It’s red from all the blood? well, fuck

I’ve known people IRL who talk about the GPL like it’s a virus infecting your code

Critical support of Ubuntu is my position lol

Im one of those people that’s still pissed off about when they had amazon ads in the OS by default. Even though it was like 10 years ago. Like, id hit the wondows button and start typing “firefox” and see an ad for a firepit from amazon.

Oh yeah, then i went back to it ~5 years ago until the snap packages pissed me off too much

Debian is much easier now than it was 15 years ago, and some of that is thanks to canonical. Im not actually anti ubuntu, but they will always make weird choices to annoy people like me

1. Take Debian
2. Make it worse
3. ???
4. IPO

It would be nice if the most of the money went into things that would help the linux ecosystem (I know canonical contributes to debian, sometimes makes usability improvements, and isn’t all negative). But it’ll probably just go into AI bullshit.

I’m a bit surprised you didn’t find much searching the web, because this is one of the most hot topics in Linux and everyone has an opinion and discussions are endless.

it’s 2026. OP probably only found useless AI slop articles after a couple searches before getting discouraged and asking here

Replace “x” with “xcancel” in the url, and it usually works (slightly better than the raw cesspit)

lynx in the terminal or eww on emacs

You can get away with less if you don’t hibernate while using a ton of memory. For example, I have 32gb RAM and 16gb swap. If I tried to hibernate while rendering a video, then something would go wrong (IDK what tho. Maybe it would just say ‘no’?). But in most circumstances I’m just using like 8gb and hibernation works just fine.

I can see comic sans making it more usable

I do have astigmatism funnily enough

Anecdotally, my phone without Google Play services has a horrible time obtaining a GPS fix, so I suspect without GPlay it’s only using raw GPS, but I’ve not bothered to actually dig into it.

If you look at an app that shows satellites being recieved, it’s pretty cool to see how sensitive the GPS signal is to objects. Inside, maybe I’ll get one or two satellites near a window. But then I step outside, and see the list rapidly grow. I think my degoogled lineageos still has an assisted GPS option, though I haven’t tried it

The regulation also mentions an APP STORE

His waymo video was probably the most egregious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc

Correct. Sometimes it works when everything else fails.

To the point where nothing responds and I need to kill it.

What about ctrl-alt-F3?

[Bad thing] catfishing as [good thing] via Google’s AI results?

Yup.

I started using Krita, which is amazing and does lots of things I do, but the text editor when I try to resize text, it just ruins it and gets blurry sometimes. Then I found inkscape, which was good for, text and everything else worked fine, but not much of photo editor.

Inkscape is like Adobe illustrator. It’s for vector graphics and text. it’s not great for photos/pictures/pixelated things. Like, you can add those as objects to a document. But you want to edit the images somewhere else. Maybe a krita --> inkscape workflow could work for you?

I also use kdenlive for video editing, and rawtherapee for DSLR photos editing.

If you’re also just kinda exploring software for fun, I recommend trying to play around with blender for more specialized video editing. Like, if you want to add complex effects, or motion track/stabilize, whatever. It’s an extremely powerful piece of software (best to look at tutorials, idk if anyone can figure that shit out on their own). All I’ve done with it is stabilize some video (which I then used in a kdenlive project), and I absolutely haven’t even scratched the surface.

The allergy to CLI is always strange to me.

I get it. Every single other application a GUI user has used in their life: Ctrl-C = copy, and Ctrl-Z = undo. Open the terminal, and now Ctrl-C is an interupt, and Ctrl-Z is like a pause. Every terminal emulator has the option to change these keymappings. But doing that has a bunch of consequences once you start running more than basic file operations and nano. I think this is usually the first big hurdle to get over. It’s muscle memory that needs to be suppressed.

And then there’s the documentation aspect. With a GUI, you can visually look around to see what can be done in a program. With the CLI, there’s options that you just kinda have to know. There’s -h or --help, then there’s the man pages. But even just navigating the man pages brings up the previous problem of unfamiliar/unintuitive keybindings. so you could also install tldr for faster help, but the vast majority of the time, it’ll be faster to just search online.

All that being said, I prefer the CLI for pretty much everything, and think it would be interesting if there was a sort of pedagogical distro to teach the command line. Imagine a file browser that displays the underlying utilities/commands being used. Like, when you open your home folder maybe there’s a line showing ‘ls -al /home/me | grep [whatever params to get the info being displayed]’. Or, when you go into the settings, it shows you the specific text files being edited for each option. Something that just exposes the inner workings a little more so that people can learn what they’re actually doing as they’re using the GUI