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Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them (www.neowin.net)
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The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.

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[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As a new user I tried all the "easy" distro and they all just fucked me over really hard, they favor ease of use by restricting the user so anytime I went to do anything I just kept running into repeated minor problems. When I tried endeavor it #just works and with snapshot software you can always rollback most distros as far as I know so there is no reason to not reccomend a Linux distro that doesn't hold your hand unless there is something suepr specific the person needs that for some reason is the only thing capable of doing it reasonably well.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, thats the vibe I have with Endevour/Arch.. its just "get the fuck out of my way and let me do my work/play vidya game".

I hate snaps and flatpacks, just make real packages guys its not hard.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

they favor ease of use by restricting the user

Never ran into anything like that. I'm hungry for more details.

with snapshot software you can always rollback most distros as far as I know

It sounds you've never done that yourself. It's not hard if you know what you're doing, but it's not trivial either and may require use of a boot stick, dealing with disk encryption through the terminal, chrooting... and that is not the kinds of hoops I'd expect a newcomer to have to jump through just to fix their system.

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I don't expect a newcomer to set up the snapshotting themselves, we have technology for this.

I don't mean they literally restrict you as much as they give you more hoops.