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You are giving the average person too much credit. If you ask them what OS they are running, they are as likely to say ‘windows’ as they are to say ‘dell’

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I personally use and recommend Sway.

If you are the kind of person who cares about the culture around the software that you use, avoid hyprland. It’s creator is antilgbt and their discord server is pretty toxic. I also happen to think their documentation sucks.

Or wev on wayland

Oh yea for sure. There is a huge difference between a startup and a defense contractor.

Thanks for balancing the comment. You’re correct. For many, if not most jobs, my comment isn’t good advice.

But if you ask, they will say no. If you do it anyway they could appreciate it. At my current and former jobs it ranges anywhere from a slap on the wrist to praise for creative use of resources.

I got caught by IT running Linux on four 15 year old optiplexes I found. They were unhappy, but were floored that they were running so well, and the fact that I was making use of something that was effectively trash. They let me keep them.

I was offering that perspective.

It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission. And forgiveness meaning “I didn’t realize I couldn’t do that”

Does HTML or LaTeX or Markdown provide a computer instructions which are executed? I’m going to take the unpopular opinion and say they are programming languages.

Oh yea folks on lemmy are super helpful. And some of them are mentors. To me there are two qualities of a good mentor: time and patience. They will take a student and work with them for however long it takes. They know the student won’t get it immediately, so they wait. They recast the question. They will provide personalized examples. They spend enough time with a single student for that student to mature as much as they can while the two are together. Think Mr. Miyagi from the karate kid.

Just as with the other two, there are drawbacks. Mentorship takes time. I’m from the standpoint that if we spend that time, and I mentor 2 people, and you mentor two people, and they mentor two people, we reach critical mass and we start reaching the normies who want, but don’t have another way. I’m not as wise as Mr. Miyagi and I’m quite snarky with my opinions 🙃

There are two reasons switching to, or even trying out Linux is difficult and often ends in failure: too many choices or too much information. This (great) write up is an example of the latter. Those among us, the would be tutors of Linux, actually read the whole thing before hopping down to the comments, or offer our opinion. Be honest.

We are all passionate about FOSS. Not just because it’s neato, but because we recognize that it improves the quality of life of anyone who uses it, and (hopefully) society at large.

Rather than providing many choices with a sink or swim mentality, or write a novel Herman Melville would envy, my suggestion is to become mentors rather tutors. What’s the difference?

Write down the urls on a piece of paper and keep it under your keyboard

s/ The solution is always to distro hop to my distro of choice

There is no ‘real way’, BTW

Can’t argue with that. The ones with the big ball on the top are especially good because you can use an 8 ball

The majority of regular folks will only ever upgrade when they get a new computer. Most Me Maw’s and Pa Paw’s would sooner let their computers catch fire from being loaded with cat than get a new one. Hell. They are all still using ball mice.

As for me, as long as I have an iso I’ll happily run it in a vm. Indefinitely.

Atom was better. Pour one out for my homie

Does it matter if everyone stays on windows 10?

Read The Cathedral and the Bazaar and you’ll have your answer

As far as RTS in general goes (C&C Generals), I really enjoy Age of Empires IV. There is argueably more diversity as there are more civs (15ish) than there are in Star Craft. And each civ has several viable builds.

Use entr it’s a godsend! It watches when you write a buffer and then runs a command, which can be a script. Save your LaTeX often, and you never ger those errors!