Thanks for your insight. That at least sheds a tiny bit of logic on this insanity.

Yeah. As a U.S person it's unsettling watching an empire crumble around you without much way out when you wanted to just do your thing and get along in life like anybody else. * Sigh*

Oh. Wow. You win.

If that rooftop guy could hit the mark like this comment did, we wouldn't be having to listen to his chaotic-evil nonsense right now.

And freaking why? When people are still struggling with basic shit like food insecurity in the borders we already have.

I know I'm asking this rhetorically and it's all ridiculous it's just...why???

Haha nice! Similar journey! My step 3 was when Win10 kept BSODing my games, and then being more subtly broken when I booted it up.

"Okay, I'll just 'refresh this PC'." I said.

"Can't." Said Win10.

"Why not?" Says I.

"Lol-idk" says Win10 with an indifferent shrug.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed runs all my creative artwork tasks AND all my games run beautifully. Just pointed Steam to the folder and it handled everything automagically.

Game doesn't crash anymore on the same hardware, BTW.

Tumbleweed my beloved. ❤️

Endeavour is just freaking lovely. The community is really chill and welcoming, too.

Also all the ethereal purple space aesthetic is rad. We gotta get them some proper artwork haha. (Some of it seems generated)

Man. THANK YOU.

I'm all for welcoming and teaching everyone, but I'm getting real tired of all the "Linux will never catch on because grandma can't instantly VM-passthrough her NVIDIA card and remote in with Wireguard" or "changing the wallpaper requires terminal-ninja skills" rhetoric.

Some common things could use simpler on-ramps but people act like mega-corpo you're-too-dumb-let-us-do-it-for-you -ification is some kind of "good thing" for tech adoption , when the strategy is really to create dependent customers without a fundamental understanding of how anything works.

Oh. My. Word.

I thought I was clever by using history | grep <bit of command I remember>

I KNEW there had to be a better way!

So far I have little Wayland annoyances with my Nvidia 30-series card, but I get those with proprietary AND their open drivers. In a weird way I take this as a good sign?

I feel like progress is being made. Even though Nvidia are still a bunch of butts.

(If CUDA weren't so handy for Blender I'd strongly be considering a swap-out!)

Let's abolish hierarchy altogether and agree to celebrate each others' contributions to averting disaster.

This is great advice. Heed this advice, people.

Know what? I'll add to it. In Windows a power user will often end up screwing around in the registry or system files or whatever to crowbar it into doing what they want it to do...

But if you're opening a root shell or file-explorer screwing around outside your /home folder, digging around in / ? On your daily use machine?

STOP. ☠️

• FACT: ~~People~~ Systems have died and data has been irrecoverably lost by going into this cave.
• There's probably a much less dangerous way to accomplish whatever you're trying to do!!
• You shouldn't be poking around things and exploring a working system as ROOT! This is by design!

GO. NO. FURTHER!

These sorts of shenanigans are why you play around in virtual machines. :)

--Sincerely: Someone who manually deleted his writable in-use BTRFS snapshot when trying to free up space, thinking it was an orphan file that the system tools didn't detect, rendering his system unbootable and unrecoverable, forcing a complete reinstall. (I found this is analogous to the infamously dangerous "rm -rf /" , or thinking you're deleting an old Windows restore point but somehow wiping C:\ )

If you don't know what "3-2-1 backup" means. Now's the time to look that up!

Not 100% sure if there's an easy-mode for this one but just a friendly reminder to copy fstab to fstab.old or fstab.backup so you can revert to it if something doesn't go right. :)

Same story! The improvements in the gaming sphere really need to be experienced to be believed. But okay, Steam works great, we know that.

What about stuff that requires EA's launcher through Steam? Works.

EA exclusive stuff? Heroic Launcher. Works.

GoG? Heroic Launcher.

Ahh, but old disc games that Windows decided to just stop caring about anymore? Bottles. (Not 100% guarantee, but I've been IMPRESSED at how easy it was to get something like Sims 1 to play.)

~~Hotel? Trivago.~~

Now I just hope the Monado project can make some leaps so we can get WMR devices working on Linux. VR is super neat and I don't wanna leave it behind completely. :( (Still grudging against M$ so hard for that.)