rustydomino

joined 2 years ago
[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

I have found that: it’s easier if you stick to one (major) distro such as Debian or its derivatives, and try to stick to that distro’s package system (in this case, apt). Yes there is a learning curve. But once you learn it, you find that Linux gets easier to use. But more importantly, it gets more POWERFUL to use. I agree with your assessment that Linux is not beginner friendly but it is USER friendly in that it empowers the user. But yes you do have to put in a little work first.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

He is the goddamn president. He doesn’t get weekends.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Awful depends on your point of view. Is it easy to message and call your friends and make group chats for free? The answer is yes. The fact that the interface sucks and is ad-ridden is irrelevant to older aunties and uncles.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The problem is there are very few alternatives that will work for grandma and her friends, especially open source alternatives. This is why WhatsApp and LINE are stupidly popular.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Don’t they understand because they were PARDONED it means that they were GUILTY?

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ok but we’re not exactly asking the electorate to understand quantum physics. Is asking people to look at what TACO did last time too much to ask for?

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

There’s an entire YouTube channel dedicated to this. https://youtu.be/KLxoyeRvqDw

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Not sure what he’s going on about. The Noldor were perfectly happy!

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Definitely not UNIX 😬

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So this is not a question about how to do this. I know how to do this. I also know that (at least under GNOME) it is neither easy nor intuitive. It involves manually editing several different text files to define MIME types and associating an application with that MIME type. My question is: is there an easy to use GUI tool to do this. I don’t think there is. Associating a file type to open with a specific app is easy, trivial even, to do on MacOS or Windows. Why is this seemingly simple task so hard to do in GNOME?

 
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