It really should be.

Pop!_OS in early 2023, I used it for about 3 weeks before my bootloader broke so bad even Pops own recovery tool couldn’t fix it. I went back to Windows 10 for another month before trying again with EndeavourOS and haven’t had to use Windows since.

Funnily the thing that triggered me to install Linux on a spare SSD was I couldn’t play Battlefield 4 on my Windows install anymore because the EA app randomly stopped working even after reinstalling the whole thing, Got the EA app and BF4 working on Pop within an hour.

EndeavourOS because someone said it was Arch for lazy people, and I’m a lazy people.

I did use vanilla Arch before for a while, but just ended up being more work for the same setup with more issues from stuff like missing dependencies I didn’t have to worry about with Endeavour.

Only other distro I’ve used was Pop!_OS when I first tried out Linux.

The Simpsons.

There’s something new to see every time! I’ve only just got back into watching the early seasons again recently.

As a Librewolf user I wouldn’t make it default for casual users this kind of distro is aiming for. Sure enabling logins to use it as a main browser is piss easy, but that’s still more work than the average person wants to put into setting up their system.

Waterfox would be the better choice since it’s just default Firefox in every way besides Mozilla’s spyware.

Gives me more Windows 8 flashbacks than Mac.

An interface that works well on touchscreens, but feels clunky on mouse and keyboard and the general theming of it looks more phone like than a desktop PC. Gnome itself being harder to theme doesn’t help with that.

That being said I’d pick Gnome over all else for touch devices. I threw it on an old Surface 3 and it worked better than the original Win8 interface.

I’ve been using DDG since 2016 and never felt it was worse in terms of “search quality” than Google.

Especially nowadays I hear friends whine near weekly about Google, but it’s still somehow “better than DDG”.

Honestly people just make excuses not to change what they’re use to. Even if what they’re used to has changed around them for the worse.

My only real complain I have is I wish ‘search by date range’ was less finicky use and also worked in the image tab like it does in Google images.

The only time I did was WAY back during the launch of Firefox Quantum. It was a huge back-end change pushed overnight to the main branch, breaking most extensions including one I similar couldn’t live without at the time. I even switched to PaleMoon for a while until everything sorted itself out.

Been using LibreWolf for almost 2 years now which does a good job at gutting all the parts of Firefox updates I don’t want.

I got both resistFingerprinting options turned on and Lemm.ee and the Mlmym front-end both work fine for me.

Lately it’s been sifting through IMDB collections to find movies to watch.

That or I check the groups I’m in to see what I’m late to the party on now.

Welcome to the Club!

I had a similar issue around 2 years ago now on POP where my bootloader didn’t even show up in the bios anymore.

If you still have the a USB with the live boot of POP you can use it to recover your files n stuff.

https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-recovery

qBittorrent! You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.

Was using Deluge before on Windows and for a while when I switched to Linux but started having issues with it.

Yup I’ve been using Firefox-UI-Fix for a long time now.

Used it back on Firefox and it worked fine when I switched to Librewolf.

As someone who started using Linux while on Nvidia and stuck with it for over a year before going full AMD.

Just go AMD, so many little things I had to find workarounds for just because of Nvidias shitty drivers.

Even after Nvidia claimed to support wayland I could never get it to run on my install, then having to manually configure my xorg just to get my 170hz monitor working which then introduced graphical issues I just couldn’t fix…NONE of that was an issue the moment I swapped to a RX 7800 XT, didn’t even have to install any drivers they’re just standard in the kernal.

This one ^

The physical comedy alone is gold, Also you won’t leave their parents dealing with the nightmares like some of these movies…unless they really fear someone breaking in to piss on their rug.

I’m older GenZ “Zillennial”?

What in particular makes you think there’s not many of us on here? Not like Lemmy makes you state your age on your account.

Here’s what I use to get them back and I’ve been pretty happy with it.

I’d like to think there’s a difference between “keeping up with the times” and chasing whatever new thing gets advertised.

Unless you’re really into number chasing with benchmarks then just keep using whatever you like until something YOU find better comes along.

Also I’m GenZ and just use whatever comes with the DE, it’s not an old person thing shakes fist.

It’s definitely not just a Lemmy thing just any site that grows a user base.

I kind off think of it like the difference between talking to random people at a local hobby space vs a national convention. Sure you’re gonna still find people with shared interests but you got more people coming in with an agenda or chip on their shoulder, Or just general trolls who target larger groups because it’s more people to get a rise out of.

But you’d have to consult some sociologist or someone for a in-depth factual answer, I’ve just been on a lot of random sites/forums over the years.

Honestly Lemmy has handled it’s growth a lot better than most places online I’ve seen. I’d say people on here are pretty raw but not actively spiteful (mostly), which I very much vibe with.

TempleOS is the only OS corpos won’t touch, It’s protected by a holy shield!