Lka1988

Imagine somebody dangling a cookie in front of your face, but refuses to give it to you unless you complete a set of certain unrelated and difficult tasks, despite you offering to just pay to take the cookie. Yet the cookie is still being dangled in your face.

This is that problem.

Edit: replied to wrong comment

Do you forget who determines what is illegal?

OP also has an XY problem.

Oh god, that… I recently realized that I’ve been fighting that concept with one of my cars for over a year now. Just this week, I finally figured out the right troubleshooting path 😂

OP also said they’re willing to learn the terminal:

I would like to find an OS that is easier to setup with less of a neccesity for the command line (I would still like to learn how to use it though, I don’t want to get rid of it entirely!).

They’re essentially asking to start with a working and well-known platform that any Joe Regular can use. In car terms, this would be akin to the Chevy 350 V8. Pretty much every car guy knows that engine and how to make it run well without needing to rebuild the entire thing right off the bat.

I’m all for command line, but I’m the kind of person who needs a dashboard, otherwise I forget everything. OMV has a solid dashboard and has been really good for me.

Nemo can as well. I forgot how, but it’s in there.

Firefox with user agent switcher extension. Problem solved.

Work should supply you with a managed device. That’s out of your control.

I’m genuinely curious though - what ‘personal use’ software do you run that isn’t supported in Linux?

TBH I kinda like the whole “drive letter” thing. But I also understand mount points, so I don’t really miss it, but still. It’s nice to have one single window to see all of your internal & external drives, home folders, and network shares. And yes, I’m aware I can do this in Linux as well. Just needs extra configuration - which is not a bad thing.

Oh for sure, but EU is actually attempting to modernize their laws for the 21st century. Here in the US, you’d be lucky if there was any protection at all, especially with the absolute farce of an administration currently “running” the country (into the ground, that is).

Good points. And fuck snaps. If I have to use some sort of “all-in-one”, it’s flatpak or nothing.

Debian might be slightly harder to set up. However, from what I hear, it’s easy enough for most people now.

It’s pretty easy to install these days. I use Debian exclusively on all of my VMs. I prefer the text-based installer because everything is headless and doesn’t need a GUI, but there’s also a graphical installer as well, which is pretty easy to navigate and use.

are we sure we want to outsource the welding?

The Register when someone informs them of robotic welders in vehicle manufacturing:

My data being in the hands of a 3rd party at all is arguably a larger risk than said 3rd party running Windows. No single individual can control what OS any particular 3rd party runs, and if you hand data over to a 3rd party, at some point you have to trust them. If you don’t trust them, find someone you can trust.

Don’t make everyone else’s choice of OS my problem.

You’re incredibly naiive if you think MS isn’t harvesting that data.

For now. Plus, lots of companies still use Windows “Professional” SKUs.

Thankfully my work laptop runs W11 Enterprise, but still…

I would love this feature if it was entirely local with zero external connections.

But, you know, profits.

At that point you might as well just run Debian Testing with XFCE. Or Xubuntu. Basically the same thing.

Real shocker, right? 😂

As long as I can still use the J/K/L keys to play/pause and scrub, I see no issues here. People bitching just to bitch.

That said, I do not enjoy the new “everything is bigger” view on YouTube’s home page that was clearly designed for mobile. But that can be fixed easily, so it’s a non-issue.