LINUX NEWB PAGE

Several of my friends have been asking about Linux lately. In the past it was mainly just an idle curiosity, but now it is a serious alternative to Windows. In the past Linux was aimed mainly at geeks and was difficult for regular computer users to come to terms with. When I first tried Linux in 2010, I soon gave up and went back to Windows XP.

As of 2025 some of the Linux Operating systems (Distros) are pretty good, as they have been slowly progressing, while Windows has been going backwards since Windows 7. 

In 2025 Microsoft will be ending support for Windows 10 and ramping up their efforts to push their Windows 11 full blown spyware operating system with "Recall" taking constant screenshots of your desktop and sending them back to Microsoft. I'm expecting that even non security minded Windows 10 users are going to start having concerns about this level of spying.

Anticipating that this year I'm going to be trying to help more people make the switch to Linux I've started compiling all my Linux notes and blog posts into one big "LINUX NEWB" page on my blog.

The page is an ongoing work in progress and in 2025 I plan to continue adding a copy of anything I post that is Linux related to it as I go. New content will be added at the top. I'll mainly be focused on Linux Mint because that is the distro I use.

 

 I'll also get into some of the open source software I'm testing out such as the Japanese privacy browser Floorp which is a cleaned out fork of Firefox

RANDOMS 2025 #2

 

NO DOUBT

THERE IS NO DOUBT GWEN STEFANI LOOKS LIKE A TRANNY

Gwen Stefani is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame in the 1990s as the lead singer for the band No Doubt, before starting a solo career.

 

Was she a MTF invert deceiving the masses and in particular young women, promoting body image and identity issues? Stefani sometimes seemed sad and tortured in her lyrics, which possibly alluded to her struggles with being an invert in disguise.

This is a hard call, and I'm on the fence about this. She was no Taylor Swift (an obvious MTF) but something does not look right here.

 

 

When "I'm Just a Girl" came out in 1995 I thought it was great, but the messages in the video went totally over my head. Watching it now, the lyrics, Gwen Stafani's mannish looks, and all those images of urinals and public toilets, are not lost on me! Still a good song though.

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

 

“Cause I'm just a girl I'd rather not be

'Cause they won't let me drive late at night

Oh I'm just a girl, guess I'm some kind of freak

'Cause they all sit and stare with their eyes”

(excerpt from“Just a girl”)

 

 

“Can you tell I'm faking it?

But I want to be myself

A counterfeit disposition

Can't be good for my health

So many different faces

Depending on the different phases”

(excerpt from “Magic’s in the makeup”) 

 

 

Notable Details:

-large clavicle and shoulder skeletal structure

-angular mandible and large male skull

-large trachea and visible adam’s apple

-devil horn’s hand symbols to give allegiance to her god

-straight torso with no female hips

-666 hand sign showing who she worships

-adonis belt visible in various images

 And more recently, seen here on the right in 2023:

MICROSOFT IS SPYWARE

As of 2024, over 95% of Microsoft users were using spyware crap 

These are some recent figures for Microsoft operating system usage - it blows me away that over 95% of Microsoft users are using Windows 10 or 11!

Microsoft ended for me at Win 7 (I refuse to use any newer Microsoft operating systems) and I'm mainly using Linux Mint now. Linux is far from perfect, and I suspect that the big players are doing their best to infiltrate Linux at every level and sabotage it's development from the inside. 

But with Windows 11, Microsoft has gone next level spyware, and I hope that more normies start to wake up this year. Windows 10 is spyware, but Windows 11 is deep state fist up sphincter data control. 2025 is a good time to wake up, it's only a decade too late...

 

LINUX NEEDS MORE FILE BROWSERS

Don't panic, I'm just kidding. Linux doesn't really need any more file browsers, it already has at least 32. What it needs are some more that are as good as the ones that come standard on Windows.

 This seems to be an issue that Linux developers have been refusing to properly address for decades. As a Windows user switching to Linux, I think it's one of the big issues that send so many Microsoft refugees straight back to Windows. Most Linux file browsers suck...

This is the process I went through looking for a good file browser when I was trying out some different Linux distros. 

 

Articles like this one proudly proclaim "there are 32 options for Linux file browsers" but I actually tried out about half of them (the others were mainly total geek stuff such as command line based ones, so clearly not what I was looking for), and there was only one I liked that did everything I wanted - NEMO (Which is the default file browser on Linux Mint). 

 

The first thing I would do to a fresh install of Linux Zorin is add Nemo and make it  the default file browser. 

 

 

There was actually only one other file browser I liked at all (Dolphin, which is the default file browser on most KDE distros), but even that had an issue I would need to sort out before I could happily use it (it didn't display my PCloud drive), and I thought most of the others ranged from not very good to completely hopeless. 

 

 

In fact there were less than six that I even thought were almost as good as the default file browser on Windows XP (Yes, XP from 2001!) but as with many things, this elephant in the Linux room seems to go unnoticed by most geeks.

 

The fact that it was Linux Mint that developed the Nemo file browser, thereby fixing the glaring hole that has made Linux all but unusable for non geeks for decades, was another thing that convinced me Mint is the best distro.

 

 

I have over a 1/4 million files and the Nemo file browser is the main program that enabled me to switch to using Linux. Without a decent file browser I would be completely lost on Linux.