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  • If something is “easy to use” this includes the time you need learn said thing.

    Drinking rahmen from the bowl is easier then using chopsticks (even if you are more elegant with chopsticks)

    Driving automatic is easier then driving manual (even if you may be more efficient with manual if you practised shifting a lot)

    Walking is easier then flicflacs (even if you may be faster with flicflacs if you practised a lot)

    Using Ubuntu is easier than using arch (even if arch gives you more control and opportunities if you understand it)





  • Dunno what you used, but nano is literally a text editor that may be simple simple but it just works. Shortcuts are shown to the user, buttons work like you expect them to (arrow keys, ESC, shift, etc)

    With vim you open it and if you haven’t read 5pages of doc you won’t even be able to close it again. I see that its useful for power users, but for casuals who just want to edit a config once in a while nano is absolutely the way to go imho









  • Agree with not liking Stalin is great, but calling that “anarcho-” is just stupid. Anarchos generally believe you can run big nation States in a capitalistic world without any central power comparable to today’s nations (not even a democratically controlled one) but instead jump right to the classless society by getting rid of all (or most) institutions and it will just work fine.

    Communists/socialists on the other hand believe you need time, practise and fair game rules to form a classless society with enough time, especially in a capitalistic world, where the USA can just invade you, if you have no army and not even a generally recognized government.

    Not liking the real life dictator countries, no matter what they call them self’s should be a disconnected question from the philosophical one on how to best archive a harmonic world





  • I think me admitting not understanding something and following advice of trusted humans is a very different thing than will full ignorance and you framing it as such is telling of the ivory tower you sit in.

    Maybe what you tell me about flatpac being better and more secure is right, but trusting you, a stranger from the internet is certainly not better than trusting friends studying in the field. Is flatpack the more secure version of the aur though? The aur ist fully foss, so public scrutiny takes places. In my mind, flatpac wasn’t, but maybe I’m wrong here.

    As for point 5.: again: I don’t argue that the way its done in Linux is bad or without reason. I just state that it is more difficult for the end user.

    For btrfs: As for my understanding: the graphical installer only supports one option for encrypted file system: lvm-ext4. When you select encryption it is not possible to select btrfs anymore (or any other). As soon as you tick “encrypt system” it defaults to luks–>lvm–>ext4 and doesn’t allow you to change it Maybe because it only support encrypted lvm and subvolumes won’t work with btrfs (+to quote your own link: "The DebianInstaller can format and install to single-disk Btrfs volumes, but does not yet support multi-disk btrfs volumes nor subvolume "

    I don’t understand the part about “rsync”, but im pretty sure its not what I had in mind when talking about first time user friendly options.