Well lots of offoces used Microsoft for email and out sode i workd email is password reset, receipts, and new account confirmation. When the last i sent and email that wasn’t work or those things? About 8 years ago.

But yes tryings to explain instance and federation to a regular user is only going to confuse them. We need mastodon to be a sample as login and use. If we bring up a single tecnical term we lose people.

So feediverse tictok?

I had a dual boot machine for a year or so when i first used linux. Never actually went into windows the whole time

Back in the very early 2000s my dad went back to college. There he learne c++ but he also leatned that a great programer makes the program work ans keeps it small. Even bavk his teacher was complianing about newer programs taking up more and more ram.

One reaon for why any company would rather just an x alternative rather start up a lemmy or mastodon instance of their own is externalize the responsibility. If someone else run the site then you can’t be blamed when it goes down

Tried it doesn’t always work

I didn’t want to have spyware for an os.

As someone insecure in their masculinity I don’t know if u would use ladybird. Now if it was MANbird I would.

Not every sub. The ones I use are mostly unchanged

So tldr start with a dual boot machine

Any genres you focus on?

Umm correct if um wrong but cant you make a snapshot of ant file system

I don’t quite follow this give Nintendo more power to do that.

Ok to provide more detail After tue updatecthe login screen changed. It looked completely different.

When i typed in my password and hit enter it would go black and the right back to the login screen.

Incorrect password

Typing stuff did make the black appear. It would just fail everytime.

Which was ignored

Yeah i woyld have entered right the second time. Numlock was off and it is a simple pass. The best i can tell is kde issued a buggy update to their de. Thats why the logon screen looked different and why issueing an update comand fixed it but reset my desktop settings.

Hopping over to mint tomorrow

Ctrl+shift+f3 Then user name and sudo password

That changes the promt to username$.

Then i ran sudo pkcon update. Several people had this problem and all the others solutins uses comands I couldn’t understand but this one i did.

It worked*.

I can log in but my desktop settings are the default now. But atleast i lost no files.

I could not or maybe i could. It let me run a sudo pkcon update and that fixed it

Well i now thats not the problem i dont have that many files and the imstall is less the a month old.

Same thing happened to my windiws oc way back in 2002. Hdd crash wrecked its boot loader