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I’ve been through a few on regular Mint and the Debian edition and they have been very smooth.

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That combination works in Brave to search the forum (prefixing !ddg or !d) I’m surprised it doesn’t in Searx.

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id software is six months older than Linux, but Doom was released a couple of years later.

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The Mozilla Foundation is doing that. They legally cannot focus on browser development. Donations to the Mozilla Foundation go to the Mozilla Foundation.

The Mozilla Corporation is making the changes. It has zero control over the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Corporation does not accept donations and is a for-profit company.

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I think most likely app developers who aren’t verified don’t care to be. Spotify isn’t rushing to build a flatpak.

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I appreciate the clear marking that something is unverified, but don’t think disabling by default is the right move. As others have mentioned, most of the software in the distribution is also unverified.

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VanillaOS uses something similar with ABroot + OCI images, except for the flip flopping at every reboot.

What are the differences between the 'base' of various Linux distributions?

I’ve been using linux desktop for a year or so now. One noteable thing i keep seeing is that one person will say I dont like XYZ distrobution because of its base. But I am still a little unsure what is meant by it. I am assuming the main difference between each base is the choice of package management(?). But what other...

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Correct, they are derivative distributions.

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Their numbers sound questionable, but if you weren’t pulling in KDE yours would be significantly lower too.

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Isopropyl alcohol can damage plastics. I prefer distilled water for surface cleaning.

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This is from their opinion section. Research articles are separate.

New Linux user, here is my use case. Distro recommendations?

Update 1: Thanks for all the responses! I’ve gotten a lot of very good comments saying I should stick with Mint, and that’s sitting comfortably in my top two picks right now. Between new distros, I’m most interested in Arch’s rolling release model, as it provides some benefits for me for reasons I didn’t really get...

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Tweakability isn’t a weaker aspect of Mint. Cinnamon has fewer options than KDE, but more than many. The Xfce and Mate variants also offer a lot of options, with sane and usable defaults.

Anything with KDE will have customization options up the wazoo. The rest isn’t so different between distributions, especially if you aren’t trying to use the terminal much.

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Psh, that’s just because you don’t use Gentoo.

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Worried in the sense that having a backup is a good idea, most filesystems do not have much protection from a file becoming corrupted, but random corruption is rare. Personally I like an automated, regular cloud backup to B2 and also do a local one that is easier (faster) to restore. For local, I prefer Borg (or rather the Pika Backup frontend) because you can easily store different dates while also benefitting from file deduplication.

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I think ZFS with redundancy is typically the gold standard.

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Probably, like most jobs. In the most recently available tax filings the President and Executive Director (he was both) was making something like $360k.

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The former executive director was also the president, and continues to be the president, where he will pursue AI.

Starting in 2024, Surman will move full time to work on this growth and expansion work, remaining as Mozilla Foundation President.

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Can’t say anything about what Firefox is going to do, but that isn’t her job.

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It also happens when the hosts file is messed up and the system can’t resolve its own hostnames. Opensuse used to be pretty notorious for doing something odd to the hosts file by default that really only affected Firefox.

Edit: the increased security they’re trying around the browser might also be triggering that local resolution issue

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I think most millennial parents are pretty well aware of how shitty the economy is as they’ve been dealing with the same shit for decades.

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Older Thinkpads are very well supported by pretty much everything, so it might be helpful to know more about your experience and what you’ve liked or not liked, and what you intend to run on it.

Linux Mint or Fedora aren’t bad options, Fedora will require a larger version upgrade at least yearly.

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It’s what happens when the driver swerves into the crossing arm pole to not hit the train in front of it.

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I always thought the Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook was the book of fundamentals, will probably get the bundle just for the Kubernetes stuff though. Those BSD books are pretty useful too, in that world.

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I like Insync. It synchronizes with Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox. It is not the only client out there but it works better than the other ones I’ve used.

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The top comment is usually someone saying nothing should ever change and every feature is bloat and should be an extension.

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