I think anything with an ambiguous pronunciation, where someone has to stop and think “wait… is it pronounced this way or this way?” isn’t the best name.

Good that they’re changing from Minetest, but this new name hardly rolls off the tongue. Maybe I’ll get used to it.

Nope. Zen2, x86

AMD is internally working on ARM, though (they started an ARM design team to try to snatch the ‘switch 2’ contract from Nvidia, which they were ultimately unsuccessful in doing).

And with Valve working on this, I guess that means we may see an ARM Steam Deck in the future.

Yes. Some people will come out and say that no they used to be good, but it’s not really true, they’ve always been iffy.

It’s just that ATI’s used to be even worse until AMD bought them up and moved Radeon to being much more FOSS-friendly.

I had a 1080 Ti, and while my issues weren’t as bad as what I see others face, my 6800XT has had absolutely zero issues whatsoever, I don’t even have to think about drivers at all, ever.

Ok

The above user seems to be on Plasma. In which case it’s buried in the settings somewhere (KDE in a nutshell lol). I believe it’s somewhere in the themes section, IIRC.

On Gnome you can access the same functionality by right clicking the header bar. There’s also an option to have a window always move to the workspace you’re on, which is pretty cool.

E: idk who’s downvoting me relaying features that someone asked about, but that’s hilarious. How did that offend you?

You’re again assuming that being a windows clone will intrinsically make a DE more intuitive. I don’t think that’s true at all.

What are these anti-consumer opinions? And where is this Microsoft influence?

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.

There are more households that drive cars than ride a bike - is a car therefore a more intuitive to use transport tool than a bike?

Then use an alternative, if you really hate anything even remotely connected to it on your system and are seeking the ideological purity of having zero related dependencies.

You’re not entitled to have the software that’s provided to you for free be exactly how you like it.

But if your view is popular enough, there will surely be alternatives or altered forks.

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.

The reason it gets interpreted as Gnome bad

No no no. I’m not misunderstanding people liking or preferring Plasma as hating Gnome. I love Plasma, and so should most people, it’s a very good DE. I pretty much only use Gnome and Plasma these days, and can happily praise or criticise either of them.

People do have a hateful circlejerk about Gnome. Look at any large discussion about Gnome and it gets full of haters who still can’t accept that Gnome 3 went in a very different direction to the traditional WinUX. People that say it’s shit. People that accuse the devs of being evil. Go onto a submission about a new Gnome release and you’ll find some smoothbrain making the classic wHaT fEaTuReS DiD tHeY rEmOVe tHiS TiMe joke which holds zero basis in reality.

And I’m not talking about fair criticisms either. I could rattle some off the top of my head. I’m talking about hatred.

Shitting on Gnome very much is the hip, trendy thing to do in the Reddit/Lemmy/reactionary YouTuber space.

According to many in the Linux community, Linux is all about choice, so long as your choice is the same as theirs.

I love libadwaita/GTK4. All my apps are consistent, look and work in the same way, they all look gorgeous, and there’s extreme attention to detail and adherence to good, well-studied UI paradigms.

Libadwaita has went a long way in making my system feel like one cohesive ecosystem, rather than a smattering of inconsistent, wildly different apps.

Libadwaita and GTK4 is amazing and the developers deserve a lot of praise.

But hey, if you don’t like it, just don’t use it. It’s that easy.

I’ve not had a single breakage in the past ~4 years I’ve been on Fedora Workstation, despite me often moving to the beta channel. Pretty nice for an up-to-date distro.

Granted, I’ve also been on some less stable distros/DEs (in my case, it used to be Manjaro’s KDE version). Perhaps yours is similar, since you claim to have extreme stability problems?

I cannot say the same for Windows, where things randomly stop working, I still occasionally get bluescreens, it shits the bed when I change hardware, etc. the last time I booted into Windows my audio stopped working entirely, and no matter how many times I reinstalled audio drivers or did a system restore, nothing would fix it. I ended up having to buy an external DAC.

For stability? A missing feature or software you need I get, but stability? Which distro/DE are you using? Please don’t say you’re running Gentoo and some crazy TWM setup or something like that lol

Stability to me was one of the biggest reasons to use Linux - it does exactly what I expect it to do, never breaks, updates never break shit.

Gnome = bad is a common Linux community circlejerk.

People will tell you Linux is about personal choice, but the second you say cool, I’m using flatpaks/Gnome/Wayland/System-D/any other thing that people get upset about, those same people will lose their fucking minds over you having a choice different to theirs.

Oh no, won’t someone please think about the religious LGBT-hate organisation 😭😭

As a religious organisation, they are allowed to hire based on characteristics that you usually aren’t allowed to discriminate with. They’ve repeatedly supported legislation that would allow them to refuse to hire LGBT people.

Across several countries, they’ve campaigned against the right for homosexual sex, marriages, inclusion in media.

They refused a $3.5m contract from the San Francisco city gov because it would’ve included giving the same domestic benefits to same-sex couples.

They said they’d leave New York if they were forced to offer the same domestic benefits to same-sex couples.

They campaigned against UK local councils including gay people in media like leaflets and the like.

High ups in The Salvation Army has said if you support gay rights you shouldn’t donate to them.

They’re extremely transphobic too, of course.

They did a bunch of child sexual abuse in Australia.

In the UK they own a lot of property that poor people stay in, and the conditions have been so bad that it was unlawful.

For the most part it’s just that they’re homophobic as fuck.

Same as you would with any other data.

Although it’d matter much less if you know you can just pirate it again in the event of you doing no backups and losing the data.

I disagree. Piracy is the answer IMO.

• as someone else said, invasive DRM exists on discs too

• discs can’t store enough data for a lot of modern games, necessitating downloads anyway

• discs can be damaged, lost, or stolen

The only way to ensure we still have access to this stuff in the future is a healthy cracking and pirating community.