Integrate777

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[–] Integrate777 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Go ahead with mint. It's the only distro I know with a fully featured setup wizard that holds your hand through the entire process. I am confident anyone who has used computers can use it.

But honestly, most modern distros are about as difficult as picking up an iOS/android phone for the first time. There are different ways of doing things, but they're still phones and can't be too different anyway. Same with mint, it's just a computer, it isn't all that different.

[–] Integrate777 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Last I checked, it didn't allow additional widgets from apps, like tasker task shortcuts or firefox webapps. Quite disappointing as I'm heavily reliant on tasker and webapps like voyager that I'm using to access lemmy right now.

[–] Integrate777 19 points 2 months ago (11 children)

What if websites decide that chrome users earn much more ad revenue and start forcing users to switch with those "This website only supports Chrome" error messages? What if this practice gets popular? I'm sure there are ways to get around it, but the average users who bothered switching to Firefox at all, will just conclude that anything except chrome has a bad browsing experience.

[–] Integrate777 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No motives whatsoever? Was his brain on vacation or smth?

[–] Integrate777 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

On top of being preinstalled, we also need google search-able instructions that avoid the terminal altogether. People are afraid of the terminal, it doesn't matter why, it just is.

Currently, most solutions to linux problems come in the form of terminal commands. We would have to start creating a whole new troubleshooting forum where instructions avoid the terminal and are just lists of buttons to press in a GUI. Probably helpful screenshots too.

Of course I have no idea if some things even have GUIs at all, like configuring user groups and permissions or firewall settings, someone would need to make them. Not to mention every DE or program would need a different set of instructions, GNOME or KDE, firewalld or iptables. It'll be a lot of work.

[–] Integrate777 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I used gnome though. IIRC, everything to do with customising GNOME is done through extensions, and all extensions have GUI settings menus.

My point being, even though it's objectively harder to customise GNOME, it still doesn't require using the terminal.

[–] Integrate777 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

What exact GUI controls does linux lack that windows doesn't?

[–] Integrate777 3 points 4 months ago

It went great. I mostly had to submit files in PDF, which allowed any office software to work perfectly.

That is until covid came around and I had to do proctored online exams. The proctoring software doesn't support linux.

[–] Integrate777 8 points 11 months ago

My favourite game Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation works again. Ciao!

[–] Integrate777 1 points 11 months ago

Oh no, I hope it's not soon.

[–] Integrate777 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That can be applied to most hobbies in general. Not using an automated coffee machine? Time worth nothing. Cooking rather buying takeout? Building your own pc rather than buying prebuilt? Drawing rather than generating with AI? Time worth nothing, that's why.

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