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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they choose to support Twitter, they must expect to take the consequences. It's a known cess pit. Being active on a centralised network does harm. You can't grizzle after drawing innocent people in to such a bad place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not at all.They are 2 ways do the same thing. The GUI can tell you what options are available. The CLI needs you to memorise them, or go somewhere else to look them up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I've tried it. But it's not a permanent mount. The program needs to be running all the time. And it frequently times out. A very poor experience. Other OSs do much better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Mount a network share permanently on Kubuntu. Non IT people need to do backups too. And Plasma apps can't access network shares unless they are mounted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On my home PC everything is FOSS. I'm a serious hobby user of Inkscape and GIMP. No advantage to using commercial alternatives.

Work PC is all commercial software. For me FOSS CAD doesn't come close.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's not a PR thing. I vote PR with a single vote. So no donkey voting possible.

It might be possible with STV. Like in Ireland. It depends on the ballot form I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not great to laugh at the mess Linux is in, due to people paddling in different, incompatible, directions. Users can't choose the package format. They have to take what they are given. Good or bad. I don't care which format. As long as it works. But this is a good way to scare more people off of Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely a help website that focuses on user level questions and not IT pro solutions is desperately needed. Today new users are immediately given misinformation by hard core Linux techies with no clue about usability or user level solutions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Windows users have a variety of different skills and experience. I guess the most likely ones to try Linux first are not going to be the PC-fearing ultra-causal users, who probably follow what their friends do. But the more adventurous and curious ones, or IT workers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You mean SMS? I rarely use SMS these days. And I don't know many people with an iPhone. That's a US, UK thing it seems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. When I use particularly badly designed software, where you know it's from a lazy, cost cutting money grabbing company, and you know you need 8x more clicks, and where any miss-step, means you have to start again, I have great trouble motivating myself to use it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Managing digital information today is a horrible mess of silos and big business driven incompatibilities. It often drives people to use PDFs, as there is nothing appropriate. Blame the software/businesses, not the victims/users.

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