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  • Brahvim@lemmy.kde.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlLet's update...
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    8 months ago

    I did it on the GUI all day yesterday! The only problem Debian has is being unbreakable!

    Heck, I switched repos from bookworm to trixie and installed 3 GiB worth of packages - 2.5k packages - and booted into a PERFECTLY WORKING system!

    Installed the other 8 GiB afterwards and booted into a perfectly working system. Just before I thought Steam was broken, I rebooted and it came alive too.

    And my GTX 1650 worked right away! Do you know how many times the daily 1 GiB update on Ubuntu breaks that?!

    Flatpak updates are kinda’ slow, no 4 GiB downloads needed per day, Debian updates arrive at like 200 MiB a month except for apps like VSCode, Signal, or Discord. And - to be honest - that’s the Windows-unlike experience every distro is missing.

    Debian really is unbreakable.


  • I use Fluffychat. Element is more up-to-date with features, but I think I like the simplicity and feel of Fluffy. Both are available via F-droid at least. There probably are other methods. And yes, both have Linux desktop and developer-hosted web-apps.

    FYI Matrix is not an app, but a protocol. Like how you can use different clients to connect to Lemm-Lemm, you can use different apps for Matrix, and not every app has all features. Heck, even the sync authentication systems (that allow you to export your messages to different devices) are different!

    But then there’s the fact that you have manage your decryption keys on your own!

    I think Signal is better for video calls.

    It’s a bit less decentralized, but it’s a lot simpler. A popular thing about Signal is that Edward Snowden talked about a Signal update in a congratulative tone of voice.