Right :p

I was expecting a sick ass-panther.

For Dutch an important source of public domain literature is the Database voor de Nederlandse letteren (dbnl), in cooperation of the Nederlandse taalunie (Dutch Language Union) with several heritage libraries and the Dutch Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library).

My favourite book you can find on there is probably De stille kracht (The silent force) by Louis Couperus. It’s about a high ranking Dutch colonial family living in a town in East Java, and also the people around them, trying to get the Indies to follow their rules, to be what they want it to be, but in the end failing miserably.

There’s always a lingering feeling of impending doom which, though it goes more to the background at times, never fully goes away. I love it.

De stille kracht is well-known as far as Dutch novels go, there are translations in major European languages (even one in Finnish!).

I bought my before Tesla Elon mind lost his.

This makes me think of a Reddit thread about how annoying it is to be constantly surrounded by US topics as a non-American on Reddit. Half the comments were ‘you’re on an American site! You’re so entitled! What the hell are you expecting?’

If I understand correctly, lemmy.world is the largest Lemmy instance and is registered in the Netherlands, so what’s the excuse now?

But to temper my words a bit, I get we have a big American user base. I’d just like them to not treat Lemmy as an American community.

Fair enough.

Caps lock works the same as windows.

Capslock definitely doesn’t work the same as in Windows. If it did, I wouldn’t need to run a weird script to get it to behave like how I’m used to after more than twenty years of using Windows. I’m not the only one with this problem either (this is actually exactly the reason why someone went and made said script), nor is it only present in OpenSUSE. I’ve read it’s a general Linux thing, and I can at least say it’s on Mint as well. Interestingly (though unrelatedly) on Samsung Dex as well.

Another difference in behavior I’ve noticed is that in Windows, if you press capslock to turn it off, it does so upon pressing the key. In Linux, it does so only after releasing the key. Pretty weird.

Firefox restoring session no matter what: I’ll try that and get back to you.

No need, ikidd@lemmy.world suggested deinstalling the default Firefox installation and then installing it as a flatpak; this fixed the issue.

It seems to have done the trick, cheers! I do get the ‘Your Firefox session has closed unexpectedly, do you want to recover it?’ screen, but I read earlier that Firefox on Linux indeed thinks it has crashed when it’s not closed the ‘proper’ way, which is by closing it from the menu. It doesn’t do this on Windows, which is really odd. But I should be able to just turn off that screen in about:config. Perfect.

I already had that turned on as I want to start with a completely new session everytime anyway.

To be honest, they have been posting links to that other community under pretty much every post. It did get a bit annoying in my opinion (as a normal user) too.

Interesting idea. I’ll give that a shot soon.

I’m going more for a mix between Windows 7 and 11 with more colour:

That’s turned off, yes.

My first positive is first for a reason, indeed :)

Do you need Timeshift on an opensuse system? I haven’t used Leap, but had a Tumbleweed install for years which has Snapper pre installed.

To be honest, I just installed Timeshift because I first tried Mint and that had Timeshift pre-installed, so it’s the only program I knew for making backups.

The firefox thing seems just firefox behaviour to me. Does it not do that in Windows?

It really doesn’t. The first thing I’ve been doing is getting everything to behave as much like I’ve been used to on Windows, and this Firefox behavior is really sticking out like a sore thumb. But I’ll fix it at some point, hopefully.

Thanks for all the helpful information :)

Yeah, I first tried Mint, but I didn’t like the look and feel of Cinnamon. It felt a bit cheap for my taste.

By the way, the capslock issue is certainly also true on Mint (but I’m afraid I’m not allowed to complain about that here :p )

Instability: there is almost zero chance of you being able to destroy your environment so bad that it would require a reinstall of the OS. Since it’s just flat files on a disk and no central registry like Windows, everything can be repaired quite simply, you just need to be familiar with how.

Yeah, but I spent half a day faffing about trying to see what I’d done wrong and searching online for hints. I suppose I didn’t literally ruin my installation, but I’d messed it up enough for me to not know how to fix it, so I gave up.

Firefox: ‘about:config’ has these settings

That’s the first thing you find online, pretty much. Changing settings in about:config doesn’t work (in this case), and I’ve followed instructions involving adding an autoconfig.cfg file to the Firefox installation folder, which also didn’t work. But yeah, like I said, I tried some things and have not been able to get Firefox to start a fresh session on startup, after shutting down the computer with it still open.

Thanks for the advice!

My sister hated me for it when I was ten, it gives me warm feelings :p

Here’s the song, by the way.

Got my first Nicole this time.