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. :/

I tried it out one time because another user here, Tal, usually put it into their very well made comments, so I tried it out.

Yeah, I’ve been paying for it for almost two years(?) and I never have these difficulties any more. Very happy customer. :)

This was beautiful to read, and I feel the same as you. Thank you so much for sharing such a heart warming story. :')

While true, you don’t see anyone else at all even trying to be better than Steam, unfortunately. :/

Excellent, thanks again! I’m going to take a look at them when I feel like going through them.

Right now, I’m in the middle of FF12 Zodiac and FF16. I’ll eventually get to the older ones, just too many good games out right now!

As for Skyrim mods, Inigo/Recorder/Lucien were my absolute favorites, and they were my companions throughout one of my playthroughs. :)

GORGEOUS animation!

I had no idea that they did voice acting mods! Thanks for sharing this!

I played FF7 OG right before the remake came out so I could really see the differences, and obviously used mods to make it more enjoyable for me. This would’ve been a must have at that point, but I am VERY interested in the FF9 voice mod. Is there one for FF8, and do they sound pretty good? :)

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!

Going through the audibooks of Sir Terry right now, and Carrot, Vimes, Rincewind, and Granny Weatherwax are some of my favorite characters I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to. His writing really is as good as they say!

I’m halfway through them now, sadly. :(

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!