Ulu-Mulu-no-die

The vast majority of desktop users don’t give two flips about security, nor freedom, they don’t even know what those things are and don’t care to be informed.

I’ve even seen a few (on reddit) asking for Linux to support giving kernel level permissions to applications, so they can play a few videogames, they are fine with having rootkits on their PC, that’s the level of “care” they have.

But that’s ok, Linux is already a de-facto “monopoly” on the server side, the most important one, it doesn’t need to win over also desktops.

It’s mobile devices that are eroding Windows market share on desktops, not Linux.

Linux already dominates the server space, it runs the internet and super computing, but it will NEVER be a threat to Microsoft on desktops.

Unfortunately I believe Apple hardware is unsurpassed when it comes to solid builds, care into details, functionalities and beautiful appearances.

I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years, never had problems making my desktops look good and work fine with the right cases and components, but laptops? meh

Only once in 20 years I found one that I like aesthetically and has all the compatible hardware (full Intel only), I got it at half the price because they weren’t making it anymore…

Any chance he’s willing to try another distro? Linux Mint maybe?

Has every site adopted clickbait headlines as a default these days?

I guess they have to justify the costs.

Can’t wait for the AI bubble to burst, can’t happen soon enough.

What you say is especially true for laptops, those have the highest chance of having weird non-standard components that give a lot of problems on Linux.

Much easier on desktops, especially if you build your own, you get to choose which components go into it.

Nvidia is shit on laptops but it’s fine on desktops.

I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years, always had Nvidia on my self-built desktops, my experience has always been flawless, I just have to install proprietary drivers.

My experience with laptops has been hit and miss, until I learned to buy laptops “full Intel only”, on those everything works out of the box.

You’re right, tho AI tools are not so dissimilar from each other, so unless reddit developed their own proprietary tool (which I doubt), any tool can give you a rough idea of what AI can “tell” about you.

my script doesn’t just delete, it also edits the post and inserts “.”

That’s smart! It could actually trick the backups, since backups don’t check the content they’re actually saving.

You can try for yourself: https://reddit-wrapped.kadoa.com/

That being said, they have backups, even more so since they started selling reddit data to AI companies for training.

I seriously doubt deleting your comments would do anything on that side, tho it does make them deleted from “normal” user searches.

That’s … concerning. Kudos to that mod for making people aware of it.

Apparently anyone can do that, so I tried mine out of curiosity (I’m not a mod, never have been): https://reddit-wrapped.kadoa.com/ulu-mulu-no-die?share

This Redditor is basically a gaming savant with a spreadsheet addiction, meticulously dissecting game mechanics and then dropping mic-drop guides for the masses. When not optimizing virtual real estate or factorio builds, they’re busy troubleshooting Linux like a digital mechanic, all while subtly reminding us that their ‘fun’ involves more calculations than most people’s taxes. They’re the kind of person who’d analyze their Reddit Wrapped to see if the algorithm correctly identified their ‘efficiency at leisure’ metric.

I’ve read the entire profile and it seems to me more like satire than an actual serious summary (quite some hyperbole in there), tho it’s worrying that your entire reddit history can be analyzed so quickly.

This thing can end very badly in the wrong hands.

Debian 13 itself does not seem to generate any files there

I noticed that too.

I did it manually, deleted the old list file, it works fine.

I work for a big enterprise, we have very strict policies when it comes to work PCs, no way anyone would be allowed to change the operating system.

BUT I got permission to install Virtualbox so I can happily use Linux for many things nonetheless.

First thing to consider is they all use the same Desktop Environments.

Unlike Windows, in Linux the “graphic” is completely separated from the operating system, any DE can be uses on any distro, so trying different distros that come with the same DE, might make you think there’s very little difference (at first look).

Second, almost all distros are derivatives, that contributes to make them feel similar. The original ones are just a bunch: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSe, Arch, Gentoo, everything else is based either on one of those or on another derivative, if your curious you can have a look at this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg.
So for example, if you take Ubuntu and Mint, they might look similar because Mint is based on Ubuntu.

If you want to see the real differences, you need to look at the original ones, the core differences are: the way software is packaged and managed, and the “philosophy” behind the way the system is overall administered, maintained and released.

Derivatives add differences to the user experience, they main reason they’re created is someone is not completely happy with the way a distro does things and they create one the meets their needs, for example, Debian is improved dramatically on the user experience lately, but many years ago was quite arduous to setup and use for non-experts, so Ubuntu was born.

Now to answer you question

as long as I choose one that gets regular updates, it doesn’t matter fundamentally?

It does matter, tho it’s not as much world-changing as some people seem to think (especially when it comes to gaming).

The most important things are support for your hardware and easy of administration/use. Most distros will recognize and setup your hardware out of the box, but some might require tinkering or extra steps. Some distros automate almost everything so the user doesn’t need to think about it, others require more knowledge and more manual intervention, you have a much finer control of your system this way at the expense of some user friendliness, it’s up to you to decide what you prefer.

Then it comes the Desktop Environment, different DEs do things differently, which one to choose is totally personal preference.

As for software, unless you go after some niche obscure distro, you shouldn’t have problems finding it in the distro repositories. For edge cases you can always use Flatpaks or AppImages.

I’ve been using it for a few years on my gaming desktop and I couldn’t be happier about it, it’s the distro that stopped my distro-hopping.

most mods dont work on linux

Mods work just fine, it’s mod managers that sometimes don’t work.

If mods don’t have manual setup instructions, I install them on Windows, copy back to Linux the mod config file and happily play on Linux.

Of all the titles you could choose …

The article is interesting in that it talks about pushing towards open versions of kernel modules, instead of legacy ones, and of much broader scope that the literal 2 lines you chose as title.

Why not keeping the original?

Thanks :)

I did this when I started to use Lemmy during the reddit protest, to explain the general concept of the fediverse to reddit refugees not used to decentralized platforms: https://imgur.com/a/fediverse-redditors-fiLOmI7

It’s probably not exactly what you’re looking for but could it be a start?

It’s not ready yet (preview state) but NexusMods is developing an app for managing all their mods: https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App, for Linux they’re releasing both an appimage and a standard setup.

On one side, I’m one of those glad for people coming to Linux because Linux is truly fantastic and it can make your life easier on many things, I’m happy for them.

On the other side, I share your concerns, because everything that gets adopted by the masses is inevitably subject to enshittification, I would never want that to happen to Linux.

We should find a sweet middle-point tho I have no idea what that would be.