That’s absurd. You don’t need to understand the inner workings of the kernel to know what a root account is. If you’re regularly encouraging people to install a new OS when you aren’t even confident in their ability to understand what a root account is, you’re not doing them any favors.

If you’re installing an OS you should absolutely understand what the root account is. That’s like buying a car without understanding the concept of keys.

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It’s Linux. You can remove the restriction yourself.

It’s not that hard to either give your user account perma-sudo or to remove the timeout so you only have to enter the password once per login. Slightly more involved would be manually changing which actions require root authentication.

GitHub (since the Microsoft acquisition) is good to users because that’s their MO, it’s called Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, and the whole point is to centralize users and projects and make them dependent on the Microsoft ecosystem.

Of course now there’s also the whole issue of Copilot, which means any code you put on GitHub could very well show up piecemeal in someone’s AI-generated code. If it wasn’t for that novel avenue of monetization, you can bet your ass GitHub would have already made the free user experience a lot shittier.

You can definitely disable the touch pad in any distro. Try the steps in the best answer here

Ext4 for most home users, because it’s simple and intuitive. Btrfs for anyone who has important data or wants to geek out about file systems. It’s got some really cool features, but to actually use most of them you’ll have to do some learning.

Okay… I don’t agree and I think it’s very objectively obvious that there are huge differences in the UX and design philosophy.

My mom is not technical in the slightest and she’s been very happily using a laptop with Fedora Silverblue on it for 4+ years. I’ve had to help her with two problems, one of which didn’t even end up being a Linux problem.

GNOME settings are not obscured? And if you want more customization you can use tweaks, which, it’s true, don’t have centralized settings, but you have the power – on MacOS you’d be paying $5-10 for every tweak.

You’re right, a keyboard-driven tiling wm does seem like a better idea.

I hate finder so much lol

Yes… In the opinion?

Because it’s very different? The bar defaulting to the top is the main similarity.

They’re not, they’re opposing a process that leads to garbage output and horrible systemic efficiency.

Every device with extra swappable batteries that I’ve used has a charging station that you can just keep the extra battery in. Not really anything to “manage”, it just effectively removes charging time from the equation.

Lol this post is like someone who’s never worked on cars buying several functional beaters, changing the oil on all of them, and then using each one to go through the same McDonald’s drive-thru and review the burger.

Devs ITT biting every single argument in the article and then saying “but it’s easy” is extremely ironic

Literally how

You’ll need a decent GPU to decode HD video, which led me to just put together what’s basically an outdated gaming PC from old parts and a couple cheap ones I had to order. Works great as a jellyfin server.