Endymion_Mallorn

In those cases where it’s not free software, I care more about free as in lunch than as in speech. Just let me run arbitrary .exe files in whatever folder I want them in.

Basically, I want to emphasize the Personal in PC. I don’t want to think about a user account. I don’t want features built for “network security” in my OS. TBH, I just don’t want a server OS - and all UNIX derivatives (including NT Windows) are. My ideal OS would be a dual-boot of FreeDOS & an updated Win Me that runs current hardware.

See, as a native Windows user, I mostly feel the opposite. I use Linux Mint because it’s almost like Windows, but it’s incredibly frustrating when it’s not. I’m not even much of a gamer (most of my games are FOSS, or run in RetroArch, Vice, or DOSBox-X). I just like being able to instantly find the software I’m looking for. It shouldn’t take an hour to find a Notepad. There needs to be something like Dspeech. I shouldn’t need to search and poke and hope that the software is either in apt or flatpak. So every time I go back to Windows, even the hellscape that is 11, I can get everything done faster than Linux.

Really? Try installing Battlenet or Hearthstone with Wine.

You just made a great sales pitch for Windows.

Assimilate this.

Mint.

I love radio.

This has been my experience, yes.

That’s what I thought too!

Luanti designers too.

In my terminal and 99% of what I write? IBM Courier 12. I grew up with a Selectric, moved to use WordPerfect (with the white text on blue background), and still just stick with it. I will tolerate Courier New 12. I get very ticked at Liberation Mono because it’s almost okay.

Everything not monospace is some variety of Helvetica.

TFM isn’t worth the R. It doesn’t describe failure states or bugs in a way that a normal user understands or can work with. Either it works perfectly, or there’s basically no way to figure out exactly what went wrong and how.

I mean mainly fighting against the standardization of DRM, or tolerating anything that allows corporations to demand their “features” (anything that removes privacy) become standard. The difference between a good browser and a bad one shouldn’t be whether you can finagle a Widevine license for cheap.

Or, more generally, they should be actively blocking anything that would benefit corporate interests over the rights of the people. But since the Linux Foundation threw in with Google, Microsoft is a Google client, and Mozilla Corp runs on Google money, the W3C has been a joke for years. Mozilla has made themselves irrelevant, since they were just seen as a means to prevent the Google antitrust cases.

Hopefully this breakup of Google, and the loss of the money, will get the CEO (currently earning 1% of the total of Mozilla’s money - no one person should do that unless there’s less than 100 people), and that whole bunch to leave so that volunteers can take over.

Maybe, just as a crazy thought here, jwz was right. Mozilla and Firefox exist for 2 purposes - to build the standard reference browser, free of corporate crud (like, say, Google WebExtensions); and to be an absolute attack dog against ridiculous corporate desires.

I mean, I have a Thinkpad and an HP Elitebook. So… what’s the problem?

There are many people who appreciate a double bang.

Excuse me, no. That was the first human all-female space flight. The first all-female space flight was Laika, in 1957.

Does that1 security no-no matter on a single-user system which (almost) never leaves the sight of said user? Or is that just a matter of ‘don’t do this on a server’?

Thank you, that’s a switch I hadn’t looked at. I’ll admit though, I’m on Mint, I have a nice built-in GUI that works nicely.

Um… shouldn’t it be:

sudo su;
apt-get update;
flatpak update;

Or am I missing something?