Only issue I’ve experienced is with sound, I have a wireless plantronics headset I use for meetings and it likes to adjust the audio volume automatically for some reason. Doesn’t break anything, but is mildly annoying because of the pop-up slider randomly showing up.

Other than that, it doesn’t get in my way, and it’s the best compliment I can think of.

I don’t have specific software I need to run for work or anything, it’s just vscode and browser, so it’s smooth sailing.

For chilling, I’m massively impressed with how much proton/wine have improved, I’ve been able to run several windows games I usually play with zero hassle, except for the occasional visual glitch with shader effects (I have a Radeon card).

Heeey, another Windows to Mint convert! I did the same thing a couple of months back and have been having a great time, hope it goes smoothly for you too!

So many games work on Proton/Wine these days, it’s not really surprising anymore.

Nowadays you have a huge chunk of games being built on massively popular engines like Unity and Unreal, making it much easier to support/optimise for.

Another big point is that you’re not developing exclusively against DirectX. Vulkan is very popular, and both APIs are frequently supported by game engines. This introduces some “good habits”, in that it forces the devs to think about compatibility from the get go, instead of trying to come up with shady tricks to get one or two extra fps that only work in specific conditions and crash the game otherwise.

My hot take: yes it’s perfectly acceptable.

You are only partly correct when you say “cruelty doesn’t change minds”. I’ll up that and say that you cannot change the mind of a jackass who buys cyber trucks, no matter what you do.

What you do is show them that there are consequences to their choices, that they’re not somehow immune like they think they are on Facebook or on their preferred social media echo chamber.

And if that doesn’t change their minds or makes them consider their choices much more carefully, then they fucking deserve it.

EDIT: also, that’s written in the dirt, isn’t it? Is that what we call vandalism nowadays? What do you call it when the french burn a few cars down when protesting, a world war? Just go wash the shame off, you slob…

slow claps

Well done sir, well done.

I like to imagine that the early heroes who programmed in punch cards and basically raw machine code knew exactly what the CPU was the computer was running, but who knows…

Compiling your own packages only ensures that, well, you’re running packages that you compiled. This definitely does not mean that your computer is running what you intend at all.

Half the time I don’t know what my CPU is executing, and that’s code that I wrote myself.

I still can’t play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.

taste a lot like soda water to the non-american beer drinker that is used to a lot more body and/or bitterness.

This right here, you’ve nailed it exactly!

Otherwise described as “tastes like piss”, they usually taste like a watered down version of a proper beer.

It’s like being used to freshly squeezed orange juice, then someone comes along and adds half a cup of water and a bit of sugar because it’s “too acidic” or something.

So you can’t download them, you should run them directly on tencent cloud or something? Smart…

Big ones too. Case in point, USA.

Even in Xfce ALT+F4 closes windows. Maybe bro changed it at some point and forgot about it

NGL, you had me in the first half…

I don’t even need it to be fun! I just need it to work, and not stuff me full of scummy invasive spyware and bloatware every time an update rolls around.

Having fun is just that cherry on top!

Are you me?! Also just migrated to Mint, and I’m really impressed. Good level of polish, and stuff just works out of the box.

Currently still have it on dual boot, I’ll give it a week or two and I don’t need Windows in that time I’ll move it to my main M2 SSD and ditch M$

They must have hired some former Nvidia marketing guys.

IP block it. Boom there goes eSNI and DNS.

Sure, it’s crude, but again: it doesn’t have to perfect, it just needs to create havoc with Google services to push away a regular user, who has no idea what DNS even is.

A better approach though is to fine Google, with a % of revenue increasing until compliance. They’ll very quickly be incentivised to comply or shutdown.

Nah. Demanding the ISPs to block traffic to Google domains would be quite effective.

This isn’t like the great firewall of chine where you want to prevent absolutely all traffic. If you make it inconvenient to use, because CSS breaks or a js library doesn’t load or images breaslk, its already a huge step into pushing it out of the market.

Enterprise market would be much harder, a loooot of EU companies rely on Google’s services, platforms and apps, and migrating away would take a lot of time and money.

Don’t worry about it

Relevant username.