I’m not terribly familiar with phone options, though ya’d figure ads in the menus would be immediately disqualifying. It’s not like they’re all doing it (yet), so you’re not stuck for accepting it. Especially not from a new company.
Totally +1 for MX. I’ve tried a few distros over the years, and sure plenty of woes ‘could’ be the recent growing pains into Wayland, etc … but thus far, MX has been so fucking easy it’s almost concerning.
The only thing I’d slightly gripe about so far is the highly limited options at install time. No multiple partition setup or nearly any alternative choices … but that can also be viewed as a positive.
From the standpoint of, “I just want this shit to work”, it’s been excellent.
I was also looking at cinnamon, but I wanted a KDE Plasma option. Then I ran into MX and figured why not try? A couple of very simple and fast installs later, and two different laptops are now running it.
The extreme ease at installing nvidia drivers was just icing on the cake for how easy the rest went.
Unless the programs in question rely on conflicting core dependencies that actually have to have hooks into the system, like KWallet and other credential managers, and other similarly “system” level tools, you’ll be totally fine. Worst case while avoiding those, you might have to install some hefty frameworks (eg: KDE’s dependencies are >1gb), but that’s about it.
If they need to integrate with specific core utilities, it can get weird. Though as long as you check for conflicting stuff before actually installing, you’ll be fine.
The audacity to try in the first place is bad enough. How are you people so fucking complacent with companies that you already paid further selling your time and wasting power on your devices so they can pocket even more money??
You’re a frog in already boiling water, and you don’t even notice your skin sloughing off…
This isn’t a SocDem problem but a Democratic Establishment problem.
The DNC are the absolute shitstains standing in the way of progress while pretending to be progressive. Just remember how they royally fucked Bernie over in 2016 because it was, “Her Turn”™.
That was when many people gave up on Democrats, and rightfully so if it wasn’t for Trump running in 2024.
Remember it takes 30+ minutes for the alcohol to hit your system. Especially if you have a stomach full of food.
What that means for drinking is stop early!! Stop way before you start to feel woozy, or you’re in for a bad time. Especially if it’s anything harder than beer.
Also, mixing alcohol and weed makes the effects a lot stronger. If you mix both heavily, don’t be shocked if you feel like zonking out. Also don’t do both heavily.
Go ahead and try to use different Python products that require different versions yet don’t use a venv.
Similarly, there is a reason average users hated Java even while it was heavily adopted for back ends.
They care if the thing you just described, potential interference with normal operation, happens!
Yes, exactly. Like exactly what happens when external dependencies conflict.
Again, you are yet again projecting your personal ignorance and preference on everyone. I’m “insulting” you because you are using an assinine avenue of thought.
lol your ability to shit out words and demonstrate how deep your assumptions are is … hilarious.
The overhead on storage is hardly of consequence, especially for corporations. Otherwise even windows apps wouldn’t bundle so many dll’s next to the exe’s.
It’s not always about security. In larger deployed environments, even dependencies among the corporation’s own apps that they develop, let alone all apps they might need to use, might have different versions of dependencies to use. They might work with entirely different languages and frameworks.
Instead of loading up raw servers or VM’s with twenty external dependencies of potentially varying versions, which would quickly become a nightmare to administer, they just ship containers. Each app can do what ever the hell the team wants with what ever the hell versions of dependencies they want. It quickly becomes very important for ease of IT administration to just have little black boxes that have their defined ins and outs.
It’s usually much less important for an individual’s personally used computer, but it should still be easily understandable that some people do not like having to install several dependencies for one app (even when the package manager handles it 99% of the time these days). Especially if those dependencies create a lot of files here and there, or potentially interfere with other things installed. Maybe it’s as simple as an app they like requires Java 11, and they don’t want to install it across the entire OS.
Again, you’d have to be an absolute idiot to fail to realize that these problems and wants do exist for others.
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