savvywolf

I think it's petty to not play a game just because of the engine it's written in...

I think I may have to make an exception to that rule for this. :P

(Trans rights are human rights, btw)

Edit: ... Wait, hang on. Isn't the notion of using a game engine at all "woke" in itself? Like, isn't that the entire thing that started this whole thing?

I'm thinking things like where they don't give you access to a console. I guess like Android or things with heavy parental controls or whatever.

I mean pretty much any distro that isn't locked down will be good for programming. All you really need is a package manager with a selection of at least somewhat modern dev tools, which almost all of them have.

For most people, the only security they really need is against people either stealing devices or accessing them without permission. In those cases, biometrics (if implemented properly) and passwords are roughly equivalent.

"Wait, you all aren't American?"

Honestly, IMO Mint is just Ubuntu without all the scetchy stuff. The only real major difference (besides the packaging debate) is the default graphical shell.

If you like gnome shell, I wonder if it's worth installing Mint and then gnome-shell...

Worth noting that if you're trying to block telemetery or ads or things like that, using an adblocking dns is probably the better option. Either through a pihole on your network or some online adblocking dns.

Other than that, if you're looking for one because you think you "need" one, don't worry too much if it's just a personal computer connected to a router. Most distros ship with sensible defaults for security.

If you actually want to use a firewall, block all incoming and allow all outgoing is a reasonable rule of thumb if you aren't running a server. Note that "block incoming" doesn't block connections that the system itself started.

Wonder if we'll have another good ol' browser war when/if Ladybird releases.

Yeah, was more poking fun of people who cling to the while Unix Philosophy stuff like it's some unwritten rule that must be followed.

I honestly think there's tons of Linux software that could be broadly defined as "multiple things".

Even looking at the links other responders have posted, I even think a lot of linux software is made up of components which are tightly coupled together.

Praise be the Unix Philosophy. May all your projects do precisely one thing, and let they not be tempted by forbidden fruit and do two things.

If you're worried about stability, I think the NTFS driver will probably be more widely used and tested than WinBTRFS. Of course, nothing is 100% bug free, and disks can fail at any time for no reason. Instead of looking for a stable filesystem, I'd suggest setting up backups such that a random failure every few years doesn't cause everything to be lost.

Check /etc/skel/.bashrc, if it's in there as well, it was set up by your distro.

What it does is check for the existence of ~/.bashrc.d and, if it finds one, sources all the files inside it. This effectively means that you can create script files like ~/.bashrc.d/myfile.sh and they will have the same effect as if they had been put directly into .bashrc. Some people prefer having one file for each "bashrc thing" whilst some prefer just having one big file. Ultimately it's personal preference.