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  • I was excited when I bought an Amiga 500, and ever since then the main thing I noticed is that the EXCITEMENT of getting a computer was always over-ruled by my ability to exploit it’s powers and use it.

    So my perspective is that all computers and operating systems SUCK. But some suck less than others…

    So using Manjaro KDE, it sucks less because it’s very simple and easy for me to install whatever I like - having AUR available, being able to search with pamac to include repos, AUR and Flatpak (even snap if I was that desperate).

    KDE also gives you super powers to fuck up modify your desktop experience and shortcuts.

    It’s been good to me for 6 years now. After going Ubuntu>Mint I was excited to leave Debian and try something else, I never made it to the Redhat camp (always interested to try Fedora) and hopefully will never feel the need.

    So yes, what I like MOST is - it mostly just works. And when it fails, the forum is awesome.














  • Ben@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlTinkle outside the binkle
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    1 year ago

    Americans really can’t be this stupid. Not all of them anyway!

    Watching this dumb bint on Tiktok - ‘I should have done THIS, Did I do THIS? - No I didn’t, and why didn’t I do THIS? It’s because I’m dumber than your pet turtle!’.

    Does anyone actually believe this shite? Is it not remotely possible that she just made up a dumb story to help her make pocket money on Tiktok?



  • Ben@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlHow can I get better at the CLI?
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    This is a bit of a pointless question. Also, not quite making sense… because ‘workflow’ can mean absolutely anything.

    I enjoy using Dolphin (KDE) because I have a terminal window at the bottom (F4 toggles it) which is tied to the GUI - so if I do ‘zi’ to jump to one of my video, or document folders, then the GUI follows… best of both worlds… and it means I can manage almost as well without the GUI, though not quite so well without the terminal.

    You should aim to do things the most efficient way, without predetermined ideas about whether to use GUI or terminal. I use terminal to listen to radio, but not to edit pictures or videos.

    When you get to your desktop, certainly start with a terminal open… I like Kitty - easy tabbing and splitting means I can do tons of stuff in the one window.

    You learn by using, researching, and learning. That’s how you can get better. You can also do a lot by trying different shells - for example, I run Konsole (with ZSH) and Kitty with FISH - so they’re quite different to use, and each has benefits.



    • What is a ‘literal plant’?

    They should just build factories to produce machines that can make hotdogs, wheat, oats, rice…

    Then to start with, have these machines in all supermarkets producing food locally.

    Eventually, every household should have it’s own programmable machine.


  • Your choice.

    • PWA’s aren’t really a thing. Linux, we has a nice ‘Progressive Webapp’ manager - so I can create PWA’s with launchers for any website, using any browser. I think I have about 4 (Shopee/Lazada/Translate/PlexWeb).

    9/10 times I just open the bookmarks in Firefox…

    • Not sure what your issue is with Bookmarks or History - but they’re perfectly usable. Perhaps you’re just fixed in your ways.

    • You can turn off Pocket. Even when it’s on, it’s not a problem - but Firefox has to have some revenue channels and many folks don’t have any problem with Pocket. I use RSS, so I don’t.


  • This is the way.

    Unfortunately, if you don’t already know the answers it’s more a question of experience before you’ll understand them.

    When I started with Ubuntu I couldn’t do dualboot, so it was hard. It got better with each update, but my beloved Gnome2 desktop was threatened and Ubuntu went on to Unity - KDE sucked, so I jumped over to Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop.

    Whilst it was great, I had terrible issues getting software - PPA’s are often suited to Ubuntu and not Mint… so in the end I tried installing Arch, failed twice, then got a Manjaro (Cinnamon) ISO and tried that for a few days, got some snapshots (rsync to my HDD) and then figured it’s not a big deal to install KDE, as it’s easy enough to go back.

    KDE was so much better by then (about 5 years back) that I’m stuck with Manjaro KDE - having access to the AUR to install stuff is awesome, and flatpaks work at the flick of a settings switch too.

    Dual-booting gives you the luxury of (if you wanna play Genshin Impact) having the option to boot into your game OS but also the ability to install games on your Linux OS and decide which one runs best on your hardware.

    Everyone has such varied ‘needs’ that your question is impossible to answer - you must just suck it and see.