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I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions
So i was surprised today when my fiancee told me she was thinking about switching over to linux. Surprised because she is absolutely not technically minded, but also because she was weary about having Microsoft AI slop forced on her PC every update. ( i'm so proud!)
Now i've used a little linux but i've always been a holdout. Won't stop me from moving someone else over but i have too much going on in my setup to deal with that right now. So i'm not super versed but i was able to give her the basic rundown of what distros are, concerns when switching, what may and may not be available, shes still on board so we're doing this! Knowing her she would like to not have to transition too much, whats something fairly hands off and easy to learn. I've heard some good things about mint from hanging around you nerds the past few years but also some not so good things, any suggestions?
next concern is what kind of transfer process is this going to be? i have some spare HDD's so we can try and get everything ported over but i'm so busy with school right now i can't quite allocate the time to really deep dive this.
Any help is appreciated, cheers!
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I don't know. With these weapons...
Kyle Reese meme from Terminator (1984)Listen. And understand. That LLM is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until they run out of money.
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How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles? - Ars Technica
Every few weeks, it seems, yet another lab proclaims yet another breakthrough in the race to perfect solid-state batteries: next-generation power packs that promise to give us electric vehicles (EVs) so problem-free that we’ll have no reason left to buy gas-guzzlers.These new solid-state cells are designed to be lighter and more compact than the lithium-ion batteries used in today’s EVs. They should also be much safer, with nothing inside that can burn like those rare but hard-to-extinguish lithium-ion fires. They should hold a lot more energy, turning range anxiety into a distant memory with consumer EVs able to go four, five, six hundred miles on a single charge.
And forget about those “fast” recharges lasting half an hour or more: Solid-state batteries promise EV fill-ups in minutes—almost as fast as any standard car gets with gasoline.
This may all sound too good to be true—and it is, if you’re looking to buy a solid-state-powered EV this year or next. Look a bit further, though, and the promises start to sound more plausible. “If you look at what people are putting out as a road map from industry, they say they are going to try for actual prototype solid-state battery demonstrations in their vehicles by 2027 and try to do large-scale commercialization by 2030,” says University of Washington materials scientist Jun Liu, who directs a university-government-industry battery development collaboration known as the Innovation Center for Battery500 Consortium.
Indeed, the challenge is no longer to prove that solid-state batteries are feasible. That has long since been done in any number of labs around the world. The big challenge now is figuring out how to manufacture these devices at scale, and at an acceptable cost.
How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles?
Superionic materials promise greater range, faster charges and more safety.Knowable Magazine (Ars Technica)
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How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles? - Ars Technica
Every few weeks, it seems, yet another lab proclaims yet another breakthrough in the race to perfect solid-state batteries: next-generation power packs that promise to give us electric vehicles (EVs) so problem-free that we’ll have no reason left to buy gas-guzzlers.These new solid-state cells are designed to be lighter and more compact than the lithium-ion batteries used in today’s EVs. They should also be much safer, with nothing inside that can burn like those rare but hard-to-extinguish lithium-ion fires. They should hold a lot more energy, turning range anxiety into a distant memory with consumer EVs able to go four, five, six hundred miles on a single charge.
And forget about those “fast” recharges lasting half an hour or more: Solid-state batteries promise EV fill-ups in minutes—almost as fast as any standard car gets with gasoline.
This may all sound too good to be true—and it is, if you’re looking to buy a solid-state-powered EV this year or next. Look a bit further, though, and the promises start to sound more plausible. “If you look at what people are putting out as a road map from industry, they say they are going to try for actual prototype solid-state battery demonstrations in their vehicles by 2027 and try to do large-scale commercialization by 2030,” says University of Washington materials scientist Jun Liu, who directs a university-government-industry battery development collaboration known as the Innovation Center for Battery500 Consortium.
Indeed, the challenge is no longer to prove that solid-state batteries are feasible. That has long since been done in any number of labs around the world. The big challenge now is figuring out how to manufacture these devices at scale, and at an acceptable cost.
How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles?
Superionic materials promise greater range, faster charges and more safety.Knowable Magazine (Ars Technica)
Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards
Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards
An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.Nicholas Slayton (Task & Purpose)
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eDEX-UI. Any other software like this?
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Wow, that looks amazing! How does running a browser like Firefox work on this? Just runs a window regularly?
EDIT: never mind, just noticed that eDEX is not maintained since 2021 🙁
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GitHub - andreas-hartmann/xdex-ui: A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.
A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support. - andreas-hartmann/xdex-uiGitHub
Its supposedly open source??
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github.com/Wimberton/Palia-FEN…
GitHub - Wimberton/Palia-FENTRY: Palia FENTRY is the most powerful cheat available for Palia. It's completely free, and comes with tons of overpowered features like Instant Fishing, ESPs, Silent Aim, Teleport to entities, and more!
Palia FENTRY is the most powerful cheat available for Palia. It's completely free, and comes with tons of overpowered features like Instant Fishing, ESPs, Silent Aim, Teleport to entities, and ...GitHub
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GE-Proton10-18 Released
Proton (upstream):
- dxvk updated to latest git
- vkd3d-proton/vkd3d updated to latest git
- wine updated to latest bleeding-edge
- dxvk-nvapi updated to latest git
- proton script game fixes imported from upstream
- vrclient fixes imported from upstream
- wineopenxr fixes imported from upstream
- makefile.in build fixes imported from upstream
Proton(em-10/wine-wayland)
- imported fsr4 fixes/updates from em-10
- imported wine-wayland (and additional) patches from em-10
- imported imported ntsync ubisoft connect fix from em-10
- imported x11 locale enablement patches/files
- fixed issue with Wine-wayland driver causes the game screen to not fit the screen size when size chosen larger than screen size.
Proton(GE):
- enabled wine writecopy option for ea/ubisoft/battlenet launchers
Protonfixes:
- fixed issue with wine mono not getting removed fully (dotnet40+ should install now via winetricks)
- fixed protonfix issue where it would quit instead of trying to create parent directory for config if it doesnt exist.
- reverted a change that made vcrun2022 install instead of vcrun2019, which can lead to some games breaking
- added fix for blue protocol star resonance videos to work
- Fix Battle Engine Aquila overlapping sound
- Company of Heroes 2 and Company of Heroes 3 Mp Desync fix
Release GE-Proton10-18 Released · GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Proton (upstream): dxvk updated to latest git vkd3d-proton/vkd3d updated to latest git wine updated to latest bleeding-edge dxvk-nvapi updated to latest git proton script game fixes imported from ...GitHub
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50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party, twice the proportion of any other profession
German Doctors’ Motives to Becoming Nazi’s
Introduction Human beings have a disturbingly great capacity for destruction, and when examining perpetrators in genocides and other atrocities, it is often surprising to note the participation of ...Willemot, Victoire
My social worker says I have to come out if I want them to use the correct name and pronouns.
Hi, so I'm a high school student and I happen to be trans FtM. I know I'm quite young, but I do believe in the importance of supporting trans people, even young people just in general.
I was born a girl (obviously) but now I'm a guy named Anthony. When I came out to my social worker "Mrs. A" (not her real name or initial), she said that she was proud of me for coming out, but that if I wanted teachers to refer to me as "male", "he/him", Anthony, etc. that I'd have to come out to my legal guardian.
The thing is my guardian isn't the most supportive of trans people. I came out to him a few years ago and he said I was just a confused girl and that "the left was just pushing their agenda onto me". He loves me, I'm sure he does, but he definitely wouldn't support me.
I told my therapist and a good friend of mine and both of them said that was breaking a rule of confidentiality. My sister told me that too. My therapist wonders if it's to get it changed on paperwork or something but says that if I want to be called Anthony at school, there should be no problem.
What do you all think?
I'm not sure if they're the same thing, but back in my day we had a "School Counselor". I told her all about how my mom was abusing us, which backfired on me when she straight up told my mom everything I had said.
Hopefully it's changed on the last couple decades, but back then school counselors weren't required to have any accreditations and had no restriction on privacy.
That was when I learned the employees of the school are there to protect the school, not the students. You should be careful what you share until you've determined what sort of confidentiality you're guaranteed and what training this person has. Outing you or requiring you to out yourself are both pretty messed up to recommend.
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GitHub - Droogans/unmaintainable-code: A more maintainable, easier to share version of the infamous mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html
A more maintainable, easier to share version of the infamous http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html - Droogans/unmaintainable-codeGitHub
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
A viral man in a frog balloon suit facing off against ICE is the key to understanding how the internet-poisoned politics of the second Trump presidency work.Sarah Jeong (The Verge)
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‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’ - A Startling Documentary from Zeteo
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Use hashtags for greater visibility on Mastodon
I've followed all the frequent posters on piefed.social using my mastodon.social account so we should be seeing a lot more PieFed content showing up there now. But unless you use hashtags, I'll be the only one seeing it!
When making your post, put a few words into the Tags field below the Body field, separated by a comma. No need to include the # character.
I think Mint is using my CPU for rendering instead of my GPU, how do I fix that?
I have a Nvidia GPU, which I understand is problematic with Linux. I've heard this is something can happen, so I assume it's why the "Cinnamon" process is using around 20-40% CPU resources at all times. So, how do I switch to using GPU for that? I've installed Nvidia drivers through the driver manager already
Edit: I figured it out, SecureBoot was turned on on the UEFI-level. I disabled it and reinstalled Mint, and it seems to work now.
The Debian docs were really useful for me in setting up my 3090 on Debian proper.
Since Mint is downstream, maybe they will help you.
Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show
Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal. Those military ties were thrown into crisis after Israel’s September airstrike in Qatar, but could now play a key role in overseeing the nascent ceasefire in Gaza.
Over the past three years, facilitated by the United States, senior military officials from Israel and six Arab countries came together for planning meetings in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and Qatar.
Qatar, whose capital was struck on Sept. 9 by Israeli missiles targeting Hamas leaders, was one of the countries that had quietly strengthened ties with the Israeli military. In May 2024. A planning document for the event, written two days before it was set to begin, shows that the Israeli delegation was scheduled to fly directly to the air base, circumventing Qatar’s civilian points of entry that could have risked public exposure.
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Israel-backed gangs kill Palestinian journalist in Gaza City
Saleh Aljafarawi, a well-known Palestinian journalist, was fatally shot in Gaza City on Saturday, just days after a Gaza ceasefire agreement was announced.
Various media reports suggest that Aljafarawi was killed when Hamas security forces had surrounded members of an armed militia.
Aljafarawi was cornered by armed men and killed with seven gunshots to his body.
The New Arab reported that Aljafrawi was targeted and killed by Israel-backed armed collaborator gangs while documenting the extensive destruction in the Sabra neighbourhood following the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
Israel-backed gangs kill Palestinian journalist in Gaza City
Israel has killed over 250 journalists in Gaza since October 2023.TRT World
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Why Signal over Jabber/XMPP?
Over the past few years I have gone through a bunch of different apps and protocols to find the best one for "securely" communicating with my family and friends.
I ended up with the amazing XMPP protocol and my family/friends frequently use its clients to contact me.
Monal for IOS and Cheogram/Conversations/Quicksy for Android. The android app I install depends on if I can get F-Droid on their phone or not.
It's been great with OMEMO encryption and the clients/apps available for XMPP. But sometimes I have issues introducing people to it.
Jabber (friendly name for xmpp) sounds silly to say. The clients all have weird names. And after trying the Signal mobile app it feels more focused than what anyone in the XMPP community has whipped up.
But the capabilities of XMPP makes it better.
Signal Cons (immediete)
- Centralized
- Single app
- Phone numbers
XMPP/Jabber Cons
- Picking server
- Apps are sort of less friendly
What really scares me about Signal is the centralization. Any nerd can easily host an XMPP server these days. But Signal from what I've heard really wants us to use their server.
If XMPP gets more attention I'm sure we can get people supporting projects and creating better apps.
I keep seeing people recommended Signal instead.
This is a bit of a tired ramble. What I wanna know is why anyone is preferring Signal over XMPP apps. I assume it might be not knowing about it. Tell me what you use to message people.
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All Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Thousand Madleens volunteers freed after Israeli abduction
Dozens of testimonies from participants of the Freedom Flotilla and Madleens missions described degrading and often violent abuse by Israel
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Russia attacks Ukraine's power grid as Moscow worries over US Tomahawk missiles
Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power grid as part of an ongoing campaign to damage energy infrastructure before winter.
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China says Taiwan president is 'prostituting' himself, after interview lauding Trump
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is "prostituting" himself to foreigners to try and win their favour but his schemes are doomed to fail, China's government said on Wednesday after he gave an interview lauding U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Canada eyes putting nuclear reactors on the moon
'Canada is ... really good at nuclear' says CEO of space mining company
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UN force in Lebanon says peacekeeper wounded by Israeli grenade
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (Unifil) said Sunday that one of its members was wounded by an Israeli grenade dropped near a UN position in the country's south, the third incident of its kind in just over a month.
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"Just before noon yesterday, an Israeli drone dropped a grenade that exploded near a Unifil position" in Kfar Kila, the force said in a statement published on Sunday.
Faneto accusato di violenze dalla ex: foto dei lividi e messaggi social. Le reazioni e cosa sappiamo finora
È diventato un caso nazionale quello che coinvolge Faneto, rapper emergente della scena urban italiana. La sua ex compagna, Alessandra, ha pubblicato sui social un racconto dettagliato di presunte violenze fisiche e psicologiche, accompagnandolo con foto di lividi, video e screenshot di messaggi. Il materiale, rilanciato da creator e pagine tematiche, ha alimentato in poche ore un’ondata di attenzione e solidarietà. L’artista, al momento, non ha diffuso dichiarazioni pubbliche.
COSA SAPPIAMO: Faneto accusato di violenze dalla ex: foto dei lividi e messaggi social. Le reazioni e cosa sappiamo finora
Faneto, accuse di violenze della ex: foto dei lividi e messaggi
La ex di Faneto pubblica foto e messaggi denunciando violenza e minacce. L’etichetta prende le distanze; l’artista non ha replicato. Cosa sappiamo.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
GOG Games
I downloaded from the website posted on fmhy but I don't know why my pc got really slow? Did I get a virus? From gog-games.to
I scanned the files with Malwarebytes and Windows Defender but I got nothing
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Le Iene, nuovi audio sul caso Asia Vitale: anticipazioni e ospiti di stasera (12 ottobre)
Tornano stasera su Italia 1 le inchieste e i reportage de Le Iene, condotto da Veronica Gentili con Max Angioni. La puntata del 12 ottobre 2025 mette al centro due blocchi forti: i nuovi audio e le nuove dichiarazioni legate al caso Asia Vitale, vicenda che ha scosso l’opinione pubblica, e un viaggio ad alto rischio in Messico sul fentanyl, firmato da Matteo Viviani. In studio, tra gli ospiti, Neffa, Ernia e Beatrice Valli.
TUTTE LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Le Iene, nuovi audio sul caso Asia Vitale: anticipazioni e ospiti di stasera (12 ottobre)
Le Iene, anticipazioni 12 ottobre 2025: nuovi audio su Asia Vitale e reportage sul Fentanyl
Stasera su Italia 1 Le Iene: nuovi audio sul caso Asia Vitale e reportage di Matteo Viviani sul fentanyl in Messico. Ospiti Neffa ed Ernia.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
AI image blocklist for uBlock Origin & Pi-hole
GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-BlocklistGitHub
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Winded windows become a privacy nightmare?
It was the switch to Microsoft accounts. Everyone started using online accounts to login and when people complained apple said “okay, you don’t need to and here’s some ways to make it safer” after some high profile leaks, google said “we’ll anonymize your data so when we use it for tracking it’s not tied to you, also here’s some ways to make it safer” after everyone realized they weren’t not being evil and Microsoft said “are you fucking stupid? It says right there in the tos that we’re gonna take and use everything!”.
Go to massgrave.dev and start reading. Convert your Microsoft account to a local user account. You will still have a Microsoft account but you won’t use it to login. You will lose access to stuff you bought under your Microsoft account until you sign in. This may or may not be acceptable to you.
Use your knowledge from massgrave to convert your windows edition to enterprise iot ltsc if you’re on 21h2, otherwise either downgrade or flatten and reinstall that edition. You will now be able to receive security updates and stay on windows 10.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
A view of a destroyed secondary school following a drone attack in the city of Kramatorsk on Oct. 11, 2025. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Zelensky discusses air defense with Trump after Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid. “I informed President Trump about Russia’s attacks on our energy system — and I appreciate his willingness to support us,” Zelensky said.
Ukraine strikes Russian oil refinery 1,400 kilometers from front, SBU source says. Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) drones struck a Russian oil refinery in Ufa on the morning of Oct. 11, resulting in explosions and a fire, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent.
Fires reported in Russia’s Belgorod oblast amid suspected power plant attack, local officials say. Falling debris from downed missiles sparked fires and caused damage in Belgorod, Russia, the regional governor reported Oct. 11 amid a suspected attack on a power plant in the city.
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UK, Ukraine sign LYRA defense cooperation agreement. Ukraine and the U.K. agreed to launch the LYRA defense cooperation program, focusing on battlefield tech and joint weapons development, Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal announced Oct. 11.
Ukrainian air defenses operating at 74% effectiveness, military chief says. “Over the past month, (Russia) has increased the number of air strikes 1.3 times,” Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
Zelensky approves new Russia sanctions in coordination with Japan. President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed new sanctions targeting Russian individuals and entities, aligning Ukraine’s latest measures with those previously imposed by Japan.
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Human cost of Russia’s war
Russian attacks kill 5, injure 17 in Ukraine over past day, hit energy grid. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 54 out of the 78 Shahed-type attack drones and other drones launched by Russia overnight, the Air Force reported. Twenty-one drone strikes were recorded at six locations.
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International response
Trump threatens China with additional 100% tariffs amid trade tensions. “The United States of America will impose a tariff of 100% on China, over and above any tariff that they are currently paying,” Donald Trump said.
UK, France, Germany to move forward with using Russian assets to aid Ukraine. “We agree to develop further bold and innovative mechanisms to increase the cost of Russia’s war and ramp up pressure,” the British government said in a statement.
Latvia orders over 800 Russian citizens to leave by mid-October. Latvia has ordered 841 Russian citizens to leave the country by Oct. 13, citing their failure to meet legal requirements, including proof of Latvian language proficiency and passing a national security screening, Politico reported.
Belarus launches military readiness check as security concerns grow. The Belarusian military is implementing a “set of measures” to bring select units to their “highest level of combat readiness” under Alexander Lukashenko’s direct orders.
North Korea displays new ICBM during parade with Russia’s Medvedev in attendance. The parade, attended by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and United Russia party leader Dmitry Medvedev, featured a display of advanced weaponry.
Estonia closes border crossing with Russia over unusual military activity. Estonia has temporarily closed the Saatse border crossing following heightened Russian military activity near the area, the Estonian public broadcaster ERR reported on Oct. 10.
NATO aircraft carry out 12-hour flight near Russian border amid rising tensions. The joint U.K.-U.S. operation was conducted on Oct. 9, following recent airspace violations by Russia targeting several NATO countries.
German airlines call to shoot down drones threatening airports. Germany’s airlines are calling for drones that threaten airport operations to be shot down, Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 11. The call to action comes amid a recent surge of unidentified drone sightings that have disrupted airports in Germany, prompting efforts to address the threat.
Hungary launches petition against EU’s Ukraine war funding, Orban says. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Oct. 11 that Budapest has launched a nationwide petition drive to collect signatures in opposition to the European Union’s “war plan” to finance Ukraine’s war effort.
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Bomb threats force Ukrainian Railways to halt 3 trains, including international line. The affected trains included routes between Dnipro and Kyiv, Ternopil and Kyiv, and the international Kyiv–Warsaw route.
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Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal
The Israeli army has raided the homes of several Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank whose names were included in the list of prisoners to be released in an exchange deal following the Gaza ceasefire.
For the third day running, Israel violates Gaza ‘ceasefire’ to maim and murder Palestinians
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Israel has violated the ‘ceasefire’ it agreed with Palestinian militia to bomb, murder and maim Palestinians for the third consecutive day – the first three days of the supposed ceasefire period.
Israel: horrific violations of the ceasefire
On Saturday 11 October, an occupation drone targeted a group of civilians in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing one civilian and seriously injuring several others, including one man left with both lower legs shredded or gone:thecanary.co/wp-content/upload…
Israel thinks – correctly, because of the collaboration of the UK and other western governments – that it can get away with mass the mass slaughter of civilians and daily breaches of its supposed commitments.
It is a rogue and terror state.
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Cryptologist DJB Alleges NSA is Pushing an End to Backup Algorithms for Post-Quantum Cryptography
"The problem in a nutshell. Surveillance agency NSA and its [UK counterpart] GCHQ are trying to have standards-development organizations endorse weakening [pre-quantum] ECC+PQ down to just PQ."Part of this is that NSA and GCHQ have been endlessly repeating arguments that this weakening is a good thing... I'm instead looking at how easy it is for NSA to simply spend money to corrupt the standardization process.... The massive U.S. military budget now publicly requires cryptographic "components" to have NSA approval... In June 2024, NSA's William Layton wrote that "we do not anticipate supporting hybrid in national security systems"...
[Later a Cisco employee wrote of selling non-hybrid cryptography to a significant customer, "that's what they're willing to buy. Hence, Cisco will implement it".]
What do you do with your control over the U.S. military budget? That's another opportunity to "shape the worldwide commercial cryptography marketplace". You can tell people that you won't authorize purchasing double encryption. You can even follow through on having the military publicly purchase single encryption. Meanwhile you quietly spend a negligible amount of money on an independent encryption layer to protect the data that you care about, so you're actually using double encryption.
Cryptologist DJB Alleges NSA is Pushing an End to Backup Algorithms for Post-Quantum Cryptography - Slashdot
Cryptologist/CS professor Daniel J. Bernstein is alleging that America's National Security Agency is attempting to influence NIST post-quantum cryptography standards.it.slashdot.org
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We fight wars to live in peace, we grow sheep to eat lamb chops, and we keep trust to gain reputation to then spend it. That quote about stones.
Still very good to see someone as famous as Bernstein say this.
But yes, it's weird, TLS allows whatever the software on two sides of the negotiation allow and support. GOST, something Chinese, something you've made yourself. Anything.
Except if there's somehow a vulnerability in TLS hidden in the open, but, eh, that's a bit too conspiracy-minded for a post not discussing TLS itself.
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in reply to FunctionallyLiterate • • •On atomic distros, you install stuff mostly via flatpak and distrobox. I'd even recommend using distrobox on traditional systems because you can just kill the box if you don't want it any longer. You can have multiple package managers at the same time installed without problems, e.g. yay, dnf and zypper. I guess you could even take your box with you when switching to a new distro (e.g. when switching from atomic fedora to opensuse as I did recently) but I have not yet done that.
Yes, management could be more end user friendly, but it'll get there
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in reply to FunctionallyLiterate • • •You can go with the Slowroll version which is Tumbleweed but with a week delayed updates which might prevent issues in updates you'd have on Tumbleweed. Personally, been with Tumbleweed for a year now and haven't had issues with updates.
You need to apply the update from time to time. You'll have to teach the user to do that. But you can create a simple alias in the terminal so they don't have to remember the update commands (system update and flatpak update cmds).
Bonje
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in reply to Bonje • • •Ŝan
in reply to Bonje • • •Mint.
No war. I don't use it, myself, but I've set up a couple family members and over þe past several years have gotten two tech support calls: one about connecting to a WiFi printer, which required only me telling þem how to get to system preferences; þe oþer because þey'd bought a new laptop which came wiþ Windows 11 and þey wanted help installing Linux (which þey were used to) on it instead.
prof_tincoa
in reply to Bonje • • •arsCynic
in reply to Bonje • • •Even as an EndeavourOS user, I concur: Mint. Why? Cinnamon is hands down the best desktop environment. Beginner friendly default without blasting features in one's face with configs all over the place, yet intuitively customizable for experienced Linux users.
This means she will be able to freely use it without your help, but you will be able to easily fine tune it to her preferences as well.
⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •bus_factor
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Truscape
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •I guess a good question would be what software you plan on using. If it's something more reliant on frequent updates and feature releases like gaming, the choice would be a bit different compared to something like office work or common browsing, where stability would be prioritized (at the cost of slower updates).
Mint, for example, is a great jumping off point for Windows users because of the familiar User Interface and a focus on stability and lack of prior knowledge required - but it lags behind when it comes to cutting edge stuff for things like gaming.
Alas Poor Erinaceus
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in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus • • •Greddan
in reply to 9limmer • • •9limmer
in reply to Greddan • • •pivot_root
in reply to 9limmer • • •It's declarative. Everything is (usually) configured via Nix itself, without requiring manual steps of running additional commands. This ends up being pretty useful when you have a fleet of devices that you want to configure.
Changing config is atomic. If you end up breaking your system when trying to tweak it, you can boot into the previous generation and try again with different settings.
Truscape
in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus • • •LogicalDrivel
in reply to Truscape • • •Maerman
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •As a general rule of thumb, I usually recommend Linux Mint to beginners. The installation and update processes are easy and intuitive, and there is a ton of software available, as well as good support if you know how to do web searches properly. The main trick is to try and remember that a paradigm shift needs to happen here. Linux is not Windows. It doesn't work like Windows, and it has different aims and priorities. She will also need to be prepared to learn a bit and be slightly more hands-on with her computing. The learning curve with Mint is comparatively gentle, but it does exist.
This is all very broad and general, but I hope it helps. Good luck to the both of you. I hope you are satisfied with whatever you decide on.
Zachariah
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in reply to Zachariah • • •Holytimes
in reply to RiemannZetaFunction • • •The right answer is,
Debian if they just use web browsers and basic office apps.
Fedora if they use do the same but also use recent hardware that needs a newer kernel
Bazzite if they are a casual gamer and you want to make sure her sims still work easily
Cachy if she's a nerd and plays a lot of higher end games.
All with kde of course
ProdigalFrog
in reply to Zachariah • • •hperrin
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Three correct answers:
And a few incorrect answers:
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prole
in reply to ethaver • • •My advice would be to just give up on the dual boot (unless you still need it, and even then, maybe keep Windows on a different machine maybe?).
I think the best way to go is full Linux immersion.
Cenzorrll
in reply to ethaver • • •Ubuntu has started going off the deep end. They've been heading in that direction for a while, but they recently (I guess like 5 years-ish ago) hit this corporatey, money-grabbing, mentality that's so completely opposite of what made Linux great.
The feel I get about it is 10 years ago, tutorials were written using Ubuntu because it was an easy distro to use and was a great platform for beginners, so people used that as their platform to teach. Now it feels like tutorials are written using Ubuntu because they're being sponsored to. A lot of how-tos I come accros have the same vibe as watching a video animation tutorial that uses adobe and oh gosh, it's also sponsored by adobe. Or a networking tutorial sponsored by Cisco. I've actually started just looking to see if another distro is acknowledged before I actually see what they have to say.
There's a very different feel if you're trying to set something up and a website has "if you're in this family of linux, here's what you do, or if you're in this one, do this" versus "so you want to set up x in linux? Here's how you do it in Ubuntu". It's as if no other distro exists.
Anyway, ignoring that rant. Linux is super stable these days, you can take pretty much any distro and you'll be fine. I tend to gravitate toward the base distros, like fedora, opensuse, and Debian over Rocky, mint, etc. I haven't come across one in the past five years that gave me any trouble, except when it came to updated nvidia drivers and wayland. In which case some distros were behind a month or two on getting those updated.
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in reply to Cenzorrll • • •Holytimes
in reply to hperrin • • •Who even uses normal arch anymore.
All the cool kids use endeavour or cachy. Which is like calling Ubuntu, Debian.
that_one_guy
in reply to Holytimes • • •Walk_blesseD
in reply to that_one_guy • • •Axum
in reply to that_one_guy • • •Ah yes, arch but fascist.
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Walk_blesseD
in reply to Holytimes • • •Me, btw.
waldo_was_here
in reply to hperrin • • •EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
in reply to waldo_was_here • • •thethunderwolf
in reply to waldo_was_here • • •Goodlucksil
in reply to hperrin • • •hperrin
in reply to Goodlucksil • • •deadcade
in reply to Goodlucksil • • •While Mint is an Ubuntu-based distro, it tries to un-fuck the worst of Canonical. Other Ubuntu spins with a different desktop environment don't do this, like Xubuntu, Kubuntu, etc. They end up as just Ubuntu on a different DE, with all the decisions made by canonical.
Base Debian might work, but afaik, is "not as beginner friendly" compared to Mint.
caseyweederman
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in reply to deadcade • • •Cris
in reply to hperrin • • •Pop is such a cool project but it's been kinda broken for me both times I've tried it, and then add to that what happened with Linus tech tips where him being dumb combined with pop having not fixed a major and obvious packaging issue that completely broke his system has kinda just left me with the impression they're not super on top of the ball
I hope that's changed, I want them to be successful, especially with cosmic
Crimson Red ☭
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in reply to hperrin • • •thethunderwolf
in reply to hperrin • • •Another incorrect answer: Manjaro
github.com/arindas/manjarno
If you want Arch but a bit easier, just install EndeavourOS.
GitHub - arindas/manjarno: Reasons for which I don't use Manjaro anymore
GitHubharsh3466
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Forester
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Hannah Montana
It's dead simple. It is a meme. They may find that funny and humor and novelty help beginners ease into new environments.
hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/
but you should install something else as the main OS
Just set this as the first thing to boot and then teach them to remove it
Home
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Fedora is pretty cool.
Linus Torvalds uses it, so you could say it’s the canonical distribution.
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brandon
in reply to panda_abyss • • •Well no, the Canonical distribution is Ubuntu.
/s
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •JovialSodium
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •I can recommend Debian or Fedora. They are both mature distros that are pretty easy to install and generally work well with minimal fuss and are easy to maintain. I often see Linux Mint recommend, including in this thread. I've never used it so I can't speak to it. But I have every reason to believe it's a solid choice.
As for transfer process, since you mention using spare disks, NTFS filesystems are supported and you may be able to just copy files off of them. I don't know if bitlocker is supported.
MimicJar
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •I would suggest whatever you pick, it should be a similar base to what you run or are most familiar with.
If you run something Debian based, you should recommend something Debian based. Fedora, Arch, etc.
The same is also true for desktop environments, if you use KDE, recommend KDE. If you run something not necessarily beginner friendly, recommend what you're familiar with.
At some point you're going to be asked questions, so the more familiar you are, the better for both of you.
Ada
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •The distro I find easiest to recommend to folk in my life looking to move to Linux is the distro that I'm using/most familiar with, because it makes it easier to help them out if they run in to an issue.
I use CachyOS, and previously, I was trying to support Mint etc, but having zero experience with the way the way Mint handles packages, with its default apps, update process etc, I found myself having to research an OS I don't use, and offer 2nd hand advice. I moved them over to CachyOS, and even though technically, it's not as beginner friendly, my day to day familiarity with it meant that it was easier to help out when troubles arose.
Truscape
in reply to Ada • • •StarvingMartist
in reply to Ada • • •Einar
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •I loved Mint. It's still great. Recently I installed Linux on a family member's laptop which is not upgradeable to Windows 11. Hate to say it (and I may be a bit petty here): Mint looks dated, Cinnamon needs a facelift.
That was a reason I went with Zorin. It clearly tries to transition users that come from Windows with it's design (honestly, it's modded Gnome looks awesome). Even running .exe files is as simple as just opening them. Zorin will either just run them or suggest a Linux alternative. Had no issues with that OS so far.
That said, Mint or Ubuntu are solid choices for beginners (and pros alike).
Takapapatapaka
in reply to Einar • • •Ftumch
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Any of the large, easy to use distributions should work just fine. I'd recommend a popular distribution because it'll be easier to get help online. So consider Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, Ubuntu and maybe Pop!_OS.
I think the main consideration should be which DE (desktop environment) she'd like to use. IMO the main contenders would be:
Based on which DE she prefers, I'd suggest getting a distribution that comes with said DE by default, for the best possible integration. How do you figure out which DE she likes best? Put Ventoy on a USB stick along with a few different Linux ISOs. Ventoy wil let you choose which one to boot from a menu. You could get the following ISOs:
Download an ISO for each, install Ventoy on a USB stick and copy the ISOs to the stick. Boot into each ISO and play around with the desktop for a bit. When she's figured out which DE she prefers, install a distribution that comes with that desktop.
Holytimes
in reply to Ftumch • • •floofloof
in reply to Ftumch • • •Tenderizer78
in reply to floofloof • • •I'm on KDE as a former Windows and Mint user and it's really annoying. Especially the text editor Kate. All the hotkeys are different than Windows/Mint, there's no notepad equivalent and only a notepad++ equivalent, the GNOME text editor doesn't match the theming, and I had to settle on Mousepad for my replacement.
I had to do a lot of customization to get the system to behave like Windows, particularly the panel. Maybe with ZorinOS it's better.
miss phant
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •I believe you're looking for KWrite.
Tenderizer78
in reply to miss phant • • •Thank you, that's exactly what I've been looking for. Wasn't bundled with Kubuntu (or maybe it was but I uninstalled it because I thought it was Wordpad) and didn't come up when searching for it in the Discover app, but after going to the official site and opening a link in the Discover app I got it installed. I then accidentally uninstalled it because uninstalling Kate does that.
Now to look up how to clean up the start menu so searching for a text editor doesn't give me the uninstalled Mousepad or it's separate settings app (I did it with a 5 second duckduckgo search).
prole
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in reply to prole • • •StarvingMartist
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Creat
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Not really possible, because how a desktop feels or what can be configured it's hard to show on a website. Especially how you can visually adapt it. And what you can configure in general. Running it from a live USB takes like 5 minutes.
For example KDE is also very close to Windows, but can also be configured to behave more like a Mac. Visually most desktop environment can be themed. Cinnamon just got additions to be able to theme gnome apps globally I think? If you want to use a central dock like a Mac and have running apps at the top, that's just a master of setting that up on KDE.
StarvingMartist
in reply to Creat • • •muhyb
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Test Linux distros online
DistroSeaCrimson Red ☭
in reply to Ftumch • • •humanspiral
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •If older computer that works fine, I'd get a new 780m (Amd) mini pc. They support 3+ monitors, have 2 network ports allowing to "daisy chain" the old computer. No transfering of anything, or worrying about getting old stuff still working.
Deskflow is a mouse/keyboard sharing app. If you keep old computer in sleep mode you don't need extra keyboard/mouse, but power outages, mean that if you don't have a floor standing old pc you can stack old keyboard/mouse on top of, then you will need to occasionally plug in keyboard and mouse into old computer to get deskflow restarted (if you don't put it as autostart).
It's far more convenient than dual booting. Can use resources from both computers in network, and seemless mouse/keyboard focus. Switching 1 monitor for occasional use is better than dual booting, because rebooting on older computers especially is slow.
Deskflow needs a modern kernal linux distribution. Ubuntu 24.04 is recent enough. Linux mint has not upgraded kernel yet. AFAIU, the only difference between mint (recommended here) and Ubuntu is a slightly prettier version of kde.
StarvingMartist
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •If she's a Windows refugee, Linux Mint.
If she's a Mac refugee, fuck if I know.
If she's a IBM OS/2 refugee, please let me know how to get the drugs she's gotten. I want in.
Tenderizer78
in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • • •Ubuntu for a Mac refugee. Definitely Mint for a Windows refugee.
I hate GNOME through and through, but it's a very polished interface and resembles Mac in a lot of ways.
iopq
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Ubuntu is heresy. Canonical hath turned against the users.
Also, I'm genuinely curious: why do you hate GNOME?
Truscape
in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • • •EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
in reply to Truscape • • •Yeah...
See, I used to like Ubuntu, but then Canonical had to ruin it for me by betraying the principles that Linux stands for.
Ubuntu is a shadow of its former self, and it saddens me. 🙁
Tenderizer78
in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • • •I hate GNOME because it feels like an iPhone.
I don't know much about what Ubuntu is doing but it surely can't be that bad.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •That's fair.
You would be surprised.
Tenderizer78
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SchwertImStein
in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • • •EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
in reply to SchwertImStein • • •You know, I can see that.
Still, mac users use macs because they just want the computer to work.
And the Cosmic DE is rather new so can be a bit buggy from time to time. It might look mac-friendly, but its stability is still largely untested so caution may be advised before recommending it in my opinion.
kureta
in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • • •pinball_wizard
in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • • •She could consider Linux Mint with KDE Plasma. KDE Plasma feels very like modern Mac, only nicer, to me.
thanksforallthefish
in reply to pinball_wizard • • •KDE is not a Mint supported DE and the KDE files are not in the Mint repos.
This can be made to work if you're experienced but is definitely not a good idea for beginners. It will eventually break, and dependency hell is a thing.
For a KDE option suitable fir beginners, Fedora offers KDE as does Ubuntu, or there's KDE Neon
pinball_wizard
in reply to thanksforallthefish • • •Jumuta
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in reply to pinball_wizard • • •Crimson Red ☭
in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • • •hoppolito
in reply to Crimson Red ☭ • • •Is there a specific reason you are spamming the same single-line accusatory comment 7 times in this thread?
Combined with your account only being 10 days old if there's not more substance to a spammed accusation like that I'll just have to assume bad faith and block.
Eugenia
in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • • •prole
in reply to Eugenia • • •Tbf, my current laptop looks pretty similar, and I'm running Bazzite with KDE.
Lol Linux is awesome
thethunderwolf
in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • • •Windows refugee: Linux Mint or Fedora KDE
Mac refugee: Linux Mint or Fedora KDE
PC gamer: Bazzite (or Linux Mint or Fedora KDE)
edit: fuck markdown, why do line breaks only work in pairs on lemmy, this is not a thing with markdown on discord so why here? it's annoying
Sonotsugipaa
in reply to thethunderwolf • • •thethunderwolf
in reply to Sonotsugipaa • • •Like this
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look at the raw text of the comment, the above sentence's "spaces" are line breaks
is there a use for this functionality?
Sonotsugipaa
in reply to thethunderwolf • • •Spaces behave like this because markdown was designed to be like HTML but quicker to write and easier to read without formatting;
most web services that use markdown translate it to HTML rather than parsing it directly, and in HTML whitespaces are supposed to work like you demonstrated in your comment.
The reason for this behavior in HTML is "because someone in the 90s said so", I'm afraid.
Tenderizer78
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Mint Cinnamon. Just make sure to change the background before she sees it. The first impression is god awful with that stock background.
I think basically all the default backgrounds aren't great. There are a few passable ones but that's it.
Crimson Red ☭
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Tenderizer78
in reply to Crimson Red ☭ • • •Tundra
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Zorin OS - Make your computer better.
ZorinIEatDaFeesh
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Ardens
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •The one she likes... How about listening to her needs, and then show here some examples, and let her choose?
I'd present her with Mint and Ubuntu - and then what you know is her "style"...
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •A lot of people are going to recommend you mint, I honestly think mint is an outdated suggestion for beginners, I think immutability is extremely important for someone who is just starting out, as well as starting on KDE since it’s by far the most developed DE that isn’t gnome and their… design decisions are unfortunate for people coming from windows.
I don’t think we should be recommending mint to beginners anymore, if mint makes an immutable, up to date KDE distro, that’ll change, but until then, I think bazzite or aurora if you don't like gaming is objectively a better starting place for beginners.
The mere fact that bazzite and other immutables generate a new system for you on update and let you switch between and rollback automatically is enough for me to say it’s better, but it also has more up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).
How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”? that’s not a good user experience for someone who’s just starting, it’s intimidating, scary, and I just don’t think it’s the best in the modern era. There’s something to be said about learning from these mistakes, but bazzite essentially makes these mistakes impossible.
Furthermore because of the way bazzite works, package management is completely graphical and requires essentially no intervention on the users part, flathub and immutability pair excellently for this reason.
Cinnamon (the default mint environment) doesn’t and won’t support HDR, the security/performance improvements from wayland, mixed refresh rate displays, mixed DPI displays, fractional scaling, and many other things for a very very long time if at all. I don’t understand the usecase for cinnamon tbh, xfce is great if you need performance but don’t want to make major sacrifices, lxqt is great if you need A LOT of performance, cinnamon isn’t particularly performant and just a strictly worse version of kde in my eyes from the perspective of a beginner, anyway.
I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot if you add me on matrix.
Diplomjodler
in reply to Communist • • •Communist
in reply to Diplomjodler • • •What exactly is easier about the installation than my suggestion?
the fedora community is just as large as the mint community, and just as well supported.
i'm not telling you to switch, I'm saying there's no reason to start with it if you haven't tried linux before. Switching is a much bigger choice because you are already comfortable.
Why would a beginner who isn't already comfortable choose mint?
prole
in reply to Communist • • •Good points.
I will also add that Bazzite isn't just for beginners, it's just more friendly towards them. I've been running it for like a year now and it's just fantastic.
Almost boringly stable
StarvingMartist
in reply to Communist • • •Now hold on, everyone else is saying bazzite is built for gaming but did you just say it isn't or did I read that wrong?
She's definitely a gamer, currently working through AC shadows and horizon zero dawn I believe
I do believe her stuff should be immutable though, that would be a horrible experience for her and could make her want to run back to windows
Communist
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in reply to addie • • •DaTingGoBrrr
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •I think Linux Mint would be a good first distro.
I recently learned about a project called Operese. It is a Windows to Linux migration tool that also sets up Kubuntu. Kubuntu is Ubuntu with the KDE desktop environment instead of the GNOME desktop environment. I don't know how well that tool works since I never tried it but it looks promising.
There is also a new project called Winboat that is meant to make it easier to install and use Windows software such as Adobe Photoshop
HaraldvonBlauzahn
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Why do you want to start a distro war?
Is this with the intent of trolling our community?
"Let many flowers blossom".
prole
in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • • •SapphironZA
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Linux Mint is the windows 7 experience of linux. It gets out of the way so you can work. It also has the best in-OS help tools. It's also a bit more conservative in terms of newest features, so it's a lot more reliable.
If she does PC gaming, you might want to look at Bazzite rather than Mint. It's a lot better equipped for non-technical people to start gaming. It's basically a preconfigured Fedora linux, so it's got a solid foundation. It's also something called an immutable distro, which basically means it's more difficult to break as the core OS is "read only" (to simplify).
In terms of migrating, best to avoid dual booting off a single disk. Microsoft keeps breaking Linux installs (probably on purpose). So best to install a second SSD.
Before you migrate, have her make a list of software she uses and the hardware she has. Best to post that on a forum like this to have more experienced people look for possible issues.
When it gets to migration day, if bitlocker is disabled, you can access your windows data from linux.
Also get her on Lemmy and asking questions directly. The best thing you can teach a low tech person is how to get help.
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DarkAri
in reply to SapphironZA • • •SapphironZA
in reply to DarkAri • • •Thx for the tip, will give it a try.
I got it from the protonup app that is pre installed.
SapphironZA
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in reply to JesusChristLover420 • • •SapphironZA
in reply to JesusChristLover420 • • •Its both
It uses an atomic update system on an immutable base. They don't refer to the same thing, but you sort of need the one when you use the other for it to make sense.
utopiah
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •medem
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Biebian - ArchiveOS
pavroo (ArchiveOS)StarvingMartist
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in reply to Magnum, P.I. • • •Shirogane Ryu
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •My recomendations: Opensuse Leap 16, Mageia 9, Openmandriva Rock and if You want to try a Rolling release Opensuse Tumbleweed, Openmandriva ROME
All the disteos With KDE Plasma
dajoho
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Mint for Windows refugees
Fedora for Mac Refugees
My choice:
Bazzite GNOME for Gamers, Children and Grandmas. It's pretty, is damn indestructible and has a speedy app store with loads of cool free apps.
prole
in reply to dajoho • • •fleet
in reply to prole • • •happyfullfridge
in reply to dajoho • • •obsoleteacct
in reply to dajoho • • •I'd say Mint or Fedora KDE for windows converts. They're both good "just works" options, but KDE just by virtue of being more popular has excellent software and support that make it a great option.
Fedora w/ Gnome for Mac converts is a no brainer, and I'd add that you're probably going to want the Dash2Dock Lite or Dash2Dock Animated extension for a Mac convert.
thethunderwolf
in reply to obsoleteacct • • •I use Mac (I'll install Asahi Linux once it supports connecting a monitor) and hate GNOME and hate Aqua (the MacOS DE)
I personally prefer KDE
obsoleteacct
in reply to thethunderwolf • • •Fair. I think most people start with the assumption that users are coming from a workflow they preferred in the first place.
Out of curiosity, if you hate Aqua, why did you get a Mac? Is it an industry thing or a specific software?
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •First, BACKUP EVERYTHING.
Then, the best distro is probably going to be the same you are currently using. You will not have to deal with issues that may be specific to one distro. There is enough difference from one computer to another to cause annoying issues, even on windows.
StarvingMartist
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Fedora. I would not have said that two years, but I am blown away by how easy and up to date it is.
And I am normally an Arch person.
StarvingMartist
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •This really depends on her hardware specs and what applications she needs to use.
Without knowing any of that, I would suggest Linux Mint. It is desktop user focussed and a good general OS. It includes drivers and common software in their version of an app store.
Debian is my distro of choice, but is not ideal for a new Linux user.
I would suggest checking what apps she needs and making sure they are available on Linux, or that a close equivalent is. Any apps that will be replaced, try the replacement out on Windows first if available. For example Adobe Illustrator to Inkscape, or MS Office to Libre Office.
For data transfer:
petsoi
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •I vastly prefer/recommend stable LTS distros. There are really 2 main families of distros for this:
Basically endless amount of packages. Most people in the linux world have some familiarity with these so it shouldn't be hard to get help if you need it.
For desktop systems people usually opt for fedora, but that distro does not meet my own criteria. Biggest reason you'd use these is for professional VFX software support. For whatever reason a lot of that stuff only has official support for this family of distros. Not sure why!
Get good at 1 of these families of distros. If you aren't vibing with one its okay to switch to the other. Both have more cutting edge options if you desire them.
Linux Mint is a community favorite and very much is built with a desktop user in mind, but I don't think it's unreasonable to subject someone to learning any of the others even if they are more server focused. Everything I listed has atleast 5 years of support! If your fiancee isn't super tech literate, you'll probably be the one doing a lot of the system maintenance so keeping those major updates sparse is a very good thing. And of course, if you don't wanna learn 2 different sets of tools, try and keep in the same family of distros.
Also, for desktop environment don't choose anything crazy obscure. KDE & Gnome are most common, Cinnamon & XFCE are less common but IMO fine. Venture into others at your own peril.
Transfer process depends on what you mean. Transferring your files will probably just take time. I'm hopelessly unorganized so for me backing stuff up takes a few days of combing through a bunch of junk and copying to a flashdrive or cloud storage. Other people might have more efficient ways of dealing with this though.
If you mean software Libreoffice is great local office software, SMplayer is imo a good media player, GIMP, Inkscape, and Krita got art stuff covered. We're also at the point you can more or less run most windows software on linux with enough fiddling, but that obviously isn't ideal.
Your biggest hurdle moving to linux full time will be understanding commands when you inevitably do need to change configuration of something with the terminal. If you need help there are usually forums, IRC, matrix, etc.
Happy computing!
StarvingMartist
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •To add one more thing about Bazzite Gnome, as suggested above/below: next to it looking like Fedora, it comes with a thing built in called Distrobox, which is a way of quickly running different mini versions of Linux within Bazzite. This means you can run little Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora/Arch installations and use their package managers. If an app is missing on Bazzite, start up distrobox and install it there instead. It even works for GUI apps.
(This is more of a pro feature though- you don't explicitly need it, but it gives you massive flexibility, which is normally hidden away.)
HubertManne
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Fell
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Distro:
- First choice: Mint Cinnamon
- If the GPU is very shitty: Elementary OS (Mint Cinnamon expects a basic level of GPU performance)
- If Mint/Elementary are too simple: Fedora KDE
Process:
- For fully switching: Obtain an external hard drive, copy the contents of the Windows partition(s) to it and install your preferred distro so that it takes over the entire computer. This is the most stable way.
- For dual booting: Buy an SSD for Linux, disconnect the Windows drive and install your distro of choice so that it takes up the entire space. Reconnect the Windows drive afterwards and set boot priorities in UEFI.
One More Tip:
Don't frontload them with information, but teach them one thing: How search for and install packages through the GUI (Mint Software Manager/Elementary Store/KDE Discover). Tell them that it's more like a smartphone apps and downloading software from websites should be a last resort.
4grams
in reply to Fell • • •michaelmrose
in reply to 4grams • • •Mint has basically contained bad decision making by Ubuntu and individual versions are supported for 5 years. The average computer lasts 6 before replacement.
Mint is fairly future proof I think.
4grams
in reply to michaelmrose • • •Oh, I agree, nothing wrong with mint. I just like the fact that the LMDE version is Debian based and works with everything I’ve thrown it at.
Figure proof of they ever decide to switch away from Ubuntu and mainline LMDE. Probably won’t happen, but makes me feel better anyway 😀.
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in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •Just straight up Bazzite to be honest.
Fedora by itself is too Puritan for stuff not fully foss in their default repos
lentildrop
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Put Linux on one of those spare hard drives and simply mount the existing drive as a second drive in Linux.
This will give you access to all your current files from within Linux without having to do anything. Move over what you want and need as you use Linux. At some point, you will probably want to reformat the original Windows drive for extra space. You could consider mounting it as /home at that point.
Choosing a distro is a matter of taste. I can tell you though that I have moved a few Windows users to Linux Mint and they are all happy with it. My last one was LMDE (Mint with a Debian base).
Thteven
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Everyone hypes Mint but if you're working with newish hardware you might have a bad time due to the drivers taking a while to mature and filter down through all the distros. If her rig is a couple years old it should work just fine though. I would also suggest trying out Kubuntu, Pop!_OS, PikaOS, and Zorin if that is the case.
If she is on brand new hardware then something Arch based is the way to go IMO. CachyOS, Garuda, and EndeavorOS are all Arch based distros that make setup easy and they've all worked great for me out of the box. Honestly if you have snapshots configured with timeshift or something being on a rolling distro isn't as scary as it's made out to be. Fedora is an option too as they get updates every 6 months, but there is a little extra setup to do after install like media codecs and proprietary drivers etc.
Cachyos was my personal pick and it's working perfect for me so far.
oppy1984
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Coming up on 10 years since I switched from windows to Linux. I tried Ubuntu and absolutely hated it, so much so that I switched back to windows at first. But I kept reading and tried ZorinOS, and that got me comfortable with Linux, it was a little buggy but I could understand it.
After a few months with ZorinOS I switched to Linux Mint and have been running Mint for 9 years. Recently my 76 year old mother who has trouble with some basic computer stuff said she'd like to try Linux and asked me to help her, I made a live USB of Mint for her to try and she told me "I can understand this, it's like windows 7!". If she can get Mint, I feel totally confident recommending it to new users.
1984
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in reply to 1984 • • •1) Nice username, lol.
2) Agreed, I wasn't even looking for the Win 7 experience, I was just still getting the hang of Linux and Mint was repeatedly recommended everywhere I looked. At this point I'm just comfortable with Mint and so I stick with it, and since I value reliability of cutting edge, it gives me what I need in a computer.
1984
in reply to oppy1984 • • •Yup and it will never slow down with time or start to annoy you with ads or tracking like every windows version in existance.
If the general public understood how they should spend a few days learning a basic Linux distro.... That would be great.
oppy1984
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Did this with my SO, they have mint like me. And they like it!
They wanted puppy linux though xD
snowe
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •I'm honestly astounded at how many people are suggesting Mint. I recently switched full time to linux and even as a software dev, Mint has to be one of the worst experiences I've had with a computer. Not only driver issues, but software issues and general buginess. Along with being butt-ugly, I do not think any windows user is going to confuse Mint for Windows.
I switched my wife to Bazzite (not necessarily recommending that) and she literally didn't notice it was a different operating system (even though I told her it was and walked her through it). Bazzite has a nice UI for installing pretty much anything a normie would be thinking to install. The only issue we've had so far is that Dropbox just outright does not work on it. I've filed a bug with them and have been awaiting a response from their dev team for like two months now. I'm sure they'll fix it eventually, but if you need the Dropbox UI (you can use rsync otherwise) then don't choose Bazzite.
As for myself, after trying out like 6 different OSes, I settled on CachyOS. There are still issues, but it's pretty dang stable and they're very fast to fix issues. It's not for a person not willing to touch a terminal at least once though.
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Always great to see more people curious about Linux, especially when the motivation is escaping ms-bullshit..
If she wants something that just works but still feels polished and professional, I’d actually give openSUSE a look. Leap is rock-solid and perfect for people who want a stable system that behaves consistently and doesn’t demand much maintenance. Tumbleweed, on the other hand, is rolling release, so it’s always up to date but still surprisingly reliable thanks to openSUSE’s testing process.
Both use YaST, which is one of the best control panels in the Linux world. You can do a lot with YaST, like manage users, partitions, updates, drivers, and networking all from one place without ever touching the terminal.
Mint is also a fine choice as well....
Mangoguana
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Bazzite, i tried arch and then realized the whole wiki was like a uni level symposium and was burning through steps, kept doing instead of understanding, etc...
It's probably amazing, but since my only interaction with linux back then was being forced to use it at uni and windows, I really wanted a good experience of what linux could be. I needed it to work out of the box and be unbreakable, so I went with bazzite.
It's great, and I am digging the immutable aspect even if it broke my brain for any dev work, but once you learn how to use an immutable system (still figuring it out tbh) it's solid, easy, and works great.
Really wished there was more resources on immutable systems for newcomers though XD
1984
in reply to Mangoguana • • •I think you will eventually get tired of all the workarounds needed for immutable systems. Its a nice idea but full of pain when actually wanting to use the computer to do actual work.
But its ok! Everyone tries different things in the Linux world and we all just enjoy the ride.
Echolynx
in reply to Mangoguana • • •marcie (she/her)
in reply to Echolynx • • •Its not particularly crazy, most things can be installed via flathub. If something isnt there, install it through distrobox (you can install things through the AUR, packages like rpm and deb, etc). And if that doesn't work, install the app directly through rpm-ostree (only thing I did this with was a vpn app, you can point to a .rpm file for this). I use flathub for the vast majority of things, I think I only have two apps installed outside of it.
What's great is nothing ever breaks this way. Ever. It all works. Broken upgrades haven't happened to me after a year of using this, meanwhile I had plenty on debian and small distros like manjaro, mint, cachyos, nobara.
Echolynx
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in reply to StarvingMartist • • •There are two “just works” distros I recommend to new users: Bazzite or Fedora.
Start with Bazzite. It is familiar and has lots of guardrails so it’s nearly impossible to break.
If you decide you want more control over your system later, switch to Fedora KDE.
If you decide you want even more control and flexibility, consider CachyOS or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
You will see Mint recommended a lot, but I don’t like it. The default desktop — Cinnamon — is very Windows 95, and I much prefer KDE Plasma, which doesn’t work well on Mint. Mint also has driver issues with newer hardware. But if you like retro and your hardware is older, give it a try.
Avoid Pop_OS right now. It’ll probably be amazing in a year, but the new Cosmic desktop (currently a beta) has a lot of annoying bugs with common linux GUI packages.
azureskypirate
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •Here are some tips once you have chosen:
You can change your desktop environment later.
If you do your install with seperate partitions for /home and others, leave 10% unallocated. Also make /bin about 15gb and /boot about 1.5gb. When you eventually run out of space, you can use KDE Partition manager to add the unallocated space to the partition you need, even if you set up encryption (gparted doesn't play well with encryption). You can install Partition manager as a package, you don't need to use KDE Plasma.
Using a drive mirror is a good idea. Maybe use it the second time you install.
If you want to use a cool filesys like zfs, just use btrfs for now (licensing issues). Ext4 will also work for desktop user needs.
If you go with Debian, you can add repos to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. But it is a one-way trip, so before adding sid, consider running your program in a vm. Non-free non-free-firmware and contrib are fine
Chaser
in reply to StarvingMartist • • •I know, it sounds odd, but: Arch!
Once my best friend wanted to try linux. So he asked me, which distro to use. I gave him an honest answer: "I use Arch. But for beginners I would recommend Mint."
He don't gave a shit and installed Arch anyways 😅 - with success! That's when I noticed, that the Arch Wiki is actually SO GOOD, that even a newbie can install Arch without any help. It's just a bit more time expensive, compared to distros with an installer. However, there are some huge benefits, that made me switch to Arch:
- I used Ubuntu on my daily driver before. However "stable" packages means in this case "antique". A 3 years old version of Sway isn't more stable than the newest release version.
- I never survived a dist-upgrade. That's why i prefer a roling release linux today.
- Your system is slim, because you only install what you really need. Also you know your system this way.
- Especially for gaming it's good to have the newest kernel + drivers.
However, you should also notice the down sides. Sometimes an update breaks something. It doesn't happens often, but it happens. A few years ago the bluetooth stack was broken, so i wasn't able to use my headset during a meeting. However they released a fix like a few hours later, so I just needed to update. But still: That's something to consider too.
Joelk111
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