Some things we would want to install aren’t in the official repos. Downloading the deb file is a solution to that for newer users.

It’s not attitude they are giving you. It’s strong recommendation. It’s the strong recommendation of the entire Linux community.

Sudo is different than run as admin and is not intended to be used to do things the way Windows does them.

I don’t know that I agree with this for anything but GPUs. There are plenty of distros that are stable and don’t require constant fiddling.

That makes it sound more like it is Linux, but not GNU. Which is accurate

My money is on its not pushing Pro hard enough.

I just now discovered why people are hating on Ubuntu pro by receiving a note that Ubuntu will not provide security updates for some apps it came with unless you activate Pro.

I think I’m done with Ubuntu on any personal machines.

I believe the answer is no. I think it installs over Wi-Fi, fine, so long as the adapter isn’t a weird of brand or something.

I have one for work and I’ll say it’s high, sometimes. Can sounds like a jet engine.

My Darter does not have that issue, though.

I just took it favoring a daily driver for gaming and every distro it gave had either didn’t work, isn’t optimized for, or requires additional config for gaming.

Hope this is satirical, cause otherwise I hate to say it but you’re also a boomer.

It’s not hip to hate on things.

On Windows and Mac, you are doing a number of things implicitly that you don’t realize.

When you download from their site, you are expected to verify the integrity and validity of the install file yourself. You also have to take ownership of installing any dependencies yourself.

With the instructions mulvad is providing you, you are connecting to a repo and apt does all that for you.

Some installs don’t require dependencies, but some do. Long term, this style of install tends to be a lot simpler, you just have to learn it.

But more importantly and as others have stated. Linux is different. If you aren’t interested in learning a new workflow, you should stick with something familiar. That’s a choice you should make not because others said it but because you want it.

That can depend on a lot of factors, though. From the bus of the enclosure to the speed of the USB port and cables you used.

I wouldn’t have expected a 40 percent drop on the modern USB standards, but I’d still expect a drop. I was thinking closer to 20 percent.

It definitely is, but likely comes with a slight performance sacrifice due to bus speeds.

This works for me. So long as you have a Kindle device registered on Amazon, you should be able to download directly to a desktop. The DeDRM plugin mentioned removes the DRM during ingestion into Calibre and requires an actual token from Amazon which is linked to the Kindle device you downloaded from.

I use this to get Amazon eBooks into my Remarkable 2 which requires DRM free.

I’m going to stop. Your over confidence is preventing you from listening to anything.

Forking doesn’t imply control. A forked version of chromium would still want to keep up to date with the upstream project.

You seem to view this public option with an unrealistic view of how software development works. Especially in the public sector.

Somebody comes in with a requirement to do something in the fastest and cheapest way possible. In this case, make a public browser option. The engineers go off and fork chromium and simply reskin it because that meets the brief. They might even go so far as to set up a CI pipeline that auto pulls new features from upstream.

The public sector isn’t going to be interested in trying to make the optimal browser if they are forced to create one. They are going to be interested in meeting the brief in the fastest and easiest way possible.

I’ll get even more specific to what is likely to happen in that scenario. The governmental entity will reskin chromium. Google will own the open source project.

Your arguments are all over the place. It’s not the governments responsibility to ensure that a law suit is profitable.

And a new browser isn’t going to do what you think it is. Any attempt by a government to create a browser is just going to use Blink anyways. The reason so many browsers are using it (including browsers made by tech giants) is that rendering engines are incredibly difficult to maintain. Especially as the Web continues to evolve.

Yes, these things are inconvenient. Meaning they are achievable items but at some personal cost and effort. They are not insurmountable.

And a new browser isn’t going to change anything. I’m honestly not even sure what you’re arguing anymore.

I think you’re struggling with the difference of convenience and difficulty. Doing things without the web implies you are going to do them in the same way you’d have to pre-web. That makes the web more convenient.