Who uses left or right to determine directions in the field of Geography can’t burn anyone. He should have called it west side park.

Fully agree!

As a Linux user for more than 10 years now, I can not really understand why so many people switch from Windows to CachyOS.

Yes, CachyOS is great. In general I see the advantage of Arch based distros, but only if one knows what they are doing. It’s great on fresh installs, but over time users need to fix issues and make decisions and this only works if they know what they are doing.

Similar wis NixOS. Great distro, but not for low maintanance and beginners. If you just want something that runs super stable and you don’t need to fix anything, go for Debian. And there are a lot of options between Debian and CachyOS.

Gefährliches Halbwissen:

Wie genau die Anlageprodukte gestaltet sind steht noch nicht fest. Theoretisch dürfen die Anbieter der Altersvorsorge 1% Gebühren verlangen. Das klingt wenig, macht im Vergleich zu einem ETF Sparplan mit ~0,2% Gebühren über einen Zeitraum von 40 Jahren mehrere zehntausend Euro aus, die an den den Anbieter und nicht an den Anleger gehen. Der einzige Grund, warum sich ein Anlageprodukt mit so hohen Gebühren überhaupt lohnen könnte, ist die staatliche Förderung. Aber hier geht dann eben auch ein großer Teil der Fördersumme an die Finanzdienstleister und nicht an den Anleger.

Wenn der Staat aber nun selbst ein halbwegs gutes Produkt mit 0,5% Gebühren und auch sonst ganz guten Konditionen anbieten, dann setzt das Mindeststandards. Die privaten Finanzdienstleister müssen ein Konkurrenzfähiges Produkt anbieten, damit die Leute die Altersversorgung bei ihnen und nich beim Staat abschließen. Das macht das abzocken von uns zukünftigen Rentner schwieriger und der Finanzbranche gefällt das wohl nicht so sehr.

Edit: Ich finde Finanztip erklärt immer ganz gut zu solchen Themen. Hier ist deren Artikel zum AV Depot: https://www.finanztip.de/newsletter/aktuell#teaser1

Do you kbow where Europe get it’s uranium to power these nuclear power plants from? No? Let me tell you: We import it from countries like Kazakhstan, Niger a bit from Canada. France, one of the biggest nuclear powered countries imports it’s uranium from Russia. This is exactly the same as with oil and gas. So tell me: How do nuclear power plants help us, if we have to import the fuel?

Do you know what are the resources we have in Europe: Wind, water and sun. To be fair, we have cole too, but this is one of the dirtiest ways to produce energie.

The only way out are renewable energies.

It’s not that easy. E.g. Europe was on good terms with Russia. It is not like Europe decided to become an enemy of Russia, Russia attacked an European country. Of course we should question ourselves if we should have trusted Russia in the first place.

The only way out is to become more enery independent by using more renewable energies.

Same here. Guacamole is totally fine. But besides that, I can not understand how anyone likes to eat Avocados.

My mum, who is in her 60’s, and never used anything other than Windows is on Linux Mint for nearly two years now and has no problem using it. I was surprised she has even explored features like virtual desktops and is using them now. She is far far away from being a tech person. And she never needed to touched a terminal while using it.

But I needed to install Mint for her. I think she would have given up at the point where the boot order had to be changed to start from the USB with the live/install media. And this is the biggest downside of Linux: You can’t just buy the average consumer pc/notebook with a pre-installed Linux. It is always windows installed. That’s why people keep using Windows. Not because Windows is better.

Not a knitter, but I just scrolled by this post while my wife is taking photos of a sweater she just finished on the floor.

Wer hat uns verraten?

The most famous one is probably PayPal. But I assume for people who are privacy focused, that would be not the first choice.

There is Curve Pay, but I know nothing about it besides the fact that it exists.

Samsung Pay exists, but it only works on Samsung devices and therefore is not really an alternative in this case.

And then there are some regional options. Here in Germany are same banks that offer their own payment apps, most famously the Sparkassen. I heard there are also some Indian and east Asian payment apps, but I don’t know much about them.

Contactless payments does not need to be Google Pay. There are alternatives.

My guess is, that they will offer a new Thinkphone model with GraphenOS to target business customers.

But of course I don’t know it, just guessing.

This is the way.

Clem, the lead dev of the Cinnamon project, wrote in the last blog post, that they only need to migrate the cinnamon screensaver from X11 to Wayland and that this is the last piece for full Wayland support. See https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4991

Seems like the upcoming Mint release will fully support Cinnamon with Wayland, even if X11 might still be the default.

Doesn’t matter. You can install it on any other hardware because Linux includes ‘cat’ already. You will not need the old one anymore.

I had issues with Solaar detecting my devices when plugging the dongle in a USB hub in the past, even when the connected devices worked. Maybe you can try to connect the dongle to another port, in best case directly on the Notebook or PC mainboard, just to make sure that this is not the issue.

This being said, it works for me on even with a USB hub on a freshly installed Fedora on a new PC.

Super important. I do also choose a DE first and look for a distro that supports it out of the box second.

This being said, while I think Gnome looks amazing, it’s whole UX is killing me. I tried it over and over again, because it looks so beautyful. But it always starts to frustrate and annoy me.

I was ling term Cinnamon user and recently switched to KDE Plasma. Luckily, as Linux users we have a choice.

Hey there!

I used Mint for the last years and it is my main distro for Desktops for more than a decade with the exception of Manjaro for a couple of years. Since I wanted to try KDE, I was looking for another Distro for my new notebook.

I really like Debian based distros, because I’m very familiar with it. And I do like Ubuntu. I do not like all of Canonicals desicions, but have to admit, that they do a lot of good stuff for the linux community too.

Still, there were some reason why I did not want to use Kubuntu. I also wanted to have up to date software and kernel and therefore Debian itself was out. Time to look for a new distro.

After trying Nobara, Auroora, openSUSE Tumbleweed and PikaOS and finding some super anoying stuff in all of them, I thought I should give Fedora a try. That should have been the obvious choice in the first place, but I think I wanted something more “special”.

And what should I say? It just works. Installation and setup was easy, all my hardware was detected, I got used to dnf super quickly and I’m super happy with it. It has only been a week and therefore I have no long term experience, but my first impression is, that it is a super clean and well defined distro. I’m super positive that it will be solid choice for a daily driver.

I bought the left one with 1 TB for 64€ in the beginning of December. This is around 75US$.

Even if the 2 TB would double the price, these prices from the ad are just crazy.

Yeah, but this sub is called buyeuropean, not boycottUSA.