Rikudou_Sage

Well, you should probably read the last sentence of my previous comment, it does apply here as well.

Well, I hated Dark Souls but love NixOS, no idea what that says about me, but probably something. I don’t like my games hard only my day-to-day life? Or something.

Edit: Recommend it to Steam Deck users.

An apostrophe is never out of place, it arrives precisely when it mean’s to.

Do you even nix, bro? I have Nix on my company issued Windows laptop inside WSL, btw.

I mean, take a look at it from their POV: You’ve spent decades building this and suddenly new people come in and want to change very fundamental things in the project. Replacing them with something you don’t know and don’t want to learn.

Change must be slow and steady and shouldn’t make the original developers feel like they’re being pushed out.

Both sides are severely lacking in considering the people on the other side.

I try every year and every year I get a different result. Currently on Wayland, next year’s update might force me back to X.

Love the Wayland stability.

Be careful:

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Nah, it’s a single executable, like GNU.

Because Linux is so effective that the GPU temperature tops at 69, which is nice.

I went with Nobara because it’s pretty much Fedora + gaming related fixes. Meaning every Fedora guide out there works and Fedora on its own is pretty user friendly.

Excel, as in Microsoft Excel might be a problem. If she needs something Excel-like, the default LibreOffice stuff is very capable, but it’s not 100% compatible, really depends on what she needs. The online Office 365 thing might also be enough.

As for the Windows partition, a simple virtual machine might be enough and you don’t have to reboot the PC every time you need to open an Excel file.

Yeah, that one would be huge, it’s pretty much the only thing I envy Mac users.

I started using CTRL+R with McFly and now I don’t use the up arrow, except if I remember it’s in the last ~10 commands.

Nice. Always wondered whether there was such a software, but was too lazy to actually search for it.

Android is not Linux, it only uses (modified) Linux kernel. Android experience is not transferable to any other Linux distro. While Steam Deck’s is. You’re not saying your smart bulb runs Linux just because it uses its kernel.

Well, we got Steam Deck on that front, so at least there’s something. Not a desktop, but a regular consumer device with Linux is still nice.

Not even close. Most hardware issues I had were with Windows. Additionally, that thing gets slow over time, no matter what you do. If you use it often, it’ll get to an unusable state in a year or two. And you can’t do anything about it except fresh reinstall. It spies on you so much even Google could learn from them. And nowadays it even has ads. You pay for the OS and then you still have ads, classy. And as a bonus, all the spying and ads are so unoptimised that they make your computer slower.

Anyone who uses Finder as a file manager is a masochist. That’s the worst file manager I’ve ever used. And that includes shitty Android file manager which have more ads than file managing capabilities.

Well, that sounds like issues with your specific hardware, because that’s definitely not the usual Linux experience.

Tip for next time: find some distro that has up to date kernel. Ubuntu, Mint and Debian are definitely not good if you have very recent hardware, they stay on old kernels for quite a long time. And drivers are in the kernel.

I have to disagree about Windows being easier, but that’s fairly subjective. What’s 100% objective is that it’s definitely not the reason everyone uses Windows, the reason is much simpler: it came with their machine.

Anyway, I recommend Nobara for gaming - it’s basically Fedora, but preconfigured for gaming and general normal use.

Oh yeah, Windows storage driver issues are great if you need to kill time. Nothing better than your Windows installer claiming there’s no disk. Great in combination with missing touchpad drivers. But hey, at least I found out it can indeed be installed without a working mouse and that includes installing the storage driver!

Win10 was extreme crap, you just feel it was good because Win11 is worse.