You think running Java applets and flash was better than what we have today? Now that is delusional!

As far as I know, AOSP is largely maintained by Google. Without the Google Play Services you lose key functionalities such as notification service or the ability to use home banking apps.

While alternative play services such as microG exist, in my personal experience they are buggy as hell. My banking apps continued not to work and notifications were often delayed by several hours.

I’d love a real opensource linux alternative driven by the community without a big tech dictating what goes in or not. We’re not there yet but it’s cool to see people trying.

Oh don’t worry, it will be way less than an hour :P

I use Linux exclusively but I don’t think it’s relevant to the discussion.

I would rather use windows 11 than any other EOL version of windows. I loved windows XP when it came out, wouldn’t dare to use it today.

It might be a remote exploit or it might not. An OS is not just a program that runs in the background, if it is critically important.

These kind of exploiters don’t tend to attack you in particular, they have botnets scanning the web for any compromised machine.

Running windows 10 is fine today, might not be fine after EOL. It is irresponsible to shrug it off and not even consider the alternatives out there, including windows 11.

The problem is that as soon as a security issue is found on windows 10 it won’t be fixed, it is perpetual. In Windows 11 it will probably be fixed before you even know it exists.

Does gaming work fine in Mint? Is Wayland up and running yet?

I have a friend looking into switching to Linux. Mint feels right but I worry about the wayland migration.

That’s unfortunate :(

I’m on the same boat as you, pretty much. I grew up with ISO and moved to ANSI on my 20s. If you own an Happy Hacking Keyboard I’ll consider you my long lost brother!

My SO is not a techie person and doesn’t particularly benefit from ANSI. She types a lot in portuguese, our native language, and the default ANSI layout has some really bad key placements. The ~ key in particular is in a pretty bad spot considering ã is used very frequently in our language. No point in getting used to a layout that is inferior for her workflow.

Is .dev maintained by the US?

You can (and should) disable password authentication and force the use of public/private keys. Op did this, seems fine.

SSH is very handy and the industry standard.

You say “easy enough” but there are some serious tradeoffs when removing phone numbers from the equation. My mom can use Signal without my help but she wouldn’t be able to use SimpleX.

Signal is a fantastic middle ground messaging app that is secure enough for me to use and easy enough for my mom to use.

I also have SimpleX but I have exactly 1 contact there…

That feels like a huge downside!

Privacy != anonymous

ISO is an absolute must have, unfortunately.

This is what’s so great about Linux, you can use whatever the hell you want.

Flatpaks provide some cool security functionalities like revoking network access to a specific application. Maybe you care about this, maybe you don’t.

My personal policy is to always install from the repos. Occasionally something is only available in flathub, which is fine for me. I really understand how hard is maintaining something for every single package manager and diatributions and totally respect the devs using a format that just works everywhere. If I were to release a new Linux app, I would totally use flatpak.

I enjoy souls games and I’m okay with their difficulty but I honestly don’t get how the possibility of an easy mode upsets so many people. It doesn’t require much development time, if any, to scale down enemies.

This isn’t like implementing something that doesn’t exist or that fundamentally changes the gameplay. Scaling already exists.

It has literally 0 impact on your experience and would allow others to enjoy the game as much as you do.

especially if you’re looking for a physical gift

Yep, it’s a git! :)

It’s like going to a vegan community saying “meat isn’t so bad”. You’re obviously not going to get good responses.

You wish. Most tech companies will get you the cheapest laptop they can get away with.

I remember being denied a 64bit laptop when developing a 64bit only application lol.