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user-inactivated  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Adblock extension with 40 million users sells to mystery buyer, refuses to name new owner

Yeah. I haven't looked into it myself yet, but if Ublock Origin supports Firefox on Linux, I'll swap the same on my pc first thing in the morning.

I'm actually kind of wanting to try out a new Linux distro. I like Mint, but it's kind of unstable, which is dumb cause I literally use it for Internet and word processing. Nothing else.





deepflows  ·  3098 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Origin supports Firefox on Linux just fine. I've been using it for a while now along with disconnect and noscript, no problems.

Mint has so far been super stable for me. What's misbehaving for you?

user-inactivated  ·  3098 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Mint has so far been super stable for me. What's misbehaving for you?

The biggest issue I have is Firefox crashing on me about every other day, usually after a YouTube binge. I had the exact same problem with Chromium when I used to run that. I think in a single week of running Mint, I'll use Alt-F2 the same number of times I used the XKILL command the entire time I ran Crashbang.

tacocat  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I used Mint until Windows 10 fucked it up. I never had any problems and preferred it to Windows 8. But I prefer chlyamidia to Windows.

user-inactivated  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I haven't had a Windows box since XP. Seeing as how I don't use computers for anything fancy, I don't really miss it. Well, SD card, printer, and scanner capabilities without a hassle might be nice. Other than that though, I don't really miss it.

What distro are you using and how do you like it?

tacocat  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Windows 10 update borked my Linux partition. I was excited to install a new multi million dollar OS over a volunteer one but I shouldn't have been. I was using some version of Mint for everything except scanning, including GIMP for image editing. I liked it just fine for web browsing but that's about it. Settings were at least less stupid than Windows.

I've been a Mac user since OS 9 but got scared my 2008 Macbook would shit the bed so I bought a cheap Dell cause that was what I could afford this go round. If someone wants to trade a recent Macbook of some kind for paintings, sculptures and a cheap Dell I can make that happen.

user-inactivated  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's funny, you're the second person I've heard who has said a Windows 10 upgrade has borked their partition. I wonder if that's by some poor design on Microsoft's part.

Have you tried Elementary OS at all? I don't know if it had all of the features Apple OS, but at the very least it clones the GUI.

tacocat  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have no idea what Windows did or how to fix it but I'll keep that OS in mind when I try to fix this shit storm. But I lost important files so recovery is the main concern

deanSolecki  ·  3099 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just swapped ubuntu for fedora on my macbook air and the setup for that was super, super easy. With ubuntu I needed refind, but fedora shows up right in the OSX bootloader. On my desktop I use separate drives so I don't know how fedora plays with Win 10, but I think it is also pretty easy.

If you want easy install the big distros are probably your best bet. A live usb might help you with fix/recovery as well, including looking at the partitions and seeing what's going on (fedora's install has pretty straightforward tools for this.)