u/Venylynn

It's clean, barebones, doesn't come with a bunch of bloat, and just lets you browse without any nonsense popups. It lets you remove UI elements you don't like, for example I do not need that profiles icon on my address bar. By default it stays put of your way, which is what any browser should do.

I will say, I don't expect full MV2 uBO to stay for much longer. I'd like to see Helium implement a form of either Brave or Cromite's adblock engine built in once the maintenance cost of a whole MV2 backend gets too difficult. Or switch to uBO Lite built in. I don't mind either option, I was using Lite for months and it didn't bother me. Brave Shields is solid enough. uBO may have the strongest blocks, but I'm fine with Lite even in Basic mode or a DNS level blocker like a Pi-Hole.

I'm fairly adept at Linux virtual machine management, but it's been a minute since I got my feet into the weird niche end.

One distro I love having around in a VM is SecureBlue, as I've been very security-paranoid due to a situation I've now since put in the rearview mirror. But it's nice to see what they do to ensure the security of their system, ala Qubes but not as resource-intensive.

I also like stuff like ReactOS playing around.

Purpose: Just want to try some unique, interesting combinations. I'm already on a fairly well-worn Fedora install.

I'm curious to know where everyone in this subreddit started. Not where you are now, I want to know about the humble beginnings.

My family always owned older PCs. We had a Gateway my mother used for CS 1.6 back in the day, with a Pentium 3 and I don't even remember any other spec. My main daily driver until 2016...yes, 2016, was a Celeron D from netburst era, the final Intel CPU gen to use PGA (Socket 478). 2.53GHz. We had 2GB RAM in it because my family thought RAM was all you needed to save an aging pc. the hard drive was 80GB Seagate. Amazingly, that's the only part still usable, as I was able to get all the data off it with an IDE to USB adapter and keep a copy of the disk image exactly how it was when I stopped using it in 2016. it STILL spins up to this day. Rest of the machine is toast though.

So, I run Fedora, and everything pretty much just plain works now, I'm really satisfied with where I am, it's been a while since I last ran into anything serious wrong, and the last thing that went wrong was a hardware failure I successfully isolated. But everywhere I see here, is Cachy this, Cachy that, you gotta use Cachy. It doesn't really help that I always see Cachy mentioned in the majority of bug reports and things going wrong, but am I seriously doing something wrong by not giving Cachy another chance? If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? So wtf is wrong with other distros that we gotta constantly talk about Cachy as if it's the only correct choice?

I was getting a lot more hate when I was on Mint/LMDE even though similarly, it "just worked" like Fedora is right now that I've resolved the hardware issues I had. Suppose I could ask someone to sell me on giving Cachy another chance since it's CONSTANTLY brought up, but...I kind of don't want to be convinced when I'm already happy where I am? Is something wrong with where I am since it seldom gets recommended for gaming?

Now I know a lot of distros just default to systemd, but there's a huge group of people that seem to oppose it ideologically and hate anything related to it, to the point where it sounds like they're calling you evil if you don't. For example, AntiX seems to think that. Like if you don't leave systemd they'll bring up that age pull request thing as a reason why you NEED to leave. But I don't want to hear about all these ideological and "bloat" reasons.

Is there a reasonable benefit for someone who isn't swayed one way or the other to switch to say, openrc or runit over sticking with what every guide is used for? Or is it just ideological warfare like a lot of other things in the community like free software purism?

One of the reasons I and many others left Windows, the straw that broke the camels back for me was the sudden obsession with forcing AI onto me. I did the whole disable copilot thing but it didn't fix it all because the backend kept feeling more sluggish and buggy, mirroring exactly what I see from AI in the front with it ruining our socials and destroying a lot of art and music.

Now I'm seeing a lot of developers allow AI code in the backend. Many projects I still use have openly admitted the use of tools like Claude Code but I have no idea if I am even comfortable with it, I lean no but I have no idea what it is even changing so I'm not sure what to do. I've been so cynical and worried. After seeing what happened to Windows, and seeing what these models do in public, I'm just worried for the future. I can't trust that the AI in the backend won't just hallucinate and ruin everything it touches. If this is what we see when it's given full public presence, I have no idea how it could suddenly turn into a useful tool in private. The Copilot/Windows thing turning a perfectly good start menu into laggy hell. I never liked the web search but at least the animation when opening used to be fluid... how can I trust that in an open source devs hand it is used better than on Windows where there is a far bigger audience relying on it to work? How can I trust it not to mess everything up when what we see in public with art and frontend is 99% slop garbage? Do I need to run away to the BSDs for protection, or can I be rest assured that everything will be okay?

And if anyone is wondering, I'm not trolling, I'm legitimately confused and worried and scared for the future. I would like, if not reassurance and validation, a way to move forward without feeling like the sky is falling on all things in software and backend development. I don't know how to solve it. All I know is I can't trust these tools when the stuff that we see in public is so horrible.