Bazzite was the breakthrough for me. All my stuff just worked. Only 2 things I had to fix was

1.adding 5.1 audio over Spdif, which was a single ostree command to make it permanent.

2. Installing Proton-GE for one of my games that does not do well under normal proton.

Took about an hour to research and fix both.

I had tried to covert 4 times in the 5 years before. Ubuntu, linux mint and endevourOS would not play well with my hardware in years past.

He is a time poor impatient person. That is something linux will need to address for wider adoption.

I would argue that their example resulted in some very wide ranging changes in approach that was long overdue.

Linux was at risk of becoming an “OS for us” instead of a true replacement for everyone.

I suspect if they repeat the challange today, it would be a night and day difference.

There are some benefits, but its situational and only affects you while your hardware is very new. Eventually the base kernel catches up in most cases.

Its like buying a pre-built PC vs a custom PC.

They do the same things at the end of the day, but the the custom PC converts the extra time investment into a result that gives better performance and is more suited to your needs.

Easing is not removing.

Anything more than a warning and disclaimer popup is too much.

As long as the button says buy, then its ownership and should be treated like physical goods.

Exactly. No need to add the executive toxicity filter

Executive positions are probably the easiest to replace with AI.

1. AI will listen to the employees
2. They will try to be helpful by providing context and perspective based on information the employee might not have.
3. They will accept being told they are wrong and update their advice.
4. They will leave the employee to get the job done, trusting that the employee will get back to them if they need more help.

If $1 of public money was involved in a study, its results should be public domain.

Thx for the tip. I just got a 5x FPS boost in a very poorly optimized sim game “war at sea” thing was chugging along at 5-6 fps when lots of ships were on the screen. Was maxing out all 32 threads on my 5950x. Now it’s running a cool 20% utilization.

Thx for the tip, will give it a try.

I got it from the protonup app that is pre installed.

Its both

It uses an atomic update system on an immutable base. They don’t refer to the same thing, but you sort of need the one when you use the other for it to make sense.

It’s a very long list… And I was done on the toilet.

You see the same thing with most Male dominated institutions. Religions are some of the last holdouts excluding women from holding positions of power. Its easier to control people, when the one half controls the other half for you in the name of “culture”.

It’s not just muslims, you see it in Christian nationalism, pro-life movements, Mormonism etc. Women always have their “role to play”, while the men have no such restrictions.

It’s called exclusionary sexism. And men not being able to avoid sinful lust is just an excuse. The true purpose is to limit women’s social circles to male family members and other women. Isolate them in order to control them.

Since when is religion based on race?

Linux Mint is the windows 7 experience of linux. It gets out of the way so you can work. It also has the best in-OS help tools. It’s also a bit more conservative in terms of newest features, so it’s a lot more reliable.

If she does PC gaming, you might want to look at Bazzite rather than Mint. It’s a lot better equipped for non-technical people to start gaming. It’s basically a preconfigured Fedora linux, so it’s got a solid foundation. It’s also something called an immutable distro, which basically means it’s more difficult to break as the core OS is “read only” (to simplify).

In terms of migrating, best to avoid dual booting off a single disk. Microsoft keeps breaking Linux installs (probably on purpose). So best to install a second SSD.

Before you migrate, have her make a list of software she uses and the hardware she has. Best to post that on a forum like this to have more experienced people look for possible issues.

When it gets to migration day, if bitlocker is disabled, you can access your windows data from linux.

Also get her on Lemmy and asking questions directly. The best thing you can teach a low tech person is how to get help.

The server software world is debian based. Fortunately/unfortunately.

Horses for courses, desktop and server OS’s should have different priorities and approaches.

It’s one of the reasons I run Bazzite instead of CachyOS.

Hope I don’t have to roll back. Hope the roll back works. How the hell do I roll back again? 😋