Thanks for the write up these are always good to read.

As for convincing people for the first few months on linux its best to not proselytizing to much. Once you understand the pros and cons better then proselytizing is fine. I personally find it most effective to never tell someone they should switch or make them feel bad for not using linux. I just talk about linux positively and my own experiences with it and naturally people are like oh that sounds pretty cool. I usually dont hand hold either if they want to switch I straight up say there will be software you cant run and you will have to learn how to use it. I tell them some of their games wont work and point them to protondb. They are always pleasantly surprised at how many games work. I think the privacy argument is not at all convincing for most people they just dont value it at all. the best argument I’ve found is that Linux is efficient and quick, it gets out of your way and there are cool features that the other operating systems dont have.

I cringe so hard when I see people advertise linux as faster than windows, just works no issue completely easy transition because i know linux and I know something weird will break and shatter the illusion and they will feel extra bad because all they know about linux was that it was a super good just works experience. So I act like there will be minor issues and then they can be surprised if there is none and ready if there are some.

Add more panel types and weird customsation. Im really looking forward to the union update where theming gets easier. Hate svg but can manage CSS.

Its done already and will be out in coming update

Super or Meta is and Mac calls it command key

My grandma used to hate tech until she learned to use the voice assistance on her mobile phone. It unlocked the phone for her because she doesnt have the dexterity to type. I hope one day this tool could get to that same point.

When you call it the windows key

yeah this one is going to require a bit more explaination you cannot just post that link. Is this for multi user systems or what?

No problem. Just follow this short guide

https://wiki.futo.org/index.php/Introduction_to_a_Self_Managed_Life:_a_13_hour_%26_28_minute_presentation_by_FUTO_software

It can be configured but out of the boxes users need to have updates forced on them. Otherwise they never update.

Reddit post and [Deleted] user name a more iconic duo

Off topic but isnt KDE Neon a test distro? if I recall its maintained by 1 guy and its purpose was a KDE demo environment. How do people end up putting new users on these obscure alpha distros.

I’m not familiar with npm but why is this always NPM? Is it a specific issue they have?

Sweet cursor

https://store.kde.org/p/1393084/

Ram prices are more expensive but if you gotta build a PC its always worth the money. The amount of entertainment you get from it is crazy. If my PC build is 2k but because of ram prices its 3k. Thats still extremely cheap compared to other hobbies. I know people who spend that just on beer at the pub or uber eats.

If you are money tight am4 and ddr4 is still a solid combo.

If its that bad it sounds like it’d be an easy fix and you can upstream the change.

Sent this to my friend who dual boots and their reply was “thats why you use a version thats out of support”. It always makes me laugh how much windows users hate security because of the way windows has pushed it on them.

When I read this discussion on HackerNews they act like they’re trapped and it would require moving the sun and the earth to switch over.

That sounds like the dream.

Isnt codeberg centralized? I worry it will run into the same issue as github. I was checking out Radicle but its cryptic and hard to search for other projects.

Oh god that is so cringe. Just getting into coding i have no idea what to use as an online repo. I dont want to use github because microsoft but i want the basic repo collaboration features to be available cloning, pull requests, issues etc.