don’t you have to get all your files in an external drive and delete a full computer before you can reinstall a different disto?

Note that you can have a separate partition for the /home directory, under which your user directory is located. Then you could wipe just the system partition and install a new distro there, keeping /home as it is. But this requires some basic knowledge of partitions and a little attention during setup. In any case, having a backup is always recommended, especially when dealing with operations that can delete all your data.

Linux doesn’t have drive letters

MacOS is largely compatible with FreeBSD under the hood, with some minor path differences and a different init system, so…

Idk what I’m doing wrong, but any time I can’t find something in DDG and turn to Google, I get exact same results.

Exceptions are:

• localized search (obviously), however I don’t use that in Google either and just do ‘searchterm cityname’ or use the local map service instead.

• searching on Reddit: Google has an agreement with Reddit for vacuuming all new content immediately.

• looking for a meme image by its description or caption. This definitely works in Google and pretty much doesn’t in Bing/DDG.

Just get a jacket cover with a pornographic title.

Meanwhile: PSA reminder that Mr. James himself recommended to listen to ‘Richard D. James Album’ at 33 rpm instead of 45 at which it was released. Works with ‘Drukqs’ too. Basically more Aphex for free.

Interesting, but doesn’t quite inspire confidence in Plasma’s resource usage either. People here complain about Electron regularly, after all. Presumably KHTML must’ve grown in complexity together with other engines.

Meanwhile I’ve got hit with a reminiscence of Windows 98/ME having telltale underlining on folder and file names in Explorer and opening of them with one click.

Seems that the commenter suggests that calling it ‘board of peace’ is disingenuous.

If I want to know whether new mods have been posted, or patches to existing mods, it’s not easy either.

But even if I use search for anything specific, there might be important replies to the comments that I find, and how do I know that?

A 1950 Chevy Impala did everything anyone needed a car to do, we’ve since added seat belts, CD players and antilock brakes.

Fire up any decent racing simulator that has 50s cars and try driving them, to disabuse yourself of the ridiculous notion that they were anything like modern cars. And then try proper track cars to see if your plebmobile can remotely compare in handling.

People are saying in this very thread that KDE’s apps don’t look too good, and that KDE has ridiculous settings like scrolling speed per app (instead of following the system-wide settings properly). So apparently not that much has changed.

This video probably illustrates well what game writing was like back in the day.

I only had this problem on Mac with apps made in Qt or somesuch. They apparently didn’t understand the system-wide scrolling speed. But apps in one desktop environment, especially the file browser made for that environment, should just respect the system-wide setting.

The bounce thing is great, in my opinion. The app typically bounces three or so times to let me know something happened, then stops and only bounces periodically if there’s an ongoing thing requiring my attention. Iirc this is tied to the notification settings specific to each app, so is happening only with apps that I want to notify me.

I’ve actually made my own app using this bouncing mechanic: a timer that shows the remaining time in the badge on the dock icon, and bounces continually once the time is up. It’s launched via the command line, or rather via the Alfred launcher by banging out a command like ‘timer 3m’. There’s no other interface. Took about 200 lines in a single Swift file. I’m gonna have to make something analogous for Linux once I find a decent alternative to Alfred.

How come I don’t see you overthrowing Putin in Russia?

USians spent three years all over Reddit claiming that Russians should’ve protested against Putin, and that would solve the problem of Putin’s dictatorship. Oddly these claims became quieter once Trump was inaugurated.

Let’s see how this protesting thing works out for them. Don’t forget that in their own words, everyone in the country is responsible for Trump’s actions, and they all should suffer if he turns out to be bad for other countries too.

Okay, just wanted to make sure before asking: how do I find anything in this thread?

Why would the file explorer have its own scroll speed separate from the rest of the system?

Just to check, do you also want flat conversation instead of nested threads?

Guess we pay attention to different things. Idk what’s overly animated about MacOS, at least the last version that I used. The main animation in there is when minimizing an app — which in fact shows where the app is gone, and is helpful for new users. It can be disabled.

KDE has its origins in being ‘like Windows, but with way more shit to fiddle with’. And since Windows was never good about design, and other KDE predecessors like CDE looked even worse, KDE didn’t have a good example from which to learn.

In contrast, Gnome 2 was very obviously inspired by MacOS, and Apple’s designers actually knew about the principles of grouping and such basic design stuff that MS never properly learned. Apple spent ages on adjusting the looks of the apps, which I guess Gnome borrowed to some extent.