I edited my comment to better and more fully reflect my thoughts. It’s hard to properly express myself when I’ve been as sick as I have been with bronchitis and possible pneumonia for the past 4 weeks.

Hopefully my comment now better reflects my thoughts.

I’m mixed on it. If it is more secure/safe then that’s a good thing, but if it’s done because it’s MIT-licensed instead of GPL-licensed, then that could possibly be concerning.

For me, my personal projects are generally MIT licensed. I generally don’t like “restrictions” on licenses, even if those “restrictions” are requiring others to provide their source and I want as many people to use my projects as possible, I don’t like to restrict who uses it, even if it’s just small/home businesses who don’t want to publish the updated source code. Although, I admit, I’m not a huge fan of large corporations potentially using my code to generate a profit and do evil things with it, but I also think that’s not going to be very common versus the amount of use others could get from it by having it using MIT who might not be able to use it otherwise with AGPL.

With that said, though, I have been starting to come around more to AGPL these days.

For what it’s worth, they have experimental Wayland support. It’s an important distinction. For example, Cinnamon has experimental Wayland support IIRC and last time I tried setting up a lock screen on my ThinkPad (you know, for security purposes, since it’s a laptop and all) I wasn’t able to get one working.

Exactly. It took me 4 hours a couple months ago to get a scanner to work on our Windows 11 PC. It turns out there was some Windows Image Acquisition service built in that had to be disabled because it was conflicting with the driver of the scanner. Absolute insanity lmao

I told one of my friends about this since my friends sometimes tease me about using Linux, their response was get a better scanner.

lol

Wow, that is some nightmare fuel type shit. That’s actually crazy.

I’ve been pretty lucky that I’ve been able to use Linux on my work laptop the past 3 jobs in a row. It really helps that we use Linux production in and when I tell them that I haven’t used Windows in nearly a decade, they’re usually willing to let me work with Linux.

sometimes issues crop up with bleeding-edge updates, just keep an eye on the forums before updating.

So to me, that sounds not ideal for someone new to Linux.

I know someone who was fed up with Windows recently, and they decided it’s finally time to switch to Linux. Me and another person recommended Linux Mint, but they got many other recommendations for Arch. They went with Arch, and it hasn’t gone boom yet, but I’m not sure if it’s a matter of time or what.

I have heard Arch is more “stable” these days than it used to be, but I’m not sure.

I use Ubuntu myself except for on my ThinkPad where I use Mint, and I’m gonna switch to Mint on my desktop eventually.

That would be a truly dark day. I never liked their centralized dashboard functionality, it always seemed cumbersome to me.

I hope that doesn’t happen, but I guess if it does, I will really need to find a different monitoring tool.

Is that just for the centralized dashboard portion? I tend to use each instance of it standalone, and primarily for the email alerts.

Seconding Netdata, I’ve been using it for years. It’s pretty great.

I used to, but not anymore, except for my laptop I plan on taking with me travelling. My work laptop and personal laptop are both encrypted.

I figure my home is safe enough, and I only really need encryption if I’m going to be travelling.

One of my friends locked himself out of his PC and all his data because he forgot his master password, and I don’t want to do that myself lol

True but the title said emulation so I had to correct OP anyway lol

They are similar, but generally emulators have a higher run-time cost - this is because they are “emulating” an entire system, not just translating system calls. By cost, I mean performance of course. Emulators typically simulate/mimic other hardware, whereas translation layers just convert the system calls to be run natively on your existing hardware (which means your CPU architecture must match, etc).

Wine is far faster than regular emulation would traditionally be.

I agree, but, to be fair, WINE is not an emulator, it’s a translation layer. It may seem like it doesn’t matter but it’s an important distinction.

Ah, I think it uses JavaScript, not Java, so yeah it looks like it is a web app.

It’s quite impressive IMO that you are into open-source software even though you say you don’t know anything about computers, I’d say that counts as something, plus you know about Lemmy too. We all love open-source software here :)

Wait, is it a web app or does it use Java? Those are two distinctly different technologies.

I’ve been daily driving Linux since 2017, I started with Ubuntu and it’s been great. I recently got a Lenovo T14 Gen 1 and put Linux Mint 22 on it, and I’ve been playing some games on it and it’s been pretty nice for such a portable laptop.

Because he’s a cute money-cat. He is showing how much money he has.