Makes sense, with hardware prices the way they are, a custom build is too much of a status symbol to hide under your desk.

I usually go 10 or 15 years on a motherboard. I’ll upgrade the CPU, GPU, and RAM in that time.

I’m the same way. My Debian server is two versions out of date, but it’s still getting security updates and works, so why in the world would I upgrade?

I started with Debian and am driving Catchy now. Catchy will pull you into the terminal more than Debian will, but you don’t sound like someone put off by that.

The good news is that pacman is easy to learn and Catchy’s default terminal app is superior.

Tech in general has a huge boomer-humor problem in that all those old fucks that wrote the original code stuffed it full of puns, in-jokes, and idioms that are only relevant today in retirement homes in Ohio.

And I don’t mean this is annoying or funny, but as a legitimate problem. It’s bad enough that you have to learn English to code, you also are disadvantaged for not sharing the culture with retirement age white dudes from America.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it was good boomer humor, but remember, these are the guys who think “Linux Is Not uniX” is funny.

Their are already Linux phone options. I’m talking about full-fat installations and even distro-hopping.

Pirated games have almost always been a superior experience. Games companies hate their customers almost as much as they hate their employees.

This is amazing because I have a GTX1660 and just switched to Catchy.

You must have been of Microslop for a while if you think frustrating issues on update is a Linux thing. Just last a couple weeks ago, Microsoft released a security update that locked people out of their “C” drive. (In Windows, this is bad)

The rx6700xt is in your budget if you buy second-hand. This card is the cheapest you can get 12GB of VRAM, and I think that will keep it relevant to new games the longest.

Gnome get’s up and out of my way. 9/10.

When I read articles like this a Jimquisition episode starts playing in my head.

I saw in a recent Youtube video that between web services and AI, Windows licencing is only about 10% of Microslop’s business.

IDK if that number is true, but it sure would explain how much they’ve put into user experience. Does anyone use Windows because they like it?

This might not be feasible. IDK how you could install a whole OS, inside of another, without looking like a serious virus or malware. There are many files that cannot be changed while Windows is running (why it needs to reboot so often for updates). And no sane OS is going to let a program edit things like the MBR.

Competitive multiplayer games are lazy because they rely on other players to be the content. And they are perpetually vexed when their customer/ labor don’t perform their intended function.

Why is Linux different than Microsoft? Most of the games I play aren’t “Linux” games, but the identical Windows software running through a compatibility layer on Linux.

The Steam client on Linux has the same “workshop” tab for adding mods. It’s not in every game, but that’s true on Windows too.

Dead Cells is a wonderful game. And it runs natively on Linux

I had to switch to Linux because it wasn’t presented with any option besides Microsoft when I learned how to computer.

Subscription > point of sale. It’s way more profitable to be a landlord than a shop keeper. That’s why everything is subscription now.