Of course it doesn’t. It’s just a convenient smoke screen. Education and parental oversight are the key.

FOSS developers don’t develop distros. Distro maintainers package that software into distros. Linux, KDE, GNOME, systemd, GNU software etc are just single pieces of the puzzle developed individually.

The distro is closer to the old proprietary OS. So the enduser just has to learn other “new” software, the OS doesnt demand a learning curve but just replicates the Win/Mac experience.

There’s always a learning curve with new things (software or otherwise). In case of Win why would we want to go back in time in usability? E.g. Cinnamon and KDE are far superior in UX compared to Windows. Also in Linux distros you can actually fix problems unlike in windows.

I’ve been using Linux as a daily driver since 2018 (thanks Valve and Proton) and in my experience things just work (if they are supported) and thing like headset don’t just randomly stop working because reasons unlike in windows. In windows you then run some troubleshooter that can’t fix it, reboot several times while praying to whatever gods you like and hope for the best. If that doesn’t help you start searching online and only find vague instructions that might help but no solutions.

Missing software compatibility

What compatibility? If user insists on running some windows only software it’s expected to run into problems.

the need to fall back on the commandline are just some of the problems.

So? Even windows and macOS has a command line. It’s easier to help with problems if you instruct them to run some command (though running random commands of the web is not really a good idea security wise) then trying to navigate them to some gui which might not exist in their distro. Even in windows users are told to run commands in the command line to try and fix problems e.g. sfc /scannow and dism <whatever>.

Now you are thinking: But just install Linux Mint and they probably do most of the things in their Browser anyways.

In AD 2025 this is true in most cases. People just use social media, some webmail, youtube, read news etc. The OS is just there to start the web browser.

Was more talking about using any of them personally. They are quite unavoidable unfortunately when you have to do business with someone.

Worse (?), another doctor of mine is using Gmail for all her email with her patients, email that is used to send and receive test results, share intimate informations,…

This is quite the data breach. I’d take it up with the data protection officer of the company where the doctor work if applicable or with the national data protection agency. As a non-lawyer I’d say this is a breach of the GDPR and other laws. This doctor hands over highly confidential data to third parties.

American companies (big international player at least) don’t really care what regulation we have in the EU. They can just ignore it and if they get caught those fines are just a “cost of doing business”. The only way is not to use any of them.

It does. Art. 17 of the GDPR.

EU already has that. It’s called GDPR (see art. 17 & 19).

desktop application created using Electron

🤢 . That’s not an application. It’s just a bloated way a displaying a webpage. If you truly want to make a desktop application use something like QT.

Some random scripts off the web is a big 🚩.

If your email client doesn’t block remote images by default, like gmail and outlook, then they probably know if you’ve opened their emails at some point due to tracking pixels.

neither ctrl+z nor ctrl+q work

Ctrl + z will send the task to the background. You can use jobs to see all active background work. Fg will bring background work to the foreground. Ctrl + q is not a valid shortcut as far as I know. Looks a bit like a mac thing (command + q).

True. I’ve just seen requests to that file in my demo env for web apps I have and I’ve seen my browser request that file by itself when running those locally.

Why would you ever want to route your request like this through a third party especially an ad company? To get the favicon of a site you just request www.example.com/favicon.ico.

natives apps in principle could be faster and use more of your hardware —in practice though, they tend to be horribly bloated electron crapps.

Electron “apps” are just glorified web pages anyhow. Native applications do offer superior performance as they are AOT compiled code. The ones that are written in rust, c, c++ etc, and if they are gui applications use frameworks like QT or GTK+. They are called native since they are compiled to machine code and are directly executable in the cpu without any kind of runtime like electron browser, java or python.

Any idea how long support will last for the 8?

Google Pixel 8 October 2030 7 years

https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime

GrapheneOS is the way to go with a Pixel phone. Wifi calling works just fine on my Pixel 8. As does VoLTE.

Mobile radio communication is encrypted between you and the tower. Newer protocols have better encryption then older. That’s why Stingray tracker is bad since it can force phones to use older vulnerable protocols.

Coming up with a decent domain name has been the challenge for me. You can’t really put on to your cv or so something like me@thebestmfofalltime.com. You can but that doesn’t sound very professional.

the humanism of Fahrenheit.

How? Fahrenheit scale is totally incomprehensible. Celsius at least is using a rational point for 0 (=where water freezes) and same scale as Kelvin.

Choosing a decent service is usually the easy part (at least with the help of this community). The hard part is to change your email address everywhere.

As they use imap, caldav and carddav for email, calendar and contacts you can use any app you want e.g. thunderbird.

Edit: They even have a moving service so you can move your existing emails from gmail to them.

I’m using filen.io. E2ee and zero knowledge service from Germany. Their desktop client just works.