I mean you can remove all remote admin rights on Windows too haha, remote gives you way more opportunities screw stuff up.

But usually on Linux you can boot in single user or chroot in from the installer and unhose whatever you hosed. Windows you get dism and SFC and if they don’t work there’s really not anything you can do.

Honestly I’ve had way more completely bricked Windows installs than Linux. Don’t think I’ve ever managed to completely Bork a Linux install except when doing something extremely stupid. I’ve had Windows get to the point where no amount of SFC of dsim could get to go boot again just by having the power go out during an update or other fairly mundane issues.

W11 by default centers all taskbar icons, including the start menu. You can change it thank goodness but the default is really dumb.

I haven’t in a long while.

I mean it’s right here, just link to it?

But yeah if you search “hal fixing a light bulb”.

Ubuntu server w/ zfs on the main.

Have a little atom hp home server at my parents house that uses almost no power, that runs freebsd x86, zerotier one, and kopia. Free cloud backup 😁

How does it compare to refind?

I know you kid but even the 3ds fits a decent number of lines on screen.

My man, most of us aren’t connecting to our mainframes on VT20s these days. Even on my phone screen the three extra lines nano takes over vi aren’t a problem.

Also if you have the time to go through all that you have the time to learn ctrl+x.

IMO RMS already has the attitude of a billionaire. He’s a thoroughly weird man who says stuff he really shouldn’t then stands by it. He’s right about a lot of things when it comes to software, licensing, and open source in general but outside of that track he’s more than a little loopy.

I think it might be because he’s had to fight society so long for things he knew he was right about that now he doesn’t know how to have people tell him “no Richard, that’s ducked up”.

Anyhow, I don’t think him being a billionaire would be a good idea, him having enough funds to branch off into doing wherever strikes his fancy could be very bad.

And Linus, I love Linus but look at how he’s grown as a person and listened and changed how he interacts with other kernel developers. Would he still have been as receptive if he was a billionaire? Something tells me no.

They have a lot of users voting and viewing content though.

Don’t worry pretty soon Reddit will join us in being tiny.

I think by lines of code I actually am running KDE/Firefox/GNU/Linux.

You can compile the whole kernel with clang now I think.

Conversely, if they’re both evil, why use Microsoft over Google?

You shouldn’t, you should use Firefox.

Most or all of those are available in extensions and keyboard only I think is in stock FF but I can understand not wanting to install a million extensions to recreate that functionality. I was a die hard old school Opera user but just can’t bring myself to daily drive a chromium based browser.

In fact, what I use is Maté (an English way of writing the Spanish word Mate).

As a Spanish speaker I’d just like to say

A: wtf is this even supposed to mean?
B: mate and maté are two entirely different words.
C: The mate desktop environment is named after hierba mate, no é.

I’m curious what customization and features Vivaldi has that Firefox doesn’t.

If you’re gonna go though the trouble of installing a browser, why switch Microsoft for Google? They’re both evil and Edge actually performs significantly better than Chrome somehow (they’re basically the same I don’t get it).

Install freaking Firefox.

What are they using for parental controls? I haven’t found a decent Linux option that compares to Windows or ChromeOS