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Honestly? I’m a fan of Flatpaks where they make sense. I’m also okay with Appimages. Native is pretty cool. Whatever gets the thing to run really.

I like to use the terminal to update my applications, it’s just faster. I have an alias to run an update for native packages and flatpaks. You can use your GUI of choice. Or not, it’s up to you. It’s that sort of freedom that I love about using Linux.

In some cases, Flatpak actually helps, as in my case, with Prism Launcher. Some of my system libraries cause issues with a handful of mods, but the libraries distributed with the Flatpak get that working. Hopefully that’s not foreshadowing more future library-related issues.

I can hear this picture in my head.

Not at all. Pop OS was my Windows to Linux distro of choice, of which I stayed on for almost 3 years. It’s a great way to get familiar with Linux.

I only got out because I wanted to be closer to the edge, not because it was bad.

As a redirect to a list of Fediverse instances? That’d be funny AF. As a locked solo instance? Sure, for the lolz. As a real deal instance for a community? Not a chance… Basing a community on hating a guy is sure to attract more hate, and moderating that just sounds complicated.

I’m not terribly surprised that an AI firm has monetary interest in social media, even one like Xitter. There’s probably no better place to farm data than social media. A search engine maybe?

(Although I feel like it’s kinda cheating given that he’s basically buying it from himself…)

Solus. It was this or opensuse tumbleweed but I got cold feet with tumbleweed. I wanted away from a release schedule because I got frustrated with Ubuntu. So now I get weekly updates, and I’m happy with that. I’m currently on Plasma 6.3.3 and life is good.

Frutiger Aero ❤️! But like the article said, there’s also a lot of reasons not to use it.

I’m using a semi-rolling distro with KDE right now. I think that’s the way.

Keep this up and we might even get to see America starting a state-run car company. This’ll be great to watch. 🍿

Hey guys I got a wifi69 card, does anyone know how to make it work? NVM I fixed it.

(User disappears after the post and never elaborates, meanwhile replying to the thread is also a necro post and it gets locked anyway)

Or my other favourite:

How to make Gameguy xbox controller work: [posted 5 years ago] [Deleted by user]

Thank you for the update, thanks xManager for having kept the tunes running.

Will they be piloting this one with a controller as well?

Important to note those in-game purchases Fubarberry mentioned are critical to the game’s future, yet it’s still possible to play without opening the wallet. It’s rare that a game which is funded by MTX doesn’t constantly tell you how much you’re missing out on by not buying stuff.

The catch is that selling to other players is a hassle without the premium stash tab and IMO, PoE1’s default 4 stash tabs is simply not enough beyond act 10. If you only play the “Solo Self-Found” mode, it doesn’t matter too much since you only pick up stuff for yourself.

It is very easy to fill up with currency, gems, essences, maps, league mechanic stuff, levelling uniques as well as the usual stuff you pick up while levelling like belts and rings.

I say, if you end up enjoying the game enough to open your wallet, $30 is enough to fully enjoy the game, and your purchased stash tabs carry over between leagues, and between games where possible.

It’s also nice to know that the people getting all those “firsts” in chat at the start of a league aren’t hacking in items, as in Diablo 3 console edition.

Indeed, I remember playing with lockscreen widgets! I miss Icecream Sandwich and Jelly Bean.

Even though it’s typically associated with KDE and Linux, it’s also available on Windows. Good for people who haven’t made up their mind yet. It’s a great text editor with a feature-set similar to other advanced notepads.

I’ll be real though, if I hadn’t jumped ship 3 years ago, I’d be cutting my losses with Windows here.

Honestly, neither. Got a good local takeaway about 5 minutes on foot, don’t even need to drive. Bit cheaper and I get to eat in the comfort of my own home.

If not that, then I’d rather go to a supermarket and pay up for one of the nice pizzas.

I remember when compact was hidden - apparently this was a change driven by telemetry. It was possible that there’s an overlap between those who use compact and those who turned off telemetry. I wouldn’t be surprised if something similar also occurs with Pocket being left on too.

If compact breaks in a future update, it’ll probably be removed altogether. At that point, best option would be userchrome customisation.

IIRC, this change was made ahead of the impending UI overhaul. This combined with the Windows 11 getting bigger touch-friendly UI elements understandably didn’t sit well with many people.

Not really. Most recommend Framework because their laptops are open to the point where third parties can make random peripherals that fit the expansion ports. They have a page to help with choosing a distro for their hardware as well. It’s great to see this level of open-ness and repairability in a laptop. Naturally, Linux users gravitate to such a brand.

System76 leverage their own distro, Pop!_OS as a selling point for their laptops, as they have some degree of control over the hardware and software.

The other maker I’d recommend is Tuxedo Computers who also maintain their own distro for hardware they sell.

Not a SD user, but a desktop gamer who found your post. I wouldn’t be surprised to see people on the fediverse say they often play games outside of Steam.

The non-techy people I know treat the thing like a console and refuse to use desktop mode for games. That’s the catch of the Steam Deck. It runs Linux underneath, but most people never (want to) interact with it. I love it for what it does for Linux gaming but there’s more to PC gaming than just Steam - Although I’m aware that Steam probably underprices these with hopes to recoup the loss back on Steam purchases.

(Also your method isn’t really hacky, that’s just kind of how binary executables work in Linux, plus the steps to add it to Steam)

I remember in XP, Vista and 7 using the UXtheme dll mod to get third party themes. First the loss of the sidebar then the drop-off of themers. I skipped 8 and by 10 I’d had enough. Didn’t really come back to theming until I made the jump to full-time Linux in 2022. Theming support being there by default in KDE is amazing. I miss the 2007-2018 themes but Oxygen keeps me happy for now.

Who needs a monitor when it’s all AI powered anyway? Just ask your AI, it’ll handle everything for you!

Embrace minimalism!