Already on Linux.
Life is good 👍
Linux - where life is good. Until it’s not.
I have been happy as a Linux user for more than ten years now. Never looked back. I use Trisquel.
Until it is not should be the motto
Made the switch when Windows 7 went EOL. Helped plenty of others make the switch now before 10 was killed off. Life is good indeed.
If you keep using Windows, you clearly do not care about your privacy at all. You can dual boot, there are no excuses.
Pretty sure Mozilla has the numbers on how many installations each OS has, so it’s probably a legitimate decision. HOWEVER, if they want to maintain their position on Linux, I highly recommend changing the default behavior of Ctrl+Shift+C to match how it works in Helium, where it simply copies the selected content instead of opening Developer Mode, which cannot be closed again using the same keystroke.
What’s wrong with Ctrl+C to copy? Its the default shortcut on pretty much everything except terminals.
You can change that in about:keyboard in the new Firefox versions
Ah the classic Linux community response to any complaint.
- The default either actively ignores what every other software does or purposely uses something other than everything else for no apparent reason.
- Someone brings up the fact that it makes no sense why it’s different and how it makes the user experience worse.
- Someone else recommends a half baked solution that still doesn’t really solve the problem and doesn’t address the fact that the specific weirdness being default is the issue. So it ignores the actual complaint and only provides a half solution.
- Nothing is ever done to address the issue and it remains for decades constantly annoying new users and being one of thousands of small issues that turn potential curious new users away as they accumulate.
Proposing a fix is better than no fix? I didn’t know it was possible, and now I’m looking into it.
Changing the default is a social issue, so of course it’s more difficult than changing one’s current setting.
Why is that persons response considered the community response?
Ive been using Linux for 20 years so… Can we change that shortcut please?
Absolutely, all behavior can be changed somehow. But the default defines the product :)
Interesting. And yet it’s still incomplete. F6 and Alt+D both do the same thing (focus the address bar), so there’s at least one line missing and definitely at least one column.
I doubt they’ll change that, since Ctrl+Shift+C also opens the dev console on chromium based browsers on Windows (just tried it with Chrome and Edge). Not sure if that’s the behavior on Linux, since I only use Firefox there.
Also, I really doubt that Ctrl+Shift+C behavior is going to factor into people’s decision anyway. That’s a very niche problem to have.
Can confirm ctrl-shift-c opens dev console
I keep mixing up the shortcuts because ctrl-shift-c is copy in the KDE terminal
This behavior isn’t unique to KDE’s Konsole; many others share it. Since
Ctrl + Cperforms an entirely different function in most Linux terminals/shells, Firefox’s default behavior feels out of place. It’s admittedly a niche problem, but to me, it looks like an ‘alien’ in the Linux world.EDIT: Thinking about it, this is actually exactly how GNU software usually works: set a weird default behavior so that people are incentivized to figure out how the software actually works just to change it.
Also incentivizes people to not use it.
Unless Google’s search AI lied to me (and surely it would never do that) this is all Apple’s fault anyway. They are the one’s that highjacked Ctrl+c for the copy function.
Unfortunately, that has become ingrained now everywhere other than the Linux terminal. And as Gui interfaces have improved over the years, average users are spending less time there, and Ctrl+shift+c has become the option that feels out of place.
But copy is Command+C on macOS and iOS, not Ctrl+C. Maybe in the Classic Mac OS days, but I doubt they would’ve made such a significant change moving to OS X.
Yeah potentially it would be easier/more concise if I’d adjust my terminal/shell to remap the
crtl+c , crtl +shift +cbehavior instead of demanding the whole world revert a decision made in the last century.
Yeah the person who put Developer Mode on that shortcut… Must have never used linux.
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Why?
Get on Linux anyway. You have no privacy whatsoever on Windows.
However, if you (like me) have to dual-boot, remember that O&O ShutUp can help you easily turn off Windows’ insidious tracking measures and delete Copilot off your system.
If you’re still using those old and bugged versions then you probably don’t care about unpatched software. Big security issues. Hope no one is using them.
Honestly surprised to learn that they were still supporting 7-8.1 until now.
Microsoft did as well - 8.1 still had ESU support, and as Server 2008 R2 had paid extended support and as it shared a kernel with Vista & 7 you could use those to keep your system updated as well. IIRC both ended January this year.
NGL, I have Win 7 on a Mac that I play old as hell PC games with and FF has been a disaster on it for a long time - to the point where I get most of the downloads of games and the various drivers they need with the macOS install…
Fair enough.
I switched to Ubuntu and I regret it. I cannot for the life of me JellyFin to work. That was my main reason for getting a laptop. I use VLC to access media from my laptop to my TV now, but JellyFin was a dream and now I can’t get it to work.
How are you trying to run Jellyfin? What part isn’t working for you?
I have it as a Docker container in Ubuntu and it works perfectly. The only trick was I had to find jellyfin’s internal docker IP address to do the initial Jellyfin server setup steps.
I set it up and the server has no files in it. I log in on the TV and the browser, but I need see the files on the TV.
Post your issue on !jellyfin@lemmy.ml. That community is starved for new posts.
I have that instance blocked.
The most active community is !jellyfin@poweruser.forum.
Thank you. I will try here.
Try docker compose rather than locally if you are struggling.
I did try a docker install. I’m not exactly the most savvy Linux user.
Why are you trying to run jellyfin server from a laptop? I mean you can, just seems like an odd choice.
Also make sure ufw isn’t getting in the way. Wouldn’t be shocked if Ubuntu keeps that enabled for security.
I don’t want to run a server all the time, just when I want to watch movies. I’ll try to disable UFW and see if that works. Why would UFW block the 8096 port and not the VLC media server?
Ah assumed when you said VLC, you where just plugging the laptop into the TV via HDMI or something.
I also read you mentioned you where able to login but not see files, so wrong route to go down.
If you don’t wanna run a server all the time for movies then vlc might be the better option, though I don’t see why jellyfin shouldn’t technically work.
If your libraries aren’t populating after being setup, maybe check file permissions for the ‘jellyfin’ user?
Plenty are running home servers from laptops, especially here on the fediverse that’s not unheard of… It should not make any difference what hardware he’s running for jellyfin. Still honestly not a pleasant experience to get it to run from what I recall.
Oh yeah no I’ve seen as home servers with a built in UPS. Their usecase sounded like they where using their daily driver laptop though.
Plenty are running home servers from laptops
Usually highly energy efficient as well.
Still honestly not a pleasant experience to get it to run from what I recall.
Who hurt you, was it windows ? (mostly joking)
With the list of old Windows vulnerabilities so extensive Firefox could simply just install Linux for users like that.
Most of them (I assume such VMs don’t use browsers) would just click [Agree] and then [Next] a few times, never knowing what was it about, maybe not even noticing any differences.
/s
So, basically Microsoft’s “we know what’s best for you” style? No. Fuck that, no matter the purpose.
I was joking.
I added the “/s” to be extra clear.
I didn’t think of anyone taking that statement seriously (like how wound it even work?).You know there is some dude the thought removing the /s would make that a valid suggestion.
Thought virus’ are real.
New Firefox plugin incoming (“Download more RAM on your Windows 7 machine”).
Apologies. I’ve seen weirder shit proposed recently. 2025 has severely damaged my sensors responsible for detecting irony, sarcasm and satire.
As for “how would it work”: on systems as old as Win 7, it would be trivial to escalate privileges and install all kinds of shit.
I do agree with you, I could have written it significantly better (in my brainhole the notion of a browser/browser dev installing you an OS bcs it would mean less work for them was just funny, but I failed in communicating it).
Also lol, yeah, 2025 did a number on irony/nutty theories/near future predictions. 2026 is no better, like whym there aren’t any HDDs left, what kind of worldwide catastrophe hit Earth & caused that??
The install bit - so getting through admin Win would prob be easy (that was the og joke), then the code would have to partition the disk (ok), install Hannah Montana Linux (ok), but then also reboot to that partition - can that be done without Grub on a primary boot partition or the user accessing BIOS?
Wait, I don’t even know what I’m using, it might be one of those. First they bring in AI without having to opt in, hiding any opt out part, now they quit supporting old windows?
I am afraid if trying to switch to linux it doesn’t work, but I need to. If you can’t download new os software because you deleted windows and the stuff you had didn’t work what are you going to do? My computer doesn’t even take cd’s. Computers sold around 2020 are shit.
Most Linux distributions offer a “live CD” experience (does not actually have to be on a CD nowadays; you can use a USB drive). Basically when the computer turns on you tell it to boot off the USB drive instead of the drive in the computer. That way you can try it out on your computer before installing it and see if it works out of the box for you with its defaults. It will probably be a little slower running off a USB drive. I don’t think you can typically install additional programs or save things to the computer (someone more experienced might chime in), but you can try doing basic things like using the web browser or word processor.
I am afraid if trying to switch to linux it doesn’t work, but I need to. If you can’t download new os software because you deleted windows and the stuff you had didn’t work what are you going to do? My computer doesn’t even take cd’s. Computers sold around 2020 are shit.
Never ever have only a single computer ready. You need a fallback to get access to help/interne and create Boot-sticks with it, just in case your primary device breaks . (doesn’t matter weather Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac…)
My main one broke, the cursor and keyboard stopped responding and startup repair can’t be activated without the cursor and or keyboard. All I have is my backup, and it’s a piece of shit compared to the other that is admittedly quite old by now. I’ve a phone too.
So you have no idea which OS you are running? Well, that’s certainly a choice.
I think it’s 7, idk. I know microsoft was trying to get me to upgrade to a newer version for free a couple of years ago and I told them no.
