I run krohnkite and klassy, but damn is it a fine default.

intelligence has nothing to do with empathy or humility, it is a measure of knowledge and problem-solving. lying about the contents of posts and pretending you are justified is not intelligent, even if you add a quote.

it isn’t more accurate though, you are lying about where the funding came from. congress only approved the budget for the government, they didn’t have a say in who got the money that was being handed out. there is a single right answer and it is to not change the titles of news articles to suit your own opinions. if you want to present your opinion, you do it by making your own post. posting a news article is for sharing the article, not for lying about it’s contents to suit the story you want to tell.

I swear this community is as bad as a flat earth one when the government gets brought up. why change the title from the original to imply that congress (other than deciding the federal budget) had anything to do with it? That is at best irresponsible and misleading and at worst actively malicious. Yes government entities do sketchy things, but that does not mean something can’t be trusted because a government entity interacted with it.

good point, and it also does have a “recommended for you” category. I honestly think it’s a pretty good system so long as you keep in mind that it isn’t meant to be what youtube is.

I’ve been using it for a year or two now, and here are my notes on it.

• There are a lot of pretty good creators on there (real engineering, hacksmith, berm peak, and real life lore, for example.) .

• Though Nebula has a lot of good creators, the vast majority of youtubers are not on it, so you will really only be switching for the ones that are.

• It has pretty much every feature (user-facing, anyway) that youtube does except for likes/dislikes, comments, and live streaming.

• It is paid with no free-with-ads option, but it is cheap (currently $36 a year) and provides a comparable experience.

• It handles podcasts well, but there aren’t that many good ones (imo) and a lot of them seem discontinued.

• It has really good discoverability, but it does not match content to the user (i.e., no personalized home page).

• It’s homepage is made up of various categories like a normal streaming service, including continue watching.

• It is not a pay-creator-directly kind of service. you pay nebula and they give 50% of the subscription fees to creators based on view count. It is more like a streaming service version of youtube, in a good way.

Overall, I really like it. It does a lot of stuff right and I feel that my money was well-spent. I would like for there to be more of the people I watch on it (Dankpods, for example). Nebula’s pay scheme seems like a fair deal to me given the type of platform it is.

firstly, I clarified that I wasn’t saying it was bad. second, what other people say independent of me is irrelevant to what I said. third, I explained what the problem was that was making me say that about ubuntu in detail, cited the people saying there is a ‘wrong’ distro as a reason for doing that, and explicitly said (twice in this thread) that the only relevant things in how good a distro is are whether you like it and whether it works for you.

I never said it was the “wrong OS”, I’m just saying that it isn’t very good as opposed to other distros. I also went on to explain exactly why I say that and that the best distro is the one you like the most that works for your use case.

No problem, I try to explain that pretty well when people ask because it’s something that there’s a lot of misleading info about because of the tribalism.

It’s not ‘bad’ necessarily, but it makes a lot of controversial decisions such as it’s use of snap packages over flatpak. these decisions are harmful to the linux community as a whole and to the experience of using ubuntu, so it’s best to avoid supporting it.

for some context on the snap thing, basically different distros use different packaging formats (.deb, .rpm, etc.) which makes it hard to distribute software. also, each individual system is set up differently and has different packages which can make fixing bugs difficult, especially for developers who aren’t very familiar with linux. to solve this, flatpak is distro-agnostic (runs on any linux) and puts the app in the same environment on every system. it’s also sandboxed, which basically means each app is in it’s own little box and it can only see/interact with things it has permission to. snap does most of that as well, but unlike flatpak it is completely controlled by a single entity (canonical, company behind ubuntu) and it means that instead of one sandboxed thing for every distro we have two, which solves nothing. there are some other issues as well, but currently the issue of snap packages is the biggest one most people have with ubuntu.

for more information on all this, I would recommend The Linux Expirement on youtube. not by any means the only good linux channel, but my favorite. also, please ignore the tribalism. people will act like there is a best distro, there is not. people will act like a distro is useless because it doesn’t have some random tool that most don’t, it is not. if you like the distro and it works for you the it’s the best one because your use case is all that matters on your computer.

Ubuntu isnt very good, but a lot of people recommend it because it used to be good. use something else that has an Ubuntu base (for app availability). I would recommend tuxedo os for kde plasma and pop os for a gnome-like experience but a little better. a lot of people recommend mint but I wouldn’t, though the reason I wouldn’t doesn’t really matter to newer users. the most important thing to consider (assuming you’re choosing something with an Ubuntu base ther handles drivers normally) is what desktop environment you want. Ubuntu is a modified version of gnome. gnome is kind of like the computer equivalent of how phones work (in a good way). kde plasma is visually a lot like windows (pre 11)by default, but has enough customization that it can look however you want (mine is set up with a windows 10 style taskbar, tiling, and gnome-like handling of virtual desktops). pop shell (what pop os has) is a modified version of gnome that is kind of in between gnome and a conventional desktop, and they are working on something new called cosmic that is even better. remember you can always use a virtual machine to test without affecting your normal system.

edit: forgot to mention cinnamon (mint’s desktop). it looks pretty much just like windows 10 like kde, but it has less customization (on purpose). whether that matters or not is up to you.

they’re probably just mad that his Linux videos do a terrible job representing Linux.

I care about not having slow boot time, but I don’t really care if it’s fast.

it’s better than what I had before

religion was never the issue. the issue is people being stupid and lacking morals, which they will do and justify regardless of the situation.

@pretzel6666@c.im I know this isn’t entirely related to your post, but there was some stuff a while back trying to get LIMs (like unity) in KDE. maybe go and give these (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375951, https://invent.kde.org/plasma/breeze/-/merge_requests/126/commits) some attention? If we can show that enough people want this kind of stuff, maybe it’ll get some attention from people who know how to implement it.

hope this is in the next update

it’s both, a smaller tax applies.

yeah, but you could always use a spacer to reserve some space or change what parts of an app are draggable. you also could simply not use this feature. that way whoever wants this feature has it and everyone else can continue to not care about it, like most of the options in any software.

edit: typed the instead of that, fixed it.

well obviously this would be an option and not a requirement (like the existing app menu titlebar button and panel widget, as well as the global menu widget.). there was some discussion of it being the default but I don’t think it should be because I agree that crowded titlebars don’t look that good. regardless, I think it should be an option because it gives people more control over the usage of space on there screen.