Ah fair enough

The macos used by people is not the macos that is Unix certified.

Could be that they certified the Darwin kernel, but not the commercial offering?

Wdym non FOSS? It’s MIT. That’s still FOSS even if it’s not the flavor of FOSS you prefer

Yea someone argued that “it’s not impossible to replace YouTube, [x] also stores massive amounts of videos” where I don’t remember what x was, but I’m fairly sure their massive amounts of videos is less than what gets uploaded to YouTube in a day, maybe an hour.

I’m all for Linux and use it in several places, but it has nothing on MacOS polish.

Literally why I prefer a Macbook for work and a Linux desktop for gaming. The former just works with a little bit of setup (brew), the latter allows for infinite tinkering and customizability.

Hell, Mac OS is even a certified UNIX operating system, something that even Linux (or GNU+Linux) can’t say.

It’s still a non-FOSS OS which is the real reason it sucks, but it’s a lot better than a lot of people seem to think. Whereas Windows just plain sucks on a usability level too, not just the licensing.

The people who don’t want any change aren’t going to move to Linux anyway. I meant more the people who stayed this long for games, but are now giving up.

But also these updates very rarely change the UI significantly in most applications and desktop environments. It’s more bug fixes and performance improvements that you’re missing out on by being on Mint.

I’m on TumbleWeed and I don’t remember the last time the UI for my desktop or any application I use, had a significant change. But I’m always on a new kernel and new graphics drivers, which makes playing newish games using Proton a smoother experience.

Same in Estonia, seems continent-wide basically.

Truck gives you 2-3 flashes of the right (left in the UK I suppose) turn signal in the middle of the road, they want you to pass because the road’s clear and they don’t want a convoy forming behind them. So you pass and flash the hazards to thank them. Sometimes they’ll flash their brights as “you’re welcome” during daytime.

We can be completely self-centered assholes on the road, but we keep our common courtesy.

I think for the users that they’re talking about would mostly care that the directories in

/home/tux0r

are organized the same as they would be in

C:\Users\tux0r\

But… that’s already the case pretty much. Most distros have default directories like Downloads, Documents, Pictures, etc.

That’s not really distribution-specific though. All GUI configuration tools I know are distribution-agnostic.

But they usually get bundled with a desktop environment and the default desktop environment is usually shipped with the distro.

Personally I think Plasma does this configuration stuff well, better than Windows. I haven’t really used anything Gnome or Gnome-based (Cinnamon, MATE) recently so I don’t know what they’re like these days.

IMO Mint with its Cinamon or MATE desktop environments, or anything Plasma based would be fairly easy for a lifelong Windows user to pick up.

I think Mint gets shit on because it’s based on Ubuntu (which already gets shit on a lot) and only gets a new release when the Ubuntu LTS does, so it’s kinda out of date.

Rolling release distros get recommended over it a lot because having a newer kernel gets you better gaming performance and a lot of the techy people who’d even care about switching, also like gaming. And nowadays, immutable distros get recommended a lot so you can’t fuck things up with a weird config change. Mint just doesn’t do anything significantly better than any other distro, it’s lukewarm.

I don’t think the desktop environment actually has much to do with why people dislike Mint. It’s just fine IMO. I’ll take it over Ubuntu, but these days I’m on OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Rolling release, and comes with snapshots configured straight out of the box so when I fuck something up, it’s fairly quick do undo.

It’s not so much a marvel of engineering as much as “if you make the tech as boring as possible, there’s less to go wrong”.

The Germans will sell you a luxury performance SUV with the same highway fuel consumption as the Corolla. Of course the Corolla will be more simple and reliable.

When normal BSD becomes too mainstream, you can also run Darwin. Run KDE Plasma and a custom theme to make it look like Windows.

Oh you definitely have to double check. But what’s the point of sources if you don’t check them anyway?

And links in particular are super easy to check. Books and articles obviously less so

Eh? You can ask it to provide sources and it will. Or at least Google AI in the search box does it by default

There’s lots of things wrong with AI, but that’s actually not one of them much of the time.

and it was sold to a swedish company that plans to develop/support it further. Hopefully they do it well.

Well they’ve already added ads and tracking so “well” is not on the table at this point.

Or keep the cow and put solar on rooftops, car parks, etc. The cow shits out natural fertilizer which helps the land recover quicker so it can be used to produce more productive (in terms of people fed) crops again while the cow goes and grazes somewhere else where the soil’s no longer very productive.

It’s not a lot of land, sure, but there’s literally zero downside to putting solar in places where shade is desirable anyway. Just mandating solar in car parks alone could provide a ridiculous amount of electricity in more car-dependent cities.

Depends on the location. Around me, they’re sometimes close to towns where the land could otherwise be used for homes or businesses in the medium-term future.

Also land is still a limited resource in much of the world. Why not use one piece of land for multiple purposes?

For sparsely populated areas I’ll agree with you. Here in Europe, there’s not a lot of completely unused land and in my country in particular most “unused” land is forests and bogs which have value of their own (sadly only 5% is wetlands nowadays - used to be over 20% before the soviets drained most of it). I’d much prefer those to remain untouched by both agriculture AND solar energy. Doing agriculture in a city is kinda hard, but solar is not. As a bonus, if solar panels in cities displace some of the demand for biofuels, that’s biofuel-related land that could be used for something else.

I feel the same way about Bevy. Not as impressive as Godot yet in that it doesn’t have an editor and is missing a lot of things Godot has, but at the same time, the changelogs are detailed and come with screenshots and videos of the changes, as well as code examples to try out some new ways to do things

I went through 2 weeks worth of posts and there was one dead SSD. It was one of the removable ones in a 2TBT3 MBP from 2017.

The ones from your video are also all Intel laptops. Intel Macs ran so freaking hot, I’m surprised they didn’t have more failures of literally every component. The ARM ones are significantly cooler, it’s pretty hard to even get fans running on the Pro models.

There’s issues to be sure and much like you I definitely wouldn’t recommend an used Mac for running Linux, but if you can find a bargain Apple Silicon Mac and both the battery capacity and TBW values aren’t too bad, they’re pretty good, with single core performance right up there with brand new Intel or AMD CPUs in some cases, as well as excellent. Again, only if you’re willing to run a proprietary operating system. For me it’s great for work, but for most personal usage I prefer Linux, running on a desktop.

There are so many places we could install solar before we even have to touch agriculture.

Rooftop solar is expensive for a lot of people unfortunately because it’s paid by the household installing them (government subsidies help, but even if gvt is paying 50% of your 20k solar install, 10k is still a lot of money). But there’s ways for businesses and municipalities to install solar.

Without getting into reducing car dependency (which is also important), I maintain that every car park of any significant size should have solar. We’re going electric anyway, this makes the EV chargers slightly cheaper to operate (and when nobody is charging, should make some money back) and there’d be shade in the summer, as well as slight protection from snow in the winter. Everyone wins. The owner of the solar, the people parking, etc.

Mandating rooftop solar on all non-historic government buildings at any level of government would also be helpful. I’m sure there could be countries already doing it - I’m advocating for more countries to start doing it.

Also for businesses and communities to install solar, there’s crowdfinancing apps to get loans. Goparity has a bunch of solar projects. I’ve contributed negligible sums to a few, figuring that it might be a riskier investment than say index funds, but at the very least I’m contributing to something good happening to the planet I live on. There are other alternatives too, that’s just the one I’m using.