That’s not my point. My point is, they try Zorin, they don’t like it, and now they go on about how much Linux sucks as they run back to Windows. I highly doubt many of them will bother distro-hopping. As far as must users will be concerned, they tried Linux and it sucked. They’re almost definitely not going to want to spend more time redoing their system a bunch until they find one they like, nor are they going to want to spend the time with dotfiles getting it the way they want.

If they did research on other distros before installing Zorin, they probably wouldn’t have gone with Zorin…

They’re riding a bandwagon, not setting their own path.

Some of them might. But I wouldn’t put too much faith in them, though.

So essentially, a bunch of them are going to try this and be disappointed and then go on to shit all over Linux as a whole…

I’m with you - if a program does a good job of what it’s set out to do, why avoid it because of a dumb name or less than stellar UI?

To paraphrase Brian Lunduke: This software has gone woke! That software has gone woke! Boo woke software!

What trouble? archinstall makes it dead simple to get on your computer, then at that point it’s not much different from any other distro?

I’d sooner ask why people choose shit like Ubuntu where you’re stuck dealing with snaps out-of-date packages, and bloat.

I used Debian and Ubuntu for like 20 years and just got sick of packages being forever out of date, and the Archwiki always having exactly what I needed.

So how long until Lunduke does a video about how this software has GoNe WoKe?

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Oh sorry, just pasting my vim window

The problem is that I don’t think any of those work in Insert mode, and I hope I’m about to be proven wrong lol

Might have to set a custom keybind for that one to chain ctrl+right/ctrl+left to throw a :b e after

Thx for the protip… Now all I need to do is learn how to quit it. 🤣

• ctrl + left/right move by word

I will forever hate the way vim moves by the start of the word and not the end of the word… The number of times I want to remove the last letter/s of a word at the end of a line and end up on the next line is too damn high.

Also, don’t forget about ctrl + w to delete a full word.

softwares

Was this always a word? I’ve heard and seen it a lot recently but I could have sworn the plural of software was still software.

The only time I’ve seen it close to being pluralized differently was “warez”

All I’m saying is don’t get comfortable and complacent in what we have now. A sudden flood of funding can do wonders to enshitify something good.

And back in the day we had CMD that was pretty powerful. Things are great now but if Linux sees a huge flock of new users, and they become the status quo then we could be in trouble.

Worst case scenario: widows goes tits-up and everybody flocks to Linux. Solid ground for a potential commerical swing to happen.

My biggest concern is the whole “removing powerful features = user friendliness!” mentality that these big tech companies have been pushing for years.

Why make users smarter when you can make software worse and charge more for it?

The dummies don’t get the bigger picture, they just see “nobody needs powerful features that make things too confusing for me!” My hope is that they don’t flood Linux with this drivel - profit margin or not, it’s a toxic cultre that has already been created in commercial software.

I hope this doesn’t mean the enshitifcaiton of Linux as we start to cater for people who don’t want to learn… We watched it with Microsoft products, though they also had a profitable reason to nerf their software.

I think Krita does proper CMYK

Also, for Arch folk: AUR isn’t a traditional repo. Always be careful what you pull from there. Check pkgbuild files for weird shit and avoid unpopular bin files.

That I’m not sure… I’ve never used it to print.

Why would it surprise me in even the slightest? It surprises me that people would default to a specific gender when all there is to go by is a username - I would expect they/them/[username] to be the typical reference.

What surprises me more is how judgmental and hostile people are here in the absolutely horrible assumptions they’re making about me, because of a very obviously sarcastic remark I made about changing the only thing I could think of having a gendered term to a gender neutral term in the documentation for an application… My bad for mistaking “documentation” for manpages, and for somehow thinking a thread about Ladybird would be about the project’s previous name and a myriad of other projects. How foolish of me not to be psychic in a thread calling out people for trying to be psychics in commits and code comments, right?