I think it might be the case for some, but mostly I think that more people on Lemmy are less focused on themselves and personal anecdotes. More often I see people here reaching for cited resources to support what they’re saying instead of “Oh one time my Uncle’s friend’s cousin…”. It still happens here, but not nearly in the same capacity from what I’ve seen.
Yea, the installation isn’t too difficult. Looking at my groups as well I think it’s only the libvirt group that you have to add a user to for KVM/QEMU with Virt-Manager, but the same could be said for VirtualBox as I believe you have to still add the user to the vboxusers group if you were to install it instead.
Yea, I have heard about SketchUp as well, but if I can learn the full FOSS alternative instead then I’d like to use it. I guess I could use Blender or something too, but I really liked the engineering oriented parametric modeling that Fusion360 was doing with the timeline.
That’s good to hear about the 3d printer as I have yet to connect mine to try the same thing. I just have to learn freecad though, as i used to use fusion 360 which is not packaged for Linux.
Yes, even though I did not have a subscription, watching them do stuff like this every 2 weeks for the last year or more is what finally pushed me off to Linux as well. I got my parents moved over as well though, and they did have a subscription previously.
No, haven’t had time to trouble shoot much unfortunately. If they need a scan they just use their phones at the moment which works fine, but I still have to investigate further.
It pulls its data from open street map I believe, so it’s as useful as the community is capable of making it.
The name of a side street I know was missing so I made an account on open street map and added the name, soon after when they consolidated the data it’s there now.
This is both a good and bad thing. It means some stuff is not always up to date, but at the same time, for areas where people maintain it, I can see such fine detail that I can use the map to find out where there are things as small as trash cans, benches, and bike racks.
I was unaware this feature existed, how do you set this?
Burned my accounts, moved to Tuta.
I like this one.
Best of luck to you in resolving!
My move for my parents to Mint went very well thankfully. Brother even supplies Linux drivers for their printers as a I found out and printing works great, but even after installing their scanner driver for the model, I can’t seem to get any scanning softwares to detect it so I’ll have to look into that part further.
Otherwise everything else runs super smooth. Now I have to deal with my system!
Off only the top of my head.
-Potentially faster installation
-Free
-More control
-Many distributions from LinuxFromScratch to Mint, making it meet the interests of nearly every demographic
-Wonderful sense of community
-No spying
-No bloatware depending on distro
-No ads
-Many window managers supporting different workflows
-Incredible command line power
-Easy installation of software with package managers
-Less malware
-Fully customizeable ux/ui
-Can uninstall anything you don’t want
-Will help you learn how a computer works at a deeper level if you want to