Vivaldi because:

• built in ad and tracking blocker
• Clear, easy to understand privacy policy
• best UI customizability
• hibernates tabs
• clear and sensible business model
• not vc funded.
• webdav support for calendar syncing
• actually contributes to the fediverse.

If i had to choose something fully floss i would go with librewolf.

You’ll understand when you get older kiddo.

Oh if only you’d lived through the days of funroll-loops gentoo is rice.

Linux users have other priorities

Very strange… So it sounds like you’re using whatever the default file manager is for your desktop, there really isn’t any reason the filesystem type would make things that much slower. Something must be very different about your system to be slowing transfers down that much.

I would use iotop to see how much data is being written, where, and what speeds it’s getting but if you prefer a graphical version of that maybe “system monitor” is available to you in gnome or whatever desktop you use. You’ve probably already tested other drives I guess, maybe try just booting a fresh live USB of something and see if the problem persists there too.

Do you have the same speeds when coping say a single 1gb file? A lot of small files introduces a bit more overhead. Rsync can help somewhat

Im curious What makes what VLC is doing qualify as artificial intelligence instead of just an automated transcription plugin?

Automated transcription software has been around for decades, I totally understand getting in on the ai hype train but i guess I’m confused as to if software from years past like “dragon naturally speaking” or Shazam are also LLMs that predate openAI or is how those services worked to identify things different from how modern llms work?

The software from Unminable is Windows only but you can mine on them with any other Linux based mining software.

Monero isn’t directly mined with GPU but if you look under “coins” section on moneroocean you can mine other algorithms and get paid in XMR using them.

Head over to moneroocean.stream or unminable.com and mine whatever GPU coin has the highest return.

Avoid nicehash, they used to be popular but recently started nickle and dining fees for all kinds of stupid reasons.

Perhaps you’ve not uses them in a while but nicehash is absolute garbage now.

The only thing about Linux IS that its a kernel. Its not like BSD where all the tools get developed together and released in the same edition, Linux is a kernel, full stop. Anything built on top of the Linux kernel is a Linux distro.

Can you name something other than the kernel that would be considered an essential element of a Linux distro and not available on android or BSD?

Its always been GNU+Linux, even stallman acknowledged its a separate thing and distros without GNU or glibc do exist on desktop too.

Obviously its just for the challenge since pi5 has 8gb models aready

Android is a Linux distro, just because its not gnu or running whatever subset of features a desktop Linux might have doesn’t make it any less of a Linux distro.

The real question is what do you consider a part of a “Linux disto” that currently isn’t available on android?

Is there a reason you don’t want the files organized? Id suggest using radarr or something else to organize them first.

As an alternative to kodi, jellyfin is great.

its the same as Debian. Personally I would not recommend Debian or LMDE if you intend to use proprietary drivers but if you have to you can follow the Debian wiki for a guide.

Its not exactly the same thing but link warden let’s you save and archive pages with custom categories.

On Linux most distros do not actually ship chrome but chromium which is the open source version of chrome.

It also comes down to how different groups define FOSS. GNU considers even helper programs (like a package manager or firmware installer) to be “bad” for the user because they “encourage” its use so they dont want them included in GNU approved distros like trisqul or guix . this leads to those “freedom respecting” distros not having things like basic WiFi drivers or support for any 3rd party drivers.

To a less extreme degree but similar is a distro like debian, where there is a “non_free” repository available but users can choose not to enable it.

And so GNU sees having the playstore as a bad thing because its gateway to installing other non free software. Its also safe to assume most gnu evangelists probably don’t care much for chromium either.

I downloaded that 200gb leak from national public data the other day, maybe not the biggest total but certainly the largest single text file ive ever messed with