Yeah, as I said I’m open to that. Just gotta figure out how to do it.

I use CachyOS and it’s been more or less plug and play. Some next fest demos haven’t worked (i.e. B.C Piezophile) but whenever that happened I just moved on to a different game and put it in the “later” folder to see if time will fix it.

Not really, no.

I switched and I often mention that online.

First I was on a laptop with Linux Mint and ran into innumerable issues. Used that for a few years.

Then I got a new (used) laptop after my CTRL key stopped working (among other things) and tried to dual-boot the pre-installed Windows 11 “just in case” but ended up accidentally corrupting it so gave up and stayed on all Linux for my laptop. My new laptop mostly “just worked” as opposed to my old laptop that didn’t even have working bluetooth.

Then I moved my Desktop to Linux and transferred Windows 10 to the aforementioned laptop with the broken CTRL key. That laptop has been sititng untouched in my closet since I went full Linux in mid-October.

Honestly I use Lemmy but just like with Reddit my life would be better without it. So I probably won’t donate.

Seems like a perverse incentive if you ask me, but it’s not like I haven’t done the same thing with a browser extension one time.

Guix seems kinda interesting, but I’m not so much of a maniac to even consider using anything but the default package manager.

More I’m not managing to save any money and FOSS projects are low-hanging fruit. But then I did the math and they’re more of a low-hanging blueberry than a low-hanging apple.

Looking it up, apparently uBlock Origin mainly uses easylist which itself also refuses donations.

I use AdGuard myself because it allows ad-blocking to be on a per-site basis opt-in instead of opt-out.

Wow, the MNT Pocket Reform looks so cool, but it’s outside my budget.

I’m busy saving for the Steam Frame myself.

I bricked my mother’s computer (tried to create a USB backup, Windows 10 froze 80% through, cutting power corrupted the GPT partition table). She agreed to use Fedora Workstation on it so I tried to install it but it wouldn’t detect the drive after I ran basically every command in System Recovery Linux from a USB in an attempt to fix it.

We’ve concluded the laptop is done for. Thankfully I had just bought a used laptop for $40 (Toshiba Satelite Pro U500) that I had no actual use for (I just thought it was neat). Unfortunately it came with Windows 10 and unlike Windows 11, Windows 10 is good enough. I put the change to Linux on hold until after Windows 10 extended support ends in October next year.

I should really set up unattended updates on my own PC.

As for what you might have missed, as much as I hate GNOME it’s pretty solid for a casual user (especially from the Apple ecosystem). Not that it really matters. Also, you should go in and enable the firewall. Linux Mint for some reason installs with the firewall completely open by default IIRC.

Tumblr’s still a thing?

The reason I got GrapheneOS over other alternatives to Android was because I thought it had something like 1% of the overall smartphone market (source: wikipedia).

And who TF encrypts their laptop with RSA 4096.

I use a Lenovo Thinkpad T495s, and everything works fine … except for the fact they put the “fn” key where “ctrl” should be. I’m also not at all a fan of the USB-C charging port.