see my comment above; it’s way more efficient to read individual files out of a zip archive.

zip is better than tar.gz for some applications though.

notably, individual files can be read from a zip archive without unpacking the whole archive, different than tar.gz files.

tar.gz files are only better if you pack and unpack the whole archive at once, but even then, they don’t have much advantage. the major advantage is that you can pipe the output of tar creation over the network to another computer who decompresses the tar immediately, thus transferring a folder. zip has index at beginning/start, so it requires seek when writing or skip when reading, so it can’t be streamed.

I’m not sure whether this should be a “standard”, but we need a Linux Distribution where the user never has to touch the command line. Such a distro would be beneficial and useful to new users, who don’t want to learn about command line commands.

And also we need a good app store where users can download and install software in a reasonably safe and easy way.

rare EU commission W

Luanti is the better option IMHO because it’s FOSS and therefore more ethical.

I think journalists too often have way too little education and way often than not they have no idea what they’re talking about. The quality of news is often low. We need better journalism. I was thinking about exactly that just yesterday, by chance.

I tried installing Linux (dual-boot alongside Windows) on my dad’s computer two weeks ago and it didn’t work (something to do with the TPM chip i think). I gave up after 15 minutes. It was supposed to be a demonstration how “quick and easy” it is to install Linux nowadays. On top of that, it broke the Windows install. Bad first impression IMO.

The way i understood it was that it’s a difference in organization of society. Some people can find meaning themselves, without needing somebody else to tell them what to do. Some people just need to be told what to do.

not mounted

I agree with you, the EFI variables shouldn’t be mounted by default. Unfortunately, on some systems, they are.

There was even a huge fight about that. I’m too lazy to look it up now, though.

you can add sudo permissions for individual users for certain commands only; and i recommend you would do that; i.e. give her sudo permission for installing/uninstalling applications, but nothing else.

It’s a good thing that new and unexperienced users who want to learn 😃 on the internet get recommendations such as “use rm -fr / to remove the french language pack and fix your localization issues” and then ending up with an expensive, broken hardware (/s)

You can also remove the fr*nch language pack via rm -fr /

But in all seriosity, i tried to install Linux dual-boot with Windows on my dad’s computer last weekend, and it broke the windows install because it doesn’t support bitlocker (apparently). Maybe i could have gotten it to work, but i abandoned the project after the first failed attempt. Still a bit salty about that. Especially since it was meant to be a demonstration how “quick and easy” installing Linux nowadays supposedly is.

tbf, every time you’re installing basically anything at all, you basically trust whoever hosts the stuff that they don’t temper with it. you’re already putting a lot of faith out there, and i’m sure a lot of the software actually contains crypto-mineware or something else.

Here’s a picture of the linux distro family tree:

There’s Debian, the distro.

There’s Redhat/Fedora, which is commercial,

there’s gentoo, where on installation, everything is compiled from source.

There is slackware, mostly for historical purposes (it was the first distro),

there’s arch for people who want to feel they’re better than others tinkerers,

there is openSUSE, which is like redhat but german.

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at one point, microsoft will put all of their software into a VM and ship that on a linux platform. that will do.

look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power

What distro are you using, and how difficult was it for you to get started with it?

I’m currently making a list of distros and looking at each’s pros and cons, including:

• what did work out of the box?
• what required more work to fix / workaround?