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Install the distro your Linux using friends use.

That looks very intriguing and useful. Thank you.

Downvote should not be a disagreement button.

Churn is an issue you mentioned.

I was specifically thinking about men who have sex with men. Grindr and similar platforms are very successful. Most of it is about casual sex between promiscuous men. They are also a great target group otherwise. Travel between gay metropolises is common as. Pride tourism is big.

Local network effect is enough, even when it’s restricted to a specific demographic or subculture. Once a dating platform grabs a hold in a location and demographic, it can extend from there.

Of course to keep a project like this running, you need a way to pay for hosting and development.

Working in Remote Desktop for an extended amount of time is no fun. It’s possible, but you need the right version of windows and office to do that.

I wouldn’t want to rely on complex solutions like that for an essential for work. Now you have to administrate your local computer and the remote server. You also rely on a bunch of things going right to be able to use it from on the go: Internet connection on the go that doesn’t filter Remote Desktop, Home Internet connection, proxmox configuration and updates being okay. If you want to add a VPN on top, you get more possible failure points

So run a windows VM directly on your Linux machine. No need to make it more complicated. At least then you don’t depend on a working internet connection.

Alternatively try to run MS Word using WINE on Linux. This might work or break randomly.

If you don’t want to buy a license for office or windows use these scripts.

You really seem to need MS Office. It’s not necessary to make your life harder by building complex solutions. Run windows if it makes your life easier.

Other alternative: buy an Apple device and run MS Office for Mac. That’s the only reliable way to use it without windows.

It’s good enough for shovelware alredy.

The slight difference in looks isn’t what’s stopping people.

Gnome 3 seems to be designed for touch screens, but it rarely is used with one.

The distro matters because some have better defaults for one DE over another.

The downside of KDE is the millions of options and features. It can get in the way and makes it a little harder to learn.

That said. KDE is pretty great and currently my favorite.

Please no. It’s pretty bad on apple‘s platforms already.

a non free alternative I can recommend is Tricount. It’s best feature is that is also works offline.

Do you know how to do that in windows? How did learn?

Depending on the Pi, you will be limited to USB2 speeds.

For new Linux users it’s best to stick with well established and supported distributions. Then it’s easier to find solutions for common problems.

It’s good practice to look up what the commands do, you enter when you find a solution. Read the man page or other documentation of the command you’re entering. It doesn’t need to be everything, just enough to get an idea what it does.

Also: take notes when you find a problem and how you fixed it. You can go back to them later.

sound and screen dimming

You can’t give a general answer to this. There are several different software stacks for sound on Linux. A typical one goes like this, but can look different.

Kernel - driver - ALSA - PipeWire - desktop environment - application - user

There might be an error at each of these levels.

In the simplest case, it’s a bad configuration, where the volume is set to 0 or mute somewhere in this stack. So try different applications first to play sound, also try playing sound from the terminal. Change volume sliders in different places.

Then go down the stack. Try playing sound with ALSA directly using aplay and speaker-test.

Finally go down to the driver and see if the hardware is detected. Depending if the soundcard is connected via USB or PCI use lsusb or lspci.

Find out the type snd chipset of your soundcard and then search if there’s a driver for Linux already. If you have new or unpopular hardware, it can take a while (a year or two) for a driver to be written, tested, and accepted into the kernel. Then it has to go downstream to the distributions until you get it. So for new hardware you might have to do some additional steps like finding a driver and compiling a kernel yourself.

It’s also worth checking the log files of the audio stack (ALSA, pipewire, or whatever your distro uses).

screen dimming

The stack looks like this:

Kernel - driver - X11/XOrg or Wayland - compositor - Desktop Environment (KDE, Gnome, etc.)

The error might be the keystroke not registering, the desktop not sending the right command, the display driver not supporting dimming, a bad or missing configuration. Again work through the stack. Find out what your distro uses.

Try setting the brightness through the terminal for example.

Developers need to eat, pay rent, etc.

Found the link you got this from https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

It doesn’t mention Sway.

The reaction to this incident were a new code of conduct, new mods, apologies, and more. https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandCommunityChanges

Was this an isolated incident? Did it have consequences later on? Was the mod removed from the Discord?

Could you provide a link to the source you copied this from?

The Sway website only links to an IRC chat, not Discord. https://swaywm.org/

Same in the official subreddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/1fk968u/sway_discord_or_matrix_or_irc_server/ Only IRC, no Discord.

Depending on the Pi, you are limited to USB 2 speeds for the external drive. That’s enough for many things, like streaming video, but doesn’t cut it for regular transfer of large files.