http? really?

better yet: criticizing Debian for the instability of Kali

where did you read that?

To give you an example, if you have no water in your house you need to report on wp. No other way. And this is the standard for a lot of services, wp is the ONLY way to ask for support.

whatsapp requires phone numbers. surely they can be called

It’s a nightmare, i really want to get rid of meta services but it is impossible for my case.

if you have tech skills, try running a matrix bridge for whatsapp for yourself. take it slowly if you need it, you are not in a hurry. your own server, federation off. keep using whatsapp as you did before, and check for a month or two if the bridge is running stable. subscribe to notifications for github releases of the bridge to know if there’s an important update.
you won’t be able to leave whatsapp behind, but at least you’ll be able to get rid of its apps that do whatever that’s not for your benefit

??

It’s not as fancy. No graphs, blinking lights, paneled layout.

apparently it has it all

https://lemmy.today/comment/20055580

as I understood you are complaining that they don’t have a package manager. they do, but not for system software.

you did not read the article

actually databases have problems, sqlite and more advanced too, because precise enough file locking is usually not implemented for network filesystems

Because Windows updates take long and cause downtime. Also forcing reboots is not great (though I dont know if they just do that if there was a real vulnerability, that would be fine)

and also the fear that whatever will break. I often hear that people are afraid of temporarily broken drivers, but also windows updates often reset (unknown!) settings, things like audio device IDs that matter for pro audio software and systemwide audio effects (think device specific EQ and filters).

but on linux the system updates your software too, which is then again, if you are doing something professionally on the system, you are almost guaranteed from time to time to come across bugs that are in the way

But I guess Windows updates are more stable than typical Linux updates, more tests etc.

It’s weird because it’s true even though the filesystem and updates are much better organised on Linux. I mean the weird part being that windows is that stable even with the chaos it does in its system files.

from what OP said I think the sites’ DRM blocks watching on linux. I mean, why wouldn’t they try the website?

And also, are you too lazy to update your system occasionally, which is a simple command or a few clicks? Because how is needing to click a few buttons every few weeks/months “bad UX”?

It’s not the point whether they do. the average people wouldn’t. that’s why it needs to be automatic, or why the easiest way should also do that.

What? Linux mint is based on Ubuntu because that is supposed to be the great distro.

mint is supposed to undo shit decisions of ubuntu

LMDE was reported to work way less well than regular Mint. But for sure that is a good path onwards.

I don’t get it either, LMDE is treated as a testing project by mint

Distros apply updates, and users should not need to press buttons and wait all the time.

distros should let the user be able to defer updates, but make them effortless to install. people complain about forced windows updates all the time and for good reasons.

did you see how kde plasma 6 does it nowadays? its on the shutdown button. that is the way.

There’s a “Cinnamon on Wayland (Experimental)” session for that. And also, installing a new DE.

why would you recommend an experimental DE to a newbie? it breaks in 2 weeks and all you hear is “linux from shit”. not even directly, but through a friend of a friend, because they won’t ask for your help again.

when I was looking at the viability of installing mint for common people, one of my criteria was to have kde plasma, because it’s user friendly and evolves relatively quickly, in a good way. a common theme I was reading that yeah it is possible to install it manually, but it’s less stable. I think I cannot afford the burden of taking upon the yech support for people and fixing an unsupported DE when it breaks, because it is complex software, with many moving parts that if the distro does not focus on always packaging correctly, if they don’t test it but only rely on users to report issues, then that won’t work reliably. If I want kde, I need a distro that takes it seriously and allows it as a default DE.

opensuse is ending slowroll. I had a pretty good experience with fedora kde edition though

I don’t think the average consumer knows about those issues. what makes you think they do?

its here:

• https://get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0/#download
• click release notes
• release notes HTML
• 2.2 migration from leap 15.6

you don’t have to. just run dnf upgrade and accept the risks, it will work just the same as before.

mostly anything on windows

that can be done too. tarballed software normally doesn’t have permissions attached I think