Anyone have an alternate source?

It can’t be generalized into a single reason but distro hoppers have been around for as long as there has been more than one distro.

For some, it’s that the grass always seems greener. For others, they follow a flavor that touts something that they resonate with(no non-free elements, media -centric, gaming, a certain desktop) . For a lot, it’s exciting to see new stuff and it’s free to try.

In the 90s and early 00s, I had a habit of moving a lot but for the last two decades, I’ve hated moving and my desktop looks the same. I just want it to work and I’m ok with not rolling a new distro every time one pops up.

Mint will treat you well(I run it on mine). It’s very friendly to those new to Linux and the community is active and helpful.

Sarcasm escapes you.

Librewolf, the best chromium browser.

If you cared at all about staying away from ai, you wouldn’t be using Firefox.

You would think you would be able to find more recent cringe than 3 1/2 years old.

Maybe the Temu version of Frank Fontaine. Frank could speak English, was capable of completing a thought without getting distracted and didn’t look like Jabba the Hutt wearing a compression girdle.

I moved over to Librewolf last night (except on android) due to this issue. I’m not even anti-AI, I just don’t care for the current mentality to put it into everything and using it as the entirety of your marketing schtick. I don’t need an AI web browser. I need a web browser that can navigate something like chatgpt’s web interface if I want it to.

Librewolf has stated their intention to strip all ai elements from their fork of Firefox and that keeps me off of a chromium browser so I chalk this up as my personal best-case scenario.

More interest is a very far cry from “linux phones are booming”. Linux phones are not booming, they are niche projects for people that like to tinker and don’t need any of the most popular phone apps and features.

Until we can install linux on more than a couple phones, trust cellular connections across all the networks and have access to the majority of features and apps that a smart phone should possess, linux phones will never “boom”.

I say this as a Ubuntu touch user on the Fairphone 4. It is not an experience that anyone else I know would accept from their smartphone.

I hope they choose to focus efforts on linux instead of trying to keep Google from fully obliterating their ability to offer apps on the Android platform.

Even if they are thrown a bone during this fight, it’s going to keep happening until they lose. The reason linux is so bad to try to use as a smartphone right now is because entities like these are busy trying to piss up a rope with Google and Android. We could have actually had robust and feature rich linux phones if they had taken the hint when Google first started shitting on people trying to use their Android phone in the way they want to.

Linux phones are booming.

Booming, eh?

If you’re having problems finding the linux line on the graph, it’s one of those at the 0%.

Why is this even mildly infuriating? Who’s that emotionally invested in a corporation and a bunch of influencers patting each other on the back?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suggestive-seven-up-ad-two-fingers-and-thumb/

As soon as you’re forced to buy that vacuum, sure, your analogy is rock solid and it’s like actual slavery.

Never watch a video that ends a statement with a question mark In the thumbnail.

Thank you for the home.

I’ve not noticed bugs on the dev branch but look forward to improvements (I’d love for the default U’s home page to remember my place when retreating back to it from an article).

Thanks!

I’m shocked, SHOCKED I say that they chose profit over people.

“Next week on As The Nerd Turns, watch as former friend steals all the game controllers and unplugs the snack machine.”

The lack of info leaves me curious. Is it with the purpose of spreading information, managing client accounts or???

Maybe you just have to swap and be okay with less people around, just so you can get out of Microsoft’s grip in open source.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. It is almost always the case that you will trade adoption/utilization/community for a less-used solution. Using loops, pixelfed, mastodon or piefed/lemmy, element, linux, FOSS web apps instead of their more popular system, they all come with an unspoken agreement that you embrace a niche-existence.

Only you can really decide what’s more important to you.