I was excited when I bought an Amiga 500, and ever since then the main thing I noticed is that the EXCITEMENT of getting a computer was always over-ruled by my ability to exploit it’s powers and use it.

So my perspective is that all computers and operating systems SUCK. But some suck less than others…

So using Manjaro KDE, it sucks less because it’s very simple and easy for me to install whatever I like - having AUR available, being able to search with pamac to include repos, AUR and Flatpak (even snap if I was that desperate).

KDE also gives you super powers to fuck up modify your desktop experience and shortcuts.

It’s been good to me for 6 years now. After going Ubuntu>Mint I was excited to leave Debian and try something else, I never made it to the Redhat camp (always interested to try Fedora) and hopefully will never feel the need.

So yes, what I like MOST is - it mostly just works. And when it fails, the forum is awesome.

TTIME (abbr - not alias)

abbr -a -- ttime date\ \'+It\ is\ \%-H\ \%M\ and\ \%S\ seconds\'\|espeak\ \>/dev/null\ 2\>/dev/null # imported from a universal variable, see `help abbr`

Confusion here between ‘Service’ and ‘Software’ methinks…

Here’s Discord running in a FOSS browser…

So I wouldn’t be worrying about software.

• Stop using the word ‘Google’ instead of saying ‘Search’. Take offense if anyone tells you to ‘Google’ something - fuck them!!!
• Set Firefox as your default - don’t keep ‘defaulting’ to chrome, or chromium based browsers (as this code mostly comes from Google).
• Be sure to become more acquainted with more platforms, keep shortcuts handy and use them when they have content…
• If you must use Youtube, use it signed out - find your channel and add it to an RSS reader. Avoid using the Youtube interface and avoid the algorithms. Search for any channels you watch on alternative platforms.

Such an obssessive need we have, to claim ‘inventors’ for everything!! Oh, I guess ‘clickbait’ answers that one.

Wasn’t it Jeff Dahn (along with colleagues) at Dalhousie University who found the final piece of the puzzle in developing the Li-Ion battery? https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990JElS..137.2009F/abstract

He is simply one of the co-creators who SHARED the Nobel prize for DEVELOPMENT which helped to transform the technology.

Goodenough and Koichi in 1979 helped with the positive electrode material that helped early commercial batteries LiCoO₂ and Goodenough’s name does appear as one of many ‘inventors’ who worked on this.

However, there are many many names involved - we don’t really have ‘inventors’ these days. We also find that most famous inventors are simply people who claimed credit for other folks work.

Sure, use it to post to Lemmy.ml - there’s a nice challenge.

This is a bit of a pointless question. Also, not quite making sense… because ‘workflow’ can mean absolutely anything.

I enjoy using Dolphin (KDE) because I have a terminal window at the bottom (F4 toggles it) which is tied to the GUI - so if I do ‘zi’ to jump to one of my video, or document folders, then the GUI follows… best of both worlds… and it means I can manage almost as well without the GUI, though not quite so well without the terminal.

You should aim to do things the most efficient way, without predetermined ideas about whether to use GUI or terminal. I use terminal to listen to radio, but not to edit pictures or videos.

When you get to your desktop, certainly start with a terminal open… I like Kitty - easy tabbing and splitting means I can do tons of stuff in the one window.

You learn by using, researching, and learning. That’s how you can get better. You can also do a lot by trying different shells - for example, I run Konsole (with ZSH) and Kitty with FISH - so they’re quite different to use, and each has benefits.

As I expected.

I’m not sure it it’s just Reddit that makes me sick, or Google. It’s the way that society is getting dumber and more subservient.

I definitely get angry when I hear people are ‘googling’ everything they want to ‘search’ for. Similarly that people simply wish to protest Reddit - when they don’t really care, they’re just jumping on the RANT bandwagon.

With the advent of instant gratification, smartphones/internet access, I welcome the lack of need for a paper dictionary.

However, people go further - they love the way the big tech can aggregate their content and dish it up to them.

They don’t care that they are being spoonfed solent green, and increasingly denied the ability to find actual answers to their questions.

If you do disturb them, like a borg they will become disoriented. They start to drown until they can feel the comforting caste of blue light on their faces as they dive back into their familiar environment.

Reddit’s CEO is not stupid - he knows that most of it’s users are sheep, and the escapees will be a minority. The mods, addicted to their power trips, will return and take whatever shit they have to… what else is their life good for?

Reddit is not ‘crushing’ the protests. The protests were mostly a flash in the pan - now most folks got bored, and just wanna go back to reading their joke of the day.

Moving Forward

A couple of problems. Firstly, even if I’ve been talking on Fediverse somewhere about a topic - if I search that topic, it will not take me to the Fediverse - I get taken to Reddit.

Unless the Fediverse content is getting included in search engine data, it’ll never be driven from that direction.

I know personally that the reason I created my Reddit account is that I would find answers there, and then end up discussing them where I found them.

This is the way.

Unfortunately, if you don’t already know the answers it’s more a question of experience before you’ll understand them.

When I started with Ubuntu I couldn’t do dualboot, so it was hard. It got better with each update, but my beloved Gnome2 desktop was threatened and Ubuntu went on to Unity - KDE sucked, so I jumped over to Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop.

Whilst it was great, I had terrible issues getting software - PPA’s are often suited to Ubuntu and not Mint… so in the end I tried installing Arch, failed twice, then got a Manjaro (Cinnamon) ISO and tried that for a few days, got some snapshots (rsync to my HDD) and then figured it’s not a big deal to install KDE, as it’s easy enough to go back.

KDE was so much better by then (about 5 years back) that I’m stuck with Manjaro KDE - having access to the AUR to install stuff is awesome, and flatpaks work at the flick of a settings switch too.

Dual-booting gives you the luxury of (if you wanna play Genshin Impact) having the option to boot into your game OS but also the ability to install games on your Linux OS and decide which one runs best on your hardware.

Everyone has such varied ‘needs’ that your question is impossible to answer - you must just suck it and see.

Haha yes, I have to stay out of arguments involving Snap vs Flatpak for this reason. I ended up leaving Mint through issues with my HTPC install - with Plex, the ‘Home Theater’ app died it’s death, and options were tough to install - so I went for Arch, failed to get that working well, then tested KDE with Manjaro - bingo!

Until a couple of months ago, I was installing PlexHTPC via AUR which unpacked the snap and installed it - that’s so awesome… though now it’s dead so I had to jump onto the newly opened Flatpak option (AUR stuck at 1.30.1-1 whilst Flathub is up to 1.39.2).

After the PPA nightmares I had with 'buntu, and later with Mint (PPA’s made for 'buntu often don’t work) it’s like a dream.