Yeah, I know. If I was in a sensible mood this AM, I probably wouldn’t have started this chain. But if you look back to my first comment, I did say it was probably a coincidence.

As the article says, only when it blew up. But you’re right, the author doesn’t look good either.

More honestly, I enjoy a good conspiracy theory with my coffee.

It’s probably a coincidence that shortly after Mozilla acquires an ad company, they “accidentally” remove an ad blocker.

Why wait. Start switching now.

Probably the easiest way to get a backup is backintime and an external disk. Although if you really care about your data you should use a 3-2-1 strategy.

It was still malicious code. A different attack for sure, but no less devastating for the victims.

However, manjaro places the button to enable it right next to enabling snaps and flatpaks. Both of which are perfectly safe to install if not safer than average packages.

The snap store has already been used to distribute malware, one guy lost a lot of money in crypto, and I’m sure it wasn’t an isolated incident. I think it would be naive to think flathub isn’t being targeted in the same way. Same advice as the aur, be cautious.

SLE is a fork of factory. Leap is based on SLES with community additions, it’s why SUSE changing to ALP and dropping desktop support in the new version was such a big thing for the future of Leap.

I’d also recommend Mint with Mate or Xfce. They have a German forum too.

Yeah, it’s not feature complete

There’s Tiled menu for KDE Plasma

Well, I guess if someone calls and says you have kidnapped a little girl and that they have seen you with a gun, the police can’t take a chance that it’s hoax. All phone numbers that call the police should be logged and if it turns out to be a hoax, traced, so people who make hoax calls can be arrested and prosecuted.

Fucking hell

Well, as I said, it gives you the whole thing from scratch, in addition it doesn’t fuck with your menus. Finally, and most importantly, maybe people don’t like experimenting on their main machine.

You get the whole experience including installing your necessary software

Easier install and a cromulent setup out of the box. It’s why I went with Endeavour.

I tried PC/BSD on a desktop quite a few years ago and it was pretty good, apart from having to build a lot of my software from their ports tree. That ultimately put me off and I went back to Linux. I tried FreeBSD on an old laptop last year and no matter what I tried, I couldn’t get it to recognize my Wifi adapter. I gave up after a couple of days.

So, if your hardware is supported BSD is good, but if it’s not than it’s really not.

Widgets and themes broke when version 6 was released but that was a major upgrade which changed the underlying technology (Qt5 to Qt6) and it was announced before-hand. It tends not happen with minor and patch updates.

I disagree with you, I happen to think that the average person is intelligent enough to make an informed decision about their computing. They just have to forgo the learned helplessness that Microsoft and Apple have fostered since the early nineties.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for someone who is dissatisfied to try a few out. Let’s be clear here, if you’re satisfied, then you’re not going to even think about moving but more and more people are becoming dissatisfied, you can tell by the number of people on Reddit (yes I still lurk Reddit) asking about switching. Also, unless you’re really a geek, it isn’t going to be close to a technical decision - it will be purely gut-feel. I like this one, I don’t like that one.

It’s more like buying a car. Try a few out and settle on the one you like. You can even try them out online at distrosea