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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • thatfuckinglinuxguy@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out.

    Haven’t been back there and didn’t read the comments…

    But I think I can understand to a degree:

    • Too many choices: Picking an instance can be confusing for folks that are used to only having to remember 1 name. I personally think this is a bit like people trying Linux for the first time and getting confused by all the choices available. Basically, it’s what some people call “analysis paralysis” but add to that the fact that you’ll get 12 different recommendations from every 10 people you all (e.g. there’s no clear consensus on the “best” one bc “best” means something different to each person). I think one list I saw on GitHub literally had over 200 instances… For non-techies, I could see that being a bit confusing
    • UI differences: some things like making a post on kbin are a bit different (IMO not bad but still different enough that I could see some folks getting confused). Doing searches on lemmy for specific topics (not finding communities but searching for something in a community) is done from a different area on lemmy than on Reddit and IMO is kind of a pain in the ass currently. And on kbin, frankly, I’m not even sure we have that feature at all.
    • Missing features: haven’t tried mobile apps (which could again be another point of confusion) but for desktop at least, AFAIK we don’t have anything comparable to RES yet. There’s no analog to multireddits. And we don’t have anything similar to reddit’s Saved feature yet. All valid complaints in my opinion. And someone used to any or all of those, might spend a lot of time looking bc they just don’t know if it’s hidden or does not exist. So, yeah, I could see so confusion there too.

    I think there are a lot of advantages they’re probably missing too. I like that kbin/lemmy we can choose whatever fucking avatar we want instead of being limited to customizing our snoz or wtf Reddit calls their mascot thing. I saw one guy mentioning how there’s no karma bullshit to deal with for new accounts and absolutely agree with that sentiment.

    tealdeer; meh, I like the fediverse and it’s not hard for me but I’m not shitting on people who don’t get it. If they want help, would probably help but not going to push it on people either. It is what it is and that’s good enough for me

  • thatfuckinglinuxguy@kbin.socialOPtolinux master race@kbin.social•how i remember the matrix...
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    1 year ago

    Meme is just a repost so I’m not offended or anything (not that I would be even if it was OC)… but are you maybe seeing “centralization” in the sense of “popularity” instead of “control”? (I agree that the choice of words in the meme could have been better…) - Anyway, even if you are, no worries. I was just curious.

    I think the original creator was probably more pointing out how with snap, it is next to impossible to create another app store because the source code for the backend is closed source.

    While with flatpak it is fully open-source so anyone who wishes to create a new store can do so. Yes, fighting against what’s popular has always been an uphill battle and that would be the case here also. But there would be no technological or legal roadblocks to doing so.

    At least, that’s how I understood it

    Disclaimer: I generally prefer native packages over flatpaks/appimages myself. I pretty much refuse to even consider using snaps, for variety of reasons, unless they both open-source the backend code and make some other changes to address other pet peeves I have with the project. I’m not holding my breath though.

  • thatfuckinglinuxguy@kbin.socialtoLinux@kbin.social•Nobara is the Fastest Growing Linux Distro for Gaming
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    1 year ago

    Not the same guy

    And I’m not saying any of these are worthy of going Fedora proper vs Nobara… that’s going to be a personal call for each person I think. I think they’re both good but here are some differences I’ve noticed (not a complete list by any means):

    • Nobara updates are a bit behind Fedora’s.
    • Nobara switched away from Fedora’s Anaconda installer to Calamares. For many, this is probably a welcome change. For me, it very much was NOT bc Calamares, despite possibly being more intuitive for some, currently does not support all of the same functionality that Anaconda does. For instance, I prefer the Fedora style FDE partitioning scheme (ESP partition + unencrypted ext4 /boot partition + LUKS version 2 volume with /) as well as putting my installs in custom BTRFS subvol’s… Neither of which was supported by Calamares as of 6 months ago when I last checked. Talking about graphical options only for both installers, though if someone knows how to specify it anyway from Calamares, I would be interested.
    • Nobara switched to AppArmor recently. For most, this is probably easier than SELinux. And I think it is great that AppArmor is being supported in Nobara. TBH, I wish it were an option in Fedora too despite the fact that I personally would likely continue to use SELinux - but I am just generally in favor of more options.
    • Nobara pushes Wayland a lot more than Fedora does. Sure, it is the default in Fedora Workstation (as well as the KDE spin). But if you are in one of those use-cases that isn’t quite ready yet (typically people who either prefer a certain desktop like Cinnamon/Mate, have nvidia cards, and/or have some need for certain x11 windowing tools that don’t have mature replacements yet), then Nobara might be a tougher jump at present