Very interesting, thanks!

Browser choice is probably going to make just as much difference as distro choice. Modern browsers kinda need at least 1 GB to be usable, ideally more. Depends what you do with it of course.

Try Pale Moon, Falkon and Konqueror.

I no longer care if the blackouts change reddit or not. Viva la fediverse!

Ubuntu or Mint are among the most noob-friendly.

But probably the biggest impact will be whether you go with Gnome or KDE. KDE is more Windows-like so could be a softer landing.

I’ve read a lot of stories where installing Linux resulted in less support calls, not more. It depends on how ambitious the user is - if they’re mostly just staying in their lane and browsing the web it should be rock solid.

Try this https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy

Don’t forget to buy thermal paste!

There is only one admin and it is also the only kbin developer.

Kbin is not ready, I’m sad to say.

There are hardly any experienced Rust developers. It’s going to be a big problem.

No, the whole thing is too much like work. The CSS has no license so anyone is free to rip it off and use it.

Plus I’m sure the devs are frantically dealing with far more important issues to do with scaling, spam and moderation so they won’t get to my PR for months. This user script approach gets a result out there immediately.

You need a browser extension. On Firefox it’s called “Stylus”. Once you’ve installed that, go to https://userstyles.world/style/10301 and click the ‘install’ button.

I’m not sure what the equivalent Chrome extension is but userstyles.world will tell you.

You can put that url into the search (magnifying glass in the top right) and then you’ll be able to view that post within your instance.

But there’s something even better - if you put “!asklemmy@lemmy.ml” into the search then you’ll see a bunch of posts appear from that community.

Just above the list of search results is a link saying “<icon> asklemmy@lemmy.ml - 29 subscribers”. It is not very obvious or highlighted in any way. Lemmy should fix this.

Click on that and the contents of that community will be displayed - crucially, it’ll be displayed by your instance. You haven’t gone to lemmy.ml, you’re still on your home instance (check the address bar of your browser).

In the top right there is a nice big “Subscribe” button. Click it. Now all the posts made in that community will show up in your home feed.

UFOs. Seriously.

Check out https://kbin.social.

IMO the UI of Kbin is much better, although I really miss the ‘collapse thread’ function. That’s a deal-breaker for me.