New Zealand still uses SMS predominantly.

I wish I could use Matrix on my phone without it eating my battery 🫤

I essentially did this with Facebook. People still fucking contact me on Messenger.

I’m am ex web dev/des and still maintain some websites for non-profits. I think you underestimate the human stupidity factor. I already have to front an infuriating level of stupid questions and problems that people have caused themselves by not following the most simple of directions. Do I like JavaScript? No. Do I wish I could completely ditch it? 100%. But people are stupid. And without it’s use, I would be handling even more CS than I am now. The average person expects a website to act a certain way and without that they lose their minds.

Oh look, I can get Google search results without using Google. And my privacy and sanity is protected.

This is such an underrated comment for such an important point.

And Obtainium for open source apps. I use Aurora only for apps I can’t get via Obtainium.

Replying to this excellent comment on a refurbed (no money to Google) Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS.

Setup was definitely more complex than a spyware android phone (I went from a Samsung Galaxy) but once its set up, it just works and there’s no way I’d go back to anything else.

Its not just about us using Linux though - it’s also users on the other end that were interacting with. If I handle sensitive information, use encryption and disappearing messages and what have you, that doesn’t mean squat if I have to send some sensitive information to someone using insecure email and Recall. Microsoft, Google and whatever other gods awful privacy invading service and companies the person on the other end now have that data.

And a lot of people just don’t even think about this stuff. They could be the type of person who will promise yo keep your secrets or sensitive stuff and actually do that, but keeping that away from privacy invading companies isn’t even on their radar.

They serve two different purposes - Gimp for image editing, Inkscape for vector graphics.

I have a Google Pixel with Graphene OS and I only install bare minimum of apps on it. I’ve never used Temu and don’t have an account. So not asking for myself 🙂 But I know many family members who have the most frustratingly ad ridden, notification nagging and invasive apps known to humankind - was asking to help them debloat, improve their privacy and free up some of their time and sanity.

It’s a shame there’s no list of those thousands of apps that take screenshots. While its not all apps, it would have still been a handy reference.

Or just ditch the Windows partition/drive and use a VM instead.

Do you know where in Exodus you can see if an app takes screenshots? Looking through the permissions of two of the most invasive apps I could think of off the top of my head (Facebook, Google, Temu, Instagram, some popular mobile games) I couldn’t find any permissions specifically related to screenshot. If most apps tested are taking screenshots, I would have thought it would be easy to see :/

Thunderbird is independently developed from Mozilla and has been since 2020. It’s driven by the Thunderbird Council which is community elected. Its only link now with Mozilla Foundation is that it’s a financial subsidiary. But as others say, there’s also Betterbird if one still fanatically hates Mozilla.

Betterbird

I’ve also seen Serif saying that they won’t. It was someone else that linked it. I have tried to find the link again but could not and I’m too tired and sick to keep looking. The TL;DR was that they tend to be good at stringing people along but they’ve definitively said its not on their roadmap, won’t be added and supporting Affinity on Linux would be too expensive/difficult.

Canva has little financial reason to invest in Linux users either.

Enshittification also adds to making it incredibly unlikely.

People have been begging Adobe to port to Linux or at least make their products work with WINE for more than a decade now to no avail and Adobe, unlike Serif, has the budget to do so.

Its moot because Affinity have already said they will not, not ever.

My monitor is visible to a public footpath and I honestly am waiting for the day that I get a knock on the door from the cops because Jo Public saw me do a system update

sudo pacman -Syu 💀

This was very similar to the box I had but in my case it was mostly white. And the manual was waaaay bigger. Like almost the size of a phone book. I bought mine in 1999 too. Installed from CD. I bought mine for $110 from a stationary shop (since I lived in a student flat and my flatmates would have probably murdered me if I’d downloaded it over dial up that also had a monthly download limit). Good times lol.

Persistence, willingness to learn or open curiosity, and responsibility.

Persistence because sometimes when learning things, you’ll run into problems and will need persistence yo overcome them.

Willingness to learn or open curiosity because otherwise you’re in a rut and inflexible which makes learning differences between Win/Mac and Linux almost impossible or at least much harder.

Responsibility because you are in charge of your system and your laptop/pc. You need to take responsibility for learning how to do things, solving problems, doing updates, etc.

Sadly, these days people lack most of these qualities. So many people want things handed to them on a silver platter or to have their hands held and told exactly how yo do something instead of working it out for themselves. And people don’t want responsibility - they want someone else to be responsible, someone else to blame and someone else to do the thinking.

A lot of Linux adoption won’t change until there’s also a culture shift :/