Yes. It is. And so was doing a big complainy rant without doing any research.

Again: if you want polite discourse, you have to open with that, not rant and get mad about it later. You set the standard, I just went along with it.

TL;DR: Don't lay this one on me, buddy. You walked in here looking for a fight.

I didn't much care for the direction you started in. If you wanted an actual discussion, then opening with hostility and claims that could be refuted if you'd bothered with less than a minute of research is the wrong way to go.

If you want a civilized discussion, you have to start with a civilized post. My responses have been no more hostile than your opening salvo.

As it happens, Google's influence over Mozilla is of massive concern to me. And I agree that the change was not needed. But it's not obscure, it's not hard to find out how to do what you wanted to do, and your hostility to responses suggesting DuckDuckGo only confirmed my suspicion that you didn't want an answer, you wanted a fight.

So I gave you one.

Here's the deal. If you walk into a place with guns blazing, you don't get to act all surprised and indignant when someone fires back.

Long live Infinity for Lemmy!

I use aliases too, and I (mostly) use Fedora. Alias is a great tool. I also think "the program name is too long" is a pretty silly argument. We're on the same page there. All I meant was that "just use alias" isn't really a rebuttal to that particular point.

Yeah, I'm not talking about the technical issues. Those are just growing pains. Snap is really no better or worse than, say, Flatpak. I don't like dealing with it, but that's not why I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu.

It's stuff like redirecting apt installs to snaps. It's Canonical I have issue with, not Ubuntu itself.

I'd agree if it weren't for the Snaps bullshit. Because of that, I don't want to recommend it to anyone because I don't want to encourage Canonical.

They're talking about a possible KDE spin, but last I saw it was a low priority. Since all the custom GUI tools ate being made in GTK4. In order to do up KDE the way they're doing Gnome and keeping the desktop as "vanilla" as possible, it would be a pretty big job converting all that stuff to QT I would think.

You've "debunked" dick, buddy. You are presenting an argument without proof (I have yet to see any evidence of my or OPs hypocrisy), and you can't really "debunk" number 2, because it's not a claim of fact, it's just friendly advice.

And the reason I keep repeating myself is because I'm calling you on your bullshit. I kinda have to repeat myself if I have to keep reminding you of what the we're talking about.

And of course you didn't say you were winning. That would be too direct and assertive. But you're acting like you are. You're acting like you're scoring points on me. You seem to think you're being clever.

You're not. You're not scoring points, because there are no points, and you're not clever because you seem to think you can, what, insult me?

Dude.

I'm a 45+ year old combat veteran who remembers flamewars on 90s Usenet. I've been dealing with shit like this longer than you've been toilet trained, possibly since before your daddy forgot to pull out. I've been torn down by literal professionals.

This? This is a picnic. This is a walk in the park. I'll keep it up as long as I stay amused. But seriously, sunshine, you're kinda just sad.

Ah. I'm sorry. I forgot to keep things at a 3rd grade reading level. Here, sweetie, I'll tl-dr for you:

1. Your quote about presenting arguments without proof? You're the only one doing that.
2. If you're gonna insult someone's use of language, learn to proofread.

It's funny. I'm pretty sure you think you're "winning" this. Dude, replying to you is just my way of having fun as I make more interesting things sitting on the toilet. I can keep this up as long as I'm sufficiently bored.

I'm kinda done with you, child. But let's do this:

its accepted in the community of behavioral analysis that it was a projection

Yeah. You said that. Three times.

What you've failed to notice is that you keep calling me, and OP, hypocrites with no supporting evidence. I provided an example of your hypocrisy and explained why it was hypocritical. You didn't. So if anyone is making repeated unsubstantiated accusations, it's you.

So, by your own argument the only one projecting here is you.

I perfectly debunked your argument and my statement made perfect sensse.

No, you didn't. You posted a link to the definition of the word, and then said "oh, you totally did both those things" (I'm paraphrasing here.). You didn't point out where I or OP said anything that remotely met the definition you posted. So, to use your own dipshitty quote:

When one makes a claim like that when nothing indicated such things, its accepted in the community of behavioral analysis that it was a projection.

You've repeatedly made the claim that OP and I are hypocrites. Nothing indicates that we are. So, you must be projecting, according to behavioral analysis.

Wait - are you not convinced just because I repeated myself? Welcome yo my world, kid. That's all you've done this whole thread.

Oh, and you made an ad hominim attack against me questioning my personal grooming routine. So, there's that too. Since you have zero information about my grooming routine, then, because…

When one makes a claim like that when nothing indicated such things, its accepted in the community of behavioral analysis that it was a projection.

… I have to conclude that you are projecting, and could probably use a bath. And maybe some time away from the internet, out from under your bridge.

Oh! I almost forgot! You insulted my grasp of English with poor English. So, yeah. If you're gonna call someone's grasp of a language into question as a pathetic attempt at looking smart, here are two good rules:

1. Don't. You don't know if English is their first language, and even if it is, you just end up looking like an asshole
2. If you absolutely insist on doing it, proofread your fucking post.

Ta. It's been fun.

I'm currently trying out Garuda on my gaming Desktop, and a already kind of want to ho back to my safe space after two weeks. Don't get me wrong, I totally see why folks like it, but it's not for me.

I'm not sure Mexico would want it, what with all the Texans running around on it...

(To all my lefty/socialist friends in Texas, I apologize if this is offensive. Also, living in Iowa, it's not like I have a lot of room to talk...)