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If you’re installing an OS you should absolutely understand what the root account is. That’s like buying a car without understanding the concept of keys.
If you’re installing an OS you should absolutely understand what the root account is. That’s like buying a car without understanding the concept of keys.
I’ve experienced loss of smell from covid, luckily it came back. It really sucks but I would rather be reduced to the tongue tastes than lose my hearing, both for utility and enjoyment.
I find it amusing that the article seems to imply that smell should be ranked evenly alongside sight and hearing. Like, yes, smell is obviously a valuable sense that I would hate to lose… But I’m still taking my eyes and ears over my nose if given the option.
It’s Linux. You can remove the restriction yourself.
It’s not that hard to either give your user account perma-sudo or to remove the timeout so you only have to enter the password once per login. Slightly more involved would be manually changing which actions require root authentication.
You can definitely disable the touch pad in any distro. Try the steps in the best answer here
Ext4 for most home users, because it’s simple and intuitive. Btrfs for anyone who has important data or wants to geek out about file systems. It’s got some really cool features, but to actually use most of them you’ll have to do some learning.
Okay… I don’t agree and I think it’s very objectively obvious that there are huge differences in the UX and design philosophy.
My mom is not technical in the slightest and she’s been very happily using a laptop with Fedora Silverblue on it for 4+ years. I’ve had to help her with two problems, one of which didn’t even end up being a Linux problem.
GNOME settings are not obscured? And if you want more customization you can use tweaks, which, it’s true, don’t have centralized settings, but you have the power – on MacOS you’d be paying $5-10 for every tweak.
You’re right, a keyboard-driven tiling wm does seem like a better idea.
I hate finder so much lol
Yes… In the opinion?
Because it’s very different? The bar defaulting to the top is the main similarity.
They’re not, they’re opposing a process that leads to garbage output and horrible systemic efficiency.
I didn’t ask Gab “is climate change real”, I asked it to “tell me about climate change”. If it’s not obvious, I agree that climate change is definitely real and human-caused; my point is that the prompt in the OP explicitly says to deny climate change, and that is not what the AI did with my prompt.
I tried asking it about climate change and gender identity and got totally unremarkable politically “neutral” corpo-speak, equivalent to ChatGPT or Bard. If this is the initial prompt it’s not having much effect lol
Lol this post is like someone who’s never worked on cars buying several functional beaters, changing the oil on all of them, and then using each one to go through the same McDonald’s drive-thru and review the burger.
It’s very indicative of the culture though. That people pay hundreds of dollars a year just for the privilege of using their products is taken for granted.
That’s absurd. You don’t need to understand the inner workings of the kernel to know what a root account is. If you’re regularly encouraging people to install a new OS when you aren’t even confident in their ability to understand what a root account is, you’re not doing them any favors.