Hard to find something depressing with no experience.
What is depressing is that tens of millions JUMP on the platform, knowing already that Meta is evil and not caring.
The human race is digging it’s own grave, and the handful that know better will just get pulled down.
When Lemmy.ml gives you infinite loading times to open this post…
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I haven’t bean paying attention.
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?
'Coz you gonna lose your teeth eitherway.
Methinks you have been so busy trying to fight that you didn’t realise that nobody else is fighting.
However, there’s a slight issue with ‘still being connected to the wider internet’ as I don’t see results for Lemmy content appearing in my searches the way Reddit content comes up.
So it feels rather like a sci-fi movie when you’ve had too many mushrooms - kind of bright, but a bit confused…
However, it does help focus that idea that - if we are going to have interesting discussions and create information which is archived - it shouldn’t be inside Reddit, and it should be accessible by search.
So Lemmy is half way there…
Sure, use it to post to Lemmy.ml - there’s a nice challenge.
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.
Maybe try looking away from the screen, out of the window.
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.
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.
That’s interesting. I picked up memebership in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world (same username) after trying Beehaw and finding that I was met with an endless circle of progress when submitting…
Haha yes, I have to stay out of arguments involving Snap vs Flatpak for this reason. I ended up leaving Mint through issues with my HTPC install - with Plex, the ‘Home Theater’ app died it’s death, and options were tough to install - so I went for Arch, failed to get that working well, then tested KDE with Manjaro - bingo!
Until a couple of months ago, I was installing PlexHTPC via AUR which unpacked the snap and installed it - that’s so awesome… though now it’s dead so I had to jump onto the newly opened Flatpak option (AUR stuck at 1.30.1-1 whilst Flathub is up to 1.39.2).
After the PPA nightmares I had with 'buntu, and later with Mint (PPA’s made for 'buntu often don’t work) it’s like a dream.
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 upmodify 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.