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  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.dev•Linux - Recreating old problems with new tools
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    4 days ago

    A similar theme here from 2022 slagging off fedora

    Some up his own arse wanker: Dedoimedo is owned and run by Igor Ljubuncic: former physicist, contemporary IT nerd, fantasy & sci-fi book author, and persona extraordinaire.

    and of course clickbait, bullshitter extraordinaire.

    https://redlib.privacyredirect.com/r/Fedora/comments/jtbkv1/fedora_33_review_by_dedoimedo_i_dont_know_about/

    a few opinions

    I’m of the same opinion when it comes to Dedoimedo.

    I used to enjoy his stuff but it sounds like he’s soured on Linux distros in general over the years. Most of his complaints boil down to typical Windows users complaints about Linux. Which is fine, because I suppose that’s the audience whose views he’s trying to reflect (people who want their systems to “just work”), but it places unfair expectations on Linux distros to be something they’re no

    I, too stopped trusting Dedoimedo’s reviews quite some time ago. The issues he has always seem to be the same and often are things I can’t reproduce. Also often, like in this review, his qualms are more with the chosen DE not the actual distro. Why would review a GNOME distro if you hate GNOME? Just so you can then complain about it?

    The irony is, that his review on KDE was glowing and with KDE he seems to be more than willing to ignore all the little niggles or they magically disappear on his usually fickle machine.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.dev•What would be the best setup to ease my niece (10) into tux land?
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    16 days ago

    My niece, same age. no problems so far

    I installed linux mint xfce on an old laptop for her.

    we set it up together and she loves it. Themes icons and all that jazz.

    I have hidden and removed items from the start menu. Just to keep it simple.

    I also set up some aliases so she just has to open a terminal and type “update”. she loves that. Thinks she’s a hacker now and impresses her friends.

    I have set up an alias to call bleachbit, so she just types “cleanup” in the terminal, types her password, and she can watch bleachbit do its thing. I explained to her how important it is to keep her machine clean, like housework at home.

    I must say, Kids are a nighmare for attracting viruses and malware using windows, its not the best age to suddenly be thrust into the slop of the internet.

    They are young and excitable and will click on anything and everything that catches their attention without giving it a second thought.

    Its a big plus not worrying about viruses and malware on linux.

    To stop her having free reign and accidentally seeing porn on the internet and protect her from the worst crap, I installed Mullvads DNS on linux and in the librewolf browser.

    Mullvad have a fabulous family dns filter; https://family.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

    here are the options:

    https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

    I have set the search engine to Startpage

    I have also taken advantage of Ublock origin and added loads of these is the: my filters list

    just a few of many to stop access to certain websites from the search pane

    This one stops amazon links appearing in the startpage search

    startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“.amazon.”])

    startpage.##a[href=“.amazon.”]:upward(1)

    This one stops ebay links appearing in the startpage search

    startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“ebay.”])

    startpage.##a[href=“.ebay.”]:upward(1)

    I spent more time on this than anthing else;