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I’m almost certain that earlier versions of iOS exposed the comma on the main keyboard and hid the period under the symbols button, because double-tapping space added it.

Which meant that, depending on version, you’d sometimes need to tap 6 times to write “…” (to enter the symbols keyboard mode after every period, since it would go back to the primary set every time), and only 3 to write “,,,”.

But I might be wrong.

Wasn’t that long ago when I was downvoted to oblivion for saying that :D

Case in point: their CEO saying that Trump’s appointment of a famously anti-trust prosecutor into a high ant-trust position was a good thing caused so many people to lose their shit because “Proton is now MAGA” somehow.

I think you’re extremely confused as to what Proton is and the service they offer.

I also think it’s because you’re falling (or have fallen) into the tribalist view of “if you’re not with us, you’re against us, and if you’re against them, you’re with us”.

Proton is a-political, pro-agenda. Their agenda is “net neutrality, privacy, security”. They don’t care who makes that happen, and will support anyone who fights for these things.

They won’t take an antifascist position because that would put them on the political spectrum.

I also understand that - to you - not making that statement already puts them on the political spectrum, in the opposing camp, but that’s, again, due to the tribalist views.

They’ve praised left-wingers and right-wingers, they’ve criticised Democrats and Republicans - as long as anyone pushes for their agenda, they will praise them, as long as someone threatens their agenda, they will criticise them. That’s all there is to it.

You stopped reading after the first paragraph, didn’t you?

Maybe because it’s a bit like if someone said “I got the test results, I don’t have cancer”, and that dude replied with “the fact that you think cancer is the only danger you should be concerned about is telling”.

Sure, it’s technically correct, but it’s obnoxious and, without any further context, just seems to be off-topic.

The one that should have been written immediately after outrage began, and ideally before removing dozens if not hundreds of posts and comments covering this topic.

For what it’s worth - apparently they said they’re crafting a response fairly early, kept one of the original threads and removed the rest as duplicates.

But I don’t know if that’s really the case.

Go ahead, teach me.

From what you’re saying, they would’ve already introduced all those capitalist methods of control the first time around.

Which they didn’t.

What gives?

Also: the EU is literally incapable of “gobbling up capital gains for themselves” because “themselves” doesn’t exist in this context - the EU is not a “State”. The member-states might (and some do).

LOL, whatever you’re taking, stop, it’s doing your brain in! :D

but who needs that baked into their phone for every moment?

Approximately 5.78 billion people.

Yes, that was exactly the point I was making.

The “primary” distros would be Arch, Debian, Fedora, and NixOS.

Anything that grew out of those (with NixOS being to young for that yet, I think), is going to run basically identically, and since they all grow from the same kernel, at a fundamental level they also behave similarly.

Like, if you switch from macOS to Windows, you see fundamental differences in how things operate. If you switch from Fedora to Arch, you need to learn the new package manager syntax, but the rest is still Linux.

I’m simplifying, but I think you know what I mean.

Kind of, but some distros are still much more stable than others.

Depends on the hardware config mostly.

Much like choosing pop vs debian.

See? Here’s the problem - I installed PopOS on my old EliteBook to check it out and it’s been absolutely marvellous. Zero issues whatsoever.

At the same time, at work we have laptops that choke and panic under Debian.

For some distros you might have to switch to the iwd instead of networkmanager for wifi to work correctly. You might have to disable powersaving on your wifi or Bluetooth to work correctly (…)

And unless the people doing the “let’s use Linux for however many days” challenge have that specific issue, they won’t learn about it anyway.

On top of that - even if they said “OK, we’re using specifically Mint for 30 days”, and then you go out and try Mint, YOU might end up with massive issues, because your hardware is not supported properly.

They’d have to specify the OS and the hardware if you want a “reproducible experience”.

The quality of the documentation and the user community also matters a lot in practice. Do they yell at noobs to RTFM or answer welcoming and politely?

In my experience, after looking through r/Linux, r/Linux4noobs, or the various Linux communities on Lemmy - you’re going to get yelled at no matter the distro. It’s a matter of timing and luck (who’s currently online, and are they having a good day).

Did you just say Ubuntu four times?

That was kind of my point.

It’s not a problem that’s going to pop-up during a “let’s use XYZ for ## days” challenge.

Including one who was super stoked to switch to Linux and actually properly prepared.

This is an extremely bad take.

99% of Linux distros behave the same for the most part. There are outliers, like immutables, or NixOS, but whether you’re using Ubuntu, PopOS, Kubuntu, or Mint, your experience with the “linuxness” of your OS will be mostly identical. I’m not talking about things like “the DE looks different”, or the overall “look and feel”, I’m talking about software compatibility, driver compatibility, etc.

You could, I guess, argue if they should say “we’re testing a Debian based distro” instead of “Linux”, but that’s about it.

Enjoy the ride! :)

Oh! You might find this useful. It’s a list of various setting changes/fixes I made after switching and encountering various issues, or annoyances. Some of these were under Kubuntu, most are under Garuda, but I don’t think anything in there is distro-specific, so it should work on both Debian-based and Arch-based.

If you’ve never installed Linux before, I would start with something user-friendly, like Kubuntu or Bazzite. Both come with KDE as their main Desktop Environment (“DE”), so you could do what OP did looks-wise.

If you’re a technical user, and don’t hate having to sometimes do things manually, try Garuda Linux - it’s Arch-based, but catered very towards Linux newbies and does a lot of hand-holding. I use it and I enjoy it very much.

To specifically do what OP did with his DE - KDE comes with the concept of Panels and Widgets. The top bar you see in the screenshot is a Panel. On it, there are (from right to left) the System Tray widget, a Spacer widget, a Digital Clock widget with customised display format (something you can do in the settings of the widget), another Spacer, an Icons-Only Task Manager widget (displays active applications and lets you pin applications - like the Taskbar in Windows or Dock in macOS), and finally the Application Launcher widget (the Start menu equivalent). Everything is pretty heavily customised (presumably with Panel Colorizer? Not sure), so that - out of the box - even with this exact setup copied, yours would look slightly different.

Yeah, that’s essentially what I meant. The validation could happen much like with PGP keys and passwords.