tehevilone

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on Anon makes games · c/greentext · 2 pts · 38d

And to be fair to 76, it genuinely is a good MMO-style game now, IMO. It'll never be at the level of FNV/FO4/Skyrim as far as community sentiment goes, since you can't mod the shit out of it, but compared to launch when I finally went back to it last year, I put enough time into it again to feel like I got my money's worth.

Cinnamon is the reason I don't recommend Mint to people, but it's mainly because I don't like it. The default UI has so much wasted space it's revolting, they tried to get the windows XP/7 feel with the app launcher and ended up with blocky, boring blank space.

Unless someone is familiar with MacOS and wants to use something similar w/ GNOME, I've only been recommending KDE spins or distros with it as default.

Honestly, having only seriously played around with Ubuntu a little bit a year ago, CachyOS has been nothing but smooth sailing for me. I would consider myself pretty savvy, but with the built in tools provides even a casual user should be able to get up and going.

I use paru instead of pacman, so I can get AUR packages easily, and outside of running a 4 letter command and following the prompts, that's just about the only thing I've had to do in a terminal.

Arch and its variants(CachyOS, EndeavourOS, and Manjaro) are just "difficult" insofar as they usually need you to understand the basics of using the terminal, and how to look up documentation as needed.

With CachyOS, I haven't played much with the others so I can't speak for them, you could get away with using the GUI tools shipped by default for a long time and not have any problems.

If it works for you, that's what matters! Difficulty is subjective, too.

on Admiration · c/microblogmemes · 9 pts · 208d

The ol' IT person magic touch - the second you touch the machine, it works flawlessly!

Only problem is if it's one of those problems that's workflow-based. I can't tell you how many times I've said "well it seems to work fine for me" only to watch the user do the same task in the most janky, roundabout way, and that is the source of their problem.

on New to Linux which OS to use? · c/linux · 12 pts · 249d

Generally you should be considering which desktop environment(DE) you want to use as well, cause it's the main thing you'll be looking at.

Mint is a good beginner, no fuss distro that runs the Cinnamon DE by default. It's also based on Ubuntu, built on top of the normal version of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu has several different options for DEs distributed as 'flavors' - Ubuntu itself comes with GNOME, but there's also Kubuntu which has KDE, and multiple other options available.

If you've got the time and a free USB drive, I'd recommend making bootable media for a few options to try them out - both Mint and Ubuntu(as well as many other different distros) have live environments to play around in when you go to install them, and it's worth trying out a few different DEs to see which one you like.

Where I am there's no statewide public drinking ban outside of schools or government facilities - municipalities can restrict it somewhat, but if I were to stroll down the street drinking I wouldn't get stopped unless I was being a nuisance or clearly unable to function.

Can't take alcohol from the bar or a restaurant if it's open container, but if I buy a 6-pack at the store it's free game.

I can also go to the drive-thru and get booze from the beer barn down the block, and the passengers in my vehicle can drink all they want.

on Too Many Cooks · c/videos · 5 pts · 1y

Seeing it live was a bit of a fever dream - the realization that the intro is going longer than normal + the shift in tone hit harder at 3am

This is how I feel, and I know a lot of folks who are in a similar boat. We're sold this story of being financially stable, having a house, a car, and being able to retire, but for a lot of Americans that is looking more and more like a pipe dream each day.

The poorly educated/informed people eat up the propaganda like candy, vote against their own interests, and tear down everyone around them in hopes that they'll be on top one day, and it simply won't happen in the present state our country is in.

on Vibes based cooking · c/memes · 123 pts · 1y

If you aren't cooking by vibe, are you really living?

Baking on the other hand...

on Daily Driving · c/linuxmemes · 7 pts · 1y

I'm not OP, but I also prefer KDE over Cinnamon. The size/spacing of the buttons on the left side of the start menu/application launcher looks weird to me, and while I'm sure there's merits to Cinnamon that was enough to sour my tastes.