Unrelated but how do people feel about the ai images when used for something like this.

The font is very telling for being DallE

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“Bloat” the less system there is (while still working as a modern system) the better. If i need something i can install it myself.

Learning to properly configure pre existing drives with archinstall was an adventure on its own.

I am not really talking about being hacked but about anyone but you having more control over your system then you.

Maybe in your case thats very little information but I am a tech hobbyist and if i do not have full control and knowledge about every aspect of a device i bought, do i really own it?

If a consumer can’t fully own it, it shouldnt be sold as such. I considered such deeply unethical and damaging to the future potential of technology.

"I’d probably be okay with kernel level anti-cheats if they actually stopped cheaters. "

“I’d be okay with espionage devices all around my house if it stopped documents from being forged.”

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If your library is on other platform like gog, epic, amazon or off platform .exe you can use heroic launcher and for most stuff it works just as well.

For some games there is a little more learning curve because you have to translate custom steam configurations found on protondb to do the same thing in heroic but overall you actually have way more control then steam.

The only reason “id think twice” is if you play lots of games with anticheat which does not work on every distro (like arch btw).

Psa: the reason Microsoft makes these tools linux friendly is because the know thats where the developers are at and they want them to stay familiar with their tools.

It also lowers the amount of fuss developers make when work forced them to use powershell etc because at least they can remote control and script from linux.

Dont give up on it! Its very feasible that yt starts attacking yt-dlp. Invidious is already obfuscated. The more alternatives the better.

So does anyone know a proper alternative that doesn’t scare every non-tech person on my server?

I already lost people when we initially moved from a facebook group to discord.

I believe i can self-host a matrix client but no idea how well it will work with people currently having notifications by discord bot on their phone

Because the same people who might be forced to use this tool on the job are the same who like linux.

They do the same with powershell en vscode and you can just remote terminal from linux into windows.

Its a small investment in making developers more comfortabel with their toold and thus increase chance they will use them.

I am not sure whos advocate i am being here but theres class of vibe coding enthusiasts that get heavily demotivated by being told to do things a certain way.

The trade of for this chaos is. At least they how to code and participate in open source projects and once in a full moon some creative actually designs something nova and inspiring.

Looks like somehow could not afford their holographic gaming pc sticker skin for their mac pro tower.

Sucks to be you my friend.

Welcome to professional adulthood.

I wish i had some more comforting advice but the best i can do is wish you good luck. You will need it.

Just know that no matter how long it takes it is saying nothing of you value! You are a valid and valuable person.

You are entitled to this but I don’t understand why it makes a difference if the icon is above or below the url here.

If you have bookmarks hidden, thats an argument for a pretty bookmark manager.

Exactly, and if its important you just bookmark it.

I tend to shorten my bookmarks to just a space so in practice they are just a row of tiny icons anyway. They are always at the same spot and only take resources when needed.

I would love a vertical bookmark sidebar but for some reason we have to reinvent the wheel with tabs.

Can someone at least help me understand what tabs have that bookmarks don’t?

If i have more then 4 tabs open i get anxious because i can’t intuitively remember what each does. I have folders for categories of bookmarks.

Actual shudders when i received this response.

I switched my main to linux about a year ago and install everything through terminal at this point.

I had to download something on a windows system once recently and i was not prepared with how backwards this entire process felt.

I cant understand how i had stuck with such bullshit for so long.

For new users the main question is not what operating system but what window manager as that is what shapes day to day user interaction. KDE plasma is a solid choice.

Installing it on a separate drive should be no problem. Just select the correct drive during install.

I use F10 to get to the boot menu on drive and select the drive it needs to boot from there. I have used it once in the last year and although it required many updates its still working.