I’ve been forced to use iOS for my work phone and it is absolute dog shit… it feels like Android from 10+ years ago. The lack of customization and dumbass work flows drive me crazy every day.

So many screens in different apps. make you reach way to one corner or the other to go back a screen. In Android, back is one motion that can be done anywhere from any edge. And that behaves consistently across every app. In iOS some apps behave differently, even the same app with a different screen will handle the same gesture differently. It’s an absolute shit show.

Want to open my app list, I just swipe up from anywhere on my screen. Want my notifications, swipe down from anywhere on my screen. In iOS I have to perfectly hit the top edge and slowly drag it down.

There are plenty of other reasons.

Access to the filesystem. Wtf! Lmao. I download a PDF and can’t just open it? I have to basically share it with the app, it’s so dumb.

Split screening apps.

Complete lack of customization. The launcher is ass.

Horrible keyboard and the one I like, SwiftKey is completely neutered and lacks the customization of Android. And some apps will use the apple keyboard even though I changed it to use Swiftkey. Again, no consistency.

Messages will pop a notification then when I open the messenger app they are not there. I can read the message in the notification area, but there is a period of time that it doesn’t display in the actual app. Lmao. Dog shit.

Many, many other things.

Apps and services dying to backgrounding like the hotspot for one will just stop working after a certain amount of time.

Want to know how I change my brightness in Android? I just slide across the status bar in any app on any screen.

When I want to turn my flashlight on, all I do is hold my power button down for 3 seconds. Don’t have to turn my screen on and click anything.

So many things. The settings in iOS are also a joke and the way they are organized, I just hate everything about it. It feels like I’m running Android from 2010 with less customization.

Basically iOS is complete ass.

You obviously don’t know shit about tools. They are waaay better now.

You’re an absolute moron. Literally everything you said is ass backwards.

I mean, the website has officially supported devices. If you are running an unofficial rom made by some random on a forum, that’s on you.

Its better to have less proprietary which is why LineageOS is better.

I have a Pixel and LineageOS is the best by far. Freedom to root, which I absolutely want… I want full control over my devices. I’m extremely picky about how every little thing runs and works in my phone and I can only get it with root. You can’t get root with GraphenOS without a huge pain in the ass with updates.

It’s hilarious people install GrapheneOS and think they are better off because Google services are installed as user apps instead of system. You lose as soon as you install them either way. They are getting the data they are after no matter if it’s installed as a user app or system app.

But anyway, I’ve been running LineagOS since it used to be Cynogenmod over 10 years ago. It’s the most established and reliable while remaining open to customization by far.

This Old Tony is awesome.

NNKH also is good too, a bit different but if you like watching a mechanically knowledgeable dude just fixing on shit, it’s good stuff. Seems like a genuinely decent guy too.

I unsubscribed after their video on Android TV boxes having malware because it was full of holes. But that was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Their Linux coverage was atrocious. There were so much flat out wrong with their Linux challenge and much other Linux content. Their stuff on servers and selfhosting was ALWAYS fucking amateur hour. They ran a line between buildings and tested throughput with Windows file manager for fuck’s sake… god forbid they use a real tool like iperf or something.

I unsubbed a few weeks before the gn video dropped and that was just reaffirmation… and then some. Because I had thought they were at least getting the gamer bro stuff and benchmarks right but apparently they weren’t even doing that correctly. And that’s on top of all the other shit like the anti-union and sexual harassment. That entire channel is a joke, it’s a shame he has so many subs and misleads so many people with misinformation.

usenet, indexer, sonarr, sabnzbd

Might want to avoid semi-trucks and AC/DC for a minute.

No one should recommend plex any longer.

I went tplink omada router, switches, and aps, very happy.

You don’t need a db backup app… bind mount the data to a location then just stop the container and have borg take the backups. You can do this with all your containers.

/docker/postgres

/docker/postgres/data

/docker/postgres/compose.yml

And do that with every container. Easy as fuck to backup and restore them.

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Windows is still fucking ass though and it’s so bad that I can not respect the opinion of someone that claims they are an IT professional and don’t main Linux. Like what? And what does that even mean, that’s ridiculously broad, what do you do? I’m a network engineer and sysadmin.

Linux is objectively superior to Windows in almost every way. It has vastly superior workflows. It’s more customizable. It’s insanely more efficient. It’s more secure. I feel like I’m wading through 3ft of shit anytime I boot into Windows. Not to mention the ability to actually have ownership of your computer. And that’s just talking about the ways Linux is better. That’s not getting into why Windows is ass like… telemetry data and ads in the OS and configs reverting from updates and the dumbass way software is installed on it and how shit docker runs in it and I can go on and on. The workflows of Windows are actual dog ass and literally every single popular Linux DE has better workflows and customization.

If you in IT and use Windows for anything other than a gaming machine or something like Photoshop, then I don’t want you anywhere near my tech.

No, Cinnamon and MATE are much more Windows like DEs. KDE is awful for a new user and anyone that doesn’t want to spend a ton of time setting options. The options are overwhelmingly fucking stupid in it… and how they are laid out is moronic compared to something sane like XFCE that has much better defaults.

A new user should use Cinnamon, it’s the most Windows-like by far.

KDE is laughably bad compared to basically every other major DE, unless you have no life and want to configure every small detail… and what’s worse? You will have to because the defaults are ass.

XFCE > Cinnamon > MATE > KDE + GNOME tied in ass place for almost opposite yet somehow similar reasons. KDE let’s you configure everything from irrationally organized settings panels, and you have to because the defaults are ass. GNOME simplifies everything but if you don’t like it, fuck you.

Wireguard.

Unless you actually have a need for the public to access the services then you shouldn’t be exposing them. If it’s just you and a few household members that need access then you should be using ddns and wireguard, or similar.

My phone auto connects with wireguard as soon as I leave my home ssid, so I never lose access to my services.