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TCB13 , 9 months ago to linux in Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).

For average user looking for more out of the box experience I would suggest something Arch based (people in comments suggest EndeavourOS, please do your research). Archlinux installation took me quite some time

A simple install of Debian + GNOME install (with all the defaults, easier to install than Windows) will provide you with a useful store that can even load flatpaks… and there’s nothing that easy an practical on the KDE land.

Almost everything works out of the box, by just installing corresponding package

^No extra package required

Wine is great!

No it isn’t. It is a piece of shit that does a garbage of a job to get Windows application to “run”. It doesn’t run old/basic applications well nor does it run useful modern applications such as MS Office without constant glitches and hours of hacking around

TL:DR; the Linux experience might be great but it isn’t for everyone and anyone. If you need to do your job and not constantly be dealing with small annoyances that will curb your productivity it isn’t, most likely, for you.

TCB13 , 9 months ago to piracy in gog-games.to dead or temporary down?

Working just fine here…

TCB13 , 9 months ago to piracy in Torrent client rankings

Transmission is good precisely because it does one thing and one thing really well - download torrents. No other crap, spam and non-related garbage required.

TCB13 , 10 months ago to piracy in Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world

Finally.

TCB13 , 10 months ago to linux in KDE: A bit on sponsorship and money

The problem is that any design fresh graduate would NOT design it that way. Don’t get me wrong, KDE is a great DE in terms of performance and general philosophy however it fails hard when it comes to simple design principles.

For eg. icons bellow “places” aren’t properly sized to the text, they’re abnormally large. The labels itself lack proper vertical and horizontal padding. Everything is simply crammed against everything else without the right space in between. This is also noticeable in the program icon on the top left.

If you compare the image above to both Windows and macOS you’ll see they spend a lot of time making those things right and that gives you a cohesive and polished visual experience not what KDE has now. Even xfce which doesn’t care much about visuals is doing better on those.

TCB13 , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to technology in Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted.

Guess what: nobody cares. Consulting companies will still sell Microsoft and all their legal and security compliance as a solution that makes companies and govs secure :)

Here is the thing, open-source could fix this, it has been ready for most things but… business is business.

• Companies like blame someone when things go wrong, if they chose open-source there’s isn’t someone to sue then;
• Buying proprietary stuff means you’re outsourcing the risks of such product;
• Corruption pushes for proprietary: they might be buying software that is made by someone that is close to the CTO, CEO or other decision marker in the company, an old friend, family or straight under the table corruption;
• Most non-tech companies use services from consulting companies in order to get their software developed / running. Consulting companies often fall under the last point that besides that they have have large incentives from companies like Microsoft to push their proprietary services. For eg. Microsoft will easily provide all of a consulting companies employees with free Azure services, Office and other discounts if they enter in an exclusivity agreement to sell their tech stack. To make things worse consulting companies live of cheap developers (like interns) and Microsoft and their platform makes things easier for anyone to code and deploy;
• Microsoft provider a cohesive ecosystem of products that integrate really well with each other and usually don’t require much effort to get things going - open-source however, usually requires custom development and a ton of work to work out the “sharp angles” between multiple solutions that aren’t related and might not be easily compatible with each other;
• Open-source requires a level of expertise that more than half of the developers and IT professionals simply don’t have. This aspect reinforces the last point even more. Senior open-source experts are more expensive than simply buying proprietary solutions;
• If we consider the price of a senior open-source expert + software costs (usually free) the cost of open-source is considerable lower than the cost of cheap developers + proprietary solutions, however consider we are talking about companies. Companies will always prefer to hire more less expensive and less proficient people because that means they’re easier to replace and you’ll pay less taxes;
• Companies will prefer to hire services from other companies instead of employees thus making proprietary vendors more compelling. This happens because from an accounting / investors perspective employees are bad and subscriptions are cool (less taxes, no responsibilities etc);
• The companies who build proprietary solutions work really hard to get vendors to sell their software, they provide commissions, support and the promises that if anything goes wrong they’ll be there. This increases the number of proprietary-only vendors which reinforces everything above. If you’re starting to sell software or networking services there’s little incentive for you to go pure “open-source”. With less companies, less visibility, less professionals (and more expensive), less margins and less positive market image, less customers and lesser profits.

Unfortunately things are really poised and rigged against open-source solutions and anyone who tries to push for them. The “experts” who work in consulting companies are part of this as they usually don’t even know how to do things without the property solutions. Let me give you an example, once I had to work with E&Y, one of those big consulting companies, and I realized some awkward things while having conversations with both low level employees and partners / middle management, they weren’t aware that there are alternatives most of the time. A manager of a digital transformation and cloud solutions team that started his career E&Y, wasn’t aware that there was open-source alternatives to Google Workplace and Microsoft 365 for e-mail. I probed a TON around that and the guy, a software engineer with an university degree, didn’t even know that was Postfix was and the history of email.

TCB13 , 10 months ago to technology in What's, in your opinion, the android smartphone worth buying right now based on reparability, freedom of use and long term support?

That is… if they ever ship it before you no longer need it :P Either way it would be the perfect phone if they decided to collaborate a bit with GrapheneOS in order to have a fairOS :)

TCB13 , 10 months ago to technology in What's, in your opinion, the android smartphone worth buying right now based on reparability, freedom of use and long term support?

The great thing about Google Pixel phones is indeed the ability to install GrapheneOS. More than just an alternative ROM only with GrapheneOS and a Pixel phone you can get a secure OS in terms of disk encryption and bootloader protection. Other brands and custom ROMs don’t allow the that level of security that is comparable to stock Android by Google or what Apple does on their devices.

TCB13 , 10 months ago to linux in fxsync-docker: Self host the new Firefox sync server

Ahaha very good. One file to launch all kinds of hell.

TCB13 , 10 months ago to linux in [SOLVED] Need a Thunderbird/Evolution alternative which can send me notifs in the background [xfce MX Linux]

I know of one alternative that is really good: Thunderbird.

TCB13 , 10 months ago to linux in fxsync-docker: Self host the new Firefox sync server

Because its Docker crap ahah

Here is the thing: in the last few years I came to the conclusion that if a tool isn’t simple enough to install and configure manually with one or two files it isn’t worth my time.

TCB13 , 10 months ago to linux in How to restart systemd without rebooting #Linux

Is it me or that article is poorly written? Doesn’t seem to be cyberciti quality.

TCB13 , 10 months ago to technology in Why Do Companies Not Use Existing 2FA Standards?

Aahahah

TCB13 , 10 months ago to technology in Why Do Companies Not Use Existing 2FA Standards?

That’s why you use an Authenticator app that gives you TOTP offline.

TCB13 , 10 months ago to technology in Why Do Companies Not Use Existing 2FA Standards?

Maybe they themselves are too dumb to understand TOTP. Or incapable of being humble enough to study standards / use them or even think for a second that those might be standards. I guess the fact that most software is done by consulting companies with armies of fresh graduates doesn’t help either.