Most technology news your average layman is interested in is ads for new products and how tech companies turn out to not be so great to work for. I think that’s why most news that appear on top don’t really cover the fun stuff.

So if I’m using one of those single cup keurig-like machines that don’t actually use cups, I’m a Mint user?

University shortcut. When you have to take notes on paper so damn fast, you develop techniques. Those techniques get shared around. That’s how it was explained to me.

When you ask a Linux head what kind of printer to use, they answer “get a Brother laser printer”. Linux YouTube is what sold me on Brother.

Linux ppl tend to be the biggest shills when it comes to products that respect the consumer.

Oh did they remove the 5 skips per day maximum?

Neat!

Let’s just say that I didn’t do too well when I wanted to become a helicopter engineer. Color coding is one of those things that are both inevitable and impossible.

Reminds me of how we used to change the order of the wires in PC to PC connections on early RJ45 cables. What a fucking pain in the ass that was for colorblind like myself.

Genius. Absolute genius.

Keep informed so you don’t buy AI-written books. Better know what’s going on instead of letting the world happen to you imo.

With all the blackouts I had these past 2 years, YEA PLEASE. Hell, I was a out to relearn how to make a homemade AM radio. Haven’t done it in 28 years.

Make sure to make gore red and nudity green to fuck with all the colorblind people out there

You know, here’s the funny thing about Ghost Recon Wildlands.

Ubisoft and Riot really need to have a talk, because the Valorant anticheat fucks with the Ubisoft anticheat. In the end, I couldn’t even run Wildlands on Windows until I uninstalled Valorant and its anticheat. It’s too bad that such a fun co-op game is stuck behind some of the most obnoxious “protection” on the market.

Offworld trading company was an amazing PvP game but “economics” never was gonna sell.

The “gaming” issues in Windows are almost non-existent. I can easily plug 4 wireless controllers, set them up in 5 minutes max without command line to play Tape2Tape. I can buy and download my games on another platform than Steam. I can play Valorant. I don’t, but I can…

To me, Linux seems great, until I want to play games. Looking up what to use for gaming, pop! os, manjaro and mint are all that appeared in search results. I didn’t want to get in the deep end with Manjaro and I don’t really like the pop! os vibe, so I got Mint.

So for anything other than gaming, I agree. Linux is better. It’s more performant, it’s more convenient in most cases (looking at you, keyboard layouts that can’t be removed in Windows for no reason).

For playing games however, without both Gamepass, or being able to just click Play and start the game, instead of installing GE Proton, then go to protondb every time you start playing a game to check which version of Proton you need to run, it will never truly compete with Windows.

You’re the first person to tell me that. Everywhere I looked told me to use mint. I will look up Nobara this weekend.

Oh yeah I’m still trying, not giving up on this. I really want to make this work. I can’t stand the way Windows locked me out from my PC because I upgraded my CPU the day I was gonna play Baldur’s Gate 3 with a friend for the first time.

Gamepass being better than it has any right to be is absolutely making me keep a Windows partition until they pull some BS move that sours me. I will try some other distro another person told me to give a shot for my general usage. I hope that it will help me get the AMD FSR stuff running because I feel like I’m not getting everything out of my hardware if I can’t use the upscaling.

Your description of 99% describes perfectly the last time I tried to start using Linux. Since then, I had to learn to navigate GitHub for work so a lot of things were easier. My friends look at me like I’m an alien when I try to explain them what I had to do to make the Xbox wireless controller work. When they saw me run a command in the terminal to initiate the pairing, they were…unimpressed.

Me: I’ma install mint and stop using Windows. Bullshit OS locked me out one too many times

Steam voice chat cracking sound: u sure 'bout that?

Gamepass: we got literally every game you were looking forward to this year except like… one. Sure, you could wait 10 minutes in line to play them on X-cloud, but you won’t hit decent FPS.

Civ 5 starting in 4:3 and crashing as I join a game: you should boot into windows my friend. This ain’t it.

You’re partially right. What you need is 2-3 more sides.

Why are internal combustion engines spying on pregnant women and fortnite kids now?

“we are sorry you feel that way. Cope”.

That’s what it reads like, honestly