Meanwhile, copy/paste is still awfully impaired by random emoji boxes popping up, because of course I want to give a ❤️ to my boss’s Confluence url.

I’m still playing Doom, the original!

We don’t want that piece of rubbish in our waters.

Gimme!

I feel sad that I can’t boycott these spineless cowards because I haven’t been a customer since forever.

I’m sure they were not killing each other over imaginary friends, or debating whether mammary glands should banned.

It sometimes is, but then sometimes Linux is not to blame.

Yesterday I was installing CachyOS on my son’s laptop, because that’s what he chose to use instead of Windows 10. The desktop came up fine, but no wifi adaptor was detected. I could try another more mainstream distro, but I wanted my kid to have what he chose. So we went troubleshooting. Googled the laptop model, found the adaptor, found the matching kernel module, checked the logs… and there it was, a cryptic error -110. Googled that and there was an answer: disable Windows Fast Boot.

It turns out that Windows locks the wifi adaptor when shutting down in Fast Boot mode. So after disabling it and a couple of reboots later, CachyOS was installing flawlessly.

It served as a lesson for me and an example for my kid to persevere and learn more.

As a relatively recent country (by European standards), USA did not go through the Middle Age. I guess this is it. Enjoy the public burnings of heretics.

Honest question: if the story doesn’t matter that much to you, what do you value in a game?

Exactly what I thought. I’ll keep my Tidal account, thank you very much.

Nothing more dangerous that an artist expressing his views.

If it is clear that the topic is Impressionist art, I would not go. If I buy the ticket to see Expressionism and get Impressionism instead, I would fell upset.

(Actually, I’d go either way, I love art)

Regarding difficulty: I’ve lived through the 80’s, where difficulty was ramped up to make the game last longer, as you only had precious few kilobytes to fill with content. I’ve grown to hate difficult games.

It is your right as creator to go that way if you wish, but it is my right as player to hate your guts if I buy your game and it kills me over and over again in the first minutes.

My advice is: this isn’t Windows, so if you look at the logs you will probably find clues to what is wrong. With those clues you can find help online, either from blog articles or from Linux forums like this one.

I know reinstallation is the default in the Windows world, but you stand to learn a lot from trying to solve the issues you are facing.

I feel the same way. I can read really fast and get to the juice of an article faster than it takes for the YouTube video to go through the introduction, sponsors, etc.

I have a machine with specs like those where I installed Haiku.

I don’t daily drive it, but it’s fun to use and it’s quite snappy.

Think of it as leveling up.

I use Flatpaks for a lot of stuff (Steam, Firefox, and some other stuff that I feel should not have access to my tax returns in the Documents directory). It’s not just for beginners, Flatpaks are useful for other reasons.

Good advices.

A bit of research goes a long way. If you get a solid understanding of the basics, you can then build on it.

Don’t feel bad, I’ve used Linux since 1995 and don’t have enough skills to use Bottles.

I do however game a lot, using mainly Steam and Heroic. You can try to start there.