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Communist

@ communist @lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz

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I'm an anarchocommunist, all states are evil.

Your local herpetology guy.

Feel free to AMA about picking a pet/reptiles in general, I have a lot of recommendations for that!

  • Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS?

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  • A lot of people are going to recommend you mint, I honestly think mint is an outdated suggestion for beginners, I think immutability is extremely important for someone who is just starting out, as well as starting on KDE since it’s by far the most developed DE that isn’t gnome and their… design decisions are unfortunate for people coming from windows.

    I don’t think we should be recommending mint to beginners anymore, if mint makes an immutable, up to date KDE distro, that’ll change, but until then, I think bazzite is objectively a better starting place for beginners.

    The mere fact that bazzite and other immutables generate a new system for you on update and let you switch between and rollback automatically is enough for me to say it’s better, but it also has more up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).

    How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”? that’s not a good user experience for someone who’s just starting, it’s intimidating, scary, and I just don’t think it’s the best in the modern era. There’s something to be said about learning from these mistakes, but bazzite essentially makes these mistakes impossible.

    Furthermore because of the way bazzite works, package management is completely graphical and requires essentially no intervention on the users part, flathub and immutability pair excellently for this reason.

    Cinnamon (the default mint environment) doesn’t and won’t support HDR, the security/performance improvements from wayland, mixed refresh rate displays, mixed DPI displays, fractional scaling, and many other things for a very very long time if at all. I don’t understand the usecase for cinnamon tbh, xfce is great if you need performance but don’t want to make major sacrifices, lxqt is great if you need A LOT of performance, cinnamon isn’t particularly performant and just a strictly worse version of kde in my eyes from the perspective of a beginner, anyway.

    there is not one thing that is easier about the setup process on mint and since bazzite offers a nvidia image it's actually easier.

    I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot if you add me on matrix.

  • "There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed": This apparently AI-generated artist is racking up hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams

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  • Oneday somebody is going to write an article like this about a real band.

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  • Ah, so it's not that you want it for any functional purpose, you just think it would be cheaper, understood.

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • I have 15 years of experience and do free infinite troubleshooting on matrix, feel free to add me. I recommend you go with aurora, because it is immutable, kde based, and well documented.

    immutable means the base system is read only and updates are applied ontop of it, meaning you can easily roll back an update that went bad, and the apps are separate from the core operating system and thus can never break them (unless you try really hard).

    kde is a desktop environment, it is most similar to windows and the rate of development dwarfs almost everything else, please whatever you do for your first system use kde.

    aurora is a slightly modified fedora and fedora is one of the most commonly used options, the reason not to use base fedora is that aurora includes some QoL features, for example because of issues with patents twitch doesn't work on fedora but does on aurora.

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  • My thinking is that having a desktop, laptop and phone that sync data to eachother accomplishes all of that and will do it better because they're designed for their usecase, why not that?

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  • Why though?

  • Original Crysis suddenly vanishes on Steam in another blow to preservation

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  • How is this gabes fault? Should gabe ban people from removing their own games from the store?

  • Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?

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  • It will never be possible to use this for ftl communications. This is like saying in 100 years we will use very long steel rods to communicate ftl by pushing on them. The problem is fundamental.

  • Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?

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  • No they didn't, they sent a conventional signal that was encrypted with an entangled particle. Nothing was sent ftl, this is like if I had two boxes that I know have the same thing in them, an encryption key, and traveled across the world, and sent you a message, you have the other box, the information in that box didn't go ftl you just opened it later.

    there is no path to ftl communication here.

    have a basic video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oBiS_Yb9Ac

  • Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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  • You probably could with a phone

  • Deus Ex just got a huge, unofficial remaster thanks to transformative new mod

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  • Honestly I don't see any reason to play any game without enhancement mods aside from not wanting to set them up unless you're some sort of game historian.

  • Linux Users Switching Back to Linux

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  • It's even a work pc, there's a thread on the microsoft forums detailing how common the problem is.

  • Linux Users Switching Back to Linux

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  • I have had to use windows for like the last two weeks and the taskbar crashes and freezes constantly so I put a bat file on my desktop that kills and reopens explorer.exe also if my bluetooth headphones disconnect while my mic is muted it refuses to unmute... I have to reboot. This is what people say is a "it just works" experience.

  • Proprietary software's inferiorities, such as this control center downgrade, remind me of that one Dhar Mann video where kids enjoy homemade food and insult what the "award winning pastry chef" made.

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  • It's liquid ass

  • Finally making the move to Linux, and I have questions before I get started.

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  • Thank you I really appreciate your kind words.

  • Finally making the move to Linux, and I have questions before I get started.

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  • Fedora is not preferred because there are legal issues surrounding patents, this makes it so that if you want to, for example, watch a twitch stream... it just won't work.

    bazzite and aurora have fixes for this built in, which is why I recommend them over raw fedora.

  • Finally making the move to Linux, and I have questions before I get started.

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  • don't do kubuntu, it is a terrible place to start for beginners. I don’t think we should be recommending ubuntu at all, I think bazzite is objectively a better starting place.

    The mere fact that bazzite and other immutables generate a new system for you on update and let you switch between and rollback automatically is enough for me to say it’s better, but it also has more up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).

    How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”? that’s not a good user experience for someone who’s just starting, it’s intimidating, scary, and I just don’t think it’s the best in the modern era. There’s something to be said about learning from these mistakes, but bazzite essentially makes these mistakes impossible.

    Furthermore because of the way bazzite works, package management is completely graphical and requires essentially no intervention on the users part, flathub and immutability pair excellently for this reason.

    theres also the fact that ubuntu ships very out of date software... among other things regarding privacy concerns, snaps being terrible, just don't.

    I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot if you add me on matrix.

  • My experience with Discord on Linux

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  • Vesktop

  • My experience with Discord on Linux

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  • Vesktop

  • Want switch to linux

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  • If you don't like the gaming stuff try aurora, feel free to message me on matrix.