I think it’s just that computers and programming are a really good escape from the world around you and that attracts anyone who feels in some way trapped or unseen in real life, especially with open source software where you really are free to make your computer into your own customized personal little world where you feel safe.
I always think it’s so funny that the old stereotypical gray haired man or neckbeard linux user got replaced by the new stereotypical transfem linux user. Now that there’s less need to compile our own software there’s more time to compile our own genders
I like how their AI generated logo doesn’t even spell the name right
I played so much supertuxkart in middle school, then got pretty good at figuring out how to configure wine to make everything work in high school, and now as an adult wine has gotten so good that I just click on whatever I want to play on steam and 90% of the time it just works flawlessly, I don’t even always remember which games are native and which are running in wine these days.
Anyway yeah, using linux never made me spend less time playing games
I say you’ve won an operating system once you’ve contributed code that got into its kernel
Yeah but I bet google’s one will have lots of cool features like being harder to use and not supporting becoming root and requiring google play services for no discernable reason
We need someone to write down a step by step explanation of whatever the cycle of masturbation is
Yeah I really don’t get what people are talking about, I’ve been using wayland basically exclusively since 2022 and I haven’t had any difficult to fix problems. For screensharing in the few things that don’t support the portal I just use OBS’ virtual webcam and everything else has just worked perfectly, or at least with way less issues than I ever had with X
I choose exclusively based on mascot and I don’t know any distributions with mascots other than opensuse so I use opensuse
USB 3.x killing thunderbolt wouldn’t make any sense, USB 4 is based on the Thunderbolt 3 spec. I would agree that USB 4 will replace Thunderbolt but only because it is Thunderbolt
Did firewire really flop? Lots of devices from the early 2000s have it and it works really well. Everyone used it to get video from cameras and using it for target disk mode on macs is amazing
For text editing, kate is really good and has like zero learning curve and it has tons of features like really good lsp integration but can also just be a normal text editor if you don’t want all the fancy stuff.
(But also I promise learning vim isn’t as hard as you think it is, you can learn the basics in like an hour or two and there are so many things it makes so much easier than other editors)
Kate is so good, I switched to it once atom was discontinued and only stopped using it when I finally got around to setting up neovim to have all the things I need
This is why I love ostree distributions so much for my laptop. Not only can I safely update in class, I once switched distributions twice in one day of classes with only like 30s of total downtime, I just waited for the professor to go off on a tangent I didn’t need to take notes about so I could reboot.
I have a very similar spec Asus Eee PC that I use NetBSD with i3 on and it’s fine for like taking notes in vim or listening to music with strawberry. It can also run Haiku fine which I might switch to on it at some point because Haiku is fun. Anyway my best use idea is just use it to explore operating systems you’re curious about
Also, so that a random program you run as an wheel user can’t just get root access without asking.
I just make ssh an alias that runs TERM=xterm /usr/bin/ssh
I use Thunderbird if I’m using Plasma and Geary if I’m using Gnome
It seems like it would be useful for things like camera permissions and stuff, but it seems a little unnecessarily complicated for file access compared to just using a filechooser portal like flatpak does, then the user can just select specifically what they want when they want to without having to think about permissions.
Somewhere around 2017 I bought an old dell precision from 2011 for $25, put a radeon rx 570 in it a few years later and used it as my main computer until last year when I finally got around to building a replacement