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Exactly. After that, the bank should accept that I wish to pay with my own device without Google, Apple, or Samsung having a say.

They don’t need GAS approval for me to pay my bills on my computer. Nor to make online purchases on it. Why is it suddenly required on my phone? It’s idiotic.

If I say that my device is okay, that’s all that should be required.

Compost. That’s all they’re good for.

I don’t get why it has to be that complicated anyway. I should be able to just give them my key, why does a OS or device vendor need to be a part of it? When I get a card I need to verify my identity somehow, times past that was me going to the bank, signing a form and showing my ID card. Fucking Tim Apple or Satya McGoogle didn’t have a role in that, why should they now?

Sidenote; I know Satya Slopella is Microsoft but I don’t frankly care to learn what the pedo in charge of Google is called.

If you disabled the GPU in the UEFI you’ll have to re-enable it in the UEFI.

What services are you referring to when you say “these services?”

Seems like e2ee is being worked on for Meet as well.

Simplicity for users and support staff.

I don’t think that the average user cares for customisation far beyond wallpaper, and perhaps theme. Note I’m not saying average Linux user, I mean average person using a device. Think your aunt who can’t plug in the printer. Faced with too many options people shut down.

If you have a distro and need to offer support for it, it also helps if you can write guides and instructions for a single type of scenario. With Windows you can say “right click the start menu, click device manager…” etc, but that’s not quite as easy on Linux. You can always direct people to the terminal, but again, the average user is likely to balk at the idea.

Choosing a dedicated DE means you have less to maintain, and less to support, and can focus your efforts elsewhere.

Orion is great. You can install Firefox extensions on it, and use the full desktop version of uBlock Origin if you’d like. Hell you can install Chromium extensions as well, if you for whatever reason feel the need to have those gutted useless things.

We can’t opt out of the system either because too much of it is necessary. Can anyone truly say they don’t need google? ever?

Yes. I switched to Qwant some years ago, and about a year back I switched to Kagi. Haven’t seen the Google Search page in years at this point.

The only thing I use from Google still is YouTube. There are also alternatives, I’ve spent some time with PeerTube and found things I enjoy, and I don’t mind supporting Nebula, which is also a nice platform. That said, I could probably just cut it all off. It frees up time to do something else.

I love this, because I feel the complete opposite in some regards. I love the simplicity of GNOME. There are some weird UI decisions; I much prefer to have the dock available on the desktop than to use the application switcher every time, but that’s about it. GNOME is very thematically consistent, it’s simple, and it works smoothly. It has enough customisation where the sensible defaults fall short, at least for me, but theme-wise I really like Adwaita the way it is.

I use KDE on my laptop though, and I enjoy the tinkering with it. Feel like it’s fairly unstable though, Plasma just crashes at times when you tinker with it (though so far it’s never happened in normal usage). Design-wise it feels much too cluttered, but there’s a lot of options to play with to make things at least almost the way I’d like it.

We’re spoiled for choice, and that’s awesome. There’s something for everyone.

That’s just part of learning sometimes.

If we say yes, do you think we can get tax exemptions?

I’d recommend a HDD enclosure with a virtual drive emulator. I personally use this one which I’ve had for about a decade at this point. Lovely device. At some point I think I’ll pop an SSD in it instead, mostly just for durability purposes.

I appreciate verbosity. It’s much nicer than the opposite.

Nope. Haven’t gotten the installer to run. Tried copying over the already installed software too, no dice.

The only reason I boot into Windows is to use Substance Painter. It unfortunately requires 3D acceleration.

And it comes with all the downsides that Windows does.

Linux for gaming is easy. For the most part it’s plug and play. I’m on an AMD CPU and an NVidia GPU, and I even do VR in Linux.

As someone who does a decent amount of stuff with DAWs; VSTs are tricky. You might be able to create a similar workflow to what your used to, and many plugins might work decently well, but for me at least it was a lot of fiddling about and it isn’t as smooth as I’d like. My comfort compressor works, but the UI doesn’t render.

I’ve gotten my music workflow to work alright, but it’s wonky enough that I don’t do it as much anymore. Thinking about trying to start over with a new DAW and whatnot.

If privacy is a concern there’s a decent amount of stuff you can do to strip down Windows 11.