What does this relate to? Only had limited dial-up back then (it’s probably some US stuff?).

Just… take them out of it first? Don’t really see the problems here. A little bit of rain during shipping is no problem for the material.

The most important thing about it is it’s perfectly biodegradable in nature. You can throw them on your compost.

It’s not like there isn’t a middleground. I didn’t see those awful sixpack rings in years, in Germany where I live those sixpacks are packed in cardboard (goes around the sixpack once for stability). Works perfectly fine, and given it’s just paper with a little bit of printer colours (which, technically, could also be done environmentally friendly) there are little to no reasons not to do it this way except for greed. …therefore it isn’t surprising plastic sixpack rings are specifically common in the US, lol.

That’s what pacman -Syyu is for. The occasional life support failure and forced bug hunting is part of the experience.

I see. I mean, there’s always a way how you decide what you want to buy without any hard, arduous research.

Does the same happen in ONLYOFFICE or Collabora? The documents I sometimes interact with might be too “basic” to notice problems. The worst issue I had was LibreOffice Draw freaking out over a PDF, which arguably it wasn’t made for anyway.

Sucks if they still keep protecting their monopoly through software / document manipulation.

Never had the opportunity to use or see one since they don’t cover the European market. Pop!_OS was fine though when I used it, it’s unfortunate you had such problems.

Luckily there are a lot of other vendors as well. Star Labs, Ubuntushop, NovaCustom, even Lenovo and I think HP by now (although their laptops are almost always shit). So there are options.

The potential pain with setups is a reason I like to point people at vendors like Slimbook, Tuxedo Computers or System76. Avoids a lot of possible problems for those who can afford it.

there’s no good DAW on Linux

Now that’s not true though. Bitwig Studio and Reaper f.e. support all the common plugins APIs and are excellent professional DAWs. And then of course you also got Ardour if you prefer FOSS.

Things like Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects have no solid alternative to this day for Linux

I’m not perfectly familiar with Adobe products, but I’m very positive that DaVinci Resolve, Lightworks (literally used by Hollywood), Blender and Natron offer all the functionality those two do. And most likely with less crashes, as far as I heard about Premiere Pro. 🙃

Office uses proprietary file format constraints to lock down their ecosystem.

Didn’t hear about issues with Office Suites in more than a decade. Microsoft famously manipulated their docs to hamper third-party apps in implementing docx support, that’s quite a time ago though.

Unreal Engine, lots games, my audio interface, drivers for obscure small devices I need? I just don’t know and I have to dedicate time to researching all of it.

Yeah, hardware is always a thing especially during a switch. Once you made it of course you can pick new gear that’s known to be supported on Linux by their company. At least with Unreal Engine it’s known to work, and Games by now basically always do except for those with the most vile Anti-Cheat.

I bought a notebook and will try to go CachyOS x KDE Plasma on that

May I suggest to use a more general-use, Ubuntu-based distro? Those often offer way better hardware support for more devices out of the box. That’s one reason they’re called bloated, but damn is it comfy sometimes.

You should educate yourself about how those AI image generators came to be, 'cause you just showed everyone that you have no damn clue.

“What does it matter if the cocoa farmers get extorted, I just bought the chocolate for a fun occassion.”

Perhaps this way it’s more understandable.

There’s also an additional middleground between them, Slowroll. Still a rolling distro but slower with feature updates for additional stability.

Leap tends to be rather outdated as it keeps binary-compatibility to SLES. Of course makes it as stable as possible, but also more often than not uncomfortably lacking behind.

To be fair, OpenSuse is an umbrella of multiple distros other than Debian and Arch. There are

• Leap (Stable, binary-compatible to SLES)
• Tumbleweed (Rolling)
• Slowroll (Rolling but slower, duh)
• Aeon (Immutable w/ Gnome)
• Kalpa (Immutable w/ KDE)
• Factory (unstable)
• MicroOS (Immutable for Server)
• Leap Micro (Immutable, binary-compatible to SLES)

And then of course the whole Enterprise stuff around SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server). There’s definitely a need to specify what “OpenSuse” actually means in any given context. 😅

I agree though, it’s god damn great. The bootable btrfs snapshots that are set up by default in particular.

Would’ve been nice for them, wouldn’t it? Given they are also the authority for who gets those god damm keys.

Always the same with the corposcum.

Perhaps they also fell asleep during the movies. I certainly know I did.

What’s the third anime’s name?

Pretty much any distro can do any of the things Windows/Mac users are hoping a computer can do.

Without knowledge and at least an hour of your time for configuration, CLI-first distros like Arch can’t even play a video - or show a GUI for that matter.

[…] Nvidia GPU […] It’s not super complicated to set up, but it’s definitely going to feel like a foreign experience the first time.

If you’re lucky that means. If you happen to pick a distro / device combo that doesn’t harmonize and the distro didn’t took care of the driver from the start you’ll have a really, really bad time. Especially if it’s a hybrid GPU system. You’re right about picking a distro that comes with it. Options like Pop!_OS, TuxedoOS or Bazzite come to mind.

Given they have an Nvidia and want stuff like the Valve Index to work (so in the best case to have all those super new drivers, libraries installed and stuff) it should be a distro that comes with a lot preconfigured, like the Nvidia driver.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Bazzite in this regard.

Windows Vista.

Oh, oups. That’s a remnance from a meme I made a few minutes earlier. However now Tux is looking towards the text, therefore this was all planned.