Cybersecurity engineers and pentesters don’t need Kali or Parrot. You don’t need Proxmox to use LXC and KVM. You don’t need OpenMediaVault to have Samba and NFS shares. You don’t need Clonezilla to make use of the OCS toolkit. You don’t need LMDE to have a Debian OS with Cinnamon and nonfree drivers installed, or Endeavour to have Arch with KDE Plasma.

But it’s sure as shit good to have everything packed together and preconfigured by professionals.

No. I’m so bloody fed up with AI “search” solutions that return everything on the fucking planet except what I want. Text search has been a solved problem for a decade. All I want out of a search engine is to be deterministic, stable, and reliable, and to look in titles, descriptions, and keywords. Vibe processing is completely unnecessary and will only create issues.

If you really want to iNnoVAte, then consider creating an index with transcripts and summaries that users can search by keywords.

FOSS was the original. Free and Open Source Software. But, English being English, “free” was too ambiguous (free as in gratis vs. unrestricted), so the French came to the rescue with the much superior word “libre”. That’s how F/LOSS (Free/Libre) was coined.

There are five different file pickers on my system and I never know which application uses which one, or if my bookmarks will appear in them, or if the dialog will respect theming or display icons from a light theme on a dark background. Speaking of theming, it’s a shitshow. QT and GTK apps never look even similar, and the existence of Adwaita isn’t helping. If you want a flatpak app to use your preferred cursor, you have to manually grant it access to additional paths, then it’s a 50/50 chance. There is massive feature fragmentation between Wayland compositors, especially with GNOME, the “user-friendly one” dragging its feet (pun intended). We didn’t even have a functional on-screen keyboard until recently in Plasma. Xorg wasn’t any better – you had to choose between high input latency (compositor on) or massive screen tearing (compositor off), and it was a maintenance nightmare. But let’s not forget about audio either: the first time I tried to switch to Linux ~2016, I could never get PulseAudio to work reliably.

These are only the issues I’ve personally come across. I’m sure others could add to the list. Having a preference of desktops is fine and I would never deprive you of that right, but saying that the Linux desktop experience across the board is “easier to use and more functional” than everything else, and especially claiming it has “been for a long time”, is untrue, and fucking stupid. That’s why you’re getting downvoted.

And don’t you think I didn’t notice how you never actually presented any arguments for your claims.

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Same deal with MMO players. They don’t miss “the social aspect of MMOs”, they miss the novelty of sitting around with like-minded degenerates in a cool-looking chatroom until the dungeon queue pops.

There is no easier to use and more functional desktop with great user experience than Linux.

Ignoring the fact that you make it sound like Linux has a single unified desktop experience…

I’d love to hear your reason for thinking that. I’m a Linux fanboy and even I’m smelling the bullshit.

Obviously not every single time. If the major players in the Linux ecosystem had adhered to his extremist views, Linux would be in the same spot as GNU Hurd: forgotten, outclassed by less extremist competitors.

That’s why it’s one step above. The user is given an option to read the PKGBUILD (or a diff with the cached copy if it exists), but beyond that, it’s still unverified arbitrary code from an external source (the project’s actual source, binaries, or packages from another repository). Packages in the official Arch repos are verified by the downstream packagers. For AUR packages, it’s up to the community to moderate itself, and the user to determine whether the package is trustworthy, and I’m willing to bet that not many people do it. I certainly don’t vet everything I install.

yay, a utility to access the AUR, where users share build scripts instead of binaries. It’s just one step above curl | sudo sh in terms of security.

Recommended, yes, but I’ve had issues with the pre-compiled modules before, so I switched to nvidia-dkms to make sure the binaries are always freshly baked.

Not the right place to ask. Try the official forums of your distro, or one of the many Linux communities on Lemmy.

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Is that HDR? I can tell you right now that HDR is still experimental on all Wayland compositors (Plasma seems to be the farthest along, but still not reliable), and will never be implemented in X11.

How about you sudo apt-get better jokes?

pacman -S nvidia-dkms

Hollywood, here I come!

We’re all friends, until someone mentions systemd, or Rust, or Wayland. Then the gamemode switches to PVP.

tldr is the application you need.

They were probably trying to run out the warranty period. (for legal reasons, this is speculation)

Not exactly. It splits the terminal into multiple tiles and each one contains a different Hacker screen. Anything from Matrix-style falling characters to echoing a random manpage to a filesystem tree to a character graphic world map.

Since the article fails to link it (and also reads like slop), here is the actual publication: https://commission.europa.eu/document/8af13e88-6540-436c-b137-9853e7fe866a_en

The title is gross clickbait. The EU is not banning virtual currencies, but introducing informing publishers of regulations guidelines to ensure the user is informed of their real monetary value, and that deceptive or unfair pricing practices are avoided.

I use Linux because the Windows normies recoil from my computer in fear whenever I open the terminal, like a school of fish around a shark. Sometimes I even open htop if I want the office to myself.