I agree with the first part of what you said, but I disagree with your last sentence.

I have been using Linux on my desktop PCs and laptops since 2017 and it’s been working great for me, even playing games. Honestly, I probably play more games on Linux than I did back when I was on Windows lol

It’s covered up yeah, most of the republicans are too dumb to realize it.

I edited my comment to better and more fully reflect my thoughts. It’s hard to properly express myself when I’ve been as sick as I have been with bronchitis and possible pneumonia for the past 4 weeks.

Hopefully my comment now better reflects my thoughts.

I’m mixed on it. If it is more secure/safe then that’s a good thing, but if it’s done because it’s MIT-licensed instead of GPL-licensed, then that could possibly be concerning.

All the forums I used to go to on any regular basis are dying out or dead - NotebookReview, DSLReports, etc.

I still stop by Linus Tech Tips forum and GBATemp and Overclock.net and ServeTheHome on rare occasions.

For me, my personal projects are generally MIT licensed. I generally don’t like “restrictions” on licenses, even if those “restrictions” are requiring others to provide their source and I want as many people to use my projects as possible, I don’t like to restrict who uses it, even if it’s just small/home businesses who don’t want to publish the updated source code. Although, I admit, I’m not a huge fan of large corporations potentially using my code to generate a profit and do evil things with it, but I also think that’s not going to be very common versus the amount of use others could get from it by having it using MIT who might not be able to use it otherwise with AGPL.

With that said, though, I have been starting to come around more to AGPL these days.

I’d say probably autumn, or maybe spring. Summer is too hot and winter is too cold, though it is fun going inside to a nice heated home during winter and going inside to a nice cooled home during summer, I hate that I got sick this winter with bronchitis and I’m still getting over it even though I haven’t been sick for multiple years until now. Autumn just looks really nice, but leaves can be slippery when walking outside so you gotta be a bit careful too.

They don’t care about the tech, they care about the data.

Yes, I know a guy like this. I’m not aware of his considerations of how he is able to separate science from religion, other than I guess the fact that they are two separate things.

For what it’s worth, they have experimental Wayland support. It’s an important distinction. For example, Cinnamon has experimental Wayland support IIRC and last time I tried setting up a lock screen on my ThinkPad (you know, for security purposes, since it’s a laptop and all) I wasn’t able to get one working.

Exactly. It took me 4 hours a couple months ago to get a scanner to work on our Windows 11 PC. It turns out there was some Windows Image Acquisition service built in that had to be disabled because it was conflicting with the driver of the scanner. Absolute insanity lmao

I told one of my friends about this since my friends sometimes tease me about using Linux, their response was get a better scanner.

lol

Wow, that is some nightmare fuel type shit. That’s actually crazy.

I’ve been pretty lucky that I’ve been able to use Linux on my work laptop the past 3 jobs in a row. It really helps that we use Linux production in and when I tell them that I haven’t used Windows in nearly a decade, they’re usually willing to let me work with Linux.

I’m not sure how I feel about that. If they use an LLM for troubleshooting an issue, does that mean the game must be thrown out? What if they use an LLM for repetitive tasks like creating config files, then the game is no good?

What about shovelware games that are just asset flips without any use of an LLM, are those games okay?

I don’t think it’s necessarily as simple as using generative AI in any way means the game is bad.

I use LLMs at work, does that mean that another developer who refuses to try LLMs is immediately a better developer than me? I’m not so sure it’s that simple.

sometimes issues crop up with bleeding-edge updates, just keep an eye on the forums before updating.

So to me, that sounds not ideal for someone new to Linux.

I know someone who was fed up with Windows recently, and they decided it’s finally time to switch to Linux. Me and another person recommended Linux Mint, but they got many other recommendations for Arch. They went with Arch, and it hasn’t gone boom yet, but I’m not sure if it’s a matter of time or what.

I have heard Arch is more “stable” these days than it used to be, but I’m not sure.

I use Ubuntu myself except for on my ThinkPad where I use Mint, and I’m gonna switch to Mint on my desktop eventually.

Ah yes, the only thing that matters for gaming is checks clipboard, oh that’s right, HDR. Very well said.

I’ve tried both 10 and 11, though not much for gaming since I mostly only game on Linux these days. On my Windows machine, 11 has issues with my scanner, it has some stupid service that conflicts with my scanner, it’s called something like “Windows image acquisition service”, I need to stop that service every time I want to scan a document. It’s so dumb.

Windows 10 was better than 11.

That would be a truly dark day. I never liked their centralized dashboard functionality, it always seemed cumbersome to me.

I hope that doesn’t happen, but I guess if it does, I will really need to find a different monitoring tool.

Is that just for the centralized dashboard portion? I tend to use each instance of it standalone, and primarily for the email alerts.

Seconding Netdata, I’ve been using it for years. It’s pretty great.