Yeah with “lockable mode” I mean locking by default instead of requiring every program to specifically call for locking.

It would probably break lots of software, but only using such mode for the users home (or maybe even specific Downloads/documents/desktop/etc folders within the home directory) could reduce the impact.

[Edit] wait I think there is whole fs locking mode on mounting, with the “mand” option, going to test it.

I think files being locked is really intuitive, which greatly helps new users. Allowing files to be modified or deleted while they are open makes it really easy to shoot yourself in the foot. For example in the video of Linus switching to Linux he was uncompressing a file and tried to open it while it was still uncompressing, which failed since the file wasn’t complete. He didn’t understand why the file wasnt uncompressing correctly. That can’t happen on Windows, since the file being uncompressed would be locked.

I think there should be a ‘lockable mode’, and for distributions oriented to new users the home directory should be mounted like that.

No, silverblue does all the work before you restart the computer, and the actual work doesn’t involve replacing the OS itself but basically downloading some files and just checking a different git branch when booting.

This is a byproduct of one of the largest and more ignored differences between windows and linux. The fact that Linux let’s you modify files while they are open whereas windows doesn’t.

This means that you can update a linux system by just replacing the files with the new ones while it runs. On the other side, Windows can’t modify its own files while it runs, so instead it has a second entire OS to update itself, and requires a reboot to unload all the files and boot from the updater without locking windows files.

I’m personally waiting for kerneld

I love Zotero so much. It’s way better than Mendeley

I’m loving that new activities indicator! way better than just saying “activities”

Only tried nextDNS and it’s fantastic. Fast and customizable.

Every once in a while it slows down quite a bit, latency goes from ~5ms to ~200ms or so

NTFS is by far the worse filesystem commonly used nowadays. Even Apple has a better filesystem.

When using Windows the thing I miss the most is instant copies. Everyone else has them and they are incredibly handy.

In fact, with a CoW filesystem Microsoft could even circle around the disaster that is Windows update without needing to remake their entire OS.

I played Morrowind after playing Skyrim and I found it much better.

It’s much less accessible, but the writing is actually good and it has the best ‘R’ in RPG of any game I have ever played. The character progression is amazing and there are so many fun ways to build a character.

Windows had a fantastic UI but I despise the changes they have made to it.

A bottom bar showing all your windows? fantastic! windows are such a core component of the OS that it sure looks like the OS was named after them right? So why in the world would closed programs, with no windows appear there? why would multiple windows fuse into a single icon???

I was fine with just not pinning programs and setting the task bar to “never combine”, but they literally removed the option with Windows 11. I really don’t understand why Microsoft is de-emphasizing the ‘windows’ part of Windows. Apparently ‘never combine’ is coming back at some point to 11, so that’s good.

Now, I’m not going to compare the Windows UI to Linux DE’s since there are many alternatives that may or may not fit someone better.

As for hardware compatibility, I would say its a mixed bag on both directions. I moved my laptop from Windows to Linux when it started bluescreening when waking up from sleep. It works fine on Linux.

Sure, you have some WiFi cards that don’t work out of the box on Linux. But they don’t work out of the box on Windows either, you need to install the drivers on both OSs manually so its not any better.

Then you have some computers where Linux works like ass and can’t sleep, and you got some computers where Windows works like ass and can’t sleep.

The only solid arguments against Linux nowadays is

1. Programs don’t run.
2. The Windows display stack is vastly superior, VRR, HDR and fractional scaling all working fine for a long time already where Linux is barely beginning to figure them out.

Well so can you install Linux on Windows, Windows on macOS, Windows on Linux, macOS on Windows and macOS on Linux.

From that point of view, all OSs are identical (and to be fair, they pretty much are, nearly everything runs on a VM called ‘web browser’ already).

Nowadays with WSL Windows is pretty good. Pretty much anything you can do on Linux you can do on Windows.

Now, not being worse is not really a point towards Windows. For developers its absolutely not worth it tanking the horrible storage performance, preinstalled ads and handing your soul to Microsoft for the privilege of not being worse than native Linux.

Did you add Flathub or rpmfusion? the store without those things is kinda barren

My brother is the kind of people that installs stuff without reading a single option, just ‘next next next’ until the installer closes.

I would go for Vivaldi or ungoogled chromium

It says it? TIL

I knew about that (kinda intuitively, openSUSE installer behaves the same way and I just assumed that Debian would be the same)

Fedora is fantastic, but I’m a little shaken about Redhat, which is downstream of Fedora and a big supported.

Also, Fedora is a bit annoying with codecs and non-free software in general. They are extremely anal about not infringing copyright.