@caustictrap @OsrsNeedsF2P you are entirely missing the point about linux

@caustictrap pretty bad article generalising a very narrow, skewed experience as reality throughout the country.

My experiece is almost the opposite. CS student of 6 years, only had to install Kali for InfoSec course lab. Most labs had Windows and others had ubuntu as optional boot.

Most students prefered Windows and only some ever tried Linux on their own system.

Windows comes preinstalled with Home license in any laptop worth buying.

where do you use asymmetrical keys for auth ?

@JubilantJaguar you might not want to pay much attention to votes.

Many use it in different ways. Some only use it for inappropriate content or unrelated spams while others as a disagreement to the content. It's not that different opinions arent welcome but rather theres no commonly accepted guidelines. This isnt like Stack but more like reddit.

@first_must_burn @Lolors17 many hate it being forced onto users. I recently went to install microk8 on my dev machine but chose not to seeing it was primarily via snap.

@Thaurin @zitronen what does it do in addition? For me fzf already replaces some of the keybinds to do history search, directory search, etc. What else is available on the plugin?

@Steamymoomilk recently had to do a clean win 11 install. Spent a day trying to get the Intel RST driver loaded just to begin install. After trying various sources including the recovery media from manufacturer had to take it to a few repair centers(many claimed bad SSD even though I explained what driver was needed) to just install the OS it came with.

Same laptop have installed a half dozen linux distros with no such issue.

@deleted @leninmummy have you tried other distros with better proprietary driver support? Debian is known to stick with FOSS.

Also touchscreen is not a very common feature even in laptops let alone linux. The more your hardware deviates the higher the chances of breakage. Try live booting a bunch of distros and try if the same breaks everywhere.

@somedaysoon @Cypher MS powertools allows some of those stuff, though not nearly as well. AHK is every easy to setup and get into even compared to some of the linux equivalents.

It goes either ways and one needs to find the way to make it work on either system. Often she exact same approach might not work in both.

@warmaster @BestBouclettes how is pop archaic? They are based on ubuntu LTS and add their custom theme along with tiling. Being based on LTS means it isnt the latest, i dont think archaic is the best description.

Moreover they are soon coming out with their own DE replacing the current plugin for gnome. If that is distro independent, should overcome the LTS limitation.

@SrEstegosaurio I use colemak from bigbagtrix that applies it via setxkbmap. Tried that on fedora sway spin, wouldnt work erroring cos it needed X11. Maybe should try out in other WMs like you said or try using kmonad.

@lack @LaggyKar wanted to try sway or other wayland based DE for better monitor support but being dependent on xkb for colemak keyboard prevents that.

Need to find a solid keyboard solution that works on wayland as well as in X11.

@BarrierWithAshes @SmokeInFog @TooL not unless they make new announcements regarding their upstream projects. This decision affects downstream projects that rely on making their code publicly available (hence projects outside of redhat).

I am apprehensive too as I just started using fedora and beginning to like it.