caseyweederman

No that was me

obligatory “something something aur is a haunted wasteland and it’s your fault for ignoring the forty warning signs”

Linux Mint is Debian with snaps without snaps!
(I am now going to take this opportunity to point you all towards Linux Mint DE (Debian Edition))

That’s… literally what it is though? That’s what it… You’ve identified the reality of the thing.
Amusing would be saying “This is Deb erasure! She deserves better!” or “Who is this Mo anyway? Has Ian moved on already? It’s only been <checks wikipedia> years!”.

Huh. I cannot personally relate to anything you’ve said there. Maybe we’re using different versions? The only issue I’ve had with package managers (aside from Flatpak file access, snap… just everything to do with snaps, and Pacman acting like it’s never heard of any of my mirrors if I haven’t updated in a couple of weeks, and official Nvidia drivers breaking my xorg.conf in half) is wiping out my entire desktop suite through Synaptic back in the day (entirely my own fault).
I suppose there are worse ways to learn to read the “these packages will be removed section”.

Huh? Well… I do prefer updating via the command line. I guess what I was seeing in Discover was just Flatpaks and stuff.

Like putting a typo in the title. It’s to hook people in who wouldn’t otherwise engage by voting and replying.
That said, I have two thoughts:

• it’s probably just instance drift causing posts not to show up, and
• this is Lemmy, who cares about artificial engagement?

KDE’s Discover is pretty magical. In Plasma 6, you don’t even need to install a bunch of separate plugins for it. Except I think they still make you sign off on Flathub (but give you instructions on how to do it)

Galaxy brain: upvoting all the posts that use “customizing” or any of the other perfectly viable alternatives
… there is only one

Fun fact! It’s still racist.

Proton: hold my electron

Yes but you don’t need it. WSL2 comes with WSLg these days, and can draw to your Windows desktop without an external graphical server.

I’m on Android. You’ve motivated me to dig up that setting and change it. I had assumed that each application handled that individually.
Mm. Looks like Android also has that locked down these days. We need a viable Linux phone.

I’m gonna go a half step further and share the distinction here too: Senryu are structured the same as Haiku (5/7/5) but are about “human foibles” while Haiku are about nature.

I’ve got it, it seems to not engage when I follow links from other apps on mobile.

That site is terrible. It popped up a modal begging for my email address just from scrolling, and it did the back-button hijack via hidden redirection on initial page load, which then redirected my back button to a different page which tried to beg me to stay on their domain.
In case any future web designers are reading this: trying to trick me into spending more time on your website is the fastest way to make me want to burn your website to the ground and dance in its ashes.

Two points: Mint has a Debian version (LMDE), but also base Debian, especially the KDE flavor, has made enormous gains in beginner friendliness.

Specifically Linux Mint Debian Edition

From a broad enough perspective, everything is user error

Oh that’s nasty. Yeah, do it!