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  • Brahvim@lemmy.kde.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Let's update...isiZulu
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    3 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.

  • Brahvim@lemmy.kde.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Where is the best place to go to engage in polite conversation with random strangers?isiZulu
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • Brahvim@lemmy.kde.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Many such cases.isiZulu
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    5 months ago

    I agree! But I guess it is a good option for those who still just have to stick, for e.g. IT reasons. That script does a little bit more than a lot of debloating.

    Could be any reasons, right? Gotta be mindful of those!..

    …

    Legacy personal projects!
    Visual Studio!
    Some games!
    The sudden need for a Windows-only tool!

    And some people still don’t want to switch away from… say, their Adobe tools. They don’t want to!

    They don’t want to is what!

    Same for say… those who want to play multiplayer games with… unfortunately, kernel-anti cheats…

    There’s also folk who are stuck for organizational reasons like Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

    Here in India, Linux “market-share” jumped up to 14%, sure, but many, many people want to stick to Windows. Linux is an alien concept to most.

    Must promote the good thing!

    But rationality, man!

  • Brahvim@lemmy.kde.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Well actually...isiZulu
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    5 months ago

    Can’t speak a ton on the part about taking full advantage of your hardware, but Debian is THE Just Works™ solution of Linux distributions. I’ve had not a single problem on Debian. I was on rolling-release Ubuntu (actually, it was KDE Neon) for a year after my first few weeks on Kubuntu, on which Plasma was TERRIBLY broken at the time. It used to apparently be broken on either Kubuntu or Neon at any given time, and never both, and I think it’s stable enough everywhere now, but once I came to Debian, I have decided to never look back or “ahead”. There’s always an alternative method to achieve what you want on Debian.