I have to recommend Linux Mint. I’ve been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) for over seven years now as my only operating system (and no dual booting) without any major issues or any desire to “distro hop.” Cinnamon has also gotten a lot more stable during that time too. I have almost no crashes anymore.
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Best just to boycott those games/companies and play/promote Linux-friendly games.
Yes, ProtonDB is full of very helpful information for getting tons of games up and running flawlessly. I always check it before I launch any new non-native Linux games from Steam.
17·1 year agoI use Pulsar for working on my many JavaScript projects. It’s a FOSS, community-maintained replacement for the canceled Atom text editor.
71·1 year agoPulsar is better than VS Code for JavaScript.
I’ve been using Firefox since 2002 when it first became available, at that point it was called Mozilla. It’s definitely the browser that I’ve used the most in about 25 years of browsing the Internet from home. Firefox has a great native Linux version and seems to be widely promoted by most distros. Since switching to Linux seven years ago I also started using Chromium (not to be confused with Chrome) and Opera, both of which also have great native Linux versions.
Nice. That is definitely a feature that Firefox currently lacks compared to Chromium (I don’t use actual Chrome much).
Fascinating news. On the statcounter site I also read that India’s Linux use stats for July, 2023 were at 14.15%. Incredible!
2·1 year agoConsidering that not many people use BSD or the others, I would guess that most of the “unknowns” are actually Linux users. That means we’re probably already at over 6%. :-)
Hobbyist programmer. When I switched to Linux, I started using the Atom editor for typing out my JavaScript projects (mostly Electron apps). Now I use Pulsar, because Atom development was cancelled.
https://github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar
I also find nvm to be helpful for installing and using Node in the terminal.
Windows XP was the last Windows that I wanted to use. When it became totally obsolete, I upgraded to Linux Mint. I will never go back to Windows. I did not even start off using Windows. MS-DOS was my first operating system.
I’m a middle-aged truck driver. I’ve been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) now for about seven years as my only operating system (without dual booting) since Windows XP Pro became totally obsolete. Granted, I’m a hobbyist programmer and lifelong computer enthusiast. However, there are definitely some easy to install and use distros out there these days.
Thanks for sharing, that sounds interesting. I haven’t tried VR yet, but I’ll keep that in mind if I do.
I’ve been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) as my only operating system since 2016. No dual booting.
Not sure about the requirements, but I had The Dark Mod running fine on an old machine with an ancient Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 gigabytes of DDR2 ram, and a GeForce 730 card. So the requirements are pretty light. I would suggest just trying it out and seeing how it runs.
0 A.D., Beyond All Reason, SuperTuxKart, and The Dark Mod are the four FOSS gaming projects that I find to be most impressive.
Linux Mint Cinnamon. I’ve been using it for about seven years now. It offers a very good, traditional desktop experience.
My biggest free/open source project is FreeMazes3D, a puzzle solving game involving procedurally generated mazes. I developed it using various JavaScript technologies (especially Babylon.js and Electron). I feel that most of the core content has already been created, but I do plan to do a few minor update releases down the road…
This is another good reason to stop using reddit. The internet used to have millions of active message boards for discussion of numerous topics. Reddit has essentially become one giant message board to rule them all. The world does not need this. Best to help decentralize the internet by promoting alternatives.
Windows XP Pro was the last Windows that you could install on as many of your machines as you wanted without contacting M$. When I found that out, I knew that XP would be my last Windows and that I would inevitably switch to Linux. When XP became totally obsolete, I permanently switched over to Linux Mint. I’ve never gone back to Windows and I have zero reason to ever do so. I promote Linux whenever I can.