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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Copycat
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    14 days ago

    Its not a bad design. Personally, I couldn’t get used to anything else (and I’ve tried). My first PC had Win 95 and I’m now on a Plasma desktop.

    Microsoft is doing a great job at completely crippling the fuck out of their start menu though, proving once again they have no idea what direction they’re going in.















  • You’re installing a headless system right? Ubuntu and Debian are going to have very similar if not downright identical day to day operating procedures, including installing and setting up new things. Ubuntu is going to have software packages coming from a different repository and they may be newer (though this rarely matters) and the initial install may be different. One is backed by a for profit corporation and one by a large open source community. Whenever you need help, guides for Debian will probably work on Ubuntu and vice versa.

    For home self hosting use, it boils down to you own philosophy. In practice, it won’t really matter… they’re both really similar.

    I proudly use Debian BTW.




  • The problem is trust. Sandboxing is all well and good, but what of the data I give the app directly and the resources it has access to?
    If a person installs the Steam client from FlatHub and logs in to it with their account credentials, how will they know the app wasn’t actually published by a third party who modified it to act as a man in the middle to steal account credentials. They’d need to be vigilant and follow a flathub link provided by Valve themselves. The app could also be a crypto miner, capped to use 10% CPU to avoid suspicion… now I’m searching the internet why steam is constantly using 10% of my CPU…

    I don’t actually know if flathub does checks or anything so this isn’t a jab at them specifically. I personally distrust all package distribution platforms by default and don’t use sandboxed packages on any of my installs.

    I guess we all have to define where the lines are and how far we’re prepared to go. Technically, you should read the actual source code fetched from AUR and only build once you’ve confirmed it does what you expect it to… for every thing you install and for every update. Maybe thats good for Richard Stallman, but the general populace will look for trust outside of only trusting themselves.


  • You add the rpmfusion repo and install a few nvidia packages from there. Kernel modules are then built for the driver. If secure boot is used, they need to be signed too. Sometimes the grub entry isnt updated and doesnt load nvidia drivers. Sometimes you boot into a black screen, sometimes Wayland throws a hissy fit. Hardware accelerated video decoding needs more packages, in browsers it may need extra configuration…
    The components are all there and they work, but sometimes the stars don’t align and you just curse a little and wonder why you didn’t just buy AMD because that, just works.