He made an edgy/abhorrent¹ joke years ago for which he apologised and Lemmy is even worse than Reddit so people still lach onto that.
¹ Whether it was just edgy or much worse than that I leave to the reader to decide. The joke was that he paid some guys in Africa to make a sign saying ‘Hitler did nothing wrong’ or something to that effect. This one of the things that likely contributed to adpocalypse on YouTube.
Switch to a non-buggy browser.
Yes. I’m just keeping the symbols file in home directory so that I don’t have to edit the system files. To change backspace you’d have something like the following I believe:
key <BKSP> { [ BackSpace, Delete ] };
My approach is to define custom keymap and enable it in xinitrc. Might be worth a try though I’ve no idea how that interacts with Wayland.
Hot take: Lemmy is an even bigger piece of garbage than Reddit.
It’s trivial. Use Linux Mint or Debian, enable non-free repositories if required, and that’s pretty much it.
I’ve never had issues with Nvidia drivers. Your mileage may vary.
It is a product of its time. If the same research was made 30 years ago, I bet there would be a stark difference to results today. LTO wasn’t as feasible. Compilers were less capable of removing redundant checks. Branch prediction in x86 processors was still a hot new thing. And on top of it all, there was less knowledge about language development.
If this was easy, then people would’ve done this a long time ago.
People have done it. It’s called Edge, Opera, Vivaldi etc. And looking at it historically, Safari is a branch from the same tree as well.
Who cares what anyone on r/macos thinks.
Admittedly, I’m probably not the best person to ask for recommendation of a noob-friendly distro, but I feel people are overthinking this. If someone produces a list which includes distros I’ve never heard of, I think they spent too much time on ‘Top 10 Noob Friendly Distros in 2025’ websites.
If you really care about my recommendation, just start with Mint.
PS. I should also add, this isn’t criticism of you or any other new user who does search online for recommendation. This is more a comment on state of the Internet where there are so many websites which seem to pad their list with obscure distros where really all such articles should give recommendation for one of the same three distributions. Which three I don’t exactly know.
uBlock Origin and mouse copy and paste works perfectly well in Firefox.