[-] frengo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This man would be TOO good for any country. His visions are out of this world, he would have a lot of powerful enemies. Americans would probably kill him in the first month of an hypothetical presidency.

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

That is my experience of one week ago

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

What?? I meant what search engine are you using?

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I checked Kagi and i was very curious but 5$ a month?? For a search engine? For a limited number of searches?

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submitted 1 month ago by frengo@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'd like to get back to using Google as my search engine. I tried DDG, Startpage, Qwant, even Searx and while they're all pretty decent they all have their flaws, and unfortunaltely Google is still the most reliable. I use Firefox (Floorp) and i've found out an extension called Google Container. I have my VPN always on and Google always slaps me with that fucking captcha when i start a new session (i reset cookies and stuff on closing). Does keeping Google in the exceptions on closing (keeping data and stuff) and opening it in a container make sense?

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Do you really think the Biden administration is somehow preventing or limiting the ongoing genocide? Israel already have carte blanche. All i hear from Harris is empty words. Israel is already doing whatever they want, they're even firing on UN peacekeepers. Harris or Trump nothing is going to change. Israel will remain unpunished. Do you know how things can change? Pull the fucking plug. Turn your back on that nazi state, let them perish. Harris should focus on other problems because people with a functioning brain are not going to believe her bullshit. 40000 dead but their goal is to protect civilians but they sent 18B in military aid in one year. How can someone be fooled by that?

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

The Talos Principle

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

You mean you don’t understand the lovers, right? In the end it’s always a matter of “who’s the least worse”. Harris is, by far, but in the end certain things will never change. Will Harris be brave to turn her back on Israel? Never. A lot of empty words have been said on the matter but facts speak louder than words. US can’t afford to lose their proxy in the middle east. Israel will continue to be unpunished and funded for years to come. How much money did they send to Israel in the last year? Read about 18 billions, or something like that. But they built the pier in Gaza for humanitarian actions. LOL. It’s like throwing a dollar to a person you’re helping beating up.

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago

Always has been.

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Why?

I’ve used win11 and didn’t like it. Time’s ticking.

One is Debian based and the other in Arch based. Debian uses apt, Arch uses pacman. Debian has a slower release cycle to ensure compatibility while Arch has a faster release cycle to ensure the latest versions of things are available. Like these there are thousands of small differences between any two distros. It's mostly philosophical, so just pick something beginner friendly and stick with it until you find a reason to switch.

Yada, yada, yada.

They're not, they're different. Doing stuff on Windows is also complicated if you don't know what you're doing, excepts you've had years of experience, in a few years Linux will feel easy and Windows complicated.

Things to do to install an app on Windows: download the exe, double click on the icon, follow the instructions, done. Things to do to install an app on Linux: check the package manager, if the app is not there go on their website, cross your fingers, copy and paste x lines in the terminal, cross your fingers (had problems with windscribe, enpass, spotify), wget command not found, install wget, retry, cross your fingers one last time, done (?).

if you switch distros every time you run into something you don't understand you're going to run out of distros fairly quickly

Man, there are hundreds (nonsense) distros out there, i need something like 3 lives to try them all.

Why not? AFAIK RetroArch should have cross compatible saves.

Apparently not. I’ve saved a copy of the saves folder and simply pasted it in the retroarch folder on linux but the game doesn’t read anything.

That's weird, I don't remember last time KDE crashed, but then again I'm not using Manjaro so maybe the current version there is broken? What was the error? Did you submitted a bug report? That might be an important finding.

There were no errors. Screen went black and then everything was reset.

If you had started with Ubuntu you might not had either of those problems

This is actually fun: i have Ubuntu Budgie on my laptop and i was trying to create a bootable win10 on my pendrive with ventoy given that jesus christ woeusb is super complicated to install with all those manual dependencies installs and woeusb-ng gives problem with python. Installed ventoy, copied the iso, pasted it, nothing shows up in the drive. Copied the iso again, pasted it again, file already existing. ????. I’ve extracted the drive, plugged it back in, nothing. Extracted it again, plugged it in on my desktop, iso is actually there. Wtf is wrong with linux?

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

So, this is why people don't like recommending Manjaro. It's ArchLinux with a coat of paint, but still relies on Arch's infrastructure for the AUR.

I have another question about this. I’ve tried Arch but realized was too much so i’ve chosen Manjaro because i thought i could learn about linux faster than using another beginner friendly distro. Let’s say for example i decide to hop on Mint. Would that be that easy that i don’t learn anything important?

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I promise that is my experience in the last 2 days. Frustrating. I’ll try to stick with linux for the rest of the week and see how it goes.

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submitted 1 month ago by frengo@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So i really wanted to ditch windows once and for all so i’ve tried Linux for a week trying different distros (debian, manjaro, ubuntu, opensuse, mint) and first of all why? Why are there so many distros out there? What’s the difference between debian + kde and manjaro + kde? They look the same, they work the same. I don’t get it. Also why do things have to be complicated? I’ve installed debian, installed calibre to manage my ebooks, created a library from an existing library on my hard drive (not the one with debian installed), ERROR! All the files are read-only. What???? I’ve followed multiple guides on how to change permissions and finally solved the problem. Now let’s restart my pc. files on the hard drive are read only WHAT???? Fuck debian, let’s go on manjaro. No problems at all on calibre. Managed to create the library as easy as i did on windows. My question is: where’s the fun in this? It’s just problems, after problems, after problems and i didn’t even start gaming. I mean i tried installing retroarch and importing my saves but of course nothing works. Read this guide, read that guide. Nope. Nothing works. Ok, fuck retroarch let’s customize the appearance of my desktop: move some icons on the panel, center this, adjust height, move this on the left, spent 30 minutes tweaking, very nice… kde crashes, all back to default. Let’s download some apps. I want as many apps that i already know as possible. Let’s see if jdownloader is available for linux. Yep there’s one. Nope, not for manjaro (officially). There’s a AUR package available. Nice. What do i need to do to install a AUR package? A wall of text on the wiki, 20 minutes videos, yay. Ok let’s call it a day. Do i need to live another life to make linux work?

[-] frengo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Is it wise to go for arch to try linux for the first time?

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submitted 2 months ago by frengo@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

One of the biggest things holding me back from jumping definitively on Linux is possibly getting rid of the apps/games i'm comfortable with and know well. How do you exaclty use Wine/Proton? You install it, launch the app with it and pray it works? Are there ways to know what is not working and possibly try to fix them googling or reading the documentation?

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