Thats really unfortunate. Hardware support on linux is really hit or miss and until it is seen as a worth while investment to make sure that products work well on linux by the manufacturers it will remain that way but I can not fault anyone for going back to windows when things on their system just will not work.

I can’t decide if I prefer XP or 7 I never actually daily drove XP at home because I am too young but I remember it being great on the school computers.

People really do refuse to understand that telling someone to read x section of a manual is not that same as here is a manual that I haven’t checked to make sure actually contains the information you are looking for, good luck come back if you’ve read it three times and its actually not in there.

Don’t go onto forums that are specifically to help people if you don’t have the time then. Or at the very least don’t link the whole 10000 word manual and give me a specific place to look because I promise if I have overcome my anxiety of looking stupid enough to post on the forum I have checked the manual multiple times.

You come across as somebody that would be hell to work for.

Full stop.

That shit is the reason that I will never run vanilla arch again. So many people that are so sure that something that is not in the manual is in there for so many different questions.

What were you doing on mint that had that many issues? I am genuinely asking because I have always seen it basically be bullet proof.

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Can we just be realistic and understand that most people can’t/won’t do this. Most people do not have the time/technical knowhow to host everything themselves.

Edit: came back to this and wanted to clarify. It would be great if people could self host literally everything but I don’t get any crucial information through emails or really ever besides in person. I am more than willing to pay a reasonable amount to support privacy features but I’m not personally willing to spend 10x that amount in time to do something that will probably not work because I am not an IT person. I do not have to time to learn how to self host 26 different pieces of software that I have been told I need to self host nor do I have the spare computer parts lying around to build a machine to host them. I have looked at self hosting a matrix client because that is the one type of app that I get anything I want to keep private sent to me but my family is already using signal so I’m unconvinced that switching is worth while.

I should have made paragraphs but I forgot to my bad.

calibre might be my favorite piece of software ever made. I wish every media format had a calibre equivalent. I have sorted thousands of books and merged so many series into single files because who needs seperate books on an eReader.

Good UX benefits everyone.

Laugh at the absolutely terrible name?