Well, it’s more about the lack of clear progress indicator. e.g. in GNOME it’s a tiny icon at the top.
Thought there was one on the bottom right but his screen is too large for a desktop setting, he only saw it afterwards.
Don’t know if dolphin has a progress cheese but plasma should have this in notifications.
I think it’s just a comedy show! 
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what right or wrong no matter … end of day , it your system your rules 
If it all go wrong then usr fix 
( that my personal opinion only )
" You should never run any GUI application with sudo" That great advice ( key word is advice)
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No, the user should explicitly need to learn the consequence of doing something they shouldn’t.
Running GUI applications as root works fine, but you shouldn’t do it and if you do the users should absolutely be forced to learn how.
This is all as intended, 100% functional, and with good reason.
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Problems arise when users do things they shouldn’t and feel entitled to help to fix that mistake.
If you’re not willing to learn the potential consequence of you’re actions you shouldn’t do you’re not entitled to help. You’ll frequently find help but you should acknowledge the mistake and not repeat it.
Extreme example is don’t drive drunk. That’s not just “advice”, you’re told not to for good reason.
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Well, LTT try to make the videos entertaining (otherwise they would not have the millions of viewers) but there are lots of good points, such as
- Some popular file managers do not make the progress indicators visible enough for new users.
- The gatekeepers who expect only developers/sysadmins/hardcore enthusiasts to use Linux can ruin experience for many users.
Don’t wanna pick up the Dolphin as root discussion again. But I would like to leave a link here, in case anybody’s interrested. It’s a discussion back from 2018 when Dolphin was made available for root again and it gives a bit more insight in concern of the security risks (which seem to be heavily tied to X11):
Turned out that completing the tasks was a snap for one of them, and Linus had problems with the digital signing of a PDF, which would give ME problems. I’m waiting for the gaming benchmarks, where they’re going to complain about 198 fps on Proton when DX12 gives you 223 fps.
Properly signing would cause problems for anyone on any OS.
But I guess the task meant simply inserting an image like Luke did.
I think they are not planning benchmarks, only non-Steam game launchers test.
btw FPS was never a problem for me, maybe because I have a high-end PC.
But recently I encountered a problem because of higher VRAM usage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/qmtlng/blurry_textures_in_dx12_control_fixable_by_mod_on/
When it comes to a properly signed PDF…
I use Docusign for work. It apparently has been popular in real estate for some time. It has become the platform of choice for submitting electronic plans to the Departments of Transportation that I deal with. Also, playing around a bit, I found through Google that Adobe offers a similar service online.
Since everything goes through an online account with either Docusign or Adobe, this works equally well on any OS.
All that said, knowledge and adoption of these things seem to vary a lot depending on industry…
EDIT:
I believe both services have free options if you just want to sign PDF documents. The paid options allow you to set up PDF documents for other people to sign through a web browser.
hm, I used it once but afaik I was just adding an image like they show in the video here https://www.docusign.com/products/electronic-signature
By “properly” I mean like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_signature#Digital_signature
https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eSignature
afaik in my country one of the ways to use it is to get a special SIM from a phone carrier, and then use it to sign documents via some apps or online services (it will ask to enter some code on the phone or something), some government offices accept such documents (though often the easier way to verify your identity is to sign in via a bank account which uses 2FA like https://www.smart-id.com/ or a special device).
Docusign is actually compliant with the stated regulations. Relevant Web Page.
Incidentally, one issue I’ve encountered with digital signatures on Linux is that not all PDF viewers will pick up the signature data. For example:
Please_DocuSign_040015_2021_SF-040015_S_BEAV.pdf (1.1 MB)
- Okular will
- Cinnamon’s Xreader won’t.
I attached a document (a PDF from work) that I use to test these things.
EDIT: It also appears the internal PDF viewer in Firefox doesn’t either.
That’s 𝖆𝖇𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖞 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖞!
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Unfortunately so. 
Fortunately, It’s paid for by my work. 
I believe there are a number of open source alternatives on the market. I haven’t looked into them that much because of the fact that my employer is paying for things (and I don’t need to digitally sign anything outside of work – so far.)
The problem with proprietary software is not the fact it costs money, it’s the fact you don’t know what it does.
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There is a bit of confusion regarding the term digital signing here.
Luke understood by digital signing a fake (it wasn’t even his own handwriting, so it has zero value when challenged legally) hand signature, digitized, while Linus understood by it exactly what digital signing is: sealing the document with a digital certificate to prevent tampering and certify its authenticity as well as that of its signer.
Libreoffice Draw has digital signing capabilities, you don’t really need any additional applications, proprietary or FOSS. The hoops Linus started going through are related to installing a certificate into Linux so it can be used by the app he was using to sign the document. And he was on the right track. Luke cheated.
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I did not know that. That can come in handy down the road.
I feel like Linus would have a better time with Thunar than Dolphin. Would compressing a tarball be faster than a zip?
Tarball is basically just gluing files together in a single file without compression. It should be as fast as the speed of the drive supports, so for SSD < 10seconds.