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Sure. I can’t wait to finally make the switch (Nvidia).

Oh gawd, I hate that (sorry 😅). But so long as it was just an option, even a default one, that would be fine with me.

I think Gnome wins as I have it. But I would take the vanilla macos shell (not the underlying OS, just the shell) over vanilla Gnome.

Nextcloud notes. They’ll sync as text filed between your devices. You can use markdown, and they have a mobile app.

Honestly I use brave from time to time as my backup browser and I have never noticed the difference.

I think the performance issue would not be related to loading simple pages. It seems like it would be more noticeable when running load-demanding web apps.

What were you doing on it if you don’t mind me asking.

I use it on a 5 year old low powered laptop and have no issues.

It’s fast enough on any remotely modern hardware.

Personally I love the ability to still pimp it out with style sheets.

And yeah, Mozilla has so many, many problems. In many ways they have become Google’s pet, IMO. But most importantly they are not Google.

I think when Chrome came out Google was still a cool, hip company and Chrome fixed a lot of issues Firefox had. I used it for years. So they managed to become the normie cultural default. These people are hard to change habit-wise.

I could be wrong though. Just sort of thinking out loud.

Great answer. I do use systemd boot on one of my systems as well. It isn’t exactly systemd itself is it? Simply a boot loader packaged as part of the general systemd boot suite, right?

Haha, I think we’re similar people. I also want a 16:10 screen. Maybe someday.

Just let them do what they want to do. They can live their life the way they choose.

I second price to performance ratio. If I had more money to burn I probably would go all in on some of these Linux-targeted laptops.

I’d also add a lot of them seem overpowered for my needs. I do like me a big screen but I don’t need a powerful GPU to go with it. I have a desktop rig for that. I can always just ssh into it if I need to do GPU heavy calculations.

Oh cool. Glad it’s not ARM. Way more distro options.

Yeah but the majority of bots out there are going after easy prey. Honestly, if you use public key authentication with ssh you should be fine, even if it is on port 22. But it does of course clog up access logs.

Https and a server. If hosting at home just leave a high numbered port open. If on a vps then you should be able to use any port you want.

No longer using Ubuntu at all because they force snaps down your throat. While I do like snaps on the server environment, (I think a lot of the haters out there don’t see how nice they are on servers), I prefer to use Debian and then to just install snapd on my terms.

Fully agreed. But I know how to use cron, I have a life to live, and this switch is way down the priority list.

But it is something I’d like to find the time to do at some point.

I couldn’t yet used to Evolution. Tried it and didn’t like it. I really like Thunderbird and donate to them monthly. I’ve even embraced its RSS reader.

Is it a bit of a RAM-hogging, bloated mess? Yes, but eh, I’ve got 16 and 32 GB on my two machines. And it has everything I need. Let’s me manage 5 or 6 email accounts for different businesses a perfectly.

They are making a lot of changes. We’ll see how it ends up in a couple years.

I used to to vectorize and color my podcast logo. Big fan.

Very cool. I had no idea systemd sort of has a cron replacement. While in I don’t think I’ll switch from cron in the immediate future, it’s really good to know.