Purchased a Proton Unlimited (500G) account a month ago however haven't done much with it, yet. Really needed it for the three Internet Domains feature (email), however, I wanted to upload data from a damaged (screen) Amazon Fire and could not get the Drive App to install the other day. No stress, just looking for a solution. .. Now that I see there is a tool to import from Gmail, etc., I will be investigating porting that over in January. .. Thank you for the video.

Surprised you didn't mention Louise Rossmans "GrayJay" app that lets you stream content from multiple providers.. although technically it's not under the GPL2 license properly.

Everything about this framework laptop seems silly. It feels like a toy. Before the existence of this laptop manufacturer I don't think anyone would ever care or want to swap the position of the keyboard or the palmrest. Because it serves no purpose and makes the laptop feel like a toy. The swappable GPU and (maybe in future) CPU are (and maybe will) a great thing to have and something that this laptop has opposed to any other. While the addin cards for ports are nice and I can't see why it would bother me to have it on my laptop, I still for no explainable reason see it janky :/

LibreWolf is a prehardened version of Firefox with UBlock Origin included. It saves you the time of configuring the settings yourself.

I switched to K9 Mail (Proton Mail Mobile?) on Android after Outlook on Android started pushing ads. I dont regret my decision at all.

So, as usual, the problem is that the benefits touted by Linux fans are things most (if not all) Windows and macOS users either do not care about or actually do not want. 1. Portability - the vast, vast majority of people never do this. Instead they either backup their system and restore (macOS) or swap and let Windows update to match. 2. Modularity - the cousin of "many choices" - and again the thing that literally turns off most Windows and probably ALL macOS users about Linux. Too many choices is as bad as too few. Most people aren't tech nerds - they aren't obsessed about fiddling with the OS - they have an app, they just want to get work done. 3. Live Systems - well, with macOS this is just wrong - macOS can boot from external drives - so this is the same basic feature. Windows can sort of do this as well (WindowsToGo). But the bigger question again is "How many *normal* people (think 'your mom') would ever do this?" 4. Runs on old Hardware - Windows 10 runs on hardware back to 2000. If you're really using a 24 year old computer, you need to get a job or a life. macOS.. well.. it has bigger issues with old hardware - but that's related to changing the only supported CPU every decade. 5. Driverless Printer support - both Windows and macOS supports CUPS. Surprise. This is only a problem with proprietary printers and they won't work on Linux either. 6. Visual customization - See #2. In fact, most Windows users are *complaining* that Microsoft made a relatively minor change to their UI from Win10 to Win11. Most people buy a computer to get work done, not to fiddle endlessly with hundreds of fiddly options and mods. macOS users have even less choice and they're absolutely passionate about it because it means less thinking. 7. Escaping vendor lock in - See #2, #4, #6 - this is only an issue if you don't like what you get. Desktop Linux is 2-3% of the world market. Windows is 70%. macOS is 20%. Most people see a computer as a tool to get something done. As long as it works well enough, "vendor lock in" is actually a plus since you don't have to do the leg work. 8. And more - of the same. LOTS OF DISTROS! See #2, #4, #6, #7. Look, if Linux works for you, that's cool. Use it. Love it. But until Linux fans stop trying to convert the masses to their religion, shut up and listen and learn WHY Windows and macOS people stick with their preferred OS *even when it ticks them off*, then Linux will never take off as a choice. Stop telling people why their choice is bad (which is essentially what this entire video is trying to do), try admitting that their choice works for them and then try explaining why Linux might be better - *for them*, not for you. Hint: The single biggest distro of Linux is... Android. Every Android device runs Linux. And not ONE person has ever bought an Android device to use Linux.0 Hint: it's all about workflow. No one but an OS fanatic cares about what's running under the hood - they care about the apps and the workflow they've created using those apps. Recreating a workflow is expensive and time consuming - and unless it offers something that make the actual tasks being done better or simpler - there's literally NO benefit from switching. This is why the "LibreOffice is JUST as good as Microsoft Office" is such a fail. Yes, it can do most of the same things (but not all), but it also does them *differently*. So an Office user has to relearn not just the OS, but the software they use daily. And if there's no benefit (their printer works, they have anti-malware built in, they get regular updates, things just work...) what's the benefit is switching? Linux fans keep coming up with lists of "benefits" that are very important to themselves, but that no normal user cares even a little about. That's the disconnect that keeps Linux at 2-3%

how do you make the connection from windows to linux (fedora 41) when linux is locked? I can get an RDP connection going using the windows RDP app, but only when the linux machine is unlocked. Is there a way to connect when linux is locked?

This video is coming across as a anti Chinese propaganda movement. Give your head a shake, Apple and Google collect probably more data on it's user then China does. Do you not think that USA government has no information on their citizens? Apple and Google are in it for the data for marketing while the government is for control. I wish those that make videos such as this run two brain cells together as they come across as fools.

14:46 It seems that newer versions of macOS actually do that It shows me a popup, asking if I want to copy it to the Applications folder before running it Some apps also can check for this, e.g. Chrome for example will show a tooltip asking you if you want it to copy itself to the Applications folder for you

Windows is also portable, just depends on your licence, OEM licences are locked to your motherboard, but since Win10 you can run it non activated indefinitely so that point is moot. Drivers are handled with either the install disk/image or usually downloaded online automatically for you. Reinstalling drivers isn't that big of deal, a lot of it is already there. OSX you CAN image the drive to a different drive if you need to move it to another Mac. All Apple's hardware is of known quantity so there is not much driver confusion, unless your Mac is over 8 years old then you're orphaned and you're stuck with an older version of OSX, never mind trying to move it to standard PC hardware. I don't know anything about UI customizability with OSX, but Windows certainty has HUNDREDS of apps that change the UI.. you can make Windows 11 look and feel like Windows XP if you wanted to. It wouldn't be to hard for this to exist on OSX. As for Linux, it's KDE or nothing. Your point about it being a "personal" computer is valid but once you're on the web it's all the same interface regardless as to what OS you're using. All the things you go though, like "you can pick your file system that meets your needs best" is meaningless. I mean what other "use cases" do you need for storage? You just need to be able to keep your files, who cares about what the file system is, whatever works. The reason the Steam Deck runs Arch Linux is because they'd have to charge $80-100 more for a windows licence, and not be at the mercy of Microsoft nerfing performance, or screwing something up after an update. Plus it's a very under-performing hardware, so it needs a lightweight OS that windows would otherwise bog down with bloat. Plus this was only doable with the recent advancements with WINE and Proton, otherwise Linux would see be left to the hard core nerds. 5:34 You are absolutely wrong. The first LIVE CD I ever used was HIRENS Boot CD that was running Windows CE, and it still exists today based on Win11. It's likely the advent of Hiren's boot CD is what lead to Live CDs in Linux. Just because it's not "official" doesn't mean it doesn't exist, as windows CE is literally what you're talking about, it's just largely useless. Plus there's nothing "official" about any linux distro out there, you're running the same risks with every random linux distro you experiment with as there are FAR more people making these than they are based in Windows. If you wanna use older PC use an older version of the OS. But yes I do agree linux in this case is a better alternative if you want to keep updated. Yet I have been having issues getting Linux to run on an old x64 platform, but doesn't support UEFI boot. It's quite annoying and I'm about to give up on that old platform running a NAS. Printer drivers yeah ok that's sounds cool, but how often are you installing printer drivers? And like i said before it's not a big deal downloading drivers and installing them. I mean if you're high end uber snooby linux user you should be able to figure out that simple task. LOL Visual customization.. you're basically repeating yourself about modularity. Um... news flash.. nothing is preventing you from using an old versions of windows. You can go back to Windows 1.0 if you want. XP still runs fine on a vast majority of old PCs. Many many users are still sticking to Windows 7.

That was very helpful thank you

Tor is definitely a honeypot.

Maybe we can use this home assistant thing to finally talk to our linux desktops

I really love the idea if Framework but indeed, the unnecessary surface modularity and the absolute horrid build quality (by my macbook standards even though i never owned a macbook) makes it a non-option for me, very sad

Brave. I use Brave because Firefox and Chrome worked much slower when adblockers installed on them. I tried Opera, but too much annoying stuff. I wanted to try out DuckDUckGo Browser (not the search engine). Maybe I will one day, but already use it as search engine on Brave. Brave has a built in adblocker and no annoying google popups and annoying repeating tips and baloons everywhere telling you basically how stupid you are (I hate google for that), notification popups and other shits. On Brave after instalation, I disabled the stuff about bitcoin (5-6 checkboxes), some things not useful for me and now, after 2 years of use it is still very clean and slick. I don't care about colors and fonts.

AI is a computer program and data, and has no need of an "AI Bill of Rights." AI has no rights, only people have rights. But the President of the United States already has the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights." The US is dreaming if they think they can regulate AI, as the world is full of computer programmers. If the World Economic Forum (WEF Davos) and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) want more government regulations, do you think that they are doing so for the good of humanity, or are they just wanting to increase their world government power and agenda? The European Union already has the GDPR, the world’s strongest data security and privacy law, implemented by the European Union in 2018. One part of this legislation requires human intervention in some automated decision-making. We do not need to have civil rights protections made applicable to AI.

Gnome feels like I turned my high performance multi monitor beast of a machine in to an android phone. The interface is great for touch (I'd run it on a tablet! ) but i can't stand it on my desktop. Stupid sliding toggle buttons are the worst! Just let me click on them. Don't make me drag with my mouse to flip a binary setting, ffs!

08:07 I would like a kernel that makes the sound works every time and my bluetooth headphone can connect also every time and also a good wayland that doesn't break a window share.

19:05 i suggest raspberrey 5.0 pie for affordable pc's . For programming. Not mac & expensive pc's who quote price in proportion to average income of people. Let fancy bussiness men & rich buy computers . Cant make hardware free like linux but can atleast make affordable to programmers

Great job on this video! Thank you for the inspiration! ✨

Finally, for God's sake, DO in Mouse settings the choice of the Number of LINES TO SCROLL ! Windows '98 had it. This is what WE NEED.

If you use search from iOS you are not obliged to reveal your identity to google. Not to mention that you can choose between different search engines too.

Pixel 9pro, 6.3", not china made, 120Hz, Iphone style

1:50 "for a while now" since like Windows 3.1

how will the change in tax write-offs for R&D affect this ? its leading to lowered hiring rates for software developers....

What about Darktable 5.0?

Apple gets paid $20 billion a year by Google to essentially do nothing??? That is freaking insane. Of course, they don't want to lose that deal, it's free money.

Aaaand FSF haven't sued Red Hat. I guess what they did *was* legal.

$7.7 billion seems way too low seeing how big Linux is in server space.

FWeIW, I have similarly setup Fedora 41 and CachyOS (btw) on the same box and CachyOS (btw) feels so much faster it's ridiculous. I don't think it's just the kernel though.

Mate and cinnamon are the best

So Balena Etcher actually worked in Linux? Ever? Balena is the only reason I keep a functional Windows10.

Any decent ARM chips outside buying a mac?

Linux stans will never understand that most people don't want to spend hours configuring their computer for basic functionality.

To me it doesn't seem like a fair extimation. Only Open Office is probably worth more then that, leave alone the kernel, that is powering billions of devices, or the Apache fundation, running the entire Internet

Read some articles saying KDE Plasma has caught up almost neck in neck with xfce in performance. Would be interesting to see if this is correct. But what I wonder most is. Since everyone mentions how customizable these desktops are. Is it possible to make any distro look like others distros with the same desktop, like Enso OS?

First of all, if you really think that Apple is concerned with users' privacy, you are seriously deluded. But I guess that is probably most Apple product users.

18:10 me too, moving to fedora since then

Regarding the net worth of FOSS: As I donated ~200 EUR to FOSS projects (would be 50 EUR more if the Linux foundation accepted my credit card) I wonder what the return value for companies would be. Nobody cares what I do with my money, but companies are profit driven organisations and not charities. So there must be a clear positive side to this. It wouldn't make any sense to develop stuff for a minority group of users. If it would there would already be Adobe products on Linux.

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apps to do things that I don't know what they are doing.

re: Alternative kernels aren't necessary anymore I used to use Linux Zen for GPU passthrough, it was necessary to get ACS override patch to bypass IOMMU group restrictions. For me that was the entire point of alternative kernels, so I don't think this headline makes much sense

Optimal stick placement on controllers is more a matter of primary inputs than it is symmetry (although symmetry is still a positive.) Basically, primary input methods should be top left and top right, secondary should be bottom left and bottom right. The Playstation layout has D-pad and face buttons in the primary positions. Generally, this works well for 2D gaming, especially platformers. The X-Box layout has Left stick and face buttons in the primary positions. A lot of games use this as the main layout, and it's intuitive and comfortable. But it honestly gets pretty awkward for some games that require frequent face button input and camera controls. Then there's the WiiU layout with both analog sticks in the primary positions. Funnily enough, while not a console known for it's shooters, the layout actually makes a lot of sense for it. You get a symmetric layout with both sticks in the primary position. I won't speak for the controllers as a whole, but the layout is actually great for a lot of modern games. Issues with the analog stick placement on the game pad is an issue with controller shape, and unrelated to the symmetric aspect. The best layout really is game dependent. But both thumbs in the primary position is best. Offset, or both thumbs in the secondary position can be argued, but I think most people would be better served with an offset layout. I hated the PS2 and PS3 controllers for being stuck in the past and not offering controllers well suited for 3D gaming. Ironically, since then, the indie revolution has really brought a lot more old school style games that work nicely with a D-pad, so I'd say the layout has somewhat come back into style (although I still wouldn't recommend it as the modern standard.) Then there's D-Pad plus right stick in the primary positions. There's a reason that to the best of my knowledge, nobody has made this monstrosity. Mirror images of the above layouts are technically just as good, but never used. And we're not even going to discuss the 2 analog sticks on the same side of the controller combinations.

I would love to see a tablet (maybe e-ink) with strong magnets on the back so you can stick it to your fridge

Just made the full jump from windows to mint as my daily driver. I'm completely windows free for the first time and Mint is great.

Apple being overpriced is only half true. The Mac mini m4 base model is the best value you can get for that price

how much is GIMP worth lmao I tried running gimp 3, and its still bad!

i have to disagree with the valuation method. If we consider how much open source stuff is in products of other companies, and if we naively say that this open source software then created an amount of value proportuonal to how much of the product uses open source softwsre in said companies, that number would probably be one of the highest valuations there are. think about stuff like curl, ffmpeg, the linux kernel. modern digital infrastructure is built on these among others. they are the foundation. 7.7 billion sounds awfully low when considering that. And then theres the arguably invaluable variable of consumer choice. arent happy with something? theres bound to be some other software out there. All these open source office suites that, while a mixed bag, can save you the horrendous asking price for microsoft products. Blender is a software that could ask for not insignificant amounts of money. GIMP, Inkscape, all amazing offers that can maybe not compete professionally, but are an amazing offer for semi pro or amateur work that would not exist without it

I think you overestimate the 'moral' of the community. A normal user just want a functioning system - Arch is too hard for many and Debian forks too slow, so many move to fedora or nobara - they don't care about open source and the community part behind its idea. This is especially true for people who just switch from Windows to Linux. I switched recently and tbh if I weren't addicted to YT i wouldn't even know that it is a problem, that a company is behind a distro. Now, okay, I know it and will avoid fedora even if I think it would be the best choice for me.

Hello , I got a question , if you are not using Andriod , how do you set it up ?update or use anything in google play ?