I forgot but do browsers download binaries as executable?

One of the big issues with windows is the fact that it uses file extensions for determining file type, so EXEs can just be instantly run after downloading, which led to MSFT making the “Mark Of Th Web” attribute, which moved hackers into finding every type of bypass for MOTW.

I think straight bin downloads require you to chmod +x first, but you could also probably bypass it with any archive format like .tar.gz or opting for a .deb or .rpm.

The upside is that you really shouldn’t be downloading raw bins outside of the package manager, but there are a bunch of tools that only ship as appimages, so you’re kinda screwed if you download and execute from an untrusted source.

Fair enough, good GUI for a mouse and keyboard then lol.

As long as you don’t use GNOME as a good example of a good GUI

No sweat, try mirroring a private tracker and you’ll very quickly run out lol. You need a couple of petabytes worth.

The real problem is the price of HDDs not going down due to lower production in light of SSDs.

I fully expect WD to drop this as some stupidly expensive SAS drives that almost no consumer will buy. They should at least apply the dual heads for speed tech so we get faster HDDs for the same price.

4 days?

Took me 4 seconds to realize I can actually use the super key and have my start menu pop up instantly and not watch it struggle to load 50 ads and tell me to download candy crush

Very critical. GNOME and KDE have two very different UX paradigms.

Usually people used to Windows opt for KDE, and Mac or older Ubuntu users opt for GNOME.

The thing is though, a golden standard DE can easily be setup to act as both. XFCE is so customizable that I’ve seen both DE types setup as UNIX like or Windows like workflow.

I’m not sure if KDE or GNOME can do the same because I’m pretty sure they focus on a target audience.

What are your issues with KDE exactly? I always hated GNOME’s lack of standard window buttons and handling multiple windows in a Mac like fashion. Also the app menu which gives me flashbacks of ChromeOS.

tbf to this thread, wayland wasn’t really viable until 2023.

I made an existing comment on this that people didn’t like because I pointed out that most of Wayland’s “modern upgrades” like VRR, HDR, etc were unimplemented or unfinished for years. Even HDR is still “beta” on KDE iirc.

People also like to pretend the triple buffer wasn’t a can of worms for many users for a very long time (and still is on low power devices).

People talking about history without mentioning the laziest answer is to use an alias, which bash usually has ll = la -la or my personal preference is ll = ls -lAh (list + Everything except . and .. + human readable file size)

I tried protonmail not for the privacy purpose but just to have a normal web email client.

After wasting an hour before finding out you can’t disable the “sent from protonmail” footer without manually deleting it in each draft you make, I said screw it and deployed my own email server with stalwart lol.

It’s receive only because outgoing SMTP is a pain to make reliable these days and my ISP blocks outgoing SMTP anyway, but for everything else I now use Thunderbird.

Use micro after everyone makes fun of you for using nano

Been on it permanently for years now. Only complaint is that I found XFS to be better than BTRFS, though most people probably wouldn’t notice.

Only other “complaint” is Fedora doesn’t have a lot of support for embedded arm devices, so you’re on your own if you want an RPM style distro on something like an Orange Pi.

If you want to ruin a concert’s day, change the thermostat a few clicks lol.

Funny thing is you can actually conduct pretty well with just your hand.

Also a good conductor is usually an astoundingly good player of multiple instruments themselves.

It’s kind of like how football (soccer) team managers are retired players that can still play better than the entire stadium wearing loafers and a suit.

Compiz and Wayfire:

The window snapping introduced in vista/7 and the old start menu from vista/7.

Actually I might need to reduce that percentage lmao

Windows registry is an absolute horror show even without the GUI lmao.

At least on linux you will usually be greeted by a nice integrated GTK or Qt layout.

Windows is 40% archaic stuff from the 90s, 40% tirefire PWA/electron apps, and 20% of normal design that keeps them barely ahead of OSX.

Default zsh is just bash, you need to add all the fancy plugins to get it to do cool stuff

fish is for people who don’t want to spend the time setting it all up and to just get a shell that has most of the QoL fetaures builtin.

Kali, ParrotOS, and BlackArch are the B-52s flying overhead out of the frame

Wayland triple buffer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x0zFtsl2-po

This looks like it was made to justify those insane text editors with “GPU acceleration” as if text editing requires interop with Vulkan.