You precious little thing. never change

don’t bother with him this isn’t the first time he died on this hill

ok fine let me ask you then why are we celebrating or even talking about this 11.37% what’s even the point of discussion? we already dominate the server space

1- i remembered you saying the same thing in other similar posts 2- the bigger picture is that it isn’t. let’s assume that i agree with you and linux is just the kernel what does this change? android is the overwhelming majority in smart phones almost everyone has one so linux must be so popular but why we are still limited in software ( like there are not that many industry leading software running natively on linux outside the hosting stuff) how does this change our daily linux usage experience ,how would this change one of the most complaints we hear about switching to linux

the bigger picture is that we care about the linux desktop and the freedom it provides and you are stuck on technicalities and the literal definition of the word “linux”

why are you always like this you keep focusing on linux being only the kernel and not seeing the bigger picture, it’s like you keep staring at your nose that you keep hitting walls

exactly it is different

i know that it’s gentoo under the hood but that’s a technicality that isn’t worth considering

it’s a light weight machine designed for cloud use not native apps

by that logic they should also count all the android users in addition to routers and smart toasters as well

i do not know if this counts as a command but you might want to check Atuin, what it does is help you find, manage and edit the commands you used in your shell history saves you a lot of time

lol i forgot that distro wars exist

fair

i know that’s why i’m seething right now, we are hopeless since custom roms and root users are a fraction of a fraction that is people who install apk outside google

removing the ability to unlock bootloaders is just another negative

indeed, android has been a shit show for the last couple of months and its not looking good.

i was thinking that this will make rooting and by extension custom ROMs prevalent again which hopefully will take us back to the golden age of android modding, but be careful of what you wish for.

I DON’T WANNA USE STOCK ANDROID. DON’T WANNA DON’T WANNA DON’T WANNA DON’T WANNA DON’T WANNA DON’T WANNA

the ingenious thing is that they are still making buck both ways

the house always wins, remember that Microsoft owns github

do whatever you like nobody cares (no offense)

No need to make everything complicated

like an rss feed ?

great but how does the plugins for dodi and fitgirl repacks work, afaik they are not trackers but do upload on them?

i think sayonara got what you need

what cpu did you get (celeron, i3, i5, i7 or amd ???)

Security is not as huge of a problem on linux as it is on windows for sure. But EVERY SINGLE proprietary app you use can snoop on EVERYTHING. and I do not trust proprietary apps, beginners especially will use a ton of proprietary software. Remember that we’re recommending to a beginner, not a linux evangelist who is willing to do anything to make linux/foss work for them.

i don’t trust them either but from what i have seen most don’t care

The only reason I see for a beginner not to choose KDE over xfce is if they have a laptop from the 32 bit era.

this is a bit of a stretch

the development rate is a deciding factor for sure and i agree that we shouldn’t encourage using software that is considered “obsolete”

i don’t agree on everything and maybe you’re right i still don’t get why they dropped support for kde but still support MATE

first this is not a criticism of kde. use what ever you want i just want to keep expectations within the realm of reality.

now about the security issues, afaik those problems exists because X11 not cinnamon specifically which is why cinnamon for Wayland exists ( it’s gonna take WAY longer to mature than KDE), but i don’t think that this is a big problem for most for now since our user base is small so there is much less malware and targeted attacks (well as long as you are not a high profile employee at a company with vast data access privileges )

the mixed dpi displays is a fair point too, i do that sometimes and i would say that i used it more than the people i know who might used it once or twice for a PowerPoint representation or something. programmers, gamers, graphical designers are peanuts compared to office work and regular users ( watching youtube, arguing on the internet etc)

i don’t understand what you mean exactly by performance when talking about a DE ( responsiveness, ram and cpu usage ? …). in terms of cpu and ram usage i’m pretty sure that kde consumes more and in terms responsiveness i would assume that kde is better but how much ( a difference between 5 s and 2 s is huge but from let’s say 80 nanosecond to 60 is just for benchmarks and won’t be noticed in real world usage)

what really holds us back is the lack of commercial software compatibility and at least decent alternatives compared to industry standards

oh yeah, and nvidia drivers + wifi and bluetouth

i agree that immutable distros are good for beginners and this is especially true for users who are not exactly tech savvy or don’t want to mess with their systems, but i don’t think the features that cinnamon misses are that important to as many users as you think there are

HDR is nice but not everyone can afford it, and mixed refresh rate displays might be important for gamers and desktop users but not as much in a laptop ( and yes i know that high refresh rates drain the battery but why would you game on battery anyway ), mixed DPI displays ??? only a small subset of users have those. yes the OP is a heavy multitasker but again he is using a laptop (but having support is nice)

however what i do agree with is that fractional scaling is awful in cinnamon and the reason i consider it a serious problem is that high res displays are now common and fractional scaling directly affects user experience