It’s not hard to set up if you already have sufficient baseline technical knowledge to feel comfortable copy-pasting the right commands from the Internet with hope that you don’t brick your computer (which ironically fedora or opensuse kinda did although I eventually found out how to work around the failure which makes my laptop permanently unable to use an older version of Linux lololol).

Arch was really easy to set up, I followed tutorials for fedora from fedora which never worked, and opensuse worked until a power outage then never again. So easy. So simple.

Secureboot with shim is the easiest, the arch (/standalone) way seems to work better and more securely since it’s my own keys, but again depends on feeling a lot of unearned confidence. Some distros like Ubuntu and suse include mechanisms for secureboot, others do not, hence hit or miss.

Tldr I know what you’re telling me, and from my pov and experience none of that changes what I said for the average “go on, try Linux, you’ll like it” user.

Interesting, thanks for the links I’ll take a look

Yeah was thinking about that (edited to add immediate) – games are certainly background loading nowadays but the stuff needed is intended to be in ram by the time it’s needed, afaik.

For sure I’m just saying i’d guess that’s because at play time you’re loading everything into ram. For bulk loading I would encryption perf follows the general use case.

(Tldr encryption shouldn’t matter for games)

That’s quite a take given the source of most current end to end encrypted messaging algorithms.

But also, whooosh

It’s a real challenge to get a fully encrypted system with secure boot (easier now but still hit or miss with Linux) and tpm.

What you’re describing is the user level security model which is as you said restrictive enough to be annoying, and more controlled than windows.

Edit: undid autocorrect from user level to user never 🙄

I don’t know what you’re responding to, I’m responding to a comment about refresh rate.

You didn’t explain the implications of what radio free Asia is, I did. I don’t know what words I’m putting in your mouth.

That’s fine, but why?

You have granular control over universal windows apps (ie windows 8+ apps) and one global lock over all desktop apps (non uwp), and one global lock over everything. It’s pretty solid considering how little control Microsoft has and it’s wonderful fetish for compatibility.

Tldr basically same as Linux, except app distribution in Linux was bad enough for so long that more stuff is in the new restricted format while windows still has tons of things which will never go away and aren’t in the sandbox. I think not finding a way to sandbox all desktop apps was a mistake.

Define properly shut down. Do your thieves usually ask first?

If it has to go to disk for immediate loading of assets while playing a video game you’re losing more than 1-5 fps

Signal is an objectively better experience than xmpp, and has about identical security (same with matrix). Irc isn’t secure afaik. Telegram isn’t secure afaik.

A better wish would be that people in 2024 would stop being fuckign weird about their cell number. Some people don’t want to give it out despite white pages being the standard for years (and how the Terminator knows who to kill). Other people refuse to use a messaging app where they can’t use their phone to sign up. Some people want to sign up with their number but not give it out.

Moxie would be spinning in his grave if he weren’t still working there…

Matrix or xmpp, bonus points with a personal server

Thanks to interest of late, the conversations and gajim apps have come a long way in recent years, and matrix has made good strides too with element-x

So tldr, since you didn’t finish your thought, is that they got a grant like 3+ layers down, from the US government.

I have some news for you, or perhaps I can offer you a bridge.

I didn’t notice or care about their comment, it was meaningless bs. Yours is something for which it’s feasible to provide evidence, it’s a novel claim, and I saw nothing to back it up other than hostility.

That the switch to linux has a lot of friction? That it’s difficult?

Everyone mostly agrees on this, not interesting. Also you didn’t even directly claim this in your post, so obviously I wasn’t asking about this. You’re just seemingly using this hostile badgering approach to stifle the conversation.

That Microsoft has deliberately cultivated that friction?

This is the interesting claim. After all Linux deliberately shoots its legs off every few years, why does Microsoft need to help?

Nothing in my statement says that’s a requirement

You right, that’s just a weird firefox setting

Was thinking of touch: https://superuser.com/questions/1151161/enable-touch-scrolling-in-firefox

Probably true since transmission loses come after engine losses. Ammonia is also pretty cool though, I’ve read about the idea of using it in big engines since it’s also easy to store/make.