Most people on this planet simply do not care. They don’t want to learn terminal and you cannot change their minds. But they still need a desktop OS that works, so we have to give it to them unless you want everyone to stay on Windows forever.

Only 5-8% of the population is even tech-savvy.

I still use Office 97 and 2000. Works fine for what I need

Do people even still target ancient versions?

I tried this once and it deleted 3 hours worth of comments on a Word doc. Never again

Anonymous polls are indeed useless for several reasons.

nvidia works better for me on Linux than both nvidia/amd on windows. I know not everyone’s experience is the same, but it’s at least not universally bad in case you were trying to say that.

That’s great for you. But it also has tons of problems with a lot of other users. Including issues with proprietary drivers, XWayland compat for many apps/games, screen tearing, multi-monitor setups (esp. with different aspect ratios and/or dpi scaling factors), VRR, HDR, rotation, color management, many accessibility features etc.

I would guess not very representative at all. I don’t believe wayland usage is higher, like at all. Maybe in a limited setting like NEW installs of the most popular distros, just because they default to it. But the existing install base? No way.

Well do you want useful stats or not /s

But seriously, a lot of opt-in (that never get opted in to) data is insanely useful for developers, but it has such a bad stigma that we never get anywhere close to the amount of usefulness a larger dataset could provide.

Because a huge portion of the people willing to do this are already on Wayland, but I believe there exists an even larger percentage on X that are not submitting any data.

And another commenter said:

We’re just left to do armchair psychology about the type of people who would submit data to this site. So the numbers are effectively useless.

voluntary data tends to be pretty skewed

Yea and a strangely (to me) large proportion of people seem vehemently opposed to apps even asking to collect usage data, which is incredibly helpful for developers, putting aside the more controversial things like privacy/marketing uses of the data.

Personally I don’t believe for one second that Wayland has actually surpassed the install base of X11-like display servers.

I would argue NetBSD or plan9 is much smaller and easier to read, but of course this comes with potentially decreased usability.

if you think that’s insane, you should see LibreJS.

several times I have searched for a problem and found my own stackoverflow question with no replies.

I don’t. I ask because confidently wrong people are one of the biggest reasons why the internet sucks IMO, and I want to understand why people do it.

“she goes, or I go”

Why is asking for feedback a bad thing? IMO it’s better than just being on by default, and still gives the developers an opportunity to at least get SOME useful feedback instead of all the people that screech about how telemetry should be banned entirely. I would bet money none of those people are professional developers.

everything I know about Ubuntu is heresay

Then why did you act like you knew what you were talking about?

There are ways to remove snap and prevent it from (even accidentally) being installed again, that’s what I do. https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable

But you can tell me how you think I was talking down to people? I’d like to know so I can correct my behavior if necessary.

Was it the word turbonerd? Sure not everyone may agree with that, it was said jokingly and I really just meant non-professional users who are passionate about Linux, wasn’t trying to make fun of anyone.

Can you list some reasons why you think this is true?

if you’re also using raidz or mirroring in zfs, then yes. it can also do encryption and deduplication

Ubuntu is very controversial in the more advanced sphere

I would argue only turbonerds really complain about it. But in my experience, for professionals who just need to get things done it works perfectly fine 99% of the time. Same for Windows or OSX to be honest.

Of course there’s going to be those one or two guys from the vocal minority with some esoteric hardware that didn’t work chiming in shortly I’m sure.

Good lord. How on earth do they prevent people from abusing this to no end?

https://geekflare.com/run-linux-from-a-web-browser/

Doesn’t matter, we should attack the argument not the person.

ad hominem much

ngl this site looks really sketchy

any website

I’m sorry to say this is not possible with any app.

If you restart and put the setting back to how it was, and it still works, then that’s probably what happened.

Glad you got it resolved. FWIW This problem should have affected practically all video playback and not just mp4, so adding that part in and then trying to find reasons why ONLY mp4 wouldn’t work… doesn’t get someone very far in helping you :)

Yeah either that or they use a custom SSH implementation that just ignores the username because it’s not needed for the type of authentication they’re doing (like checking the keys of a specific account/project that is already known).

Right, but the article explicitly mentions securely, so I thought those types of tools would be more relevant to recommend.

Secure though? Is it end-to-end encrypted?

Yea I have my own list with over a hundred of these sites.

“Fork Us” button goes right to the github repo.

Honestly, because Windows is a steaming pile of garbage and using Mac feels like swimming with pool floaties.

Obviously you are not their target market as the vast majority of their users do not have such extreme complaints about the OS.

Ok please don’t hang me for this, I’m genuinely curious. Why does it seem like the only people who are upset about NixOS are 1. transgender, and 2. can’t actually pinpoint exact problems, or offer any solutions, but expect other people to magically change somehow?

Is there something I’m missing?

Why are identity politics even allowed to be discussed in an unrelated field (software development) in the first place? Seems it always just leads to people getting upset when you can just not talk about it as it’s really not related at all to my knowledge.

df -h . you’re welcome

Yes but that small kernel is still pretty massive and all running at ring0

Do you have any proof for that claim?