Thank you so much for the detailed answer 🙏

Basic, but Ubuntu. It’s got snaps which are slow and generally suck, plus Canonical

A bit old, but gold: Fate (the dungeon crawler one). It’s a bit low-poly by today’s standards, but it’s so fun and has killer music, lots of spells and weapons, tons of interesting enemies and can be beaten in like 6 hours.

Is kbin.social still going to federate?

Conlangs, mostly

I don’t necessarily need it anymore, but I’m sure someone would find it useful in this comments section! Thank you!

Man, just the “normies” user experience in general.

I’ve had so many issues from the start, even on “beginner friendly” distros. Hell, I’m a software engineer by trade - I literally use WSL2 every day for my job - but there are some things the OS should just do.

Prime example: wifi connectivity (er, just connectivity in general - Bluetooth included). It seems like every distro neglects this part to some degree. I’ve tried Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Linux Mint, Kinoite, countless others - but it seems like every one either has some form of Bluetooth connectivity issue (a la Kinoite not detecting my Bluetooth headphones) or a straight up wifi issue (like Ubuntu, Lubuntu and Linux Mint ALL not connecting to Panera WiFi on a wiped 2012 MacBook Pro - it was because Panera has a popup to accept wifi terms, btw, which is extremely common. Starbucks was broken too).

It’s that sort of stuff that prevents people from staying on Linux. People DO go to internet cafes to hang out and surf the web. It’s a helluva deal breaker that I need to turn on my phone’s hotspot just to connect to some Internet and then deal with LTE speeds. And as for the argument of “well that’s super old hardware” - it’s prime hardware that people will try Linux on and get pissed off.

Also, Nvidia support. It’s one of the most popular graphics card options - it’s a deal breaker that it doesn’t work out of the box on a lot of distros. Never ran into this myself, but just scroll here for a bit to see how prevalent it is.

I REALLY want to daily Linux but man, these issues prevent it (even now that I’ve moved on from the MacBook). If you really wanna help Linux grow, fix these problems and / or work on improving the “non-technical” user experience. You shouldn’t need to know what KDE is to use your desktop, nor should you need to Google like 15 things to get thru the installer with certainty.

I know this will get a lot of hate, and I really really want to love Linux, but I’ve been burned often so I’m skeptical.

I just want to say I completely agree with you. If we want to withstand the companies at the helm of the Internet right now, we have to make it impossible for them to extinguish us. I think that’s what we’ve essentially done with ActivityPub, and frankly I don’t see any way they can try to take us down by normal means.

I mean, what are they gonna do? Pull the VERY loyal people from kbin.social or Lemmy.world into Threads? Or the people from Mastodon?

It’s safe to say the people who have been here 5 months (or even more!) are not really keen on using Facebook 2.0, and we aren’t really the demographic they’re targeting. We also aren’t exactly the biggest demographic, with the Fediverse being a couple million people afaik.

I think if anything we have the most to GAIN from federation. People will know about our little public ad-free corner of the Internet. It’s downright silly to throw up pitchforks just because “Meta bad” because - at the end of the day - HOW will they destroy the Fediverse?

For anything lower-spec (like, <4Gb of RAM), Ubuntu absolutely CHUGS because of Snaps. Flatpak has no such issue.

Ironically, Lubuntu (a lightweight Ubuntu fork) worked the best for me while I was using it. No slowness, but I installed pretty much everything using Apt (didn’t know about Flatpak back then).

I ended up having it lock up and freeze on the sign-in page though, so I moved on to the slightly heavier Linux Mint.

I know it’s seriously uncommon here, but I’m one of the people who vehemently believes in ghosts

I’ve had about 5-too-many times where myself and multiple friends both see the same person disappear in front of us to not believe, among other things 😅 Real estate signs like this would absolutely be a deal breaker for me haha

That being said, I completely get and respect that some people don’t believe. Honestly, I kinda consider non-believers lucky, ghosts are very creepy

I also had no idea he made RSS

Not here to comment on the Justin Roiland thing, just here to say you should watch Karl Jobst on the whole Completionist controversy

Doomed by I Prevail

Get rid of greed

I can also back that up! KDE feels way faster than Gnome (and especially Cinnamon) on older computers

The US lol (I live here, can confirm)

That’s not my connotation for Nightwish, but only because I learned of them by playing Littlebigplanet 2 haha (Whoever Owns the Night)

They slap though!

Who bundles up in 68F? It’s literally room temperature

Also it’s useful in cooking because it’s an actual, useful scale. You know when it’s 90C it’s about to be boiling, just makes no sense why you gotta memorize 212F. Random number and all

If you’ve never drank coffee, you should be using Windows lol

If you’re looking for a free site hosting service, fly.io might be what you’re looking for. I’ve been using them a little while and their service is pretty great (though the monitoring kinda sucks)