ideological reasons. windows creeps me the fuck out. i’ve been using linux since the slackware days. sure i’ve been on win 3.1 and all the way up to XP as my OS because of gaming, but I have dual booted with linux since around 2003. I haven’t had Windows installed on any device since 2013 - and frankly, I am so fucking happy with fedora and the steam deck finally kicking the door down and making linux 100% viable for everyone.

But yes, I’m too old now and I really can’t be arsed to deal with the constant patchwork of the olden days and there is no way I would ever look back at anything since switching to fedora 2 years ago. It’s insanely good (finally). Not even mint could deliver an equally flawless experience after all these years in comparison. I actually just dropped mint from my last holdout device earlier this week, replacing it with Fedora.

The Year of Linux Desktop is finally here!

danes are sucking thiels cock for their own wicked reasons.

as we’ve always said; never trust a dane!

people miss the most important problem with this. chat control is a fascist tool that can and will be used against us minorities. this is especially dangerous when more and more countries are starting to lean right.

hitler would have had a field day with this kind of tech.

“ops”

while browsing the web (hosted on linux).

why not just …not use windows?

it’s like trying to wear hats as shoes. at some point it just sort of feels stupid.

so, the fediverse wants to avoid all hobbies?

you forgot paint shop pro! but yeah you illustrate a good point; gimp is at least 10 years behind adobe/affinity/photopea. i’m honestly not sure if the things i need can be done in gimp because tutorial content is few and far between. there are probably no comparison videos because few professionals if any are willing to stick around gimp long enough to master it on such a level that they could put together a video that is honest or correct, and they would probably not want to make a video showing how gimp is crap as that is usually the opposite of a goal post here; i mean, absolutely no one likes Adobe and mostly everyone actually wish gimp was a replacement that could become a new industry standard because fuck Adobe.

i think professionals just aren’t the target demography for the gimp contributors.

no he’s definitely right. there is a reason affinity suit has been successful and it isn’t because its commercially available, it’s because it actually works as an adobe replacement whereas gimp, inkacape, scribus - does not, and its largely because of UI.

now that affinity has sold to canva and shut down sale and there is a clear concern over the future of affinity, people won’t be moving to gimp, which has had what, two decades to fix their stuff? no, they’ll be moving to photopea, again, for the same reasons. graphite.rs likewise is more at odds of potentially replacing illustrator/designer than inkscape has managed for over a decade.

i hate that i can’t use gimp, inkacape, and scribus professionally. and not for a lack of trying, giving them a few months every few years. but, its what it is.

i hope gimp becomes great one day.

starlite runs the n100 and n200 cpus. the cpus are pretty great (have an n100 on my nuc). the problem with linux is the touch interface first and foremost imo. i have an old windows tablet converted to linux and its a daily headache. well, was. i haven’t used the thing for months.

the absolute volume of people who complain daily about how shit facebook groups are for organizing community information and discussion is radical. most of my hobby associations moved to fb groups from traditional forums and now they are dying partly because there is no longer any meaningful discussions due to facebook structure and partly because people are joining there instead of a membership, and partly because facebook decided to kill all animal based hobbies around 3 years ago just as they had all migrated to the platform. and STILL people won’t move to a new one. the hobbies are literally dying because the hobby activity is banned on facebook and its STIlL there. because the platform literally can’t supply that which it needs while also profiting from the flow algorithms. but do you see anyone switching? nope. they are doubling down on using the wrong tool for the task and it’s even growing in users because it just happens to be where the users are. it’s a catch-22. if there was a mass migrate to a superior platform people would switch in a heartbeat because there is a mass migration to a superior platform.

people won’t actively seek to break the law just because something sucks. if that was the case we wouldn’t have things like facebook or twitter or tiktok.

It’s slow and prone to crashing. The formatting makes the documents not compatible with other clients half the time. I have lost way too many documents due to corruption when saving (both on third party hosts and selfhosting). I’m absolutely done with that junk. Or, I’d like to be, but any alternative has dropped their own efforts in favor of just setting up an OnlyOffice, basically making them one of the very few open source options out there now in terms of web based office clients.

whats still p2p today? seems like mostly everything was updated to run through corporate servers. i mean heck chats no longer has the capabilities they used to when things were p2p; now, a chat has like one single feature, to chat, and half the time that doesn’t even work because their servers are down lol.

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the legion of shills all but disappeared about 3 months in. i guess their budget ran out. but at least we stopped getting the anti-fedi pro-bluesky spam here at the fediverse so i don’t care anymore if its alive or not. mastodon is the only social media i use today not counting aggregation portals like lemmy.

i tried this approach but those channels died. discord rarely works long-term from what i’ve seen. you see the activity and if its far too long since someone engaged with the channel then its dead basically - and you have to start a new server; but forget getting non-gamers to put in the effort of joining a new server.

as an example, i’m an aquarist who focus on developing specific traits - being out of the loop basically means no access to shows, international exchange meetings, local swaps, events and would also set me back 10-20 years on potential development by trying to reinvent the wheel or even likely to fail in such attempts as well as an inability to acquire quality stock to revitalize genes in housed populations.

being out of the loop in this context is equivalent of quitting because its just impossible to do without facebook because these assholes all decided to move their social activity there.

how do you keep up with local/town newd, club information and activities? all of mine post exclusively on the fb groups and since i deleted my account i’m out of the loop on everything lol.