I guess I would classify features like variable refresh rates and fractional scaling as “advanced”, but that’s fair. I moved from Cinnamon to Gnome because wayland was working better for me, so fair point. I imagine it won’t be too long before Cinnamon catches up, though.
For now, I’m just using a handful of extensions to make Gnome feel more like Cinnamon. Can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of KDE, but that’s just me.
Fedora is a good option. I’m surprised to hear about hardware incompatibilities with Mint, though. Do you have obscure or bleeding-edge hardware?
I’ll +1 the Ventoy suggestion. Lets you try lots of things easily. Try at least Fedora KDE, Ubuntu, and Mint. Go with whichever feels good to you when you try them out.
Cachy user here. Nope.
Anyone who says Cachy is good for a newcomer is taking their knowledge for granted. Most people getting into Linux for the first time are climbing several learning curves all at once. There are simpler distros that allow you to learn at a more reasonable pace.
The only time I would recommend CachyOS to a newcomer is if they have bleeding-edge hardware and aren’t afraid of a challenge.
Department of War Crimes is at it again
Okay swapping those with plantains actually sounds pretty good.
Congrats, you are now a refrigerator
I dunno, something amazing, I guess
No no, that’s an ornithologist. An orgasm is when a crowd of people applaud vigorously.
Yeah, feelings are tricky. But they can sometimes be manipulated.
Often, feelings will follow our actions. So acting according to what we know to be true (e.g., you are valuable) even if we don’t feel it yet can bring our feelings around.
So take care of yourself, treat yourself well, and you may start feeling it too :)
Someone invented this while high. There is no other explanation.
The micropenis jokes write themselves. Seems too easy.
I don’t understand how “enforcing” the right to haggle would even work, other than generally support a free market. Right now, you absolutely can go into a pharmacy and haggle. They’ll most likely be firm on their price and you’ll have wasted your time and theirs (and the time of anyone behind you).
Stop, stop, you’ve already proven their point
Hard disagree. Go to the beach or a public pool and you’ll see a wide variety of body types. There’s not much covered by a swim suit that you were staring at in a locker room. The loss of locker-room nudity changes little or nothing of how much nudity the average person sees.
The issues they mention are real–people comparing themselves to people in porn and social media–but casual nudity in a locker room has little impact on that. These issues have existed for as long as people have lived in organized society.
And even if there were some small positive that we’re losing, the positives so massively outweigh them that the article’s take seems laughable.
I guess we can all stop arguing about it now
Ah, the digital close-door elevator button.
Part of the problem with any social media platform is that, proportionally, you see more from chronically online people than well-adjusted people. And those chronically online people are less likely to demonstrate empathy or tact.
And I imagine the Linux community has a higher percentage of those people than others.
On top of all of that, people in the Linux community often focus on solving problems. This can be really great, but it can backfire when someone just wants to vent and isn’t looking for a solution. So when a solution is offered and subsequently rejected, things turn sour.
When I recommend Linux to people, I usually try to explain it from my own experience. “Yeah, I finally got fed up and tested out Linux as my main operating system. It was super easy, and I was able to try it before installing it to see if it worked. So far I’m really happy with it. You should try it!”
I’ve worked with lots of college students in my time. One thing I recommend to them is to pick classes based on the instructor, not based on the course content (something I wish someone had told me).
A good instructor can make any topic engaging and enjoyable. And people have different preferences for how information is conveyed (for example, I gravitate toward instructors that use diagrams and other visual aids, it works best for me). So look around until you find someone that really clicks with you.
The other thing that works for me is having some sort of end goal. I find it easier to stay engaged when I get to do something meaningful with what I’m learning.
Out of curiosity, why do you want to learn more about these topics? Understanding your motivation might help to figure out something that works for you.
Okay, realistically, if Mozilla continues to shit the bed with everything, what’s the future of Webkit browsers? How tied into Mozilla is it? I’m using Waterfox at the moment, will I need to be looking for a new browser in the next few years or is it decoupled enough that we can keep the forks and root out the bullshit?