Cethin

Sure, that is an advantage. There’s a lot of advantages. I just don’t think it’s good for users willing to learn. It’s good to make sure the user can’t fuck up, but then it also limits what they can do. I think if you’ve made it here and can use a full OS currently, you should try a non-immutable distro. If it turns out you fuck it up then you can swap to something that’ll hold your hand.

There’s pros and cons. I personally don’t want an immutable distro, but there are reasons for it. It’s especially good for what the Deck is with a large portion of people who probably don’t know what they’re doing.

https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-an-immutable-linux-distro/

SteamOS will not be your best option for desktop. Stop waiting for it. It’s made for the Deck and console like experiences, not desktop. It’s immutable too, which is great for a console experience, but probably not ideal for a desktop user.

Just go download Linux now. There’s nothing special in SteamOS that you need. I use Garuda, which is Arch based (which SteamOS is also, if that matters), and has a version specifically designed for gaming. It comes with most of what you could need set up, and a tool to quickly install any packages you may want for additional things like controllers or whatever.

Ironically (though it’s hard to tell) I think their profile picture may be Hypocrites.

I use it occasionally when reorganizing code. It’s easier to just drag and drop blocks of code than to ctrl-x ctrl-v. I don’t do it for anything in the middle of a line though, because it seems too easy to make a mistake.

The performance impact of these systems really aren’t a problem for most modern computers. If your computer is running other GUI applications, I think worrying about that is insane. If you’re running a server, sure keep it minimal because you aren’t going to interact with it directly much. For your desktop if you’re running games and stuff, it’s going to be the smallest of your issues. Just do what feels best.

Even Valve, optimizing their handheld device for maximum battery life, includes KDE. You shouldn’t worry about it probably.

I think it’s only Windows that will break things, so you should be good. Also, I think it’s only when it’s on the same drive, but I’m not sure. That’s how mine was that got messed up. I just ended up ditching Windows because I didn’t need it anymore though. That’s the proper solution.

I’ve been using Garuda, and though I’m not a beginner, it’s been great. It’s a simpler experience than I had with Fedora, and better than Mint or Ubuntu, though those were about a decade ago. Arch is a fantastic base. Pure Arch is probably bad for beginners, but there are great Arch-based distros out there. SteamOS as another example of this. This post is bad.

Removing choices to the consumer isn’t good. It may sound like they’re doing a good thing, but if a racing game can include non-intrusive ads and either make the game cheaper or make more content without harming the experience, that’s good for the consumer. If a company makes a shitty ad ladden game, you can always just not buy it. They aren’t defending you. They’re defending their method of making money and ensuring you can’t make money without paying them, while removing options for the consumer.

Everyone is acting like this is purely for good intentions, but I’ll point out they make most of their money from taking a cut of the sale price from games. Ad money probably would not go to them at all. This is almost certainly purely a business decision, not because they fundamentally don’t like the concept or want to protect you from it.

I would say most people are good. However, the human brain is pretty shit and easy to manipulate. It’s easy to make people view other people as not human or other to them, or to not think about them at all. Maybe that is “not good” in some definitions though. When face-to-face, I will bet every time on someone treating someone well. I’ll lose the bet occasionally, but I’ll be right more than wrong.

It “working for you and not against you” in this case is mostly down to just getting used to it. It’s the same issue people have switching to Linux. Linux is the better and easier option, but if you expect it to work exactly like Windows then you’ll have a bad time. If you attempt to learn how it works then it’s great.

Firefox is fairly customizable, but most of that’s hidden and you need to do some searching online and digging. You can also use something like Floorp.

Are Firefox’s UX choices bad, or do you just want it to be another copy of Chrome and refuse to learn something new?

The fact that Firefox on Android actually supports extensions is more than enough reason for me to choose it over a chromium version.

Personally, I use KeePassDX for my android client, but either works. I use Syncthing to sync changes between devices, though I think the android version of that stopped being supported a few months back, but it still works fine for now.

Odds are you’re using Proton in Bottles too, or Heroic/Lutris. You’re using WINE for both though, including when using Proton.

I’m pretty sure the “correct” way to say it is “WINE with Proton.” You can’t run Proton alone. It’s an addition to WINE. Some people will just leave off either, and we all generally know what they mean, but if you’re being pedantic you need to say both, not just Proton.

I’m done. You keep changing my words.

Oh so according to you it’s not racist, it’s just fatphobic AND racist since by saying he “presents clean and kind” you’re implying he is neither of those things. Definitely not racist to imply that a Chinese person is unclean and unkind. Fuck off.

It was the fucking people in China making the comparison! Come on. You keep ignoring this in order to just say westerners are evil. That’s why bringing up western stuff doesn’t matter because the conversation isn’t about any of that. It’s about the comparison of President Xi to Pooh Bear. You just keep swerving around trying to hit a different target because the actual conversation doesn’t work in your favor.

Clean, meaning morally, no he isn’t. Kind, not so much. He presents as if he’s a perfect story book character, like Pooh Bear (hence the comparison), but he wouldn’t still be in power if this were the case. The people in China recognize this, which is why they started the comparison. It spread to the west because of the outsized response to it. It’s the Streisand Effect. It was funny how insulted he was by this that it started being banned, so it spread because his fragile ego couldn’t handle it.

Is it fat-phobic? Probably. Is it racist? Hell no. It’s just making fun of someone with a fragile ego with someone he’s made public that he’s insulted by. Implying it’s racist because Pooh Bear is yellow is just trying to shut it up by making shit up. It has nothing to do with that. It’s just what the Chinese picked to make fun of him with.

Prove it? Sure. It’s a system where the singular ruling party controls elections and all candidates must be approved by them. If that’s not a dictatorship then I’ve never heard of one.

You can argue it provides utility or stability or something if you want, but arguing it isn’t a dictatorship shows how ignorant you are. Of course it’s exactly what I’d expect though.

I don’t know how the west doing anything bad is relevant to this conversation. It was never part of the discussion and is purely a red-herring to distract from your bad faith argument.

Also, once again, the Pooh Bear thing is from China. It isn’t racist. It has nothing to do with race. It’s making fun of him being fat and the way he presents himself as clean and kind. Prove it is, since you’re asking for proof of basic stuff we all know.