To be fair, my husband is about as far from tech savvy as they come, and he’s been running Linux for years on his laptop. Every 2-3 years I upgrade him. Sometimes just within distros (Ubuntu 12.04 to 16.04 say. Other times, I’ve moved him distros (to fedora) or back to Ubuntu. Otherwise? I don’t touch his system. He’s been happy for years.

This. If you want to go back to the days without systemd and writing invit scripts manually, knock yourselves out. The rest of us will continue to live in the modern world of systemd, pulse audio (and now pipe wire).

Probably to some degree… But on any other distro, the same is almost certainly true today too. Only it’s between… rpm/aur/deb/etc and Flatpaks instead of snap.

Yeah. Part of me is annoyed by snaps. But, tbh, having tried fedora and opensuse over the last few years, I don’t quite see how they’re so much worse than freaking Flatpaks. And at least they come gods damned fully enabled.

Been running Ubuntu 22.04 for the last several months and have yet to see anything resembling an ad. I guess it prompts me why there’s system updates every fe days to a week or so. But I’d hardly call that an ‘ad’.

I’ve never cared for mint because I don’t really want my Linux to look like Windows. Which is what mint does.

I’m down to using Facebook in Firefox again. And reddit very occasionally too. Gostery,AdBlock, privacy possum, so many addons available for Firefox.

Firefox on mobile has piles of apps generally now. No need for a list or nightly or beta.

Yup. When net neutrality died it let a few corporate overlords rise up and kill off much of the old free web. What much of us grew up on was a much fewer, wilder web. One you could still dream on and where you could still think damned near any new thing could come from anyone. Now, you pretty much have to already have $.

Honestly it’s one of my personal reasons for disliking AI. I (let alone most of our kids) don’t want or need a reason to think less, let alone own less of my content. FFS.

Yeah, being able to run other os is part of what got me on pixels to start with. But, honestly they’re just nice phones. Currently have 3 pixel 6as and a pixel 6

I mean, I agree. But… I hate to say it, but my husband is probably a perfect ‘case in point’. And he hasn’t really noticed the blackout at all.

Yeah, I heard about Lemmy on reddit too. Just before the blackout.

Jump in wherever you find an interest. There’s so many projects and pretty much anyone and everyone is happy for new contributors.

That’s what I did too. It’s not quite the same. But muscle memory doesn’t betray me at least.

Yeah. Ok. But… Who the fuck uses reddit chat? The only thing Ive ever gotten from chat messages is harassment and spam. Not having chat is a damned feature. Not a bug. 😁

This is day 2 for me on Lemmy, plus a bit of time for the previous 3 or 4 messing about here and there. And… I’m kinda in love. I just hope there’s more people showing up, with more content and such soon :)

Eh. I know the basics. I can open, do some very basic editng, save and close. That’s about as much as is really needed, right?

Yup. Nearly everyone runs Linux. They just don’t know it.

This has been/is my experience over the last 5-10+ years. When I think about how far we’ve come since the early to mid 2000s… Man. My mind boggles. I still run Ubuntu on my server, for simplicity sake, but have become a fan of tumbleweed for my personal machine.

I’m a long time Gnome user myself, and man has Wayland come a long ways. I can’t even imagine going back to X11. The last time I booted into a session to check if it would “fix” somet, I was immediately blown away by just how choppy and awful it is. Once you get used to Wayland X11 is just… Bad.