Like I kept surprising coworkers on windows with "witchcrafty" key combinations like ctrl+c, win+d, ctrl+s...? The middle clic paste would be roughtly as well hidden as those arcane shortcut. If users won't "discover" it, better not let them paste random stuff unknowingly at least.

I tried to use linux on a tablet, I've tried GNOME multiple times since it is apparently the best for touchscreen-only devices. This was hell.

As much as I'd love to be able to like that thing I just can't.

Zero customisability, everything has to be changed through extensions, but the extension manager isn't even part of GNOME's core and has to be installed separately.

The settings page is severely lacking so I had to configure everything in .conf files or through CLI directly.

And the whole thing is as stable as a one-legged chair on top of a unbalanced washing machine.

KDE extension crashing : "oupsie a part of your desktop crashed and restarted as fast as possible, hope you didn't notice"

GNOME extension crashing : "go fuck yourself, I burned your whole session to the ground, log back in and pray you weren't doing anything worth saving"

In the end I customized KDE to look and behave like GNOME, this way around was surprisingly easier than just making GNOME bearable.

Oh and to the taskbar haters out there : my first computer was running windows 95 so you'll be taking my taskbar from my cold dead hands, only KDE let me fulfill my dream of putting taskbars absolutely everywhere (even got two perpendicular ones on my bottom monitor)

Damn, the amount of comments that didn't even read the full... title... Is reading comprehension getting this bad? Middle clic paste isn't getting removed, just being opt-in rather than opt-out, yet a bunch of commenters are up in arms "time to ditch firefox"...

No, thank you very much, I like my CVEs and bugs being fixed as soon as possible.

Because, I consider profile pictures to be a way to be more visually appaling, and a way to be recognizable more easily (thing that I do not want).

Why do you have a profile picture?

Don't forget to label the label machine, just in case.

Well... it is a feature... we are talking about Arch here, a bleeding edge distro meant to be continuously updated.

Want to update once every couple of decades? Go pick something stable like Debian (also Linux BTW).

Sure, buy american hardware to flash an operating system based on an american operating system made by an american mega-corp. (yes, graphene OS only works on google pixels afaik) You understood the assignment perfectly on this european community, congrats.

Currently rocking an internal blu ray drive and external floppy one (only because I couldn't find an internal one), I can't possibly imagine not having an optical drive on my computers. I still own a lot of disks including software and movies, I won't just throw everything away because the tech is now deemed obsolete (which is debatable on top of that, currently have a better quality on blu ray than on streaming platforms, plus no ads and works offline) If only it were easier to install multi-disk software through wine/proton though...

I mean... this is definitely the kind of stuff that happened to "hacker" kiddos back in the days, this stuff probably happened a lot of time.

Oh look at me miss "I want to have the right to exist as a person", so deeply political, such politics.

Your instance have "free" as in "freedom" in it, a totaly apolitical concept, of course.

So the comic is political due to the first panel, right?

frenchy here : the second "t" isn't silent at all, you're confusing it with "petit", the masculine version, where the second "t" is indeed silent.

I honestly don't understand why someone would use something like Cinnamon, XFCE or, god forbid, GN*ME instead of KDE Plasma.

RAM usage. I sometime restore machines that just wouldn't handle KDE. While GNOME is as heavy as KDE, cinnamon is lighter and xfce even more. An average finished KDE setup eats 4GB for me while a cinnamon one uses 1,5GB and an XFCE one 0,5GB. This makes KDE close to unusable on older 2 or 4GB systems.

The biggest hurdle is streaming services' DRM (something called widevine iirc) that just doesn't work on linux, which limit you to low resolutions like 720p. There was some struggles between AMD and the HDMI consortium preventing them from shipping HDMI2.1 drivers, but that appears to be solved.

The boot process isn't an user process, Windows would still be able to use the C:/ drive for itself, for every other user software though, that's another story...

I love how both streaming and blu-ray both made piracy the simpler solution by having ungodly amount of DRM that only screw over the paying customer (that don't even work to stop piracy, by the way).

As some old gaming dude once said "Piracy is almost always a service problem" , said dude is now a billionaire by providing a correct service by the way.

Show me a steam or gog equivalent (ie just a platform that is not outright hostile to consumers) to buying movies and tv shows and my money is yours. In the meantime I'll keep sailing the high sea.

The store that has constant sales and where you can buy dozens of small indie titles for the average price of one game on other platforms is charging too much now?

oh no! help me! I'm trapped on an operating system I chose that I can configure however I want and that I can leave whenever I want!

unlike Windows, the default OS on 99% of machines, that people keep using despite the constant enshitification because of 1 or 2 softwares won't run elsewhere and are thus trapped, no Stockholm syndrom here.

Always has been. 🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀