stebator

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[–] stebator@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

While the Motorola/GrapheneOS news is interesting, it's a shame that GrapheneOS's lack of root access continues to be a significant limitation. For users who prioritize data ownership and the ability to create full, local backups (Swift Backup being a prime example), it's simply not a viable option. Security is important, but so is control over your own data.

[–] stebator@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bazzite on my gaming PC, CachyOS on another.

Both systems are amazing! Bazzite, in particular, lets you easily install apps from almost any distribution using Distrobox. Want to install an app that's only available in the Arch AUR? No problem!

[–] stebator@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Many users were buying OpenPlus Pro smartphones solely because of the ability to unlock the bootloader and flash custom ROMs. People value freedom and customization. OpenPlus is shooting itself in the foot.

[–] stebator@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (15 children)

Someday Microsoft might realize that Windows should be rolling‑based, like CachyOS. By that time, it will be too late for them to catch up and bring everyone back to Windows.

[–] stebator@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but GrapheneOS is designed to prevent users from gaining root (admin) privileges. Consequently, even if the device is compromised, you will never be aware of it. I don’t care about the moronic reasons behind this; this is my device, and it should be under my control.

[–] stebator@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Great! Dolphin is also better than macOS Finder. I would replace it with Dolphin as well.

However, Windows Explorer in Windows 11 still excels in one area: it doesn't have a header, and the tabs are displayed on the header, like in Chromium.

It's also annoying that all KDE Dolphin tabs have that red [X] button. Sadly, the KDE developers reject great PRs like this one: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/269

Who even presses those [X] buttons? I always use the Ctrl+W shortcut.

[–] stebator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] stebator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] stebator@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Hm, only screenshots? By the way, this pales in comparison to what Google collects by default on every Android device. It's really crazy. Have you seen the details of what they collect? Google literally logs every touch, along with the names of buttons and apps. You can turn this off in your Google account settings on Android, but most people don't realize what's being collected or how to turn it off.

[–] stebator@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I use NixOS and Flatpak (Nix-Flatpak) to install software that is not available in Nixpkgs. Unlike Arch's AUR, Nixpkgs has fewer popular packages. However, Nixpkgs beats AUR in terms of quantity because many Nixpkgs packages are redundant.

[–] stebator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  • Setup new user to sudo

I hope it is not a passwordless sudo, it is basically the same as root.

[–] stebator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are beginner in Linux, try beginner-friendly Arch-based distro: EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro

You can learn Arch without too much hassle while using one of them

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