hperrin

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I get not liking a game about SA and incest, but how about just not play that game?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Extensions are one thing. Even if a distro comes with some Gnome extensions, you can just disable them. Ubuntu puts custom patches on the Gnome packages they ship. Those can’t be disabled, and they could potentially interfere with extensions that don’t expect them to be there. That’s my problem with Ubuntu’s approach to Gnome.

I understand that you don’t like vanilla Gnome, but I still wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu to anyone, especially noobs, as a desktop OS, because of the myriad issues with Canonical’s approach to modifying the source of the packages they ship.

It’s the same reason if anyone reports a bug to any of my software, and they say it happens on Ubuntu, I’ll disregard it unless they can replicate it on an OS that doesn’t patch their packages that way. Canonical is responsible for fixing the bugs their patches cause, and they’ve added tons of extra triage work to devs who have to determine whether Canonical fucked something up or there’s actually an issue with their code.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (10 children)

When one of the other distros demonstrates anything that I cant get with ubuntu I will move on. Until then I'll keep using it because it keeps working.

You can’t get vanilla Gnome on Ubuntu. There are tons of other distros that will give you vanilla Gnome (they don’t put any of their own patches on top of Gnome).

But I think you were pretty clear that you don’t want vanilla Gnome, so if Ubuntu’s working for you, more power to you. I just wouldn’t recommend it to anyone new to Linux.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OpenOffice has been effectively abandoned. All of the original devs work on LibreOffice now.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Both are great, as is Fedora, the one that both are based on.

Nobara had some issues updating correctly for me, but I haven’t seen anyone else express that, so I don’t think it’s a common thing.

Bazzite is really gaming focused, so it’s harder to do general purpose computing on it than a desktop OS.

But they are both great OSes, and really you should just try out a bunch of them and pick the one you like the most. They’re free after all.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 72 points 1 week ago (16 children)

This is crazy. You shouldn’t use Ubuntu for anything desktop related. There’s nothing vanilla about vanilla Ubuntu.

(Custom Gnome extensions, patches on top of Gnome, custom sandbox packages that don’t always work, custom apt that refuses to install the real packages in place of snaps, paywalled security patches, should I keep going?)

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Because that would need more than like four tons of sand.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Regarding the watermark, that’s what they put on screeners, so you probably downloaded a screener. That’s because it hasn’t been released outside of theaters yet.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s not even the worst thing about him. He also invented JavaScript.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Haproxy is great, but setup is hard. It’s more for load balancing than being an easy reverse proxy.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I prefer the secure version, boobs.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That’s because 8080 is the official unprivileged alternative port for 80, the HTTP port. Web developers are usually using HTTP, so this makes perfect sense. If it supports HTTPS, then 8443, though that one isn’t official.

I run a few open source server projects, and they usually default to 8080 for this reason. I have one that uses 8888, and that’s only because it’s meant for temporary ad-hoc servers.

I’m working on an SFTP server, and it will use 2222, because that’s the most common unprivileged alternative port. There is no official alternative for SSH.

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