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  • It's a really good search engine and I have no reason to doubt their claims about privacy and cencorship but I have to say no there because beside finding piratebay in the normal search results it's all just their claims and I don't know of any sientific study or similar that ever tested any of the claims. If you don't trust those promises self hosting SearX is probably a good option and I haven't tried it in years but Qwant is another one with their own index aka independent results.







  • There is huge progress on the Mobile Linux front and Ubuntu Touch is still very much a thing but all of it is far from ready. The majore issue with phones is their closed source drivers and hellscape of vendor specific kernels tho, if they had mainline Linux kernels vendors could update them forever with relatively little effort, custom ROMs wouldn’t need devixe specific ports and we could use much of the current mobile Linux progress accross a wide range of devices!




  • GameytoLinux@lemmy.mlSystemD
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    410 months ago

    I never had a fast NVME SSD so my devices boot significantly slower than yours but unless you are actually at the point of instant booting it’s about half the boot time for me. I only use OpenRC on my Pinephone because it’s the default for PostmarketOS (a Alpine based OS for mobile phones) and never found a good enough reason to use it on my actual computer but it’s quite a bit faster and also quite a bit less convinient so all in all probably not worth it but still impressive to watch!


  • GameytoLinux@lemmy.mlSystemD
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    910 months ago

    Well and a faster boot time but it’s definitely a learning curve and not really worth it unless you want to try a Distro that ships something else by default (E.g. Alpine).


  • Well SteamOS is Arch based but running a LTS kernel with backported changes in a ummutable way with everything sandboxed in Flatpak so it’s quite unique but idk why anyone would want to run it on their desktop, if the immutable aspect is so interesting ro you you can try Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS and co. but none of those is in a state that I would recommend as “just works” for a desktop experience, if that’s the majore goal Debian or Fedora with Gnome are probably your best options.



  • Cinnamon is a little heavier on the hardware but especially with Linux Mint it’s a great choice to get into Linux and a Debian base is a great choice, you won’t utelize any new features on that hardware and it’s really stable! About KDE, that’s actually very light weight too so you shouldn’t have any issues in that regard if you decide to use it especially in comparison to Cinnamon, I would just recommend Mint Cinnamon more for a new user! :)