I'm back now it seems. Life has not been the easiest since the majority of messaging that I have been receiving is that none of my career goals are achievable by me and that I should give up now the very latest. Most of the things that I think I have seen are related to the way how the current AI things look so good to me as a new aspiring IT person.
An "old school" Linux user, the same user who will try to get you, a Windows user, to try to use the terminal for everything, comparable to trying to get you to use Microsoft PowerShell for everything, will tell you Gnome is this wonderful graphical user interface (GUI).
You want KDE Plasma. Trust me. Most of the basic settings and point and click functions, you're seeking, are not going to be in Gnome by default, out of the box. Can it be customized and included with some effort? Sure, anything can be changed with some effort. But as a newbie, I'm assuming the word "effortless" is something you may favor a little more.
That same, "old school" Linux user is likely someone who told you: "Linux Mint is great for newbies" I am sorry to say, you were incorrectly informed.
Have you ever tried to make a copy of a copy? That's Linux Mint. It starts from Debian which is forked to Ubuntu, which is later forks to Mint Linux. You have far too many upstream developments, and like any software, occasionally bugs happen, but in Mint it happens more frequently because you have the issue from Debian or Ubuntu or Mint or a random combination of one or more into a "hot mess".
On top of this, most of the people within the Linux Mint community are "old school" users who will insist you learn and use the terminal for everything, within that "hot mess" of a broken up system. That is comparable to a 1st computer user, being told to use Microsoft PowerShell for everything. Sure, you can, but would you want to?
There are far better alternatives, for example, Ultramarine Linux (I suggest the KDE build).
1st, all the drivers and firmware and non-free media codecs and repos, are already included. You don't have to set any of that up. 2nd, if you know how to use an app store, you can use the one provided with Ultramarine Linux. 3rd, everything from adding a printer to changing user settings or setting up an optional firewall, DNS, VPN, etc. just with a mouse click. 4th, go ahead and download an RPM package, and double-click, it will install just as easily as a Windows Setup File.
Ultramarine Linux is just 1 out of many possible distros you can use, without all the nonsense. There really are better alternatives than Linux Mint.
"But... but.... I used the Debian Edition of Mint"
Which they hardly support. The problem with their Debian Edition is they make their modification and then that's it. You're getting all your patches from Debian, which sounds good on principle, as it doesn't have so much upstream, but those modifications which Mint made are outside Debian, and whatever may be broken, stays broken, long-term, and are exclusive to Mint Debian, while they focus on their Ubuntu based copy. And of course, it is the same "old school" community that want you, a newbie, who knows nothing, and wanted an easy experience, to use the terminal for everything.
As a newbie, Mint Linux or Linux Mint (however you call it), is not the newbie friendly Linux distro you have been led to believe. I can build Linux from source, something I don't expect a newbie to do, but even I have found Mint frustrating at times, because it is a "hot mess".
But I digress. There are (many) better alternatives out there and if your 1st experience with Linux was Linux Mint and you gave up shortly afterward, I can understand as to why.
IN before the Linux Mint groupies claim how wrong I am, but YOU, who gave up after trying Mint, decide for yourself, by trying something else.
Is it a thing that #mastodon limits how far back you can scroll in your “home” feed? I keep trying to scroll to posts from earlier than 4h ago and it won’t let me. Is this normal or a glitch?
I'm adding a watchOS app for SalaryPig. How do people generally share UserDefaults with the watch? I'm tempted to use CloudKit because that way I can also sync settings with iPadOS, but I've never used it before and am scared
@zachsimone@shaundon I am having a nightmare trying to use userDefaults to share data between my app and a widget. Could this be used instead? #newbie#iosdev
New to programming? Interested in getting started?
I am offering 1:1 pairing sessions to introduce software development concepts such as programming languages (Python, C++, etc), source control (git), and more.
Newbies welcome. Free. Just giving back. DM me if interested. I am very serious about helping if I can.
New to programming? Interested in getting started?
I am offering 1:1 pairing sessions to introduce software development concepts such as programming languages (Python, C++, etc), source control (git), and more.
Some, maybe many of them, won't use the same exact software platform as you. This may seem strange. We got trained we can't use TikTok to make friends on Youtube, or Facebook to make friends on Twitter. To pick a box to be in.
But it's really not that complicated. You don't change cars to change motorway, use 5 different phones to text or call 5 different friends, 5 different post boxes to send 5 letters, use 5 different clients to email 5 different people, open 5 different browsers to visit 5 different websites.
Things are meant to work together, it's just better for everyone.
Your friends here stay your friends. Even if you use the new things that are evolving all the time here, there isn't that....
Ch.8
I can think of #Fediverse being like a fleet, with many types & sizes of ships. Different social platforms. Different sizes of servers. But all communicating & co-operating across the Fediverse. We're a fleet.
Multiple feeds reflect this eg:
🛳️Home includes everyone I follow from multiple social platforms, any servers.
⛴️Local=everyone on my ship (my server).
🚢Federated=1 step beyond, people that my locals are connected to, have followed or are searching.
Ch.11
I can think of #Fediverse being like a fleet, with many types & sizes of ships. Different social platforms. Different sizes of servers. But all communicating & co-operating across the Fediverse. We're a fleet.
Multiple feeds reflect different ways of seeing posts from across the fleet. They can have different names but broadly they fall in to 5 categories.
🛳️Home includes everyone I follow. Whatever ship they currently call home. Posts from multiple social platforms, any servers.
⛴️Local, my server =everyone local on this ship (my current account server location).
🚢Federated, other servers = 1 step beyond, people that my locals are connected to, have followed or are searching.
#Hashtag feeds = posts using the hashtag you are interested in.
🎏Custom feeds = feeds with criteria I can define & refine over time.
Ngl I’m a little confused on how this works for the most part but I am interested putting my One Piece hyper fixation into urusai #onepiece#anime#newbie
Hi, I'm Rafe (pronounced "Rayf"), full-time dad, part-time adult, and all-around dork from Utah, USA. This is where I'm planning to (re)start my journey of learning to be a semi-decent photographer, which I initially began several years ago but life happened and I stopped pursuing it – but now I have a shiny new iPhone with a pretty okay camera so I'm gonna take another stab at it. Anyway, follow me if you're interested in seeing that journey. Constructive criticism is always welcome.
Can we please not have the word „simply“ in NixOS manual or nixos.wiki? NixOS learning curve is super steep and it‘s frustrating when you start and you don‘t understand how to do things that are supposed to be simple #linux#nixos#documentation#newbie#frustration