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SveetPickle , to linux in Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?

I used the Pop Os default for a long time and just recently switched to i3 Manjaro, it’s been pretty nice once you get past the learning curve of i3

pfr , to linux in Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?
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Distro is irrelevant. DE/WM choice is all that matters as far as GUI goes. Also, if you want a GUI that looks or feels like windows then KDE probably has you covered in that you could probably customise it to mimic windows.

I quite like the Desktop Environment in elementaryOS. I think it’s called Pantheon Desktop? It’s very polished. Or InstantWM from InstantOS is also interesting and has some nice animations and effects.

Personally, I use simple and minimal Openbox

CannotSleep420 , to linux in Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?

I use KDE Plasma on RebornOS (an arch spin).

CannotSleep420 , to asklemmy in What is red and bad for your teeth?

Magma

bblfrnz , to piracy in Personal collection of Piracy related links

I highly recommend Anna’s Archive for anyone who’s looking for books.

alex , to asklemmy in Users from before the current wave of Reddit refugees, how do you feel about the incoming monsoon of refugees?

Well:

  • I’m annoyed at calling people who dislike an app and choose another website "refugees"
  • I’m happy that we’re going to have more activity
  • I hope more instances will be built and maintained, because I don’t think the large number of new members can be moderated effectively if they keep flocking to the same handful of instances
  • When in doubt, I hope moderators will be too strict rather than not enough, especially in the beginning to make sure the behavioural expectations are very clear
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CannotSleep420 ,

Sensitivity aside, “explat” is a more clever name.

shreddy_scientist , to asklemmy in Users from before the current wave of Reddit refugees, how do you feel about the incoming monsoon of refugees?
@shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m all about it! Great to see a platform take off when it’s centered around being ad free and open sourced.

zekiz , to asklemmy in what web browser do you use and why?

Firefox because it’s one of the last browsers against the Chromium monopoly.

Also UBlock Origin is wayy better on Firefox, even before Google forced their version of Manifest v3 on all Chromium based browsers.

Simoto , to linux in Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?
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Fedora with Gnome

wintrparkgrl , to asklemmy in what web browser do you use and why?
@wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org avatar

Firefox on PC and Android. DuckDuckGo is my default search engine now

solairusrising ,

DuckDuckGo is my default search engine now

How is that working for you? I am thinking of switching in my quest to get out of google stuff

AnagrammadiCodeina ,

Not op but I’m using DDG since many years and I feel like is continuously improving.

In case you miss google or you need a different search you can simply add !g to the search and search on google from DDG (it opens a google page)

duckduckgo.com/bangs

HiddenTower , to retrogaming in Favorite Retro Games
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Metroid: Zero Mission is my favorite these days since I recently beat it for the first time. Now I jump into it every few days and enjoy just running around and attacking and bombing and stuff.

ving_thor , to gaming in Tell us about unpopular games you love, or even just appreciate some aspects of, contrary to the inteenet hivemind?

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

It was a kinda janky 3D Action Adventure from around 2000. Back then it had really beautiful and colorful graphics. I remember playing it on my first “real” PC and being amazed by how it looked.

It also stands out to me for being actually funny and comitting to being a comedy game.

Opteryx ,

I loved this game! The humour was my favourite part - very dry and very British. A fun shooter with a lot of variety. Amazing soundtrack by Jeremy Soule. I found the game very difficult, though - I doubt I ever got close to finishing it. How about you?

hamborgr , to gaming in Setting up a Minecraft server for minimal data collection?

Your best option to avoid unnecessary data collection is to just use a FOSS server. Paper (Github) is a pretty good one imo. It’s also super lightweight and has some really good performance tweaks.

elouboub , to piracy in Personal collection of Piracy related links
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Torrents 🤢🤢🤢... I'm surprised people still use them without going through I2P.

I've heard bflix has the movie+tv show goodies.

limeaide , to piracy in Personal collection of Piracy related links

Thank you for resources?

Noob question: How would I go about vetting the links/downloads?

Also, how do I safely download from these sites? I’ve been using a VPN (mullvad) for a couple years now, but is that enough?

I’m pretty tech savvy but I have never needed to download, but I just don’t want to install origin, Uplay, EA, or any other launcher to play a single player game and tbh I don’t want to support those companies at all

DudePluto ,

Also, how do I safely download from these sites?

I thought there was a mirror on lemmy for r/piracy’s spectacular megathread but I don’t see it. Rough guides from a semi-noob:

Direct download:

  1. TOR with Ublock Origin add-on
  2. After downloading your file, upload it to virustotal.com and scan it. If it passes you’re probably pretty safe.

Torrent:

  1. Find and copy your file magnet in TOR.
  2. Turn on VPN.
  3. Open qbittorrent with your connection bound to your VPN’s network.
  4. Paste your magnet link when it prompts you and download.
  5. Once it’s done downloading, upload it to virustotal to scan it.
Akasazh ,
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Why could you not just find the magnet link with VPN on? Just trying to understand why that should be done via TOR

DudePluto ,

There’s controversy over whether VPN + TOR is a good combo. Some say it’s an added layer of anonymity, others say it could be decreasing anonymity because your VPN could be logging your traffic. Some also say the two don’t mesh well. But honestly the juries out so everyone should probably come to their own conclusion

notacat ,

I’ve just always been of the mindset that pirating is so low on the feds radar that even if a VPN is tracking or even if they’re a honeypot it’s not like the government agencies are going to expose that by coming after some low level pirate. That said I’m not super active anymore and I always look for VPN’s who at least claim to not track.

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