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  • Fredol@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlI tried, I really did
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    6 months ago

    Multiple mistakes:

    1. You went with a very old distro, Ubuntu 22.04 is almost 2 years old. You could pick a non-lts ubuntu instead. Thankfully you ended up picking Fedora.

    2. A single google search could’ve given you better alternatives to FreeRDP like Remmina. You can always ask people stuff like this on Lemmy or elsewhere (“what’s the best rdp client on linux?”) rather than waiting till you run out of patience.

    3. You shouldn’t need to compile software by yourself, you can use flatpak to install newer versions of software and flathub even has a beta repo you can add for even newer software.

    It’s not against you, we all learn from mistakes. Just try to be more social about your linux journey if you don’t want to struggle

    Tldr: you made the classic mistake of going head first into this without a friend to help you or at least documenting yourself properly on the current state of Linux desktops through various medias like Youtube. It doesn’t help that you suffered from the ol’ “I’m a windows expert so this should be similar/easy and if it fails it’s not my fault”









  • People have deserted whole projects over telemetry. Audacity comes to mind. Telemetry is obviously not popular with people who are already sacrificing so much over privacy.

    There’s no point in trying to sway linux users in favor of telemetry, because most of us already know it’s only a privacy risk and doesn’t do much. Does Gnome really listen to its users feedback anyway? If yes, why is there still no typeahead in Nautilus despite constant user feedback? Why is there still no way to have a dash to dock without extensions?

    Opt-out is not a solution because you’re asking people to scrub every package and figure out how to opt out. It’s time consuming and must be done with every fresh install.

    A good example of the uselessness of telemetry is Firefox. They keep removing features used by advanced users in Firefox because Mozilla thinks those features aren’t used a lot. Turns out, most advanced users of firefox don’t enable telemetry because they seek privacy from their browser.