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Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever" (www.neowin.net)
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[+] -8 points 10 months ago* (7 children)

Yes, I find Linux terribly unusable on my laptop, way too many driver issues, hard to get into a secure state, and I miss apps like signal (no official build) mpc-hc (the replacements are all trash) and a functional version of thunderbird (lol at the tray icon third party implementation that just doesn't work). Etc, etc. I don't have a ton of unique needs but I do want theto work

^and this is of course with KDE, gnome is all that but with just a trash user interface. How many gestures do I need to use to make my computer treat me like an adult ffs.

It's still of course on my server (an old laptop which ironically can't be used as a laptop because at some point after some random update the login service broke and won't accept input from the keyboard lol) and other headless devices I don't have to actually use, thank god.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Signal has a Linux client though? I literally use it myself

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    The signal org produces a debian-compatible package and an apt server. I suppose there are hoops to jump through to make that work reliably on other distros but by that point my interest in using Linux was dwindling. (I actually moved for the performance benefits which didn't materialize I think due to linux' piss poor memory handling -- I have a pretty low end laptop with only 16 gb of ram. the above we're all just issues along the way).

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    It's also in the official arch repositories, so any arch-derived distro has an easy install. I don't know about other distros however

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    If you care to trust random strangers with your secure messenger that's a choice you can make (admittedly the desktop isn't particularly secure to begin with but even more reason to use the actual org's build imo). I'm sure christian heusel is very reputable.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    And you also need to trust your OS not taking screenshots of your apps or recording the text displayed onto your screen

    There's plenty of links in this chain, there's a lot you need to be aware of if you're going to those lengths. Pick your battles

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    My os does not do that

    I don't consider "wanting a secure app to be installed through first party means" to be particularly unusual. I know in Linux it's standard to just install random stuff from the internet with root. I've obviously done that myself, but for secure stuff I want first party. Making a flatpak wouldn't be hard (they probably just need to review someone else's work -- it's like an intern project)

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