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1. Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 23:10:43 JST Mike Masnick ✅

   • Paul Thurrott

   More strange Mastodon reporting. This time from @thurrott, who claims "I’ve been using Mastodon since December, but the interaction there is almost non-existent compared to Twitter."

   Dude, you follow 22 people. Try following more people. The "non-existent" interaction is *up to you*.

   I've found WAY MORE interactions and engagement here than I ever had on Twitter. Plus fewer death threats.

   https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/social/279094/mastodon-continues-to-lose-users

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 23:10:42 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Paul Thurrott

     @mmasnick @thurrott This was pre-“Twitter migration.” The fediverse has far greater engagement but you do have to… uhum… engage :)

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/107501949232455213

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 23:17:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jason Lefkowitz

     @jalefkowit @mmasnick Not to mention, have you tried Fedora Silverblue recently? Pop!_OS? Elementary OS?

     Linux on Desktop is kicking some major ass these days.

   • Jason Lefkowitz (jalefkowit@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 23:17:24 JST Jason Lefkowitz

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     @mmasnick Disappointed to see him reach for the "it's going to be like Linux on the desktop" line, the favorite lazy dismissal of tech pundits who'd rather not think too hard about a subject

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 02:58:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jason Lefkowitz
     • Andreas

     @andreasio @jalefkowit @mmasnick Stable as a rock. Nothing like running an update, it taking however many seconds, and you’re running today’s OS. Something went wrong (it hasn’t yet), just roll back. What’s that, a major version update? Same thing.

     (Actually, I did hit one snafu with some layered package I think not liking the major version update when going from 36 to 37. Fix was to remove a couple of layered packages and add them after the update if I remember correctly.)

   • Andreas (andreasio@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 02:58:10 JST Andreas

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     • Aral Balkan
     • Jason Lefkowitz

     @aral @jalefkowit @mmasnick why silverblue over desktop?