No problem. Since you plan to use FOSS in your product it would be nice if you’d donate money to FOSS projects as a thanks.
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Since you seem to be pre-installing and configuring everything beforehand I’d recommend looking into OpenSuse instead of Mint as it’s an enterprise oriented distro. It has a lot of easy to use gui and cli admin tools (yast) that make life a lot easier for maintaining the distro.
Why is asking for advice a bad idea even if there is a commercial interest behind it? At least OP is honest about it. Wonder how many of the “asking for advice” post over the years here and elsewhere have had some kind of commercial interest behind them and OP has not disclosed it.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fito Linux@lemmy.ml•[Unpopular Opinion] There are too many distros. The diverse distro-landscape hindering Linux adoption.2·2 months agoFOSS developers don’t develop distros. Distro maintainers package that software into distros. Linux, KDE, GNOME, systemd, GNU software etc are just single pieces of the puzzle developed individually.
The distro is closer to the old proprietary OS. So the enduser just has to learn other “new” software, the OS doesnt demand a learning curve but just replicates the Win/Mac experience.
There’s always a learning curve with new things (software or otherwise). In case of Win why would we want to go back in time in usability? E.g. Cinnamon and KDE are far superior in UX compared to Windows. Also in Linux distros you can actually fix problems unlike in windows.
I’ve been using Linux as a daily driver since 2018 (thanks Valve and Proton) and in my experience things just work (if they are supported) and thing like headset don’t just randomly stop working because reasons unlike in windows. In windows you then run some troubleshooter that can’t fix it, reboot several times while praying to whatever gods you like and hope for the best. If that doesn’t help you start searching online and only find vague instructions that might help but no solutions.
Missing software compatibility
What compatibility? If user insists on running some windows only software it’s expected to run into problems.
the need to fall back on the commandline are just some of the problems.
So? Even windows and macOS has a command line. It’s easier to help with problems if you instruct them to run some command (though running random commands of the web is not really a good idea security wise) then trying to navigate them to some gui which might not exist in their distro. Even in windows users are told to run commands in the command line to try and fix problems e.g.
sfc /scannow
anddism <whatever>
.Now you are thinking: But just install Linux Mint and they probably do most of the things in their Browser anyways.
In AD 2025 this is true in most cases. People just use social media, some webmail, youtube, read news etc. The OS is just there to start the web browser.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fito Privacy@lemmy.ml•I wish there was a "Right to have your account deleted"2·2 months agoWas more talking about using any of them personally. They are quite unavoidable unfortunately when you have to do business with someone.
Worse (?), another doctor of mine is using Gmail for all her email with her patients, email that is used to send and receive test results, share intimate informations,…
This is quite the data breach. I’d take it up with the data protection officer of the company where the doctor work if applicable or with the national data protection agency. As a non-lawyer I’d say this is a breach of the GDPR and other laws. This doctor hands over highly confidential data to third parties.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fito Privacy@lemmy.ml•I wish there was a "Right to have your account deleted"2·2 months agoAmerican companies (big international player at least) don’t really care what regulation we have in the EU. They can just ignore it and if they get caught those fines are just a “cost of doing business”. The only way is not to use any of them.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fito Privacy@lemmy.ml•I wish there was a "Right to have your account deleted"5·2 months agoIt does. Art. 17 of the GDPR.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fito Privacy@lemmy.ml•I wish there was a "Right to have your account deleted"11·2 months agoEU already has that. It’s called GDPR (see art. 17 & 19).
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fito Privacy@lemmy.ml•privacy.sexy - Maximize Your Privacy and Security13·2 months agodesktop application created using Electron
🤢 . That’s not an application. It’s just a bloated way a displaying a webpage. If you truly want to make a desktop application use something like QT.
Some random scripts off the web is a big 🚩.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fito Games@lemmy.world•Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they reEnglish3·2 months agoWhen you run out of even decent logical arguments you attack the people. This really tells that the industry is afraid of this movement and will use all the dirty tricks they know to oppose it.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fito Programming@programming.dev•Did you know that Google provides a free API to retrieve the favicon for any website?0·2 months agoWhy would you ever want to route your request like this through a third party especially an ad company? To get the favicon of a site you just request
www.example.com/favicon.ico
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Try https://flathub.org/en/apps/me.iepure.devtoolbox