Me, bottom 10%, making coffee for a paycheck and scavenging my new pair of pants from a dumpster: Yeah, man, you said it.

Oh, hey, we’re up to the Enlightened Monarchs phase of the Enlightenment of the 18th century.

Don’t mind me, being a casual user since 2014 taking down notes as I’m reading the debates in the comments.

But I finally found out why Steam kept crashing. Snap broke it. I forced it to run as a flatpak, and now it works exactly as intended. Literally what made me finally switch from Ubuntu to Mint.

Didn’t expect to see a legend just scrolling here. Thank you for your contributions to computer science.

Yeah, I jumped ship right around the time Win8 came out. 14.04 was an interesting time to start learning. I was obsessed with trimming out bloat, so I used a tool to uninstall orphaned packages. Problem was, it also deleted some dependencies for GNOME.

I had, to quote the most helpful and humorous person in an Ubuntu forum post, “borked it so bad it had to be nuked from orbit.”

I have since learned my lesson and learned to be a little bit more careful with the magical responsibilities of sudo.

<I think I still have an old book that cautioned if you configured your refresh rates and monitor settings incorrectly your monitor could catch on fire.> Are you telling me that one dev for X.org could set someone’s monitor on fire by fucking with four lines of code?

Jesus Christ, thanks for that, I didn’t need to sleep tonight.

Right. Sure. Keep shilling for daddy Putin, you’ll get your promotion for sure if you keep it up.

Fuck you, Russia STARTED this fight. Imperialism and capitalism are the god damn problem, and here you are enabling them both.

Ooh, a Russian troll! Quick, whack him with the hammer, they’re worth extra bonus points!

Damn you, McCarthy! Your imaginary list of communists doomed us all!!

Dennis! There’s some lovely filth down 'ere!

Do you like cancer research? How about fighting forest fires? Averting mid-air plane collisions?

DOGE sure hates all of those.

I think we’re headed for balkanization. We’re seeing the breakup of the USSR all over again.

Some author openly claims to be a terf. If she calls herself a bigot, then call her a bigot. 🤷

👏👏👏

God, the ALSA-PulseAudio Wars never fucking ended, and we’ve been stranded ever since. It’s the Wayland/X11 windowing struggle all over again!

“This package uses a legacy windowing system, and is insecure.” You know who else is insecure? The devs!

On non-Ubuntu distros, for ProtonVPN, I’ve had better luck using their CLI interface. It works just fine, it just means learning a bit of the terminal. I like the automatic killswitch, especially since I’m a habitual pirate.

Proton advises against using third-party repos, which I feel is sensible. But for all other options, I tend to appreciate the plug-and-play nature of .deb and .rpm packages and Flatpaks. Flatseal puts my paranoia at ease. Set and forget. :)

Proton’s a bit behind the curve, feature-wise, but I trust them more than I trust NordVPN or ExpressVPN. For one, their advertisement blocker ACTUALLY works as advertised.

AMD has open-source drivers that play better with Linux distros. If you’re running post-2020 Intel hardware, good luck.

GoG install scripts are actually community-submitted and not actively maintained. You might have some luck with Lutris or WINE. Sometimes, Bottles or even PlayOnLinux are compatible. WINE actually lets you emulate older editions of Windows for PC games. Sometimes, all you have to do is switch the toggle from ‘Win7’ to ‘Win95’, and it works.

https://lutris.net/games/jazz-jackrabbit/

It’s a headache, and a loooot of googling, trying to get games to run. But with Proton’s introduction, it’s gotten a lot easier to get things to run without pulling out wads of hair.

But you’re right, if the app is non-native? Have fun breaking out the thumbscrews, because ya better like pain. 😂

Less user-hostile? Maybe. Hostile to the tech-illiterate? Oh, absolutely. There is no handholding. There are no guardrails. You wanna “sudo rm -fr / --no-preserve-root”? o7, gamer.

“Put it back! I liked it better when it was broken!”

Jokes aside though, have you SEEN GamesDoneQuick’s Triforce% TAS? Jesus Turing Christ, that was amazing. It felt like the gaming equivalent of watching the Lunar Landing.