Depends how he meant it. It felt unfriendly but maybe not. I miss a lots of stuff when there are no emojis to express the tone 🤔 Anyway if it was meant as a friendly note I appologize.

Go for it. Give it a fair time, its a new system, some things may feel weird, but If you are willing to learn you will soon find it to be fine. Personally I would recommend some basic distro like fedora or linux mint. I would stay away from immutable systems like bazzite because I feel like with these systems people are limiting themselves too much (especially if you want to run a bunch of pirated content and stuff). The best course of action, try a few distros with live cd (i mean flash drive) to see what catches your eyes and if basic things work and only after that install your first system.

He is not wrong, but in human communication we also use something called context. Its clear he’s showing his desktop no need to delve into semantics.

Oh come on don’t be an arse 😀

Yeah I also like to do this (also with phone) but here I understand many people want to go straight to the point.

I think the problem is not your opinion but the attitude.

I think its not about being allowed or not. Its about thinking before deleting if the action helps you in anyway and not doing it maybe helps many others.

I found this an interesting point worth thinking about. And I kinda agree, why delete good information.

I don’t think most people think of this to be ephemeral. First of all, this replaces reddit and we all know how valuable reddit was when searching for issues. Second of all, this is also kind of like forum, and not many people would think of a forum to be ephemeral. Not everything save-worthy has to be wikipedia kind of stuff.

Otherwise you are number two and you dont really want to be that…

You know what, they even record the govt officials who just have not yet realised its happening and used in espionage.

But they do. And the more people join the better collective privacy.

I think its worth it. And even if there are people on google, the more people join privacy-friendly providers the less the issue happens. After I joined proton half of my family or friends joined too. Its a long game but worth it. Also I prefer Proton over tuta because tuta developed their own encryption while Proton uses PGP which is more universal.

In syncthing you can configure ip of a device and you can turn off discovery. You can add devices by id or scanning qr of the id. I have been using that for years since I didn’t want third party servers in the equation…

Used to use syncthing for files, now I just mount smb shares since I finally found how to do it on Android. Also kdeconnect is indispensable tool for me.

It depends on a launcher right? What do you mean by “allow”? If there is a launcher that looks like ios just install it. Though I wouldn’t unless it is open source.

For me the transition from windows to gnome also was somewhat smooth, not it was also because when I didn’t know how to so something I just searched for “how to…” And found out. This surprised me in the ltt video, if they searched how to format flash to fat32 in Disks they would easily know that they need to add the partition, but instead of web searched they were jumping here and there chaoticaly. And its weird they are my generation and my generation knows how to google… Or maybe they are already brainwashed by using llms?

Do you think a user that never used macOS or windows would manage to use them from minute zero? I can answer that for you. No. Users have habits that comes from their day to day tasks. And that applies especially to such things that we use for hours every day. So a livelong user of macOS would struggle with windows in the same way livelong windows user would struggle with Linux. And btw young generations hooked on phones are not capable to use computer with any OS from minute zero. Seriously, its like watching granpas and grandmas.

Try Lumo from proton if you want to stay private. I was (am) reluctant too, but i found out it can be useful if I am writing something more official, NOT to let it do it for me, but the sentences I am not sure about, it can tell me if they are fine and explain why (and you can verify with easy search because you know now what you are looking for). It’s especially helpful with my non native languages. Otherwise i did not yet find any other useful use case and I refuse to use it for dev.

You are not paranoid https://insideevs.com/news/661307/tesla-employees-shared-invasive-videos-customers-cars-report/