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@jakob I wouldn’t say “microsoft has won” just yet. Plenty of legal challenges to open-source have occurred and failed in the past, this is a proposed law in one region, and a lot of these community open-source repositories break the law anyway, by distributing clearly patent encumbered software, because it would be very unprofitable to sue them. (Only corporate-sponsored distros like Fedora and Clear Linux really care about complying with FOSS-hostile laws like software patents, mostly because they ARE profitable to sue.)

Definitely don’t give up on your beliefs just because it seems tough to follow them, there is always something to do. Fight against laws that force centralization like this. Keep developing your software until there’s a direct, credible legal threat, and possibly after if you’re open to civil disobedience.

@TechGuru_007 Honestly, since Invidious is an unauthenticated webapp that stores very little, and I’m guessing piped is too, which instance you pick matters a lot less. Just pick a reasonably fast and up-to-date one.

The Invidious website has an auto-picker, but it seems to be down right now, so I’ll just link invidious.garudalinux.org/feed… since it seems reasonably fast from where I am.

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@LemmyPistolero Expect a learning curve either way - Fedora isn’t the easiest distro out there - but you’ll likely find Fedora Workstation easier to use than Silverblue. Silverblue is experimental, and will make it impossible to follow some online guides, and possibly limit the software available to you.

@kromonos @shreddy_scientist Debian usually sticks to the default themes provided by desktop environments. The Debian theme is just the backgrounds for the desktop, GRUB, and login screen, plus a boot animation, and banners for the installer and Debian websites.

@VanchoPilla Yeah, I checked the mailing list and it was because nobody was available to run a contest. I realized that and edited my post but I don’t think the edit federated through

@shreddy_scientist Sad I missed the vote, but I saw that result coming from a mile away. Juliette Taka won 8, 9, and 11, and had her submission for 10 included with the release as an alternative (which IMO should have won the vote). She just doesn’t have any competition when it comes to Debian-themed wallpapers.

@3xQfQhvj File explorer is one of those categories of app I really don’t care about. Nemo and PCManFM might be the nicest I’ve used though.

@SudoDnfDashY I actually really like GNOME, it’s the most polished desktop out there with the most complete set of apps designed for it. I like the libadwaita look and feel. It is a bit slow on older machines, though.

LXDE is my second choice - I like the modularity and the efficiency on older machines, but I’m afraid it won’t survive the death of GTK 2, or GTK 3 down the road. KDE is third, since it’s quite polished, more customizable, and oddly lightweight, but also buggy at times and its first-party apps are inconsistent in design (though I guess that’s a problem with Windows too, lol).

@TheKernalBlog Of course it’s not a strong daily driver, it’s not meant to be that. It’s meant as something you can temporarily plug in and use for ultra-private web browsing, like when you’re in a repressive regime and need to safely access LGBT or dissident resources, or just are really paranoid about something you’re doing online.

@RecycledAnonymous This seems to be a rewrite of the tor client (i.e. the command-line utility), not the tor browser. Eventually Tor Browser will use it, and Firefox (which it is based on) is itself slowly importing more Rust code from the Servo project.

@RecycledAnonymous From Arti’s GitLab repository:

We expect to be providing official binaries soon. But, for now, you need to obtain a Rust development environment, and build it yourself.

@serenity Minor point, but of course the VTuber dev would make an ultra-optimistic, cutesy writeup full of wave dashes and sparkle emojis.

It’s starting to look like running the Debian Linux family on an Apple Silicon Mac will become a top-tier option in the future. Asahi’s really exceeding expectations.

@yogthos Hopefully this brings GNOME closer to implementing it too. I’m tired of having no middle ground between doubling the size of everything (and causing screen crunch) and keeping it the same (and needing to squint or lean in to see some things).