Freaks and Geeks

Yes, and comparing resources it issues much less CPU while “idle”

On my laptop, I was using the tool available on Mint to find ans install drivers and after I reboot I was losing the WiFi drivers

This laptop did not have an Ethernet port, so I needed to re-install the OS and try again

Do all updates first, save a snapshot of the system, than install the latest Nvidia driver.

For me, installing Nvidia drivers before the system update was the issue

Wait … I never noticed that!!!

I am conflicted about Zorin, they are selling something using free software… but somehow, maybe marketing i am not sure… they are able to get people on Linux that never did before. So you know, seeing people ditching Windows for Linux might be the first step… maybe someone start with Zorin, get comfortable and jump to something else.

I am a macOS user for work and had windows mostly for games on my personal computer, when I got a new laptop last year it came with win 11… it was so annoying to need to skip literally ads for Microsoft services… that even being my “leisure” computer… I spent the time getting Linux Mint, deal with Nvidia drivers on Linux just to have steam there

The games I am playing recently are working great on Linux and my computer feels faster now.

This particular laptop had a problem with WiFi drivers and Nvidia drivers, but getting past this first setup, I must say Linux Destop is easier and fast to use.

I must say on mine laptop it took fewer tries to have Linux mint working. When I was installing the Nvidia drivers I was losing the WiFi ones and couldn’t do anything to fix without internet there

So after some reinstalls I learned I need to update mint first, than do the Nvidia update, this did the trick for me.

Sometimes an old legacy project have things that are dated but also years and years of bug fixes, improvements many not really documented. Starting a new project to replace it, will have regressions it’s impossible to not

They don’t need to “hand online servers” just publish the API and do one last update to accept self hosting.

And new releases should always support self host.

I must say some websites fail when you do that, you can change the password and later it fails to login

It’s not only about spying but about negligence. TP-LINK routers were found with many security issues and no patches. Some accuse them of do that porpose but might be negligence. Anyway they really do have bad security

AI got tons of money from investors they will eventually want ROI… this why they are trying to force it down our throats

Maybe community needs to work in a way lemmy does not have too much loving of posts, so protects privacy. It’s possible since it’s open source.

What about the Aligator Alcatraz (or something) that 800 bodies disappeared?

I don’t get why people prefer to go to an unsafe version of windows instead of trying Linux. Nowadays there is many friendly distro.

Google start with open source so they can use open source tools and get a lot of work for free.

But they use the famous Elbrace, E tende and Extinguish. See the things they are doing with the web with Chrome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

This is because the community did not spent too much time optimizing for this goal. This is what I am saying, the open source community should invest more on Linux phone.

Android is so big because the community let them embrace it. Since the beginning the community should have worked in a true open solution. Now it’s really late to try to make a Linux phone

Open source community keeps trusting Google and they keep using the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish