CarbonScored [any]

So you’re taking the best aspects of any fork you can find? Trust in the developers is an essential part of the question.

If a piece of software passes every audit in the whole world, but is developed and maintained by the NSA, you’d be stupid to leave your data with it.

Let me save you a lot of time and effort:

• No, it isn’t.

Your findings will either be an incredibly lengthy wording of that, or they will simply be wrong. It’s not a complex question.

As a daily Fedora user, this is annoying. I totally support the push for open-source, but enabling RPM Fusion on new installs to do standard stuff is a royal pain in the butt that will immediately turn off new users.

While I am usually resistant to change, I remain ever vigilant to try not be that XKCD guy

It’s already been proven that piracy is a causal factor in more sales. Any self-interested dev should be promoting piracy of their game.

Windows -> Fedora

Been almost 10 years and no thoughts of changing. What can I say? I lucked out first time.

The only download software I used was the DownThemAll Firefox extension, which has always been real good. It works on all sites I’ve tried it with, it’s a very customisable interface, I don’t really know what you mean by not copy-pasting links but you don’t gotta do that.

You’re not likely to find an exact copy of the software for another OS, wine probably is your best bet if you just want IDM in Linux form.

In Europe, these blocks are typically just IP bans, so secure DNS no helpy. You need a VPN or other proxy.

Is it possible to… boot into a LUKS in a LUKS?

For techy people, sure. But in 90% of cases, people moving from Windows are looking for as little a paradigm-shift as they have to endure. I’m sure most regular Linux-users wouldn’t disagree that other distros are cool, but telling someone “use this thing it’s literally nothing like anything you know” is not going to get many takers from the population of people who just want their tech to do everyday stuff.

Honestly as a power user for 10 years I very, very rarely come across a time it’s a good idea to touch anything outside the home directory.

FWIW, if you’re in Europe, you have guaranteed rights to refund online purchases within a timeframe. I’m assuming they’ve factored that in, but worth knowing if not.

No? I’ve already said what it’s about, and I’m not eager to repeat myself 'cause I feel vague meanyness.

It’s not about a lack of features.

We essentially have three different browsers, that definitively isn’t “lots and lots”. Every year they get together and agree on what measures can be foisted upon all users with or without their support. The rest are very little more than reskins of each other.

Install Firefox with default settings > Look at your new tab page. They’re all sponsored ads.

Firefox on mobile collects data and sends it off for marketing purposes, this can’t be turned off.

Forces ads in my face via Firefox. Sometimes promotes commercial control of the internet. Is borderline for-profit at this stage with all the moneygrubbing and issues that comes with.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re the best of the lot by a long long way, but they’re still problematic.

To be honest, I think the internet is in desperate need of an alternative to the Chrome/Mozilla/Safari trio. Why can I can no longer get a browser that doesn’t shove ads in my face and/or track my every move?

I know this isn’t being designed as a browser for everyone. But I’m pleased to see making a web browser isn’t an un-enterable area yet.

Heck yeah. I may give this a go.

Thanks to the weirdo redditor for inadvertently advertising this thread via our modlog.

Wayland is the fancy new standard that never seems to stably work for me on any of my machines :( Thanks for letting me revert to X in the login screen, GNOME.