rustydomino

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Well, what are you then?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I have found that: it’s easier if you stick to one (major) distro such as Debian or its derivatives, and try to stick to that distro’s package system (in this case, apt). Yes there is a learning curve. But once you learn it, you find that Linux gets easier to use. But more importantly, it gets more POWERFUL to use. I agree with your assessment that Linux is not beginner friendly but it is USER friendly in that it empowers the user. But yes you do have to put in a little work first.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

He is the goddamn president. He doesn’t get weekends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Awful depends on your point of view. Is it easy to message and call your friends and make group chats for free? The answer is yes. The fact that the interface sucks and is ad-ridden is irrelevant to older aunties and uncles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem is there are very few alternatives that will work for grandma and her friends, especially open source alternatives. This is why WhatsApp and LINE are stupidly popular.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Don’t they understand because they were PARDONED it means that they were GUILTY?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Ok but we’re not exactly asking the electorate to understand quantum physics. Is asking people to look at what TACO did last time too much to ask for?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

There’s an entire YouTube channel dedicated to this. https://youtu.be/KLxoyeRvqDw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Idk about cheaper but you may have access to different models. Also a Taiwanese laptop will have a Taiwanese keyboard (basically US qwerty but with bo po mo fo characters also printed on the keys).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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So this is not a question about how to do this. I know how to do this. I also know that (at least under GNOME) it is neither easy nor intuitive. It involves manually editing several different text files to define MIME types and associating an application with that MIME type. My question is: is there an easy to use GUI tool to do this. I don’t think there is. Associating a file type to open with a specific app is easy, trivial even, to do on MacOS or Windows. Why is this seemingly simple task so hard to do in GNOME?

 
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