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I think this article is a great analysis of what deep rooted flaws linux desktop distros have, but I think it is a bit disconnected from the average user (obligatory xkcd).

If the average linux user needs a programm they google what they need land on stack overflow telling them to use their package manager to install it.

If the average windows user needs a program/feature, they google it. They klick on the first link and install the first .exe they find. Has anyone you know used the microsoft store?

Or take gaming as another example. The default expirience for online multiplayer games requires kernel level anticheat on windows. This effectively circumvents windows carefully crafted security model for most tripple A online games.

So yes the average linux machine is probably not as secure as a MacOs or windows machine. But the way they are commonly used I highly doubt windows machines are more secure.

Yeah, i like nemo a lot, i use it on my main machine when i need a gui, because it has not as many dependencies as dolphin. And it does not feel as “bloated” as dolphin. It does one thing (be a file explorer) and does well. :)

Ah yeah okay, I see, that would be quite tedious to implement in bash. Everything looks pretty neat. :D

Buuut I just looked at KDE’s search framework filter options (used by dolphin if you press <crtl> + f ) and it seems it is indeed possible to search/filter by exposure time with dolphin or via directly in the cli.

Have you tried RTFM? :P

Jokes aside afaik you could do everything you mentioned with sort, find (with -type f, -printf and -mtime) and grep (filtering via regex with the -e flag).

Alternatively you could try KDE’s file explorer dolphin (or even just its search utility kfind) as a graphical alternative.

My point is switching to linux is not quick or easy, but there are few really impassable roadblocks (games with shitty kernel level anticheat for example) and there is a high likelyhood someone in this community has encountered your problems aswell and migjt even know a solution.

Just google beeing anti consumerist, they always try to combat these frontends. Here is another instance with multiple endpoints. If none of those work you could always replace the invidious address with youtube.

Went down the same route as you until coming to the same conclusion.

The only advice I can offer is to be consistent while configuring across your tools, find something that works for you and stick to it.

For example In my dwm+tmux+nvim dotfiles I use plain hjkl for cursor movement and if i want to move windows/panes i use <shift>, if i want to resize i use <crtl>, Mod keys in tmux and nvim are the function keys (if anyone knows how to get dwm to accept <F1> as modkey let me know lol), etc.

Edit: And oh yes, try to stick to KISS :P I threw away my first set of dotfiles because i used so may useless plugins/patches for nvim and dwm i could not keep trak of all the keybinds in my head.

exfat or fat32 is great for interoperability between linux and windows but has limited functionality under linux.

If you’re using your external drive only under linux, I suggest switching to a filesystem that works better with unix like permissions and special bits.

Also, like others, depending on your use-case I would suggest something with journaling like ext3 or ext4. If you happen to power of your system while writing something to that drive, the fs does not get corrupted/can automatically recover.

For backups with rollback maybe a FS with copy on write and automatic compression like btrfs or zfs would be better.

With btrfs borg backups allows you to create incremental backups of btrfs subvolumes. I use it to backup my home, etc and /subvolumes on my “backup server” (old pc with two raid1 hdds).

I have a friend who administeres backups for his company (afaik ~100-200GB delta per week) and he swears by zfs. I found btrfs simpler though.

We still here for you though. After all linux is love, linux is live. We’re definetly not a cult. Just give it a try. Linux Mint is super beginner friendly, trust me. Just once, you’ll feel better afterwards.

Jokes aside, learning or doing something new (can be, but doesnt have to be linux) won’t make anything better, but maybe make the drudgery of everyday more bearable, imo.

Also even though I hate it, talking about stuff that is on your mind with people irl is like super important and can be really cathartic.

We do have 3 egg layers that are 8-9 now and couldnt eat them

I’ve heard that kind of attachement to favorite animals from a couple of farmers. Perhaps this is psychologically similar to a teacher having a teachers pet while all others “move on”?

Pigs, I interact daily, give them scratches and treats. We send them to an abittoir.

Ah okay, so is your existentce is dependent on animal farming? So it’s like a “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”-kind of situation…

Everything dies eventually, at least I know they had a good life while it lasted.

It sounds like you really do care, but their existence is imo rather needlessly (and in some cases horrifically) cut short, no? Maybe i’ve thought about this to much but I always ask myself: How old would domesticated animal get if they are not slaughtered and can I justify this choice by the imo neglible gains (not having to take as many supplements and the taste i am accustomed from my youth) I gets from a omnivorous diet?

Yeah, because I already knew what he was talking about. Your interaction reminded me a bit of this xkcd:

I mean, have you been to Michigan?

(jk, I haven’t been and looking at orange turds antics probably won’t visit the US in the near future lol)

Hahahah, oh how naive you are.

What you’d call naive, i’d call it idealistic. Like 99% of GMO soy is used for animals. If I am naive if I exlusively buy organic and regional (at least from the same country, not the other side of the world) legumes and soy products, so be it…

All that glyphosate has gone to your brain budd

From what i’ve seen in documentaries about Roundup rural regions have more miscarriages and malformed babies so i guess the main risk is still exposure in the direct environment (living and drinking tap water in areas with a lot of conventional agriculture).

I assumed pesticides were like antibiotics where the stuff is stored inside fat and muscle tissue and found in high concentrations in meat products aswell but it seems i was wrong. Most articles online found high concentrations on conventionally produced fruits and vegetables.

I’m not gonna change your mind by arguing with you on the internet, and I’m not trying to, but I’m genuenly curious: How can you eat something you raised? I’ve had chickens, rabbits and dogs in the past and I couldn’t imagine eating them. Each one was an individual and had their own personality and character. I’d probably puke if someone told me I’ve just eaten them.

I’d say Germanys east is more like the flyover states in the US:

Used to be full of high payed industry jobs that were moved overseas (or Westgermany) and now it’s nothing but hopelessness, crumbling infrastructure, meth, and faschists…

How much soy is organic???

Just all the soy I’m eating…

Once again I’m baffeled by people like him beeing able to raise an intelligent and feeling animal, kill it and devour its cadaver (and beeing proud of it, lol).

Like, just eat the crops directly instead of passing it through an animal and loose like >80% of harvested callories)

He’s right on the GMO thing, tho. There are crops that have been specifically modified to increase their resistance to glyphosate.

No need if it’s organic. You should check your meat tho. Guess what animals are raised on…

You mean UTC+2, right?

… right?

Not to bust your bubble, but aren’t nationalism and antiquated role models on the rise among adolescents again?

You could also setup a git repo for your config files. That way you could revert changes, if you break something.

If you don’t want do open your pi up to the internet you could take a look at tailscale. I use this script on my laptop and home pc to share files with sshfs while having any other traffic go through mullvad. Set this up on your pi with it as an exit node and you basically have access from anywhere.