Very excited about this.
Recently discovered GNOME and loved the workflow, and now I find out Cosmic improves upon it with a more modern programming language behind it, which is native to Wayland.
I’m not much of an Alpha tester, but ill be following the progress of the project closely.
operating on the same principles
… Which are, by design, addictive.
The upvote/downvote system particularly.
You get a rush every time your comment or post goes into the 3 digits in upvotes, be honest.
You don’t need a sophisticated algorithm to have an addictive design either. All you need is for your home feed to give you more of what you want, which is what your subscribed tab does by default.
Lastly, the “ingroup/outgroup” psychological trigger lemmy induces you into (which was copied from Reddit), is also in itself highly engaging.
I 100% agree. Immutable is the way to go for beginners. Source: started on Mint and actually had a few problems. Now I’m on Bluefin (previously Aurora) and I have none.
Hey, so I wanted to come back just to say: I ended up trying Bluefin, and frankly… I like it better than Aurora now. Lol. The workflow is insanely good for me who get distracted so easily.
I thought I was finding a distro for my wife (who will surely love it) but I ended up finding it for myself also.
Just thought I’d let you know. Cheers buddy!
It’s like using a chromebook, and the less there is to click on, the better.
Hmm, you may be onto something here.
I think I’ll test drive it and consider the same for my wife. She has a Mac, and she says she prefers Windows (clearly she hasn’t used it in nearly a decade), and this might be an option for her if I can just put all the stuff she uses on the bottom docker.
Thanks for the tip, and best of luck in your Linux journey! 🐧
I agree with you, lol. The other day I tried windows 11 at a store, and it was a pain. The learning curve was bigger from windows 10 -> 11 than from windows 10 -> KDE.
I’m curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she’s hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?
Love to read this, I’m exactly on the same journey! Was using Mint until a few days ago, and now I’m on Aurora. There is a bit of a learning curve due to the atomic factor (some apps aren’t in Discover), but overall I’m happy with the stability.
Linux is truly wonderful and I look forward to learning more and seeing it grow. Fuck Microsoft, I’m done with their crap.
NGL that smiley face from Finder looks so condescending lmao. My wife’s laptop is a Mac and it’s hilarious every time how it shows up so often. Like Clippy from Word lol.
Sorry to say, but both Zen and Floorp were obvious honeypots from the beginning.
Unsolicited advice, but don’t adopt the latest browser/search engine/OS that promise privacy and/or security, and you’ll avoid a lot of disappointment. Most fall apart at the seams within a year or less.
If the one browser/SE/OS you currently use works, stick with it until more research on the newer stuff comes out. Then you can reassess.
I’m currently testing fedora (upgrading from mint) and since I’m fairly new I don’t want to venture into the fairly unknown territory that is Immutable atm.
Plus, I using a VPN, its crucial for my work, and I already see there are some issues with it because it has to be layered and blá bla bla.
Basically I’m just giving Atomic distros one or 2 years more so that the technology matures, software developers start taking it seriously enough to work around them, and for guides to start coming out.
Nah, 7 was pretty good, although it was the last good one.
Anything past that was garbage but frankly I tolerated it as as a teenager I was too busy being horny all the time to notice how my computer was increasingly antagonistic towards me.
I tolerated all the way to windows 10 but windows 11 was the last nail in the coffin for me. I probably am indeed late to the party but tbh Linux didn’t inspire me until recently when I saw its became way more user-friendly than it was in 2015 when I first tried it.
I thought Fedora didn’t either? That’s a Ubuntu exclusive I think (not sure!). In any case, its a couple lines on the terminal and it’s gone.
I think because other distros don’t have half the issues Arch has, pacman isn’t as important in keeping the system “stable”.
But I understand why someone using Arch would be fascinated by pacman.
Can you confirm Mullvad VPN (if this is your vpnVPN) works on the latest atomic fedora after reinstalling?
Word. Unfortunately I cannot like Ubuntu for all of canonicals decisions, but there’s no doubt they have designed the most iconic Linux DE there is.
So much so that if someone who doesn’t use Linux thinks of Linux, they imagine Ubuntu.
The Marxism/Privacy intersectional analysis is something I never expected to see. But I welcome it with open arms.
I’m glad this community isn’t just right-wing libertarian tinfoil-wearing loonies.
“I set my house on fire damn why did my house burn down its the builders fault.”
Something similar happened in Denmark with the new Sundhedsloven, which had provisions allowing the government to forcefully isolate people in concentration camps, along with forcefully vaccinating them.
This was of course alarming for those who were in the know, but very few people protested (and the law was subsequently amended), but the general attitude from the public was “it’s not a problem because something like THAT would ever happen in Denmark.” 🤡