I see your point, but in the case of corpos wanting to make money, it is very likely the newer ones are very much of lower quality than the ones I had 10-20 years ago.

Because, you know, “profits over people” and all that.

They’re not very good now, and sort of taste like chemicals. :/

As Ftumch said, winget is really the way to go these days. No browser, just:

Terminal > winget install mozilla.firefox > Done.

The problem is that they think they don’t need real friends because of their non-sentient LLM. :/

GORGEOUS animation!

Must’ve installed your mods incorrectly. :(

You’ll find a lot of differing opinions, so I will give you mine.

I’m currently running openSUSE Tumbleweed for over a year now, and I can say I am somewhat happier than on Windows. There were (and on my install still are) issues that I have to sort out sometimes. These issues can vary, but the most important thing to me (and I assume you) is gaming.

Gaming was excellent at the start of my journey. Games ran just as well, if not better, on my Linux machine than on Windows. I was amazed, truly! Then, I finally upgraded my 10xx series NVIDIA GPU to a 50xx series GPU, and it was quite a bad experience.

Drivers for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux can be iffy and problematic at times. I’d be fully prepared to read up on or risk asking the community (I’ve never had a good experience talking with the Linux crowd, personally) about any suggestions. The problem with those suggestions is you will get plenty of “Works great on my distro!” (Distro here means the Linux “flavor” you choose to go with i.e. openSUSE for me, Mint for others, and Bazzite for others).

Recently, I did an upgrade for my distro, and it made my RustDesk stop booting on computer start, and I can’t use GE-Proton versions that I downloaded through ProtonUp-Qt and that is pretty problematic for someone like me who is trying to get as much oomph as possible from their machines for gaming. Steam’s Proton works just fine though, so sometimes you might need to fiddle with the Steam Compatibility settings and try different Proton versions.

I won’t try to drown you in any longer of a text wall, but here is what I will end off on.

Linux feels like home, while Windows feels like someone else’s home. As for a distro recommendation for someone wanting to dip their toes into Linux and have a much better time than I did, I’d recommend either SteamOS (Valve’s distro they use on the Steam Deck, which is what got me interested in Linux gaming capabilities in the first place!) or Bazzite (a community distro I believe is based on SteamOS?) for gaming, and Fedora for a more general purpose computer usage. Just make sure you really gear yourself up for what may turn out to be an adventure you weren’t expecting to go down!

The image you posted is clearly AI generated, Hawk. I’ll take a look at the sources at least. Thanks.

EDIT: The links you provided also show some kind of inconsistency with whatever they are trying to achieve with these photos, whether it be faces in the background looking like something a GenAI would make, or if they are using an upscaler, it is terrible. While the image you posted may not be GenAI, there is still something fishy about the images in general.

This is AI generated… are you sure there is an actual source for this?

Exactly the reason I set up mine. Couldn’t be more important at this time!

I believe the biggest thing that they don’t want getting out is:

“This isn’t a Democrat vs. Republican issue, this is a Top vs. Bottom issue.”

They REALLY do not like it when people point out the true gambit they deploy.

I’m assuming they’re trying to say that because she pauses and actually thinks about what she is trying to say (much like Obama did) before she says it, that somehow that makes her unfit to be president, because reasons.

The world would be a little better with more whimsy.

Same people who were talking about how sexy Sabrina Carpenter is before she gave them the middle finger and told them to stop using her fucking songs for their horrendous acts.

She probably needs a looooonnng loooooonnnnnnnng jacket! 🎶

I remember trying to watch videos back in the day that required or needed QuickTime to be installed in Firefox. Man, that brought back some memories! Lol

Also from what I’ve found out or at least seen in quite a lot of comments is that those same people who are always saying it just works on my machine are using quite old equipment, like at least 5-10 years old if not older. Of course it works on your computer…

It really is crazy how much better games (especially older ones) look with ray tracing.

I’m still against the amount of power it takes for pretty lighting, but I can not deny the improvements it makes to some games!

Unfortunately, they don’t think that far because them and theirs will be able to buy those shoes.

I’m with you on this one. Automation stuff has just never really been something that I feel I can personally trust. That, and I am just wary about things touching my already painstakingly manually created setup.