frengo 13h ago • 100%
I'm trying to be the devil's advocate here: one could say that one is an innocent "life" while the other is not.
frengo 4d ago • 100%
What?? I meant what search engine are you using?
frengo 5d ago • 100%
I checked Kagi and i was very curious but 5$ a month?? For a search engine? For a limited number of searches?
frengo 5d ago • 33%
You’re a moron if you think that Trump and Harris are the same on Palestine
The real moron is you thinking things will change under Harris. Sorry.
frengo 5d ago • 50%
Nope, not what i said. On the Israel-Palestine issue Harris and Trump are the exact same. Harris should better focus on other issues bacause no one is going to be fooled by her words (hopefully).
I'd like to get back to using Google as my search engine. I tried DDG, Startpage, Qwant, even Searx and while they're all pretty decent they all have their flaws, and unfortunaltely Google is still the most reliable. I use Firefox (Floorp) and i've found out an extension called Google Container. I have my VPN always on and Google always slaps me with that fucking captcha when i start a new session (i reset cookies and stuff on closing). Does keeping Google in the exceptions on closing (keeping data and stuff) and opening it in a container make sense?
frengo 5d ago • 100%
That MSN article is 10 months old. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-us-military-spending-8e6e5033f7a1334bf6e35f86e7040e14
frengo 5d ago • 60%
Do you really think the Biden administration is somehow preventing or limiting the ongoing genocide? Israel already have carte blanche. All i hear from Harris is empty words. Israel is already doing whatever they want, they're even firing on UN peacekeepers. Harris or Trump nothing is going to change. Israel will remain unpunished. Do you know how things can change? Pull the fucking plug. Turn your back on that nazi state, let them perish. Harris should focus on other problems because people with a functioning brain are not going to believe her bullshit. 40000 dead but their goal is to protect civilians but they sent 18B in military aid in one year. How can someone be fooled by that?
frengo 7d ago • 100%
Oh, sorry. I don't care about downvotes. I'm glad they read it but didn't have anything to respond to it.
frengo 1w ago • 100%
The Talos Principle
frengo 1w ago • 66%
You mean you don’t understand the lovers, right? In the end it’s always a matter of “who’s the least worse”. Harris is, by far, but in the end certain things will never change. Will Harris be brave to turn her back on Israel? Never. A lot of empty words have been said on the matter but facts speak louder than words. US can’t afford to lose their proxy in the middle east. Israel will continue to be unpunished and funded for years to come. How much money did they send to Israel in the last year? Read about 18 billions, or something like that. But they built the pier in Gaza for humanitarian actions. LOL. It’s like throwing a dollar to a person you’re helping beating up.
frengo 1w ago • 47%
0 fucks given about Palestine
frengo 3w ago • 100%
Weird, that used to work last I used Debian based with KDE
It was Debian with xfce.
For the time being, yes
Wasn't this the OS of freedom? Hmmm
But you don’t, so you shouldn’t try to install stuff manually
I tried to install ISO image writer on Ubuntu, on my laptop. Went straight to the package manager, no terminal bullshit, downloaded it, open button is greyed out. Fantastic. Stable version btw. Solved by uninstalling and installing another version available on the manager. Linux is literally problems after problems after problems.
install an APK
Like, download the APK, enable Unknown sources, tap on the icon? I don't use android since 2017 but i'm pretty sure is the same, isn't it? Not an happy comparison.
When i want to uninstall and app and all the dependencies connected to it (autoremove, right?) is Linux able to tell if some of those dependencies are necessary for other apps and "whitelist" them?
frengo 3w ago • 100%
I don't know man, i don't care anymore. It worked in Ubuntu, it didn't on Debian.
frengo 3w ago • 100%
Yeah, totally not for me, for now. I couldn't resist in that hell for more than 3 days.
frengo 3w ago • 100%
Mistake number 1, Debian is not beginner friendly.
If i got a beginner friendly distro how will i learn how to use linux properly?
if it’s not in the package manager it’s too advanced for you for the time being
So if an app is not a package manager i'm fucked?
You could have also double clicked the Deb file
I tried, it did nothing, i went online to search for a solution.
which you could manually install
This is mental. This shouldn't be a thing even for pros. I need 15 minutes to install an app? Sorry i won't go out this evening, i need to install an app and god knows what can happen.
You might be thinking this is stupid
Well, yes, of course. Also i read some contradictions in your post: the installer only installs what is supposed to, but it needs dependencies to actually make the app usable. But that's what package managers do, right? Different apps could use the same libraries but also different ones, so the system could become bloated nonetheless. I don't see how is this beneficial for the user.
frengo 4w ago • 100%
the majority of issues you encountered were self-imposed.
How? I’ve installed Debian with KDE, downloaded the .deb from steam website, learnt to install that using sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb, opened the app and i’ve been welcomed with a text inviting me to press enter to continue, pretty simple. The program downloaded stuff, steam is ready now. Not bad. Repeated the exact same thing on Debian with xfce, that apparently doesn’t come with a software installer, nothing works. An alert says i need to download dependencies (i know dpkg doesn’t resolve dependencies). Where’s the “enter to continue”? How is this my fault??
frengo 4w ago • 100%
I won’t choose any distro. I chose to stick with windows. I spent 1,5 hours setting EVERYTHING UP. Apps, accounts, settings, everything. I spent the exact same trying to figure out why the fuck steam is not automatically downloading dependencies as it did on my laptop and didn’t even get an answer.
I’ve never, ever got a virus on any of my pcs. I grew up with internet, since the ADSL days, i know my shit.
Some of the apps i use are very important to me and some of them don’t have packages so i had to rely on commands in the terminal.
I was not expecting any help actually. The amount of problems i encountered is too much. The past 3 days dealing with linux have been extremely stressful. No wonder linux is still super niche. I can fairly say that i’ve been reckless going for non beginners distros but linux has problems, huge problems.
So i really wanted to ditch windows once and for all so i’ve tried Linux for a week trying different distros (debian, manjaro, ubuntu, opensuse, mint) and first of all why? Why are there so many distros out there? What’s the difference between debian + kde and manjaro + kde? They look the same, they work the same. I don’t get it. Also why do things have to be complicated? I’ve installed debian, installed calibre to manage my ebooks, created a library from an existing library on my hard drive (not the one with debian installed), ERROR! All the files are read-only. What???? I’ve followed multiple guides on how to change permissions and finally solved the problem. Now let’s restart my pc. *files on the hard drive are read only* WHAT???? Fuck debian, let’s go on manjaro. No problems at all on calibre. Managed to create the library as easy as i did on windows. My question is: where’s the fun in this? It’s just problems, after problems, after problems and i didn’t even start gaming. I mean i tried installing retroarch and importing my saves but of course nothing works. Read this guide, read that guide. Nope. Nothing works. Ok, fuck retroarch let’s customize the appearance of my desktop: move some icons on the panel, center this, adjust height, move this on the left, spent 30 minutes tweaking, very nice… kde crashes, all back to default. Let’s download some apps. I want as many apps that i already know as possible. Let’s see if jdownloader is available for linux. Yep there’s one. Nope, not for manjaro (officially). There’s a AUR package available. Nice. What do i need to do to install a AUR package? A wall of text on the wiki, 20 minutes videos, yay. Ok let’s call it a day. Do i need to live another life to make linux work?
One of the biggest things holding me back from jumping definitively on Linux is possibly getting rid of the apps/games i'm comfortable with and know well. How do you exaclty use Wine/Proton? You install it, launch the app with it and pray it works? Are there ways to know what is not working and possibly try to fix them googling or reading the documentation?