Both KDE and GNOME are good when you compare it to anything Windows have today.

I personally prefer KDE because of much customization support. I have it working with many keyboard shortcuts. I would miss the settings panel in hyperland.

GNOME is simple and elegant. Showing only what is needed. I can really understand people liking it. I like but just miss some small details like the keyboard shortcuts thing and focusing etc. How GNOME works is different mindset which O just have not learned. But GNOME looks good and have everything covered.

Xfc and lxd just need some more love from the developers. There are very few of them so I completely understand. Money issue.

In practice, what makes it so bad?

Yes, trail period of MS Office. But when it runs out then they have to choose what to do. Buy or pick anything else? I think the problem here is that they know they will get full compatibility with others if they buy MS Office. MS Office does not even follow their own protocol standard. Some know that the webbased version is free. That makes it really hard to compete. I hope EU fix this.

Linux is ready for the webbrowser. Office? No, MS Office does not run and still the marketshare for MS Office is very high on Windows. It does not run on Linux. If the alternatives were better then people would use them. Gaming? Maybe for Steam OS but that is only one distro. If you choose something else you will not have such smooth experience. The user might be better off by moving to console. Any business tool like Adobe or custom built Windows tools does not work. This is very hard to change. Hence many can’t even move to mac os due to this. Media Player/View Pictures? Yes, Linux is ready here.

Can you choose to have Linux pre installed on a new laptop? No, not normally.

There is still some work to do. I hope we get there. We are close for home users.

Personally I use Fedora with Firefox.

When mom tried Linux Mint she said: there is no wait time at shutdown, I am use to wait on Windows Update.

Teams for Linux and Co pilot because it was not previously supported in Firefox and i have not checked the support nowadays. Firefox for everything else.

I am wondering if it is that good to have single instance for feddiverse. It hurt feddiverse servers to send to yet another location, or is it more like p2p so it scales well?

You will find many more at feddit.nu

Dataloss is never fun. File systemet in general need a long time to iron out all the bugs. Hope it is in a better state today. I remember when ext4 was new and crashed in a laptop. Ubuntu was to early to adopt it, or I did not use LTS.

But as always, make sure to have a proper backup on a different physical location.

Why?

I am more looking into BTRF for backup due to I run Linux and not BSD ZFS requires more RAM I only have one disk I want to benefit from snapshots, compression and deduplication.

I can in Thunderbird but I don’t reply to companies. They have no reply email adress. Like here is your order number or there is our latest campaign. I use customer chat for help or company have internal message system like banks. In general I like to avoid using email due to the protocol design.

For me this would not work. I have my own domain and give out like me-authy@example.com So if the email is sent to that I wound just know who leaked my email adress. Change email and ban everything to to the old adress. I never get spam this way.

Use timeshift on your brtf partions. Also dnf5 is soon coming and going to be default.

So far no problem at all for me. It is also pretty fast to reinstall if needed.

I am against container as they are slower to start and much bigger. I think they solve the problem the wrong way. Next step is probably a VM…

Firefox have always been possible to run without container so what is the problem for all Linux distributions that containers solve? Nowadays developers have do to both… That did not less the load.

I moved to Fedora kde. Smaller, newer packages(kde 6), and wayland updated.

There is no reason to fight Ubuntu, just pick something that is not against your priorties. I came from Windows 10 and there was a lot of fighting for respecting user choice.

I don’t understand why Trump can’t be happy to be one of the few people to have been a president. Why must he do it again?

Now, let him retire. He have the money. He is already famous. Just let him go in peace to the prison…

What is the official reason here for removing it?

Good. Competition is good. If they suceed or fail just means we learn and build a better product.

Not leagaly but users will be frustated and leave. They will rollback within a day so you will not need to worry too much.