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Just a dude doing internet things

  • I wouldn't advertise on the premise that Windows is a horrible, privacy invasive OS. Even though it's true that would easily be grounds for Windows to claim defamation and pummel the entire thing into the ground with legal fees

  • That makes a lot of sense when you put it that way. For some reason I never factored that individuals were extending apps for their own use cases lmao

  • I feel like Linux alternatives often falter by trying to offer as extensive of a feature set as the proprietary options. GIMP would be better if it simplified it's menu's and focused on offering a strong central feature set, then expand on that core over time to offer a powerful workflow of it's own.

    I noticed this especially with FreeCAD, which is trying to do like 12 things for some reason? Just offer intuitive parametric cad and focus on it. We don't need OpenSCAD inside FreeCAD because OpenSCAD is already it's own thing for example.

  • Yeah that is wild. Back on windows I had a three monitor setup at one point and honestly rarely utilized the whole of it.

    Ever since moving to Linux and learning about virtual desktops I have never felt the need for more than one monitor. So I could hardly imagine the need for seven beyond novelty lol.

  • Awesome, I will look more into that!

  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    Controller Oriented Interface for linux?

  • Any modern distro.

    There are GUI methods for adding repositories to every major software center to my knowledge, and it isn't very hard.

    Kate, and other modern file editors are more than equipped to handle some config files, that's probably the simplest thing ever.

    There are multiple GUI front ends for samba.

    Don't comment on the usability of Linux GUI if you haven't even tried in the last 20 years like seriously

  • It is for the sake of combatting the commonly held belief that you can't do anything without the terminal in Linux.

    Progress on the accessiblility, and GUI centric applications and functionality in Linux has been huge in the last decade or two. It is now entirely possible to use a Linux system while rarely needing the terminal. And if you have someone techy helping set it up for you then it is possible to never have to.

  • This makes a lot of sense, though I can't help but think about the fact that all these distros were once brand new projects that people had to go out on a limb and try out before they became what they are today.

    Though I also guess these projects had more official dedicated support.

    In any case, I won't be the one going out on a limb for a while now lmao

  • I reckon if I go about trying to game again I will just go ahead and rebase to bazzite. Seems the easiest route

  • Rebasing is easily one of the coolest features of the atomic suite. I will definitely look into bazzite more in the future, just wish I knew about it before all this lmao

  • Yeah that's why I put it in quotes, it just kept popping up when I searched for distros more inclined towards gaming lol.

    Yeah I didn't know about bazzite before going about this whole thing, but I am not going to try gaming on my system until nvk becomes more capable. Even then only light work.

    I'm not necessarily a begginer as I have been using Linux for a few years now, but arch is definitely out of my wheelhouse

  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    Crapped my system

  • You even see this with games that were insanely cash grabby from ten or so years ago. Borderlands 2 made you pay for every level cap increase and tiny piece of updated content as it rolled out. The handsome collection fixed that, but it's still true that it really tried to toll you at every corner. Game is still highly regarded though.

  • The thing that kept me attached to VR was Echo. Guess what they did to one of my literal favorite games

  • This looks really cool! Didn't know anything like it existed

  • You could at least act ignorant rather than trying to logic your hatefulness

  • I have been trying to understand this for a minute and I can't seem to understand why you would use it on a personal workstation.

    Like it makes sense for servers, and for deploying accross multiple systems in a corporate or public setting, but beyond that it seems like it is just adding unnecessary steps if you try to use it on your personal rig.

    Maybe I'll need to just give in and try it for a week to a month to see the appeal

  • XFCE, while it doesn't have all the fancy animations and such it is incredibly customizable while still being super light weight.

  • Nah, at least to me it isn't a matter of wealth at all. Every single inch of this submersible looked like pure sketch, there were so many massive red flags and anyone with an ounce of sense would have been right to veer a hundred miles away from.

    It's hard to feel sympathetic for the fools that paid to be on the damn thing when it was smelling of death before it hit the water.

  • To be fair, if reddit employees are put in any danger by this debacle that will say far more about redditors themselves than spez. Hell it might say enough that he is concerned enough to forewarn employees.