I feel this pain… Every so often I install Linux hoping this is the year it will be easy… And then I try to install something simple as a password manager I used to use on windows and 5h later I finally figure it out after stackoverflow and googling… But then I’m just exhausted…
It just goes along with the mentality of the Lemmy community. The idea that everything FOSS and what they dictate is not mainstream is better in all ways.
I made a comment awhile back about how Lemmy users tend to have this r/notlikeothergirls mentality. That they know something the average user doesn’t because they can talk about FOSS, privacy, and security. In reality a lot of users don’t understand how that works at all.
Privacy here is technically a nightmare. You jump in a server without knowing what data is visible on that server and you are relying on the security of the person/people who is hosting that server.
There seems to be this idea of, “if I think it’s mainstream it’s just not as good.”
Truth is Linux is fantastic, Mozilla is also great, open source is also great but it doesn’t mean it is better by default in every way.
Look at Linux phones vs Android and iOS. Even people dictating privacy are still using modded versions of Android like Graphene OS because it works.
If you want some of the best Android security on the device physically you go with Pixel. Doesn’t matter how you feel about privacy. Same goes for iPhone.
Windows may be clunky but it does a lot of things right in regards to security as well. Doesn’t matter how you feel about Windows. Microsoft absolutely takes security of the system and how that security is distributed seriously.
Linux fantastic if you really want full control of your system and a great way to learn about those systems when you have to fix it if it breaks.
FOSS is also nice I hope we never lose hold of FOSS but that doesn’t make a paid product terrible either. Take Sync and Jerboa as examples. Jerboa is FOSS and Activity PUB is FOSS and so is Lemmy. But when you compare features and UI. Jerboa is stomped by Sync IMO and I will pay money for something that works really well.
I feel this pain… Every so often I install Linux hoping this is the year it will be easy… And then I try to install something simple as a password manager I used to use on windows and 5h later I finally figure it out after stackoverflow and googling… But then I’m just exhausted…
It just goes along with the mentality of the Lemmy community. The idea that everything FOSS and what they dictate is not mainstream is better in all ways.
I made a comment awhile back about how Lemmy users tend to have this r/notlikeothergirls mentality. That they know something the average user doesn’t because they can talk about FOSS, privacy, and security. In reality a lot of users don’t understand how that works at all.
Privacy here is technically a nightmare. You jump in a server without knowing what data is visible on that server and you are relying on the security of the person/people who is hosting that server.
There seems to be this idea of, “if I think it’s mainstream it’s just not as good.”
Truth is Linux is fantastic, Mozilla is also great, open source is also great but it doesn’t mean it is better by default in every way.
Look at Linux phones vs Android and iOS. Even people dictating privacy are still using modded versions of Android like Graphene OS because it works.
If you want some of the best Android security on the device physically you go with Pixel. Doesn’t matter how you feel about privacy. Same goes for iPhone.
Windows may be clunky but it does a lot of things right in regards to security as well. Doesn’t matter how you feel about Windows. Microsoft absolutely takes security of the system and how that security is distributed seriously.
Linux fantastic if you really want full control of your system and a great way to learn about those systems when you have to fix it if it breaks.
FOSS is also nice I hope we never lose hold of FOSS but that doesn’t make a paid product terrible either. Take Sync and Jerboa as examples. Jerboa is FOSS and Activity PUB is FOSS and so is Lemmy. But when you compare features and UI. Jerboa is stomped by Sync IMO and I will pay money for something that works really well.
Anyways I digress.
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Just kidding, I had to do it to ya 😅