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  • spriteblood@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•New Linux user, here is my use case. Distro recommendations?
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    5 months ago

    I like the idea of rolling release in theory, but stability is extremely important to me because I use Linux as my daily driver.

    EndeavourOS and Manjaro aren’t really going to do much to address your desire to use terminal more than Mint IMO, either; most mainstream distros like that emphasize usability first and foremost.

    If you’re looking to really get under the hood, go with Arch ans follow a guide so you don’t bork anything too badly. Arch uses a different package manager than Mint/Ubuntu, so some of the commands might look different if you’re not following Arch-specific guides, but terminal is terminal is terminal in many cases. You can run Steam on Arch, and building the core functionality on your own will get you acquainted with terminal.

    Although I’ve used everything from Arch to Zorin, and eventually you will have to use terminal for something. Just depends on what your longterm goals are, what usability you will need to rely on quickly, and how you think you’ll get to those goals most efficiently.

  • spriteblood@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•New Linux user, here is my use case. Distro recommendations?
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    5 months ago

    Sounds like you should just use Mint, especially if you tried and like it. It’s customizable, GUI friendly, it’s based on Ubuntu so most guides for either will work, and you can download Steam to it and play native games (or Windows games through Proton).

    I don’t know what you’re looking for, that Mint doesn’t provide. You can download different DEs or window managers, you can write your own bash scripts, and the core functionality for regular use is already there.

  • spriteblood@kbin.socialtopolitics @lemmy.world•Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Biden
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    6 months ago

    The issue is voters talk about how regular people are doing, while politicians talk about “the economy” which is rich people and business…

    This, 100%.

    Ask some person on the street how their stock portfolio is looking, and they’ll probably be like “The F are you talking about???”

    Ask the same person about the cost of groceries, and they’ll have a rant locked and loaded about why a 12 pack of soda costs $10 now.

    When people respond to these surveys, they are taking their experiences with them, and most of us are seeing expensive gas, expensive groceries, expensive housing, and jobs that don’t pay enough to live. People couldn’t afford to live on $8 an hour a decade ago, and now everything costs more.

    This has downstream effects in that it makes it harder to switch jobs because you cant wait two weeks for your new job to kick in - much less afford to take off work to go to an interview. You can’t move to a city with more opportunities because cities are more expensive and you can’t even afford to save up enough to make the move because you’re paycheck to paycheck. Jobs paying “market rate” for wages which is dragged down because the system keeps people desperate enough to work for cheap.

    These are people who have had to live with the boot of the economy on their necks for a long time. And while politicians can talk about all the great jobs out there and how amazing the economy is, for real people that boot is just stepping down harder. It’s no wonder they blame leadership when this is their experience with this economy.

  • spriteblood@kbin.socialtoGames@lemmy.world•Windows Mixed Reality to be removed in Windows 11 24H2
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    9 months ago

    “Monado” has no specific meaning and is just a name.

    As a Xenoblade fan, I call BS.

    But I do expect we’ll see more open source VR solutions and support as adoption increases. They’re still in that phase of expensive luxury goods in most cases - PSVR costs more than a PS5 and also requires one to work, Index is $1000, and I don’t even know where the Apple headset got its pricing.

    Most of these also want to lock down their VR as a platform, instead of being ubiquitous hardware like a monitor, and I think lack of standardization is gonna hurt them in the long run by narrowing their audience.

  • spriteblood@kbin.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Irish women’s basketball team refused to shake hands with Israel
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    9 months ago

    But deliberately misunderstanding the term antisemitism is also quite frustrating.

    Given how the term is broadly understood in modern usage, I wouldn’t say the players are misunderstanding it; I think it’s more a question of misidentifying where the pushback is actually coming from.

    And I am sympathetic, given all the reasons both modern and historical that might make it easy to infer antisemitism. But starting there shuts out any possibility for nuance or discussion or learning.

    What frustrates me is how hard it is to get people out of that mindset - of taking things other people are communicating and adding one’s own assumptions on where they’re coming from. You have to be able to recognize how your behavior is limiting your ability to empathize and grow, and that kind of change can be so challenging.

    It feels like an uphill battle, but positive change doesn’t happen overnight.