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  • Zorin user here. Might switch to Mint. Might not help, but after almost 2 years, I still don’t know what I’m doing.

    Unless it’s flatpak.

    But like, I have no idea how to update my bluetooth driver. And I really want to.

    There are other utilities that I can’t install. It’s like the tools you need to install to make linux easy still need terminal to install.

    It’s all “you’re missing prerequesits. They won’t be installed”.

    So you need to be smart enough in linux to install the tools to make it easy, but if you knew how to install the tools, you wouldn’t need them.









  • I work a job at an airport assisting the elderly and disabled with wheelchair assistance.

    I cannot tell you, literally cannot tell you how many people sit in my wheelchair, and IMMEDIATELY start talking about the weather.

    Uggghhhhhh!

    I would be pleasantly surprised if the conversation instead was like this:

    “So, hows your day going?”

    “I murdered my wife and kids last night. Then I ate their corpses…”

    “Really? That’s fantastic. Hey, what operating system are you using?”







  • That may all be true and all, but other services aren’t one guy.

    It would be like signing up for a fediverse instance, which uses closed source software, and it’s just one guy running the service for a small amount of people.

    I don’t know who runs Lemmy.world, but at no point do I think the admins are targeting me, to read through my inbox. My judgement says that’s not what the admins are doing with their time.

    But this myspace clone had 300ish registered members on a single centralized closed source platform being run and created by one guy with zero oversight. I can’t say that he created the service specifically to spy on people, but it certainly doesn’t pass the sniff test.