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I guess they want to emulate Google chromeOS and Google is busy emulating MS of the 2000s. Shame.
Or you know, iCloud? The thing that most people here probably have.
What's the similarity to iCloud?
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#333I've switched to Linux + Mint in part because I don't want to be using Windows any more. Many of my games work with Steam on Linux now, actually. With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform. I really have no productivity loss by not using Windows any more.
Check this app https://lutris.net/ .
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#334Meanwhile, the Linux world is wasting its biggest opportunity to take over the desktop space. IMO, Unintuitive interfaces (e.g. Gnome shell), forced package management (as opposed to decentralized distribution of apps) and lack of care for graphic design are the biggest things keeping the masses away from the Linux desktop, because in other areas (speed, robustness, privacy, control) it just blows Windows out of the…
As a long time Windows user, I switched from Windows to XFCE (Manjaro) and it was pretty seamless. Most of the keyboard shortcuts are the same (or, easily configurable to be the same). I had to hunt down one xdotools script and bind a shortcut for moving windows from one display to another for it to work the same. There are many things that XFCE does even better or just as good. Window snapping works great. The start…
There's a patched version of Chromium called chromium-vaapi (in Fedora's RPM Fusion repositories) which supports GPU acceleration.
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Perhaps install cinnamon in a VM like VirtualBox and let him roam over that first? See how he feels.
I’ve tried this with my dad. The problem is, he never boots up the bum to have a go. He doesn’t really get how there can be more than one OS on his physical machine. So basically we are stuck in a cycle of him not wanting to switch until he’s used to the “new” thing but him never using the new thing.
This is a bit hard to understand for young people, I know :-)
Older people have already spent so much time on learning new stuff that they feel spending even more time to learn something they already know how to do is a waste of time. I'm slowly moving into this category myself. Why do you have to redesign something that works just fine? Just because you want to get paid more is not ok reason.
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#337FTA They have not removed it, it just is not visible by default if you are connected to the internet. So it’s just a UI issue
They are moving a small step each update, moving it around, making it harder to find for each step. Sooner or later it will be missing completely.
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Perhaps install cinnamon in a VM like VirtualBox and let him roam over that first? See how he feels.
I’ve tried this with my dad. The problem is, he never boots up the bum to have a go. He doesn’t really get how there can be more than one OS on his physical machine. So basically we are stuck in a cycle of him not wanting to switch until he’s used to the “new” thing but him never using the new thing.
Lie a bit to him, tell him it's "on the cloud". Kind of true for a rather particular definition of "cloud" :)
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> With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform What do you use instead of Google Backup and Sync client? I haven't found something that works like that. The "best" thing I've found is the FUSE Ocaml filesystem ( https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse ) but still it is a "mounted" over network filesystem and not a sync-on-change solution. I tried InSync but could not make it work and it is not…
What about Dropbox? Also Nextcloud
Dropbox runs on linux but they are missing a lot of features and it only works on unencrypted ext4 fs. They are slowly dropping support I would say.