I am not sure what do you mean. I use fedora with Nvidia (it’s a different repo to activate) and my main rig is for gaming… No problem what so ever. Using Fedora since 37, what a smooth ride.

Also, who knows if Netlify didn’t provoque the ddos to make free loaners pay?

Could have checked your grammar before commenting…

That sample text file, you can save it in the “Template” folder in your home folder, and then you can create a new file from that template with the right click menu > new entry :)

My first computer was an Oric-1, and I typed a little bit of BASIC on it, and even managed to save to a cassette tape! (never managed to reload what I saved though lol) This first computer was traded to me by a friend for I don’t remember what, but it made me interrested into computers for sure!

Next, with that same friend, I traded again and got an Atari 520 STE, that’s where the story really begins! I was about 14 at the time. Since then, I stopped leaving my room, and started to read a 500+ pages book about GFA basic. I have so good memories about the things I could do with that computer, even to nowadays standards, it’s the best computer ever! I remember I had a 30Mb hard drive in SCSI, and some accessories. It’s still at my parent’s house. I miss it.

That’s also a very similar setup I have. Nothing can replace org-mode, so at least Emacs will have to stay for that. Also using it in server mode is nice to reopen a new window in an instance. I also have many tiny scripts I made through out the years to generate random things for work, and also query the radio station we listen to give my the artist and song title that is playing. Can’t work without those ^^

Great list, but a couple could be added:

• btop (process/resouces monitor, highly customizable)
• lnav (log navigator, grouping folder of files in one display, search/filter etc…)

dum, dum, dum…another one bite the dust…

are you sure you don’t mean the opposite? Because on trackpads, it’s like on touch screen and should go in the same direction no? (I mean, from when I used a MAC, I couldn’t use natural scrolling with a mouse, but loved it with the trackpad…)

yet, the auto updates will restart your computer no matter how many programs were left open…

I still have my account on Reddit, but have not logged in since the API events.
Very happy to have found Lemmy, with great content and great people.

Same about going from Twitter to Mastodon.

What I like with Linux:

• no restart behing my back to force install updates when I have pending work
• no bloat
• customizable (win11 forcing to having windows of same app groupped grinds my gears!)

Though, it’s not perfect (I guess I have slight hardware issues on my end), I feel way more relaxed (really) when using Linux than Windows.

recently, I use btop in replacement of htop, really easy to use and pretty to look at.

This is so cool!

And it seems to ge written with a fountain pen. The times where people could write properly, beautifully, and made things to last.

I kind of regret being born in such a wasting consumption focused society…

I submitted a ticket to Steam about some issues I had with their client, and they told be those were addressed in the Beta version.
And all my small issues I had are gone! So I can use Steam with XFCE without issue right now.
Pretty happy, really.

I am switching to XFCE to see how it goes, the fact it is lighter on resources than Gnome is a big plus ;)

A lot of input in the comments, I’ll just add mine in the mix.
I guess wanting to change the OS for someone can be good if:

• the current Windows version is EOL and/or has security issues/concerns,
• the hardware is too old to upgrade,
• the current user is fed up with crashes, popups, slowliness etc…

Now, I would go for Mint anyday instead of Ubuntu, because the default matte desktop feels more confortable when coming from windows.

As for Scrivener, I don’t even know what it is, but Wine is quite good recently, so if you’re tech/linux savy, you could try to make it work.

I tried during the week-end, and it’s a confortable and light experience.

But Steam (I game a lot on my computer) doesn’t work well, it stops showing the store page (it gets all black) when I change the virtual desktop.
I then have to display my library then click again on the store to see the content again.
Very annoying.
If it was not for that bug, I might have switched permanently.

I kept it installed and will retry from time to time if the Steam issue goes away.

I used to love XFCE many years ago, and will try to set it up again this WE.

Yep, those shorts are dumb, and YT is passive aggresive when closing the tray: “ok, we’ll repoen the tray in 30 days”. It’s like “I don’t care you don’t want those, I’ll feed them to you no matter what…” Piss off YT!

If they don’t want browsers to access the site, why keeping the site open in the first place? And if only regulated people have to access it, they can just share a ssh key or something to grant access, I don’t see big problems here. Am I missing something?