I’m sure the fact that the Steam Hardware Survey just hit 5.33% Linux has absolutely NOTHING to do with Microsoft’s continued pants-on-head stupid and anti-consumer approach to things.

To be fair, LibrePhone isn’t an alternative because its just an announcement of a project. There is nothing viable yet from them.

The usual explanation is because God wanted humans to have free will, so interfering in their ability to self-determine would negate that.

The reality is because it makes no fucking sense, like much of the Bible.

I recently got hit with COVID and so did my wife and kids. We all tested positive and have had recent boosters for COVID and flu. Since I’m in a city where one of these states is listed, I kind of wonder if I got this variant.

Toyota Prius vehicles are cheap and plentiful, but EVs are lacking in choice, sadly.

Lol sure thing Microslop.

Oh yeah. Forgot about that one.

It’s more than that. Broken updates. Failed hardware ventures. The project has been shambling along for a long time.

Yeah I’m sure it was an outlier. I’ve never had such a hard time installing a distro before.

I tried CachyOS. Took three tries for the installer to install without bombing on an error. Third time I got it after changing file system type to ext4 and not using full disk encryption.

Then I updated everything post-install. Black screen. No boot. AMD CPU and GPU.

Installed Fedora KDE. Works perfectly. Haven’t looked back in three months since leaving Mint.

I, too, don’t understand it. I’d rather install straight Arch. The archinstall works fine.

Have data to prove that? Because existing wind turbines hardly kill any birds. That’s oil lobby shit leaking through.

Shocker! Capitalist company does capitalist things!

Charge cycles tend to improve as technology and processes improve. Other sodium ion batteries started out similarly limited in cycles and have since basically matched lithium ion.

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Sadly, no. Your best bet is Lineage without gapps. Aurora and F-Droid covers pretty much everything I use, so that’s likely my move in the near future.

If you’re interested in Linux, you can boot from it without installing to try it out. Nearly every distribution has a live boot option.

As for differences, the entire OS is different, but with something like KDE, it’s still very much “point and click”. You don’t need to be a programmer to use it. This is especially true if you run most things through a browser.

The biggest disadvantage is program compatibility. Windows applications need translation layers for Windows apps to run on Linux and they don’t always work. Many application makers, including people like Steam for gaming, have full Linux support (all of Valve’s hardware like the Steam deck runs Linux).

If you want to try it out in a non-live way with a “safety net”, you can run a dual boot with both Windows and Linux and choose between them at boot. Or you can install Windows in a VM and run your Windows-specific programs until you find Linux alternatives.

It’s a bit of work, but it truly frees your PC. I made the switch from Windows to Linux first with a dual boot…then only Windows for VR, and now I’ve got everything on Linux. I haven’t booted into Windows on any of my PCs in 4+ years at this point and I couldn’t be happier.

That said, use what works for you. If that’s Windows or MacOS, that’s fine. Just know the advantages and disadvantages.

Capitalist pig says buy our product or else. Story at 11.

Same here. I have an AM4 board with a 5800X that cost $110 and a 9060XT I got for $10 above MSRP. I was complaining I couldn’t get it at MSRP back then, but now I’m not complaining anymore.

Something tells me I won’t be upgrading for a while.

I don’t see the problem. They should just reinstall the tourist destination through the AUR.

“The K in KDE stands for Korrect”

You’re goddamn right it does.