Still appreciate someone linking to the OP. That should be a rule in this channel

Transitioning from Windows to Linux Mint was effortless for me, everything worked out of the box and i haven't typed a line of code yet. All i've had to to do is install Diodon to get the clipboard history feature.

However all i've done with it is internet and office work, basic stuff. No gaming, no video editing, no 3D animation or any such. I think if you have a mature and complicated creative workflow it's totally possible that you'll struggle to move to Linux

Enjoy being the only one posting.

Mass adoption is fundamental to make any social media viable; the fewer users it has, the less useful it is. Reddit has more users than Lemmy. It's that simple. People won't start switching until everybody else switches.

Bluesky is only barely starting to compete with Twitter, and that's after Twitter drastically worsened. Lemmy is a long, long way from competing with Reddit.

To me, it's a matter of time. The structural advantages of the fediverse mean that it's more stable on the long run; what i mean by that is, for-profit Reddit will get worse while Lemmy remains good, leading users to migrate here, so Lemmy will eventually outlive Reddit. And then along the way there will be a few big moments where Reddit really fucks up and a wave of people washes up on Lemmy. This is already happening, i'm pretty sure all of us here made our accounts after the Reddit API changes.

He failed to overthrow the American government and have his VP killed. And the reason he wanted his VP killed was because he wouldn't help him overthrow the American government.

It's undeniable that some very powerful people want US democracy dead, but from that to the actual death of US democracy is a long way

So i agree that the second Trump administration is going to suck in most every way possible, like the first one but worse because they're prepared this time.

BUT

I think people overrate a government's ability to influence the conditions in a given country. I think a country is made what it is by history, geography, technology, sociology, ideology, economics, and the accumulation of small decisions over centuries.

If the Trump administration wants to end democracy in the US, or if a hypothetical based administration were to attempt a switch to ranked choice voting, both ideals would be impossible to implement because our ideals are limited by practical reality. Both would fail regardless of being good or bad changes, because radical change is really hard when the conditions aren't met for it, especially when it's opposed by the rest of the country. If the country just isn't ready to transition to fascism right now, there's not much that Trump can do to make it.

We talk a lot about how powerful people changed the world, but i think far more often they're just the embodiment of a societal trend, and they couldn't change the world if they weren't. Change isn't done by powerful people but deeper movements in humanity, with powerful people riding them like a wave.

As to where the deeper movements in humanity are leading us right now, i refuse to guess, trying to predict the future is the best way to look like an idiot

She does say 'thee' in the other panel so familiarity is established.

Anyway, even without knowing the rule, you can sense something is wrong by saying it out loud. I don't know if there are examples of turns of phrase staying in use when they don't flow well in spoken language?

And it's that good at 4% market share. Imagine the possibilities if 20% of desktops were Linux, with that much dev time being put into it.

I say "if" but maybe it's "when"

No, but what are you going to do? Install WIn10 on a computer that's too old and doesn't meet the minimum specs?

If you have a 2010 computer, it's either old Windows or Linux, modern WIndows is going to suck, if it even works. Ergo, i can't think of a circumstance where you'd want/have to install Win10 on a hard drive instead of an SSD.

Maybe shits and giggles, similar to running Doom on random stuff? If someone has more imagination than me then i'm open

You know, when i watched Metalocalypse i was very surprised that they say that maybe three times in the whole show and that's it

I tried Ubuntu in 2015 or so, and Mint in 2018, and quit both times. Now i've been using Mint since last July.

I don't know if it's because Linux changed or i changed, but one way or another something clicked. I'm planning on switching entirely to Mint before Win10 reaches end of life because there's no way i'm installing Win11, so i have to migrate my whole workflow by then.

I feel like they should cross. For a long time Linux really was "worse" than Windows in the sense that you needed some computer knowledge and deal with incompatibilities with the OS that most people were using; both have gotten better in recent years and Windows has gotten worse, so for some use cases i'd say we could be at the point that the lines cross.

Written from my Mint laptop, absolutely perfect but i've only used it for internet and office so nothing fancy

Why would you install Windows 10 on a hard drive? If your computer is that old, you want 7 or XP

I thought the same. It seems clear that the Supreme Court intended that ruling for use by their political side, if a Democrat tries to use it that's the instant they'll overturn it.

Which would be one way to get rid of it i suppose

Quakers just eat the oreo dry.

Seems like a form of torture the spanish inquisition would have practiced, so catholic

At least half of it could be

BD = Bande Dessinée, the french term for both graphic novels and comics. Both have a huge history in Europe in general and France-Belgium in particular, but it's extremely unusual for english speakrs to know or care, it's really appreciated.

I guess i shouldn't speak so definitively, it's not like i have data to back up the fact that there are more French than English speakers with bad grammar; but really, french grammar is worse than complex, it's unintuitive and arbitrary, and it does feel like i see more french speakers with bad grammar. For what that's worth

It's called a national animal

Quotes from the article:

According to Bloomberg, Murray told Lopez that Global Tetrahedron’s bid was a better option because the Sandy Hook families agreed to waive some of the money owed to them in order to pay off Jones’ other creditors. “I’ve always thought my goal was to maximize the recovery for unsecured creditors,” Murray said, per Bloomberg. “And under one bid, they’re clearly better than they were under the other.”

and

The only other bid besides the Onion’s was $3.5 million from First United American Companies LLC, the company that operates Jones’ online supplement store.

Brother you're on desktop, you could have cropped