[-] ethd@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

I moved to Pop!_OS entirely when I built my new system earlier this year (had already been using it on my non-gaming laptop for several years) and relegated Windows to an external SSD that has been essentially collecting dust — I think I've used it three or four times.

My experience isn't the same as everyone's, but I'm not in love with most multiplayer games, my work uses software that can be run within Wine/Bottles or a browser, and my preferred creative outlet is writing, which could also be done in a browser if I wasn't such a picky bitch (I am, but Scrivener barely needs massaging to work under Wine and can even be made to look native thanks to using Qt).

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 5 points 5 days ago

Damn, this is a shame. Penny's Big Breakaway has been the most fun I've had on a game for a while, but I kind of expected it wasn't going to be a huge success for people who hadn't been following the Evening Star team for years with a new and unproven IP and a rather unique gameplay style among platformers.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 9 points 5 days ago

Chrono Trigger is still being sold actually, so probably not the best example. That said, I still have my original PS1 Chrono Trigger disc that I haven't played on original hardware (or even my still-hooked-up PS3) for a while because I legally dumped it and play it with a much higher emulated disc read speed. As much as Nintendo has made explicit statements to the contrary, it is legal in most countries to back up your own games and do with them what you will.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same energy as "Sappho and her friend"

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 28 points 3 weeks ago

English-speaking countries try not to police other English-speaking countries' dialects challenge (impossible)

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I would argue that NixOS absolutely is the OS you get if your time is worthless, but not every distro is the same. I'd argue that if you need something that doesn't have so many issues a stabler or easier to use distro (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, and even Fedora or openSUSE) is going to be a better option than trying to bend specifically NixOS to do what you want.

I personally use a mix of Pop, Debian, and Fedora, not because they're particularly powerful, but because they tend to be more straightforward for what I want to do than NixOS, Gentoo, or Arch. I don't mind tinkering, but for my main machines I don't want to tinker much.

Edit: I should clarify that there are plenty of reasonable uses of Windows and I don't fault anyone for using it especially if their familiarity is keeping them from understanding Linux as well as they want to. But I also would make the case that there are a lot of distros out there.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 24 points 6 months ago

I think their joke was that Thinkpad Arch users (at least online) have a strong correlation with trans women

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 34 points 8 months ago

Every company you can buy a smartphone from is "another big company that will do anything to make money, no matter how much they're already making." This is an issue with capitalism, not just inherently Apple. Don't fault people for using the tool that works best for what they're doing.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 16 points 8 months ago

Honestly the most surprising part of this news is that it took so long

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 19 points 10 months ago

Ok look I'm not a huge Arch fan either (it's great for learning the ins and outs of Linux but I've gotten to the point that stability is more important than anything to me) but the wiki is the most thorough Linux documentation you can get anywhere. It always, always has the answer, even if you don't use Arch, lol.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 35 points 1 year ago

Cool.

Cool cool cool.

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