Anyone have a recommendation for a good let’s play of this? Anytime I’m thinking about watching a let’s play I never know who to pick.

This is our new puppy, Hiccup

I’m a happy Linux user. The biggest problem with Linux for the average user is that you have to install it. Most people use Windows because it’s on their computer when they buy it. The average person isn’t going to distinguish between the hardware and the software. They see the computer and the OS as a package.

Wow! Maybe this was naive, but I wasn’t expecting this to get so much controversy and downvotes. I’ll post a few thoughts here FWIW.

1. I see a lot of comments in here that remind me a lot of this New Yorker cover. As with any other country, there’s lots of different types of people in China with lots of differing opinions, but some comments in here feel like they’re casting all of China as a monolith. I should probably know better than to expect nuance on the internet, but the amount of opinions in here that were expressed as if they were total undeniable truth was still kind of annoying.

2. Following up on that, the main point of the article was requesting that people not conflate the CCP w/ companies and players. No one who was born in China chose to be born there. But they still have to live their lives, find creative expression, etc. I also hate the CCP, but I was surprised to see so an article that was trying to distinguish between the CCP and ordinary Chinese people receive so many comments that just brought up the CCP.
3. All that said, while I definitely disagree with many comments in here, I personally didn’t feel like I saw comments in here that were racist, despite what some people suggested.
4. For me, this article made me interested in finding out what cool games might be getting made in China that aren’t being released to the West. I also found it disappointing that the article explicitly called out that lots of the cool stuff isn’t making it to the West, and yet so many comments here talked about how China hasn’t made any good games, with no acknowledgement of whether the commenter has tried anything other than a small handful of the ones that actually got translations and came over here.

Anyway, that’s it. Thanks for reading and hope you have a good day.

I don’t know about getting worse as you get older but this is my experience exactly. I didn’t use to have this issue.

Not at all! I appreciate the thoughtful reply.

Thanks! Do you find that you have a hard time picking things back up with this set up? I’m worried that I’ll forget a lot of the stuff that I cared about / strategy if I step away from a game like BG3.

Thanks for sharing that article. Fun to read that in general, and especially since it’s from a different culture.

On my gaming rig I run and love Garuda, which is also based on Arch. I’m technical enough to handle Arch but I don’t like having to search around a bunch to figure out which combination of packages I need to make certain things work. Garuda comes with a ton of stuff preinstalled, which makes it a lot less lean than Endeavour, but I think they generally make good choices for default settings (I love their Fish terminal setup), and things like Nvidia drivers and configuration backups through btrfs snapshots just work out of the box.

For gaming I think Garuda or Nobara are the best bets, personally.

Somewhere a dev in the real world is scrambling to fix the bug in the simulation’s physics engine.

Read this and chuckled and then realized I’ve got sheets in a pile on the couch right next to me.

I respectfully disagree that the shrug should be read as indifference to the issues going on. I think the rest of his apology, regardless of whether it was sufficient or not, shows that he is taking it seriously.

That’s not at all to question your decision to be done with LMG. Anyone who chooses that in this situation is completely justified, IMHO. Madison’s accusations especially are very troubling, and I hope they deal with it thoroughly, and tell us what they did after it’s taken effect. That sort of behavior is completely unacceptable and if it means that Linus needs to go, then Linus needs to go.

I’ve never heard of this before. It seems useful. Thanks for the intro!

I’ve been playing through Anchorhead, a text-based game from the late 90s that got a reboot in 2018. It’s fun and my first time really going through a text-based game.

what in the actual fuck

Fascinating to see these two come together on this. Rare to see cross-aisle collaboration on anything these days.

I’m also playing Disco Elysium! It’s fun but so far has yet to completely grab me as it seems to have done for you.

How does stylus support work? Are there good Linux apps for hand writing notes?

I use DuckDuckGo. Oddly, though, I find that results on searches for specific Linux issues I may be running into are almost better on Google. Given the number of people here saying they get better results with something other than Google, I’m curious if anyone else has had similar or contradictory experiences with Linux troubleshooting searches.

I haven’t been able to quite put my finger on why I’m commenting more here and this nailed it.