Still, adding feds to a group chat is a management issue, same as inviting people to your home

Nobara does seem pretty cool

I’d say Bazzite but I would warn him (and since he’s a developer already it might not be a big deal) if he’s looking to do any sort of dev work or whatever with Bazzite then prepare to utilize stuff like distrobox, flatpaks, etc to accomplish stuff like that

That’s what I figured, I would be very annoyed to have to use images for software I would simply do an apt install for in other distros, so I’ll leave out Bazzite from my options definitely

This is usually a good idea, but I think Arch would be a bit too much for him

Still, any Debian derivative would be just as easy for me to help and also for him to find help online, so that’s the main reason I’d choose Mint over Bazzite

Considering moving to France so I never have to use the rotting garbage that is Microsoft Teams every single day

ujust is not a package manager, the way I understand it from this thread is that it’s just a convenience script that internally will use one of the other methods shown in the doc you mentioned (brew or flatpak for example). So it still seems risky to me not to have access to common linux package managers besides brew

Rawtherapee is really fucking good, I used it on Windows before discovering Linux

I don’t think anyone is gonna hack you because of bash being a larger codebase

If I absolutely had to pick one as insecure, it would be anything other than bash since it has been around for so long, has its code read by so many people, that there’s no way that a major hole exists in it

Overall though I don’t think security or performance is a good metric for you to pick something as simple as a shell, just pick the one that gives you the best experience and features. Being compatible with bash is a big plus because it’s the industry standard, like zsh for example

I used to experiment around with various distros some years past until I got into Arch. Haven’t distro hopped once since, I’ve completely erased Windows from my life and I’m gaming exactly as I would if I was on Windows. I never have trouble finding a package since almost everything exists either in the official repositories or in the AUR, and I get the latest versions with all the new features and fixes. Rarely some things do break because of the rolling releases, but it’s almost always just a matter of a single google search to fix. For me it’s worth it for having all the latest versions of everything.

My opinion would be different for a server or a work laptop where stability is much more important. For servers I would pick Debian for sure, for work laptop I’d consider Fedora probably

but instead you’re coming to Lemmy to the echo chamber of hate on proton which won’t help

You call it an echo chamber, others call it having some standards on how much your software should be taking advantage of you instead of the other way around.

Seize the means of communication /s

I agree that federation is the central feature of Lemmy, besides it being libre software, however the term “federation” is something that already requires a newcomer to open up a search engine at best or get scared by the unknown and leave at worst.

It should exist, but in very layman’s terms, something like:

“A social platform for independent online communities of all topics, owned by people and not corporations, all in one place”

Mastodon also does a pretty good job on their main page, it’s easily understandable by anyone, and scrolling down gives you a much better picture of what it really does if you are interested enough to learn.

In the instance list, the link to https://lemmyverse.net/communities seems broken right now, it only works if you remove the /communities path and then navigate to communities from the UI itself (it seems to be their own bug, it also happens if you go to the communities tab and refresh the page). Maybe the link could change to point to https://lemmyverse.net/ instead.

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