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Quick video by the Mental Outlaw YouTube channel noting that Mozilla has deleted language, previously in multiple locations, about not selling access to your data. Not a good sign:

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Freshly-released, new updated video about the backlash to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc8rvV8DDmQ

For some reason, this guy insists on incorrectly pronouncing Mozilla as "mot-zilla", which is highly annoying. Not sure why he does that.

LibreWolf looks like the way to go, but I'd have ...

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Well, Mozilla is completely and utterly ruining Firefox in spectacularly and outrageously bad ways. It'll soon be as bad, or worse, of a privacy nightmare than Chrome is!

I recommend watching this entire video for details and context including their prior terrible decisions and actions that led ...

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It works wonderful.
Thank you very very much !!!

I have make a xfe.pet on easyos , if you need it I am glad to give you.

Awesome, glad to hear it worked! Enjoy!

I got xfe working on Kirkstone awhile back the same way I got Veracrypt working (manual trial-and-error experimentation, guided by ...

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Here's how I did it awhile back, on Kirkstone. It runs flawlessly and I love it!

viewtopic.php?p=128737#p128737

Not sure if it'll work the same on 6.6.2, but you can try it! Hope this helps!

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The best part about Easy OS, in my opinion, is while you CAN install it on an internal HDD/SDD, you don't have to, and if you don't, it completely de-couples the operating system and its whole associated environment (programs, settings, preferences, files, everything) from the PC and its internal ...

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Scarthgap recognizes the Radeon chip just fine, and works perfectly at native 1920x1080 automatically, no manual anything required.

Hooray! Thanks everyone.

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Try the Scarthgap if the problem still exist.

yes . a recent kernel might recognize the graphics chip... probably 'intel'
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Nah, it's not Intel integrated graphics, it's Radeon, as the BIOS screen info I pasted above indicates ...

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Hi guys. Can you help me out? A relative bought a brand-new Lenovo IdeaPad on a Black Friday deal and asked me to try it with Easy OS booted from a USB stick. I had a freshly-imaged new Kirkstone 5.7 USB stick so I tried that.

I booted from it and everything goes just fine until it's time to start ...

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I use xz for just about everything, for example .tar.xz archive files.

If you have some extra time, try running xz with the -9 and -e options, which basically means "compress as hard as you possibly can". Very impressive results, far better than gz and better than bz2 also.

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You should try with libselinux.so.1 from the Debian package (https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/libselinux1/download)

Wow. That worked instantly. Downloaded that .DEB file, opened with Rox, agreed to the install. Went into a terminal, typed "smartctl" and now it works!

Thanks a lot ...

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Hey guys. I've been trying to get the smartmontools Debian package (.DEB file) to work on Kirkstone. I've been successful in previous attempts to get .DEBs to install and work, but this one's giving me problems.

As usual I doubleclicked the .DEB file in Rox, it installed, then I run the ...

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Daedalus and Scarthgap have a password manager in the tray, builtin.

I'm planning to remove that, replace with a clipboard manager.

Does anyone have any objection to that?

There is a security risk having both a password manager and a clipboard manager, as the password manager transfers ...

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pp4mnklinux wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:15 am
let's ask ChatGPT....

Damn. ChatGPT totally NAILED IT. That respose is completely accurate in all respects, to the best of my knowledge. Very impressive.

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How long will I keep developing EasyOS? In a few months I'll be 75, and may move on to doing other things [...]

Who knows, it is all up in the air what will happen in the years ahead. [...]

I don't even know if I will advance beyond the OE Scarthgap release, as it will be supported until 2028 ...

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You can also start GIMP, included in Easy OS, and in the menus choose File --> Create --> Screenshot and follow the instructions.

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we are basically reaching the non plus ultra . This can be considered as:

- EasyOS Scarthgap with the availability of the whole Debian repository ( Devuan is nothing else than Debian without systemd )
- a modernized and much more efficient version of EasyOS Buster

This is what I've been ...

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That's awesome news, Barry!

With the regular package manager having access to the giant Debian repos, and also having appi and flappi when needed/desired, this will be the best Easy EVER in terms of how much software can be installed easily, simply and quickly by non-technical users.

Thanks again ...

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Wish list?

1. XFE file manager. Please! I had it on Easy Buster

Quoting my own post so I can report that I just got XFE working on Easy Kirkstone. I copied over the three .DEB files from my Buster machine (the main XFE one, an XFE themes one, and one for the libfox library) to my Kirkstone ...

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pp4mnklinux, we all help each other here, that's why it works so great! Sometimes I take time to post something to help someone else. That day, they benefit. Another day, someone will take time to post something to help me. That day, I benefit. What a beautiful system, isn't it?

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pp4mnklinux, see my post about quick-and-easy (with no extra software needed!) batch conversion of WEBP files to JPG or PNG files, here:

viewtopic.php?p=132455#p132455

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Someone REALLY needs to make a universal package manager that can access, and install, ALL kinds of Linux packages on ANY distro, and WITHOUT downloading hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes of crap onto the system.

Oh, and it needs to WORK EASILY AND SIMPLY without requiring a PhD degree in Linux ...

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My opinion is that WEBP sucks. It's SOMETIMES a bit smaller in filesize than JPG or PNG but the usability and compatibility problems are too great and disk is ludicrously cheap nowadays, so universal compatibility with long-time standard formats wins easily.

These two command lines will, in just ...

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I like Barry's basic idea of small and simple easy without turning it into a gigabyte extravaganza. ... Am using mint lmde presently and it works good but is turning into a "microsoft and windows feel. Losing freedoms, a bit of a jail, and i don't like TPM and other additions including cross ...

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Thanks Barry, that's very good info! I bought a pair of identical desktop PCs back in March that came with Windows 10 on their internal SSDs, which I completely ignored and never booted into even once. First thing i did was go in the BIOS/UEFI and set it to boot from USB, then inserted Easy USB ...

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Great news Barry!

The announcement says no layered filesystem and frugal install, then says the image can be burned to a USB stick and run from there. I'm assuming this would be good short-term for evaluation, but wouldn't it wear out the USB drive, compared to recent EasyOS versions where the ...

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... and run a debian with repo access beside Easy. Hopefully without needing Alt and F6.

Yes, I'm eagerly awaiting Easy Bookworm so I can have easy, direct access to the gloriously-large Debian repos though the regular package manager without using containers, virtual desktops with Alt-F6 ...

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6. Replace YouTubeDL GUI with a yt-dlp alternative (because yt-dlp is an active project).

Barry can do this so everyone has the active project yt-dlp, but you can do it too, easily!

Just go to the yt-dlp project page and look for the proper Linux option which is distro-independent. It works ...

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I didn't know just trying to run the program would give a list of missing dependencies. Very nice!

"dpkg -I filename.deb" lists them all too though, and dpkg is already built into Easy. So it's another option.

Thanks for the info, going to keep trying some stuff.

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In my experience as a simple user (I am neither a developer nor a Linux expert) the majority of programs downloaded from Debian are installed with a simple double click. When that's not enough, I launch the program from sakura that tells me which package is missing, I download it and install it. I ...

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