Yea… Forums were (are) great for something that Discord isn’t great at…

Not might.

It feels like all the other corpos are mad and want to sue Valve to force them into enshittification.

I’m all for holding companies accountable - when legal pressure forced Valve into creating a return policy, I was happy for that. But this is a $900 Million nothing burger imo. Publishers are mad they can’t get the exposure and sales numbers on a cheaper platform. Cheaper platforms are mad that they still can’t get people to switch to them by significantly under-cutting Steam. That’s (publishers) customers mad they have to pay a ‘premium’ (basically the ‘market rate’ for the service before epic decided to start under-cutting btw) for a better service and the competition mad that a LOT of (publishers) customers are willing to pay that ‘premium’.

Same. Tried manjaro twice, fully broken after a few months every time. Thought Linux was just too much work and I wasn’t smart enough. Been on Garuda for over 3 years without issue.

I feel like manjaro keeps people from adopting Linux. I have friends that will argue about my Linux experience because they tried manjaro and think that’s how all Linux is.

Stay away from Manjaro.

I’ve heard great things about Endeavor and Cachy, but personally use Garuda. Highly recommend it.

The biggest problem is that even if they fix it, it will take ages for the people that left to believe it is actually fixed. We can’t take MS’s word for it… And even then we will have no trust they won’t just slip right back into this hellscape a couple years (or months) down the line.

Fuck all that.

Also, can we stop with the rounded corners on everything? What the fuck is even that about? I paid for pixels going all the way to the corner, I’d love for some fucking window or program that actually uses them. Even worse if multiple windows are tiled, now there are stupid little fucking gaps at the corners? Fuck your UI and fuck google for making knock-offs of apple products that have all of the downsides and, oh, some new and exciting downsides also. I don’t want a mobile “desktop” OS, or any other pervasive mobile tom-fuckery spreading to other corners of my life. Jesus tap-dancing christ, the enshittification of the world is about to knock on our doors and shit directly onto our chests every morning, steal our wallet, and then charge us a monthly fucking subscription.

I’m worried the AI boom is a front to get the public used to not being able to buy computer hardware. I think they have wanted our relationship with our desktop or laptop to become more like our relationship with our phones for a long time and this kind of thing can really push people to accepting it. I hate the world we are in right now. :(

I think the problem with Fusion360 under Wine is similar to this one - the software will work fine once you get in, but verifying your account for the launch (or install) just doesn’t communicate with the website correctly. Here’s hoping this passes muster and gets adopted into Wine for general public use, as I bet this will help a lot more than just Adobe products run under Wine.

I only discovered Krita in the last couple of years and have been using it almost entirely instead of Gimp. Also not a professional, mostly use it for ttrpg stuff like maps and character or vehicle tokens, but it has been a lot smoother for me. I have never used photoshop, so I can’t compare to that though.

Well shit, that’s interesting. Thanks for the link.

I have been staring at the original comment trying to figure out how to basically say this, so thank you. lol. “The customer is always right” just means don’t tell the customer that green and purple polka dot curtains are fuck-ugly because it will hurt the company’s bottom line.

I don’t think Capitalism has ever been this romanticized version, at least not in my lifetime. It has always been about how much money “they” can squeeze out of consumers, and they have been inching more and more constantly for a long time to get where we are now. The companies have always wanted to manipulate to make more money, and the only slight road blocks or steps in the right direction have come from government regulation.

You can download Proton for use outside of Steam, I use it in Lutris and Bottles pretty regularly. Also, you should be able to get just about anything to run just as well in Bottles or Lutris as it will in steam, but I will admit it can take some tinkering with some games or software and there is a much easier option: Add “non-steam game” in Steam library and run whatever program you need through Steam anyway.

The trick is that isn’t a capital i, it is a lowercase L. Now with AL integration. Every program you run just has a picture of Weird Al and a snippet of a random song from his greatest hits album as a splash screen.

I feel like you are suggesting they would decompress the file over USB from the computer after it is transferred, and not use the phone to decompress it after it is transferred… Once it is transferred to the phone, just use the phone to decompress it.

Funny, because I had the opposite problem with my laptop… Bazzite couldn’t seem to keep the nvidia gpu happy and working so I switched to Garuda and it hasn’t had a problem gaming since.

I love Linux, but hate the user-to-user inconsistency - it really makes answering the #1 question “which distro should I use” basically impossible to answer. Go download all of them that sound interesting and put them on flash drives and try them out in live environment - narrow down to the ones you like the look of the most, and then install them and try it out and see if you can do what you need or not. It’s not a difficult process but it is a process and there is no simple answer.

One company decided to not sell consumer ram anymore

One of the only 3 companies making it. And a second has mentioned following suit.

How do you even get an installer for mspaint?? Like, I’m honestly baffled and intrigued at this point that mspaint is the “killer app” keeping someone on Windows and how one would even try to install it under wine…

I did a bit of hunting online and most people report no problems with the windows xp version of paint under wine, but 7 and later requires some tinkering because of missing .dll files or won’t work at all.

And here I thought everything in this comic was just sweating profusely, including the words on the laptop screen.

mspaint…? Is. Is this a troll?