Easy. Every year is the Year of the Linux Desktop™.

The future as in this will dominate some day or as in this will be the best some day? Cause only one seems reasonable to me.

Though nothing can replace a proper backup

Hrm, but shouldn’t Linux Mint, being based on Ubuntu, have basically the same drivers?

To be fair, using Linux is (usually) much more of an active decision.

I thought there was an emacs command?

From the image, I don’t see how this was spamming, though.

Force of habit? Plus, if I used Windows, I wouldn’t use Edge out of spite. Fuck their shady ways of pushing users to use it.

Removed by mod

root folders as in /bin /etc.?

Timeshift can make use of BTRFS snapshots btw

VSCode has had that feature for some months now. Maybe it’s still hidden behind an off-by-default setting, but it’s there and I use it.

Oh my god

It’s great that you mention this, but this is a different layer of abstraction than what we were previously talking about.

Just to nitpick, RAM is usually not idle.

I guess I should be happy that I’ve never heard of winforms?

I’m not old enough to remember XMPP first-hand, so allow me to ask what functionality you mean. Do you mean to imply a fediverse, where whatsapp.com is merely an instance, such as lemmy.world is here?

I wish I could improve my car for free

Regarding security, yes. Other than that, Beeper allows you to centralize all kinds of messaging apps into one pretty nice (and open-source AFAIK) UI. Currently using it for all my hardly-used communication channels.

It has become better, though.

• Multi-device (without your primary device needing an internet connection)
• Deleting messages
• Editing messages
• Reactions
• Larger file uploads…