(Almost) ready to turn my beloved MacBook Air 2013 - which is gathering dust on a shelf - into a #Linux laptop.

Only problem: multiple people might have swayed me to pick Arch Linux as the distro. #ArchLinux!!! I know NOTHING but from all the Linux memes I've seen over the years, I've always been intimidated by it.

Debating whether to go with it or #Mint or #Ubuntu. Thoughts?

Edit / update: it's now a toss-up between Mint and Fedora. I may try Arch on my Raspi4

#MySoCalledSudoLife #AskFedi

BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG

@_elena i have an old intel MacBook with a battery that needs changing. Going to be following your adventures.

One aspect that I find is easily glossed over is the look and feel of the various distros. Some people don’t care, tastes vary, but for people (like me) who are (overly) sensitive to design, it’s something that I would factor in as a priority. Couldn’t use a system that makes my eyes bleed 😅

Oye, hay que ver qué bien ha evolucionado la aplicación de NextCloud para macOS.
Cuando había dos versiones de la app, la de ficheros virtuales iba bastante mal. Hasta el punto de romperse la sincronización sin avisar perdiendo ficheros.
Hubo un cambio y se decidió que la versión de ficheros virtuales iba a ser la única, desde entonces sólo he tenido que reiniciar la sincronización una vez, sin pérdida de ficheros.
Incluso cuando falla, puedes recuperar los ficheros que no se han sincronizado.

@_elena debian ;)

interested in thoughts?

normally this starts a huge flamewar and doesnt help you to decide.

I miss the days when all of this was villages and the worst thing you would hear of is an indiscretion with the farmer and you'd settle it with a bushel of orchard fruit

@libewa @_elena @kleisli That's a good description of Mint. I'm a long time Linux user, with the emphasis on user rather than fiddler. I started with Ubuntu - I think the version number was still in single digits at the time, then changed to Xubuntu because it ran better on my elderly hardware. I put Mint XFCE on a Thinkpad which suddenly decided it didn't want to run or re-install Windows and found it to be nice to use. My Dell desktop had become a mess of snaps, flatpaks, and appimages so that went Mint XFCE as well making software updates so much simpler. Xubuntu screwed up an upgrade on my other Thinkpad and it was easier to just install Mint XFCE on that too. You can tell that I like the XFCE desktop can't you? 😄 So I'd say if you just want to use Linux Mint is a good choice, if you're looking for a new hobby there are more "involving" distros. One caveat is I've never tried Linux on a Mac so all my experience is on PCs - apart from an old Raspberry Pi running DietPi.

@MarloesdeKoning @ShadowJonathan

De onnatuurlijkheid herkennen is de start van Personal social networking als input om ontwerpprocessen te sturen.

Het is duidelijk dat dingen veel beter kunnen dan wat alleen een microblog te bieden heeft. Offline 'weven' we ons moeiteloos door complexe sociale contexten die gevormd worden door mensen die op allerlei wijzen interactie met elkaar hebben. We zijn ons nauwelijks bewust van deze complexiteit, want het is natuurlijk en met de paplepel zijn we ermee opgegroeid, hebben cultuur en gewoonten geleerd die het resultaat zijn van duizenden jaren sociaal-maaschappelijke rijping.

Mijn observatie is dat we de online wereld onderschatten. We denken "oh, gewoon een digitaal lijntje erbij", maar het is eigenlijk een onverkende wereld en we staan nog in de kinderschoenen om die te ontdekken.

Ik vind het zelf jammer dat fediverse vooral een (decentrale) kopie van bestaande platforms is geworden, gestoeld op microblogging. Het remt onze ontdekkingstocht.

Also: email is still one of the most important services out there, no matter how often its death has been predicted and no matter how often techbros tell me that it cannot be saved and that self hosting email is futile and I should just give in and move my email to Microsoft or Google. I am now officially a grumpy old man, yelling at clouds while keeping his postfix and dovecot up and running ;)