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  • No idea what your analogy about non conventional medicine is about. Feel free to explain.

    just be visible to your home network’s ISP instead of your phone’s ISP.

    Indeed, which is already what I mentioned, namely another group. It’s about the threat model namely if you trust one ISP more than another. I believe your understood that but chose not to acknowledge it and I’m not sure why but maybe it related to your analogy that I didn’t get.

    Edit: if you and others are interested in the topic I recommend https://splintercon.net/ plenty of resources on the topic.

    PS: FWIW I didn’t suggest VPN is the solution to all problems but they do alleviate some. The point is one must understand both how they work and their OWN threat model rather than an idealized one.


  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlOkay why is your distro the best?
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    even programs that may likely just sit there until the next release comes along. … the only thing you can do is install flatpaks for your preferred programs so that they’d be up to date. … Wine (gamers, you’re gonna cry a lot unless you work it around with flatpaks

    I already posted on this a while ago but that’s is a recurring misconception. No distribution, literally 0, provides all software to the latest version or to the version one expects. Consequently IMHO it is perfectly acceptable to go beyond what the official package manager of the distribution offers. It can be flatpaks, am, build from source, etc but the point precisely is that the distribution is about a shared practical common ground to build on top of. A distribution is how to efficiently get to a good place. I also run Debian stable on my desktop and for gaming, I use Steam. It allows me to get Wine, yes, but also Proton and even ProtonFix so that I basically point and click to run games. I do NOT tinker to play Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur, etc and my hardware is well supported.

    So… sure if you consider a distribution as something you must accept as-is and NOT rely on any of the available tools to get the latest software you actually need, can be games but can be tools e.g. Blender, Cura, etc, then you WILL have a tough time but that’s the case for all distributions anyway.

    TL;DR: a distribution is the base layer to build on. Its package manager, on Debian and elsewhere, is not the mandatory and sole way to get the software you need.


  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlOkay why is your distro the best?
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    Debian stable.

    Everybody think they are a special snowflake who needs bleeding edge, or a specific package manager or DE or whatever. Truth is 99.99% do not. They just like to believe they do, claim they do, try it, inflict self pain for longer than they need, convince themselves that truly they are, because of the pain, special.

    Chill, just go with stable, it’s actually fine.

    Edit: posted from Arch, not even sarcasm.













  • Proton is built on top of Wine in order to make sure games specifically work well.

    You can check https://www.protondb.com/ before buying a game (with Steam or otherwise) to insure it works as expected. A lot will work with 0 tinkering but some might next extra command line parameters.

    You might get the same result with Wine directly but Proton it doing everything it can to “hide” away those (hopefully small) challenges away from the final user, a gamer (like me) who wants to just sit down and play.

    So… the heuristic is basically :

    • games? Proton
    • not games but Windows applications that somehow do not have a better open-source equivalent running on Linux? Wine

    Edit: for the anecdote I wrote this reply on my SteamDeck, the gaming console by Valve coming with Steam, and Proton, and running Linux to… just play BUT I also use it to work while traveling. So yes, works like a charm!