Corgana

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 5 hours ago

Seriously! I love the weirdo foss geeks but we need some fresh weird.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 5 hours ago

Zorin is another distro that (very successfully imo) does a windows-style taskbar with GNOME and is parent friendly, though like I said before I think today I would go with something immutable for a non-techie because they're very hard to break.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

KDE is the easiest for coming from Windows, you almost never never need the command line or anything "extra" to customize it (beyond what even Windows will allow).

GNOME (especially in Ubuntu) by default is more Macintosh-like which might appeal to some people, it's "simpler" but any customizations will require navigating the add-ons (and in my experience inevitably the command line too).

I think KDE is the one for most people who just want a functioning PC. GNOME could be good for the PC you might make for your parent. Bonus points for an immutable distro which are even harder to break.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

"Always test your prototypes on the intended final target well in advance just to be sure"

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I was not a fan of seasons 1-3 pretty much at all (3 was ok), but 4 was one of my favorite seasons of any Trek and 5 is also very good. I would be interested to read a follow up post when you're finished!

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If you told me r/RedditAlternatives was operated by Reddit employees it wouldn't completely shock me. But a more likely explanation for why there is no "Fedi consensus" there is that because Lemmy/Piefed is the best option, the people who try it out are more likely to actually leave Reddit.

In short, there are people trying to "make Discuit happen" because unlike Lemmy it's well, not happening.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is still the best at capturing it, imo: https://xkcd.com/1732/

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 10 points 5 days ago

"Different developers but can still access the same content" is a great succinct way of describing it.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 5 days ago

Still shocking to me that /r/RedditAlternatives isn't just one big "USE LEMMY/PIEFED/MBIN" sticky post but on the other hand there are a lot of Fedi-resitant people there so maybe it's a good thing to give that illusion of choice.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In another thread @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website described this plot as "Extremely TOS" and I went from not-hating-but-not-loving it to having much more positive feelings. Is it silly? Yes. Is it humanist? Also yes. And what's more Star Trek than that?

 
 
 

Very cool to see this topic in a place like Forbes, IMO.

 

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