Oh that’s a shame, I hope they manage to improve it it woul be very convenient

I meant not too slow to load on a potato-grade laptop… Thunderbird takes a while 😅 I hadn’t heard of mailspring before, I’ll check it out thanks !

Lmao that’s what ChatGPT recommended after I ranted about all the email clients I had tried 😂

fetchmail/getmail6 to fetch the mails via POP3 in maildir format + a local roundcube server + CLI tool to still be able to read mails outside home but I thought I might be a bit overkill 😅

It’s a matter of perspective I guess. I’m not a fan of overkill security measures that get too much in the way of usability and risk creating problems for you, especially when physical access is a minor risk in most cases. I agree that having a Microsoft account to backup your key is a solution, but not a very good one since you trade vulnerability to a possible physical access that probably is never going to happen for the absolute certainty of your data being spied on by Microsoft…

Last commit to the nightly build was two days ago so it’s definitely still going 😀

You mean it prevents people from writing the key on a piece of paper when they get the BitLocker message, then copy it on a text file once their session is running and throw the paper away or lose it later ?

There’s ReactOS, which is not Linux either and targets the early 2000s Windows versions. Though it doesn’t just look like Windows, it’s made to be compatible and capable of running those old Windows apps

https://reactos.org/what-is-reactos/

There’s also Haiku which has the old Windows look, but prettier imo. It’s not Linux, it’s based on BeOS, and it’s still in beta so not fully usable yet, but it’s a pretty cool project

https://www.haiku-os.org/about/

Edit: okay none of those are actually Linux distros so it doesn’t really answers the op 😅

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The price difference does make sense, it’s the cost to cover therapy for the employee that was forced to preinstall Windows on a computer for the thousandth time

I thought BitLocker was enabled by default on Windows 11, which is a terrible idea imo. Full disk encryption by default makes sense in professional settings, but not for the average users who have no clue that they’ll lose all their data if they lose the key. If I had a penny for every Windows user who didn’t understand the BitLocker message and saved the key on their encrypted drive, I’d have a lot of pennies. At the very least it should be prompted to give the user a choice.

I just installed Evolution to give it a try but it’s throwing fits –and by fits I mean segfaults 😑

But I’ll be switching to a new drive and new distro in a few weeks so I’ll try again and see if it works then

Well I year ago I would have said “no way I want an email client that does email and nothing else” but after trying so many of them I’m fine ignoring the stuff I don’t use as long as it doesn’t get in the way so I’ll look it up thanks !

Aww crap and here I thought I was approximating a neurotypical post by removing my rant about the other email client whose name I forgot which had several half-empty toolbars disturbing the hell outta me by taking up space for nothing 😄

20 hours spent on config is only a waste if you can’t do it in a config file that you get to proudly display in a public repo as a gift to Humanity… dotfiles will be our immortal legacy 😁

Hey I’m glad to know there are people who also like Claws 😄 I was really sad to give it up, apart from html it did everything I needed with zero annoyances

It’s true that Nobara is rather new compared to most other distros and doesn’t have as many resources or people, so that’s something to consider. I really like the modifications they make to make gaming a lot easier though. But yeah if you’re not sure what to choose, Mint is perfectly fine.

Try Nobara if you plan on playing video games, it’s a distro specialised for gaming and they have two sets of ISO : one “standard” and one “Nvidia” with the drivers preinstalled so you don’t have to do anything.

https://nobaraproject.org/

I think the installer gives you a choice between the open-source drivers and the proprietary ones, and that’s it. Everything works fine even on Wayland.

You mean Lemmy threads aren’t indexed by search engines ? So if we move everything to lemmy there goes the only way to find good info online which is adding “reddit” to the search bar ?

I actually wanted Arch but everyone was saying that you HAD to do a manual install first and I had been miserably failing at doing it in a WM for a few weeks. I had finally decided to try it directly on hardware so that I had no choice but to complete it if I wanted to use my laptop, and just as was about to burn the ISO on a USB stick the power went out and my hard drive died 😑 On a saturday evening, obviously…

All I had was a Haiku USB I had made to check it out, and a Linux Mint USB a friend lent me that I hadn’t tried because I assumed I would hate it. So I used Haiku for about 30 minutes (let’s say it had a few bugs), and Mint for the rest of the weekend and did, in fact, absolutely hate it (Windows PTSD 😭 ).

So until the computer store opened on Monday, I spend 48 hours browsing the web to find a better distro and when I got my new SSD I installed AntiX, because it was very light and likely to run well on my potato-grade laptop, it came without a DE and 7 different window managers to try (which seemed cool at the time, but I didn’t actually try any of them except the default one IceWM and after a few weeks I installed i3 😅 ) and also because YouTube had convinced me that systemd was the Antechrist (thanks YouTube 😑 ).

After two months I decided to try Manjaro on my other laptop… it didn’t go well : incompatible dependencies preventing updates, Nvidia + Wayland making games not display correctly, and if I had to fix all that manually what’s the point I just might as well use regular Arch. So I gave up after 48 hours and decided to install Arch, and just as I booted from the Arch ISO the laptop died (fan malfunction) and I had to send it back 😑.

After three months, the third laptop, bought with the refund from the second one, did actually allow me to install Arch without throwing a fit 🥳 using archinstall to preserve my mental health this time.

Arch has been really great but I need to switch to a bigger SSD and I am probably going to try Nix because it seems really cool 🤩

Well yes HTML is technically text but who actually want to write HTML tags by hand in email ? 😭

I’m guessing org is a better solution to not do that ?