There are some blog posts on annas-blog.org from 2022, talking about IPFS.

FYI: There's also AnLinux, Linux Deploy, Termux, tainer, UserLAnd, ...

Some of them aren't maintained anymore. And they don't necessarily have hardware-acceleration. But don't all require root and system patches.

Mostly breaking it. They're centralizing stuff and nowadays lots of services depend on that single service provider. And the original idea of the internet was to make everyone equal and have some resilience against single points of failure. That's kind of detrimental to the whole idea.

Secondly, you unencrypt your traffic and send it to them plain so they can read everything. That may or may not be an issue for your use-case, but I like privacy and encryption and no third parties reading my messages.

And the question is: What do you need their service for? I understand that a tunnel is useful if you're behind a NAT. But the DDoS protection and attack prevention is mostly snake-oil for most people. It's often unnecessary, the free tier doesn't include any of the interesting stuff and it's questionable if most people get targeted by DDoS attacks anyways. And as I heard if it comes to that point, they will cease service to you anyways and want to see money ($240 to $2.400 per year.) So I don't see a good reason why you'd use Cloudflare in the first place. Unless you need a tunnel or subscribe to one of the more expensive plans. Otherwise it only has downsides.

And one of them is Java?

You can skip subs, flairs and the gamification aspect (trophys, medals, gold, ...)

Most people need to learn about communities and instances. Rest should be similar. OP, comment, post, DMs, ...

Etiquette varies. Some people here like people who are nice to each other. Of course this doesn't always work.

I also pay attention to upvote people who reply to me. And I keep shitposting to the dedicated communities.

The dynamics and technical details can be different in detail. Some things don't work as smooth (yet). And we're only a few people here compared to the big commercial platforms.

Maybe consider a tool made for the task and not just some random Claude, which isn't trained on this at all and just makes up some random impression of what an expert could respond in a dramatic story?!

A distributed filesystem with all the content that mankind has ever created. Nothing gets taken down, everything is encoded in HEVC or AV1, 3D and mega-superduper-sound. Streaming clients for every platform and TV. And monetization built in so the content creators have some motivation to upload their content themselves and get payed directly, without labels and other companies in the middle who take the largest cut.

I like it. I've never been a fan of the proprietary Google services and everything relying on their APIs, push notifications and everything using their servers. Breaking that and fragmenting the ecosystem means developers have to come up with other solutions, maybe standardize protocols and not just rely on Google's services because they're easy to use.

Currently contactless payment only properly works with Google as a middleman. Every proprietary app displays locations in Google Maps, there is no choice to not send your location to Google. Nearly every messenger routes push notifications over Google's servers. There is no text to speech for other languages than English. No car play etc. Some proprietary apps rely on Firebase because it's easy to use. Some don't even work at all without Google. It's more the source code of the operating system is open and permissively licensed, but they took care the higher level functions that are super important to apps and the user all rely on them.

We're talking about Linux package formats every second day here. Let's today talk about IKEA. I like it.

• https://openlgtv.github.io
• https://www.webosbrew.org/

uninstall grub

You might want to google a complete guide. "how to remove grub", "restore windows bootmanager" or something like this. Things are a bit different depending on your setup (uefi, do you want do clean the efi partition, do you need help deleting the other partitions...)

i have used the old way before:

bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

but google it yourself. it isn't difficult and my windows knowledge is a bit rusty.

Linux, Mint at least, feels incomplete, sort of like a tech demo

I can tell you, this feeling won't go away. I have the same feeling with windows or macos. You just had one glimpse at something that looked strange to your eyes and you then chose to believe in your prejudices. This is not Mint's fault. Like I use windows and ask myself how people work with that. Well, gaming and updating my old TomTom gps is kind of okay, that's what i use windows for. But how do you for example rename 350 photos from your camera after you found out you forgot to set the date and now all filenames are off (or from 1970)? How do you develop stuff? Do you really download gigabytes of some colourful IDE from the internet just to execute a simple 'make' command? How do you set up a webserver for your aunt's etsy shop and install php and a database?

You're alright not wanting to try linux or not liking it. But to give it a chance, you need to open up the package manager and see it has like 10.000s of packages of different software waiting for you. After first installation it's kind of bare. You're right. Thats intentional to make it slim, fast and customizable.

HDDs are slow

Put your system on SSD together with things you need available, and your other data that won't fit gets stored on the HDD. That way your computer is fast and the data that isn't accessed that often (or gets cached anyways) is stored on the cheap additional storage.

concept of having to compile something // simply download an installer

I'm sorry. You're applying windows concepts to something where they do not apply, and this is making you fail. People from the linux community dedicate their time to make most of the software available in the package manager. Tailor it to work well with the rest of Mint etc... 99% of everyday software is available like this. This is your installer! If you chose to circumvent this, download random stuff from the internet and try to compile it yourself... You're allowed to do it, but you're on your own. It's not an iPhone where there's no alternative to the store. But... You actively chose to do something difficult, that beginners aren't supposed to do and it's not how it's supposed to work. I use linux exclusively every day and also develop stuff with it. I rarely compile or download something myself.

future once Windows has devolved to the point of being garbage

There won't be such a point in time. They feed you the changes in very small steps that are barely noticable. It's like with that mean story with the frog and the boiling water.

(With that said... We're all aware you're posting this on the linux community and opinions might be a bit .... biased .... )