Because GNOME is the default, which any new user is likely to pick and then gain the impression that the desktop experience on Linux is subpar (more likely for former windows users imo).

This is basically what happend to me and I missed out on using Linux for several years because I thought it wasn’t ready, when it turns out stuff like Compiz already figured out excellent UX design more than a decade ago.

A lot already have actually, writing was on the wall back when they dropped the version names which was also around the time a lot of the original Android hardware OEMs gave in which left us with carriers giving you the option between Samsung, Google, and Motorola.

Then they abused Trump’s first term to ban Huawei for spyware since it was competing too well.

The frontend UI sucks, the backend ART sucks, the process pausing system can’t hold most of your app views because reasons, Samsung removed OEM unlocking, Google has a stranglehold on decade old RCS with only google messages supporting such a protocol (wtf???), AOSP is functionally dead, Gapps has been eating the left side of your homepage for years, etc etc.

I’m thinking about getting some handheld and making it into a PDA, like those upcoming DS-like consoles, and then maybe just get a pocket modem for phone/internet.

Lmao thank you

someone do a pixel compare to make sure none of them actually matches lol

Nice to see Fedora Workstation go down and Fedora KDE go up.

Stop trying to use GNOME lol

“No”

– everyone using compose to orchestrate software deployments

Impeachment is the US legislative form of this, but it almost never happens because getting the two party system to engage it in both the house and senate is too high of a task.

That being said, be careful what you wish for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-confidence_motion_against_Imran_Khan

Parliamentary can be better, but there’s always the chance it backfires and it becomes a massive bribery scheme, which would be even worse in the US because lobbying in the US is legal. You’d just end up in a situation where highest bidder can change between parties on a whim with reduced repercussion from voters.

All they really need to do is reset the senate into proportional representation with a constitutional amendment because state’s rights stopped existing decades ago, especially after SCOTUS torpedoed basically all the individual rights asserted by previous cases, including limits on lobbying.

KDM users when they’re asked to toggle between infinite GTK themes instead of between “light” and “dark” themes.

Thunar >>>>>>>

I kinda hate to agree with the other suggestions here, but entry level and even dedicated NAS products are pretty expensive for providing something you can very easily DIY for significantly cheaper even with the latest hardware.

Was in a similar boat and just ended up taking an old HP desktop and added some cheap HDDs. I ended up playing around with proper Fedora for some LVM cache tricks and running some other services, but the common suggestion for this is SnapRAID and Nextcloud.

GNOME alone is like 60% of the reason why stock Ubuntu and all of its derivatives suck. It’s like a mashup of ChromeOS and MacOS, two of the most god awful UX designs this past decade.

Compiz by itself kicks GNOME out of the water, despite it being a now legacy compositor from 2007.

Most annoyingly, even RPM distros like Fedora offer it as default, despite having a fully supported KDE option right there, along with any other DE that you might want like XFCE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, etc.

Finally the stupid floating jet engine looking turbines from Big Hero 6, except IRL they actually look good.

Right? Couldn’t pay me to use Disney. Even Netflix I only liked during the DVD era. Streaming selection was always crap with maybe 1 actual show or movie you wanted to see.

Lol wait till you see any of the Pakistan or India related articles. Its like the Ganges river in text form.

Yeah but uncensored brainrot is still better than propaganda brainrot.

One of the reasons tiktok became so popular is that it didn’t go around banning entire swaths of content under the guise of “healthy content” like Facebook (Insta), X, and Reddit do.

This isn’t even a Trump issue specifically, Biden wanted TIkTok to do the same. Either follow policy demands or sell to an American owner.

Are there even any dumb TVs anymore? The current lineup from CES 2025 is LG (OLED), Samsung (OLED), and TCL (MiniLED) which have great image quality options, but I’m fairly sure all are using a “smart” platform.

TCL doesn’t bother with software and uses Google TV. Samsung uses Tizen which is linux with another junk UI, though less painful than Google. LG uses webOS which I’ve heard UI side is better, but its still a junk UI on linux.

fail2ban is good for preventing spam and DDOS on authenticated endpoints, but it’s harder to prevent attacks on public endpoints against a botnet or even a lazy proxy chain spam, which is why cloudflare adds some cookies and a buffer to handle a wave of new connections and maintain an address rank to drop any bad clients.

Although that being said, cloudflare can be bypassed via other timing tricks and even just using a specific request chain to get fresh cf cookies to avoid getting blocked.

I deadass got a cloudflare error after reopening this post:

Host your own cloud worthy anti DDOS solution with fail2ban /s

I’ve yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet

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