repos. That's not the issue. The "people are stealing from us" talk is the issue. After considering both positions, I made up my mind on the Red Hat situation. While they are probably allowed to do what they’re doing right now, I still feel that not only is it unethical, but it also will harm the entire Linux ecosystem when their business drops in response to their last move, first among hobbyists, and then at the companies these work for. Here are my thoughts, in a more informal video than usual:  @thelinuxEXP IBM applied the triple E strategy that was originally named by Microsoft. Nothing more If you’re using social networks to find news about the things you’re interested in (yes, that includes Mastodon), it’s time to stop and use something that was actually made for that: RSS! So I made a quick video about this old tech, and how it’s still the absolute best way of curating what you read, watch, receive, or listen to:
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@thelinuxEXP I use RSS to subscribe to YouTube/PeerTube/Nebula channels, so convenient to have it all in one place. @thelinuxEXP but many sites make it so hard to find their feeds, of they have it at all.  @thelinuxEXP I've been self-hosting a FreshRSS instance for a few months now, and I love it. You can set css filters on every feed to customize what you want to be fetched or not. This is useful to get very clean results even when websites only show headlines for example, you can still get the full content. Will definitely watch this one later, thanks Nick! I had a wonderful time with @BrodieOnLinux on his podcast, talking about how simple Linux has become to use, how it retained its power despite that, and a lot of other things! Linux has become too simple :blobcatuwu: @distrotube : :revblobfoxhyper: @thelinuxEXP @BrodieOnLinux Linux is an awesome OS been using it off an on since I was probably 8 or 9 years old I'm 31 this year so it's been awhile lol a lot!! Has changed over those decades, like Ubuntu isn't really that great anymore tbh I agree with you on a lot of things it's why I like you and enjoy your content. Today, we celebrate the 5th birthday of The Linux Experiment channel! Or at least I do 😅 5 years of videos, of community interactions, of cool projects and also cancelled ones (RIP Gaming channel), and more than 250K subscribers (only if I add in the Peertube and Odysee folks, but they count just as much!) It’s been great, so here’s to another year of Linux-y goodness!
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@thelinuxEXP dude! Congratulations! I enjoy your channel and your humor. Here’s to many more years of awesome Linux content! Soooo basically Adobe can now by default scan your work in their suite to improve their machine learning tools and learn to better copy it? Yuck.
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@thelinuxEXP fortunately I work without adobe. Thanks for having published it. Hope that people using adobe change This is a class action lawsuit waiting to happen. Wouldn't be surprised if the EU pick up on it and decide to hold them accountable for privacy violations.
@thelinuxEXP I'm truly sorry about the closing of Stadia. As a inhabitant of LATAM, I think that was exactly what the region needed to overcome the expensive costs of hardware gaming, and no other cloud-gaming service has the same approach  This is unacceptable. RT @TutanotaTeam@twitter.com We are receiving reports from our users that @Crunchyroll@twitter.com is not allowing the use of Tutanota email addresses when signing up for their service. After contacting their team requesting that our domains be unblocked we received the following response: 🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TutanotaTeam/status/1561688502168862721
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@thelinuxEXP If you go on that tweet you can see their support told them to use big tech emails... |
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@thelinuxEXP @snazzyq So Linux IS difficult to use, annoying, or requires a lot of user time and input to work... just not as much as a recent Windows?
Pretty poor argument there sorry to say...
@thelinuxEXP @snazzyq Well, key to offering a great user experience is 1) Tight hardware & software integration 2) Well-planned, solid OS foundation
1: Microsoft makes the OS, Qualcomm cooperates with Microsoft to optimise that OS for Qualcomm’s next-gen aarch64-based SoCs. It’s not ideal, less control, but (open source!) Android pulled it off and Windows can, too.
2: Why Windows is ready for ARM: Microsoft’s earlier big efforts with Win10 ”Core OS”, WP8/WM10 and WinRT.
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social @snazzyq@mas.to arch install speedrun when (actually that probably already exists)