Yeah I’ve looked into other distributions. So far Kubuntu fits the bill just fine for me.

I don’t have enough spare time to mess around with troubleshooting issues, so stability is what I’m looking for and the Ubuntu flavors provide just that without being too outdated. And they provide 3rd party drivers out of the box.

I hear Fedora might be a good alternative, but I heard it’s a bit more difficult to find 3rd party support for hardware.

I’ve been running Linux on Nvidia graphics for 24 years. It’s never been an issue.

One coffee in the morning, a cup of strong tea in the early afternoon and herbal in the evening.

I’m on Kubuntu so still using version 5.x.

The symptoms I got was like when a Windows app crashes and does this “Solitaire” effect. It did that with the mouse pointer and everything else. Windows, taskbars and menus all displayed as outlines only with no icons or decorations inside. It was weird.

Someone described to me in detail how your computer resolves hostnames.

https://fedia.io/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/926852/-/comment/5928540

Probably because of your DNS configuration?

Neat! Man I’m learning so much in this thread it’s crazy. Thank you!

No no, I mean if someone downloads an infected pirated game from some shady website. I consider Steam to be very secure.

Ah see I didn’t think of the flatpak aspect. But if you download a game from some shady source and want to run it via flatpak Steam, how would you go about it?

I only use Steam as a regular deb install.

Holy shit! I’m gonna have to sit down to read that one. LoL

Thanks for the detailed comment.

I used PayPal for a little while in the mid 2000’s to pay for stuff online until I found out they could freeze my bank account.

I immediately removed my bank account from PayPal and over time I got a credit card and it was easier to use. I kept it with only my credit card in my account to sometimes but stuff on eBay and that’s the only time I use it

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

Mac OS has had this for ages.

Oh for sure.

I just keep thinking about this case where a woman was arrested for an illegal abortion in Nebraska and their Facebook Messenger chat history being handed over after police got a mandate.

According to a sworn affidavit from Detective Ben McBride of the Norfolk Police Investigations Unit, police started with a tip from a woman who described herself as a friend of Celeste’s who said she saw her take the first pill in April.

Link

It’s like when you move IRL. Just give them your new address. Done.

Technically, Ubuntu supports it’s LTS versions for something like 12 years I think?

Anyway, you can get Ubuntu 14.04 LTS still with the i386 32bit ISO.

https://www.releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/

I personally would install that and install something like FVWM95 or Blackbox WM or some other ancien desktop environment.

I don’t care too much about the size. It’s the weight that needs to be reduced on laptops.

Because companies make websites that only run on Chrome. They don’t test for Firefox. They don’t care.

Oh fuck no.

How about one with the concentration camps in Nazi Germany? That’s always funny. A real classic. /s