Cosmic Cleric

Personally I suggest Fedora with KDE.

It has a great update cadence time frame, and good hardware support (indirectly backed by IBM). And games really well in Steam/Proton.

That’ll get you the most Windows like experience on Linux, for an average user who doesn’t like to tinker much and just wants it to work out of the box.

Just make sure to accept third party libraries / apps when you first install. It’s a single checkbox that you click.

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Seems like clients vary wildly in how they interpret this markup. This is how it shows on Sync:

Yeah it looks like the subscript and superscript fonts are not being supported on third party android/apple clients properly, but only the Lemmy web client.

My goal was actually just to make the font smaller, and not so much subscript/superscript.

I may have to revert the change, and just make the font for the link regular sized.

Either that, or just wait for the android/apple clients to catch up to the Lemmy web client.

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What formatting text do they use for subscript/superscript?

The Lemmy help page for formatting has the formatting text I’m using.

Seems like others are having the same problem. Looks like the non-web clients need to add support for subscript and superscript to themselves.

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Strange.

On the Lemmy web client its two tildes ~ for strikeout.

One tilde is the subset font size.

Before ^superset After ^superset^

Before _subset After ~subset~

Before strikeout After ~~strikeout~~

Edit: Per this web page.

What client are you using?

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Why do you put strikethrough the text though?

The single ~ reduces the font size.

For _example

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What do you use to automatically add that licence to your comments? That’s really cool! Big fan of creative commons.

Its a manual copy/paste of the following text…

[~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

I use the Lemmy web client, and they don’t have a signature section on the account to set once and forget.

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From the article …

Fixed input issues with Worms Armageddon.

Interesting that normal keyboard and mouse input would have a unique issue with just that one game.

I wonder what they do that’s not normal for handling input?

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You’re again assuming that being a windows clone will intrinsically make a DE more intuitive.

Yes I am, and I base that on my observance of human nature, and how a level of complexity of learning something new is a barrier that affects adopting something new, as well as my own personal experience as a UI/UX software developer for some decades.

An alternative UX would have to be incredibly intuitive to overcome that. And, with respect, Gnome is not that.

I don’t think that’s true at all.

Well we’ll just agree to disagree then. Appreciate the discussion though.

I reject the premise that just because more people use Windows, a Windows UX must be the most intuitive and alternatives must appear more complicated to use.

That’s one hell of a ‘heavy lift’ to create a non-Windows UX experience that is more intuitive and easier for Windows user to adapt to that is completely different from the Windows UX experience they know today.

Not saying it’s not possible, but I think you’d have better success in pulling people over from Windows to Linux if the UX experience was similar, since they’re already dealing with a retraining issue (Linux) that is a barrier they have to overcome when transferring over.

There’s no need to add more obstacles to that transference process.

I play Subnautica on Fedora/Linux, installed directly from Steam (native), so I’m guessing it let you download it because with Proton enabled it’ll play just fine.

Just right click on the game and go into the properties and turn on the Windows/Proton support for the game.

As a side comment, I love Subnautica, a great game!

I haven’t seen that on Fedora, in the years that I’ve been using it.

It’s gotten better but Linux is still requiring a lot more tinkering compared to Windows

Depends on the distro, and if unique or ancient hardware is being used.

I use Fedora/KDE (I believe it has better hardware support).

During install I click one checkbox for using proprietary code, and then everything just works. I code, office/print/scan, and game on it daily.

My computer illiterate wife’s right there with your mother-in-law.

It’s not so much a circlejerk as much as a knowledge that KDE plasma is the most approachable DE with the most polished first experience for the majority of new users

You say that like it’s a fact rather than just your personal opinion.

It’s a safe assumption to make though, based on the fact that KDE most closely mimics the Windows UX, which Gnome does not, and that the vast majority of human beings who use computers are most familiar with the Windows UX, hence most approachable.

Usually linux has parcour in terms of apps.

parcours
nm
(=trajet) journey (=itinéraire) route (SPORT) (=terrain) course
parcours du combattant assault course
(=tour) [+golf] round
[+ski] run
[+circuit] lap vb

And no, it’s not preventing input to improve a product, it’s asking you to be less absolutist in your comments. “It doesn’t work as well as it should” compared to your “it doesn’t work”. When it obviously does work, albeit could work better.

Can you please stop editing your previous comments to add a new point that can be responded to, and reply instead?

To your point that I quoted above, which is your second edit, they didn’t work for me, at all.

I’m not going to say it doesn’t work well when it doesn’t work at all, I’m going to say it doesn’t work at all.

Seven plus attempts is more than enough for any human being to try to get a link to work, and honestly, links are supposed to work on the first try, or or maybe even the second try if the server is being slammed.

EDIT: No, you didn’t state that it didn’t work after seven minutes and multiple routs of attempting to get the link to resolve. I see that you have edited that in later, in one of the later comments.

I stated in my origional comment (link, or see below) that it didn’t work for me. After having read one of your comments about refreshing, I went back and added (and stated in the edit that I forgot to mention the steps / how many times I tried) for others who would read later more detail about it. I clarified on how many times I tried, and did not add something new from scratch to make a point.

You’re being intellectually dishonest.

What I added in…

Edit: forgot to mention, I tried reloading twice, went back and re-clicked a couple of times, as well as when I did my reply I embedded that original link into the reply and then I tried it again from there, so I tried to resolve the link a bunch of times over a seven-minute period.

I’m not attacking you, I’m attacking your words.

And the reason I said you were obstinate were because you were. You refused to accept that it works since it doesn’t do it in the way you want it to. And now you’re rage-downvoting. You should probably take a few minutes off.

You’re not being intellectually honest.

I specifically stated that it didn’t work after seven minutes and multiple routes of attempting to get the link to resolve. It never worked, it never resolved.

Who said I can program?

Wow, so you bypass everything I said just to come back with a five worded single sentence that avoids the overall context of what I said.

Why are we arguing, why are you attacking me? It doesn’t help gatekeeping, it preventing input to improve a product.