When I was first starting out my programming adventures with Python, someone told me that I should work with Python 3 instead of 2 because that’s what will be maintained in the future (this was some 8 years ago). I decided to listen and when I got home I opened up my terminal, wrote:
sudo apt-get remove python
Followed by
sudo apt-get install python3
Only to be suddenly greeted with:
sudo: command not found
In my days of learning Python, I was told to use pyenv and set environments based on the projects rather than making changes to the system. Maybe there are better options nowadays.
Pyenv is still a good option
I remember I did the same mistakes few years ago. If I’m not mistaken, there is a big warning message when you try to remove Python, no?
Why does removing python remove half the OS though? Does it remove all the things that depend on it?
And that, kids, is how Linus fucked his Pop!_OS installation.
To be completely fair, he nuked his desktop environment when it absolutely shouldn’t have happened. Yes, there was the warning and he should’ve read it, but coming from Windows, how many times is the “This app may harm your PC” threat legitimate? Linus made an honest mistake, but pop truly made a massive oversight.
Tbh that’s Windows’ fault in crying wolf so many times for nothing
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I actually switched to Fedora from Endavour for the opposite reason. I hated shooting myself in the foot, somehow I always did that on whatever Arch thing I had.
For those wondering which xkcd:
Lemmy is great
And so are you
Is it easier to remove Snap from Ubuntu or Edge from Windows 11?
Can Edge be removed?
For VR Gaming, I installed https://ameliorated.io/ onto a fresh Windows 11. Seems to replace Edge with Firefox and more other programs with Open Source ones.
But what if you would do it manually? I guess on a Vanilla Windows its not even thaf easy or possible because Windows Updates tend to fix it. But i am just a Linux user who jist wants to play VR and not really use the Desktop
Snap, and just uninstalling a snap provided program is even easier. Or just getting the system to use your own non snap program as default.
“Yes, I know what I am doing”
*system fails to boot
*surprised Linus face
Can you refer to windows as edge/windows?
Edge is so trashy. It’s constantly trying to shove politics, celebrity gossip and Bing down your throat.
You can actually uninstall Edge, Microsoft just says it will break your system. Not a big deal, you can always reinstall Edge later via winget
Last time I tried (haven’t used Windows in over a year) it just reinstalled itself unless you went to a fair amount of effort to stop it
Yep, this is still the case. Every time there’s an update it will reinstall and preventing that is so tedious. Just got a new gaming system setup (Aya Neo, which is Windows based) and I really don’t feel like going through the whole process to remove it / prevent it from coming back
Not suggesting you do it necessarily, but I wonder how well linux runs on something like that, gaming on a windows handheld just seems so inconvenient, especially sense I haven’t had a use for windows in a long while
I’m super curious too! I’d be very worried about the drivers for the controllers though. They’re dodgy enough as is haha
It is a little annoying but the portability really makes up for it for me
Edge is decent, it’s my main browser now
Decent browser? Absolutely. Privacy oriented enough to trust with my data? Lol, heck no!
The thing that started sending all your pics to Microsoft for “enhancement”?
No, its not your main browser. [tries to gaslight]
I used edge for a while, but went back to Firefox after about decade of not using it. Love having extensions on mobile, makes browsing a lot better!
Enjoy your spyware.
You fr?
In terms of usability? Yeah, edge is good, especially if you are a fan of vertical tabs. After all, it’s just yet another chromium-based browser. In terms of privacy? Oh god no, given Microsoft’s track record it’s probably the worst browser out there in that regard.
Even if it was perfect and everyone should use it. The issue is that you can not remove (uninstall) it, which you should be able to do, especially for a browser.
I just wish they would have a package more suited for power users. I understand the why MS feels the need to treat consumers like idiots, some people truly are clueless and wouldn’t have touched a computer 10 years ago when more user freedom was given. But I don’t see the need to nerf the whole OS, and every variation, so that my nan doesn’t delete system32.
But with the SaaS route the MS are pushing, I’m sticking win Win10 LTSB for as long as I can. I can’t help but see things like pushing MS accounts on regular local users as anything other than laying the infrastructure for a more centralised SaaS approach.
I currently run an Unraid server on some old hardware, mostly as a NAS with some Docker containers. But due to the lack of processing power, I’ve actually been thinking about rolling my main rig and the server into one, then running Windows in a VM. Switching between OS easily would be good, being able to spin up virtual environments easily, and that way I can only use Windows for the things I need Windows for.
Now I’ve just gotta figure out, you know, how to actually do that!
Steps to remove GRUB on Debian: “doas apt purge grub-efi* -y” “doas rm -rf /boot/efi/EFI/debian”
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‘dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/(boot partition)’
I can always count on dd to give me a reliable way to break my system.
Look at this guy with his fancy efi bootloader…
Can you refer to windows as edge/windows?
This is how I feel about Java vs Go/C#/etc
Which is java and which is C# lmao
Can I have you number?
“Ew, no”
Sudo can I have your number?
“Sure, here you go!”