Its easier to just sign up and find everyone immediately, than to go learn what are instances and which one should you choose to make an account on, and then go and learn how to find other people that are not on that instance, or how to check do they have a mastodon account at all, then go and learn how to XY.
The “go and learn” is something that people, most of them, just don’t want to do. If you need to learn how to use something, this is the first indicator of a bad user experience. It should be obviously easy for a new person to get around.
I had an Epson Stylos Color 740 until i could no longer find cartridges for it. Built to last, but somehow all new printers’ cartridges are never backwards-compatible…
Just upgraded from an old epson printer to an ecotank. Shit just works. I never managet to get my old one recognized on linux; with the ecotank it’s just a package from the aur and everything works. And it works so well. I would definetly recommend an epson ecotank.
EDIT: I didnt yet test the scanner, as I use a separate brother one
Each time I go back on windows I realize it’s worse than I remembered, even though I never liked it. One thing I quickly realized after getting constantly asked for help about issues on windows : people tend to be greatly biased about how reliable it is, mostly because it’s all they’ve known for a long time.
People often talk about compatibility regarding Linux, but are somehow oblivious to all the devices and hardware made for windows that somehow fails miserably to work when it has no good reason to…while Linux, despite most hardware and software not being made with it in mind, can sometimes somehow work wonders.
Windows only «just works» because it’s made by a monopolistic monster of a company, with a ton of software and tools and stuff made for it because of how widespread it is, and despite that their OS is just plain garbage…
Just today, I was using windows on my laptop, playing a game made for windows, Black Ops. And it crashes every time I boot up the Call of the Dead. On linux, while it does stutter on that map depending on where i am, I can still play it surprisingly. Its very strange.
Just out of curiosity, aside from the good example posted below by @trslim, could you provide some examples of “devices and hardware made for windows that somehow fails miserably to work when it has no good reason to”? :)
I use rhythmbox, but my usecase isn’t quite as extensive as yours. I don’t think it has smart playlist capabilities, for example. But it is able to rip MP3s from CDAs, which is cool.
I haven’t found anything that will work 100% with iphones on Linux, but I no longer have iphones, so it’s been a while since I’ve looked.
MS Office used to work fine enough under WINE. I’ve had 0 luck with 365. There’s LibreOffice, which is a great replacement for most things Office (minus Outlook). Thunderbird, I think, has an exchange plug-in. On my home computer, though, I use Outlook web, which has worked just as well as Desktop for my use cases so far. I understand you want Desktop Outlook, so this may be a deal breaker. However, Desktop Outlook New is heading towards WPA anyway, and MS is trying to sync the functionality between desktop and web, so this may only be an issue for a little while.
I don’t have this use case for my computer, so I can’t really help here. But others on this thread seemed to have provided some nice options.
not sure you’ll get integration into proprietary software like Evernote, but there are built-in scanning tools that “just work” with every scanner I’ve thrown at it thus far. I do not have the same scanner you do, though.
I recommend grabbing a live ISO of a distro you’re interested in trying (Mint seems to just work for most people, ElementaryOS if you want to maintain that macos look/feel), and just trying it out on RAM. No installation needed, and you can get a better feel if this will work for you. Don’t expect a perfect fit, though. Workflows and solutions will differ from Mac to Linux, just as they do from Mac to Windows. This was one of my reservations, and why I kept finding myself back on Windows and Mac. The end goal, IMO, should be to get out of the walled garden in which you’ve found yourself. Once I realized that, once I switched my goal from ‘finding exact replacements’ to ‘getting out’, switching was much easier and smoother. Good luck! Post any questions you have, and we’ll do our best to guide you right. This is a great and super helpful community (mostly lol).
Personally, I haven’t been a fan on arch systems, but enjoyed the tinkering. Endeavor does seem to be more geared towards someone unfamiliar with arch, which is good. I may give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion!
Mongolia is fully landlocked and is a minor military power.
They cannot get him out of the country to the ICC as neither Russia nor China would give them flight permissions. Russia for obvious reasons and China would surely not do it as well - as it would make travelling for Xi much more problematic, especially after what he plans with Taiwan.
They cannot keep him there because the Russians, as military incapable as they are, would basically drive into UB and simply retrieve him. The Mongolian armed forces have a joint budget that is less than what a single CH-53K King Stallion costs. Their army is based on (hardly working) T54 and BMP1. Their airforce owns exactly two Mig29 Fighters (gift of Russia). And that does not even include the very real possibility that the Chinese do Vladimir a favour and get him - simply to make sure to keep the West occupied and shift the focus away from them and Taiwan again.
If they keep him there and he dies…well…that would at least mean the end of the political ruling class of the country and could lead to the very real threat of large scale revenge by either Russia or Russia and China.
My personal prophecy for any scenario like that would be that a few thousand Mongolians die, around 300.000 end up in labour camps and Mongolia as a sovereign nation ceases to exist. Why? Mongolia exists mainly because two major powers “couldn’t be bothered” to conquer them, it would make them look bad and a buffer to a not that welcome neighbour is always welcome. If Mongolia fucks it up for one or both of them it basically looses that “reason” to exist in the eyes of both the Russians and the Chinese. And they would be “bad enough” in the light of a lot of countries as well as their own population that a “swift special military operation” is justified.
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