Debian: Always has some non-school-related books in its bag. Only watches films that stayed popular 10+ years after release. Has a flip phone and a Craig brand MP3 player.

Ubuntu: Wants to be like Debian, but only reads manga and watches anime with original audio, even if it couldn’t find subs, “because it’s the only real experience” (does not speak Japanese). Unironically wears a headband. Best friends are all weebs. Somehow still the most popular kid.

Mint: The nice kid. Always friendly and approachable. Went to the same primary school as Ubuntu, now trying to distance itself.

Fedora: Gadgets out the ass. Goes to midnight launches. Both parents are rich corpo executives.

RHEL: The rich corpo parents. You never feel comfortable around them. A teacher once overheard you talking about them and told you to keep those opinions to yourself. Pretty sure two-thirds of the school’s funding comes from them. Might be involved in human trafficking.

CentOS: RHEL’s oldest child. Graduated years ago. You haven’t heard from it in a while.

CentOS Stream: RHEL’s middle child.

Bazzite: Fedora’s gamer boyfriend.

Arch: The weird geek. Gray hoodie and cargo pants. Always has a solution to every problem (mostly unsolicited). Small group of like-minded friends. Has RSS feed with alerts on phone in case new music is released. Once forgot its boots at home. Wears gold.

EndeavourOS: Like Arch, but polite and dresses nicely. Space nerd.

Manjaro: Like Arch, but socially awkward and can mess up even a greeting. Often misses the bus. Wears gold, but it really clashes with the rest of its outfit.

SteamOS: The Gamer. Happy to share/trade game discs. Learned Russian from MSGV, production planning from Factorio, and Excel skills from EVE Online. Parents own a successful winery. Neighbourhood delinquents called Timmy and Wolfy have a grudge, for some reason.

SuSE: The exchange student. Apparently went to a classy high school in Europe.

Knoppix: You never see it in class. Somehow still good grades. Always down for a beer.

OpenWRT: The one with the car.

Kali Linux: Doing a network engineering introduction course. Unironically calls itself a hacker. Always carries a Flipper Zero.

Slackware: The chilled out janitor who sells cigarettes.

SLS: The retired previous janitor who sells weed.

(edit: some more!)

The BSDs: Students from a small rural town. They always hang around, but aren’t actually students. Sometimes complain about life in the city.

GNU Guix: Homeschooled all its life. Has an opinion on everything. Only uses pencils from a particular manufacturer. Vegan.

Artix: Former friend of Arch with many of the same interests. Argument about Lord Of The Rings versus Harry Potter caused a schism.

Proxmox: The computers guy. Half of its bedroom is dedicated to computer hardware. Hosts a dozen game servers, but never actually plays. Finds silence extremely distressing. Has a forum.

OpenMediaVault and TrueNAS Scale: The media gurus. Think of any film or series, they have it.

Gentoo: The mechanic. There’s nothing it can’t assemble or fix (in two to three days). Takes great pride in its own work. Has a bicycle that was assembled from mis-matched parts. Thinks the ship of Theseus is a stupid concept.

Android: Always on the phone. Always “has an app for that”. Nobody really likes it, but always involved in everything.

GrapheneOS: Android’s twin. Goth. Disillusioned with modernity, but couldn’t lift a hoe to save its life. Kind of a dick.

That’s literally what I wrote on a satirical post about moving to Windows! https://lemmy.world/comment/14612934 Except I was being sarcastic and you’re being serious.

That is part of the deal with Debian. You get stable software… but you only get stable software. If you want bleeding edge software, you’ll have to install it manually to /usr/local, build from source and hope that you have the dependencies, or containerize it with Distrobox.

If you go to a butcher, don’t complain about the lack of vegan options.

It’s literally how Blender is distributed. Get archive, extract wherever, run blender.

So your entire spiel is based on one interaction, extrapolated by… what, vibes? Feelings? Aren’t we supposed to be the objective and rational ones?

I worded that poorly. The “you” was plural (I want the singular “thou” back) and meant to refer to the people who are losing their shit, not any one individual.

(edit) I also just want to point out that accusing me of being a sexist sympathizer and two hours later posting this shit is real funny.

People are losing their shit, calling for boycotts, and throwing around accusations of transphobia over comments in the source code and a single line of documentation? Seriously? And brigading the developer three years after the fact‽ I was ready to write off Ladybird, but damn, this was taken way out of proportion.

I’m all in for equal treatment, but people need to get a perspective. Such an extreme reaction will ultimately hurt the cause they’re trying to advocate for. Getting bent out of shape and publicly brigading something for every perceived slight, every time someone’s feelings are hurt, or can’t get their way, will get them – and the demographic or movement they represent – labelled as undesirable.

I’m a sysadmin at a university. Fortunately we never used Adobe, and recently ditched Autodesk and Unity for Blender and Godot. Still on Windows, but I’ll take what I can get.

Yes, it runs flawlessly. It was the first game that was made to run on DXVK.

And yes, the Year Age Of The Linux Desktop is already here. Unless you have to use Adobe products, or play a game with some incompatible anti-cheat trojan, there are very few barriers to switching to Linux full-time.

There’s an ongoing debate tantrum about introducing Rust code to the kernel. Some people are pushing for it, some people have made it their life’s purpose to make sure that doesn’t happen, it has led to a wave of maintainers resigning, and Linus is sitting with his thumb up his arse when his leadership is needed.

Sci-fi shows about ancient Egypt: 𝚲

The Linux community is united! (Unless you mention Rust, or Wayland, or systemd, or Snap, or GNOME, or…)

predatory, mafia or middle-age money lender style.

Your words have lots of sentiments, but present no facts. I know that Wolfire and Sweeney are independently throwing a tantrum, and we all hate taxes, but I don’t see public exposés showing game developers who went hungry because they couldn’t afford the 70-30 split.

I’ll also remind you that the EGS (12%) is barely profitable, and operated for years at a loss, only sustained by Fortnite (which used dark patterns to extract money from kids, in case you want to see something actually predatory).

• The 30% percent cut, stealing money from devs

Sigh. Here we go again. I’ll just copy one of my older comments about that attitude.

Steam is not a parasitic middle man, it is a collection of services that would have to be provisioned and operated by the developer otherwise. The 30% cut pays for:

• A massive infrastructure to store and deliver the game and its updates, worldwide, and at an acceptable bandwidth that Valve operates
• A storefront that enables monetizing the game
• The audience and discoverability that would not exist otherwise
• The Steam API, achievements, cloud saves
• The client itself, content management, validation, and Linux compatibility tools
• Network and operational security
• Also keep in mind that Steam and its services are operated by experts. A game developer would have to hire the experts or get training.

If the revenue from the cut exceeds the operational costs: it’s called profitability, not theft. The world doesn’t run on good vibes.

ORP Piorun with its new rocket boosters: “And I took that personally.”

I’ve seen Don’t Look Up. Having the technology to carry out a mission like that is the easy part.

Did you completely miss the part where I said “Not the solution, and not a possible solution for everyone, but it is a solution”? I don’t know what you think the usual troubleshooting process is, but it doesn’t start with “uninstall Windows”. Obviously the user was sufficiently intelligent to consider the advantages and disadvantages of switching, and based on that information, chose a course of action that they thought was correct, and it ended up being the solution to their issue.

I don’t know how else I can spell it out for you. Computer users are not dumbasses. They have agency over their own actions.

Are they still experiencing whatever problem they were having?

No? Then it is a solution. Not the solution, and not a possible solution for everyone, but it is a solution.

Bring Me The Horizon: “CAN YOU HEAR THE SILENCE?”

Me, with mild-to-moderate tinnitus: boy I sure wish I couldn’t