As a windows user who’s been doing some research and looking to switch this is really the post I needed to see. I know everyone seems to have their favourite distro and means well when suggesting them but its nice to have someone point out a distinct beginner friendly one with no caveats.

I think that’s kind of the point though, we could meet space traveling aliens and deem them non sapient beings without emotions using the same logic we apply to animals because there’s no empirical way to prove that any creature isn’t just the sapience equivelent of a chinese room.

I want to use linux and will use it when two conditions are met:
-All my work software and the games I play the most all work on it (without requiring me to re-buy shit I already own to get a linux compatable version)
-Its user friendly enough that asking which version I should use as a beginner doesn’t result in all the linux users immediately descending into the thread equivelent of a cartoon fight cloud with random limbs flailing around.

Edit: Some feedback on the feedback:
-Apparently some of the linux versions are super user friendly but advice about this is totally inconsistent, some of the advice doesn’t even actually name a specific version or versions.
-“It all works fine you just need to install thing A through thing B and then use it to run thing C in order to run this one single program from windows” is not as encouraging as you think it is. The thought of potentially going through that for every piece of software is at least for me a big reason for not switching yet and I suspect for a lot of other people too.
-The reference page for what games work on linux is helpful though some things on it only work if you use the steam version which is the precise reason for my not wanting to re-buy things comment.

Edit: Additional question.
Is it mandatory to use the terminal for everything? Everytime I see people talk about linux or look stuff up about it the terminal seems to be everywhere. I’m somewhat familiar with the windows command line (which I assume is the terminals equivelent) but having to use that just to install software (as opposed to just running a .exe) seems really daunting.

I’ve been waiting so long for a good MMO again. Runescape kinda imploded and I could never get into WoW because its just so horrificly disjointed by all the unmanaged feature creep.

This is what I meant, if everyone is running googles web integrity API it also effectively allows google to ban other browsers from even existing by denying them access to all major sites.

Lets call it what it is, googles attempt to create a situation in which they can ban all competition and establish a global monopoly.

Generally also beats a sword except in pretty specialized circumstances.

I mean we’re increasing restrictions on solar and some fairly high profile politicans are talking about the lost benefits of oil and coal so… I’m pretty sure going our own way involves some kind of reversion to steam power medicine based on the four humours.

Well distribution is basically entierly free at this point so more customers is just directly more money.

Best episode this season, still mad about whatever that space king episode was though.

What… what did I just watch?

I did my second playthrough against Ibis after the patch and its no different as far as I can tell.

So I’ve worked out whats been bugging me about the new episodes, not just for futurama but also all the new simpsons episodes for a while too. They’ve been trying to run distinct A and B plots at the same time without any interplay in them beyond happening to occur in the same space of time. The result is that instead of an interesting A plot with a small B plot running alongside we instead get what’s pretty much two completely seperate half length plots that end up feeling underexplored and rushed.

The momazon episode is a good example, we started with leela moving in to fry and benders appartment and the emotional effect that has on bender, but then bender just goes to work at momazon so abrubtly that it doesn’t even feel like a consiquence of the earlier events so much as a really forced way to segway into the momazon plot, the appartment plot is then pretty much completely ignored for the whole episode only to come back up right at the end for a last minute resolution. The result is basically a rugpull on the apartment plot while leaving too little time for the momazon plot to really get interesting, they just jump right from problem straight to solution with no real obstacles that don’t immediately resolve themselves.

Both plotlines could have been served far better if the momazon plot had been the main focus with the apartment situation being sprinkled in as interactions during the momazon plot; this would have given the A plot the full screen time to properly play out while also keeping the B plot relevant throughout the whole episode. I think a good example of this would be the episode where nibbler gets flushed down the toilet, the A plot is finding nibbler and a B plot between bender and leela/nibbler takes place within the A plot without cutting into its run time.

TLDR: B plots have become too seperate from the A plots and end up detracting from them rather than complimenting them.

Honestly hiragana and katakana are no more arbitrary than lower and upper case letters.

Honestly that wasn’t even a bug, it was a perfect execution of the instructions it was given to perform its task with maximum efficiency and would have been incredibly easy to see in advance if anyone had spent 5 minutes thinking about it. Classic paperclip maximizer style literal interpretation of goals.

3 struck the perfect balance for me, it was like playing an action movie that didn’t take itself too seriously while still maintaining a tenuous grasp on reality. 4 fully jumped the shark for me and was hard to enjoy.

Elder GenZ, I use neither of these services and I suspect the same is true of many people, different subcultures gravitate to different forms of social media.

If they did I’m pretty sure it would just be worse than FSR given the hardware requirements.

Frame generation is limited to 40 series GPUs because Nvidias solution is dependant on their latest hardware. The improvements to DLSS itself and the new raytracing stuff work on 20/30 series GPUs. That said FSR 3 is fantastic news, competition benefits us all and I’d love to see it compete with DLSS itself on Nvidia GPUs.

Honestly I think some of this stuff is a way to filter out people with critical thinking skills the same way scam emails are often deliberately spelled wrong to filter out people who wouldn’t have fallen for the scam to begin with.