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Fr. Sometimes I use the associated Wikipedia page to find the official site.
This is the way.
!w prefix (at least in DuckDuckGo) searches directly to Wikipedia
i use firefox’s @ to select searcg engine
I just checked the page and it’s just a German Thunderbird community. Downloads just redirect to the official Thunderbird. Unfortunate that it’s higher in the results but not malicious
My ex once almost payed for downloading Firefox because she used the ad link instead of the top result. Good thing she asked me instead.
VLC Media Player got a problem with a bunch of scam domains too, they mimick the original, usually appear in the first slot and outright install malware on your device… sad
my first search result for vlc is videolan.org. I thought that was correct, but now I’m doubting
I believe that’s the right one (although I’m not sure). On Google, my first result is vlc.de which definitely is a scam domain that by default gets blocked by my VPN
that’s the correct domain and that’s part of the problem, no one knows it as “videolan”, everyone knows it as “VLC”, so the official domain being different is incredibly confusing.
k-lite codec pack ftw.
… Not really related to the scummy search results, but…
sudo aptitude install thunderbird
something something
{ pkgs, … }:
{ whatever.i want these installed = [ pkgs.thunderbird ]; }
Don’t you mean
home.programs.thunderbird.enable = true;
?
i wouldn’t know correct nixos syntax or for that matter idiomatic usage when multiple paths are available if they kicked me in the balls
Nah, both ways are fine. The first one just installs the package, the second one enables the module, which installs the package + does a bunch of additional setup and gives you super convenient configuration options (like setting up mail accounts declaratively from nix)
nix desperately needs a year spent on making it normie-friendly, you shouldn’t need to know that one setting is slightly different and less useful.
As usual linux is just better and doesn’t have that problem. Microsoft could just make a simple GUI for winget to benefit the users, but they don’t. They have to make more money so they make it into a garbage store full of shovelware so nobody wants to use it.
I remember when there were ads for Firefox at the top of the search results. Many companies I’ve worked at clicked that link instead of the first result and they wound up with a German Firefox (we were in the UK).
That wasn’t the main issue though. It wasn’t till a lot of time/companies have passed until the latest IT department I worked for flagged that Firefox version as being spyware.
Shoutout to Kagi, where good search is the only thing you get.
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