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Cake day: December 3rd, 2023
  • Durandal@lemmy.todaytoLinux@programming.dev•Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore
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    5 days ago

    “Linux Mint isn’t the answer for Linux newbies switching from windows to Linux” – someone that’s obviously done distro hopping. They then go on to cite “professional work”… something that generally benefits from boring, stable, reliable OS… and “customization”… which is a great place to start breaking things.

    And their alternatives? Kubuntu, fedora, and opensuse. What? *buntu used to be a safe bet … but they can’t keep things even running these days. Fedora… a perfect newbie choice. No hand holding, half your features won’t work as expected for a windows user because it focuses everything on foss only, out of the box. … and opensuse. I wouldn’t ever call opensuse “newbie friendly”… and they use their own packaging so all the common stuff you would want to look up for help won’t be a simple one click fix since most guides and apps recommend apt, rpm, or pac.

  • Durandal@lemmy.todaytoLinux@programming.dev•Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore
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    5 days ago

    It’s not that people generally say “basic” … they say “boring”. It’s designed to just work and be stable with some nice features but it has a slower release speed and the dev, intentionally, keeps things slow so that they can polish up all the features before they go mainstream on it. So it isn’t doing anything revolutionary and it isn’t giving you bleeding edge everything… it’s just nice and stable. It’s become one of top recommended distros for a reason.

    The main hiccups I see with it is that they are lagging behind on Wayland support… which is slowly becoming the defacto standard for desktop display tech. If you aren’t really up on the x11 vs wayland debate… this likely isn’t even an issue for you. Suffice to say they’ve tried to hang back on x11 for a while, which is the older but much more thoroughly tested way of doing the user space display. Secondly would be… because it’s a slow burn on updates, you might not get the latest greatest updates for the kernel with the display drivers. So for gaming that could make things a little more finicky. People do use it for gaming… so don’t think it can’t be also used for that, just might run into hiccups.

    Good thing is you can test it out, and if it doesn’t work out, try something else.

  • Durandal@lemmy.todaytoLinux@programming.dev•Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency
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    4 months ago

    Well that’s what “condone” means fwiw.

    I see it the same as how steam does the same thing with requiring disclosure of ai use on store pages now. And I treat it the same way if I see it I make a consumer choice to not support the game.

    What disturbed me was reading the minutes of the meeting that people seemed genuinely excited to include gen ai code. To me that speaks to an ethos that is highly divergent from what I would like to see and what should be happening. It doesn’t feel like it’s “welp I guess we gotta let people do it” and more “oh boy we can finally use it”. And with all the companies that make llm how long before some back door evil nonsense sneaks in. To say I’m dubious would be an understatement. 🤷