As God intended!
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As God intended!
While I only have one PC I did write over my old Windows drive about a month ago, I haven’t loaded into Windows 10 in nearly a year and I fear how many updates it would have forced upon me at once…
Yeah pretty much.
Unless you want to build your own car from the ground up, which you can do in most places if it passes safety regulations. But that takes time, money, workspace and knowing what you’re even doing.
I’ve been playing around with it in a VM and thinking of throwing over my old Windows drive I haven’t used in months to see how well it works on my actual hardware.
Getting Pipewire setup on it has been a pain in VM and all the fixes others posted online haven’t helped me.
I don’t even have an OLED display for my desktop and I’ve still preferred pure black background for the longest time.
I’m glad dark mode is a standard unlike 10+ years ago when you had to hack it in yourself most of the time. But Ui designers just seemed to be afraid of trying anything outside the standards Google/Apple etc put in place.
If one is good then two should be like…double the good right?
Only modern Ui trend I’ve enjoyed is dark mode, I remember using WindowBlinds back on Win7 to make my own dark mode but it still keeping the Aero look.
KDE with Volatile + Avalon icons have been the closest I’ve gotten to the look I really want on modern systems.
Honestly I found EndeavourOS to be a lot more stable than Pop_OS, but I thought that was just a me thing so I still recommended it to a friend who was trying out Linux for the first time.
They ran into SO many weird issues and were just fighting with the Ui in general, Apparently Pop removed the option to make new text files using the right click menu?
Eventually me and another friend just told them to switch to EndeavourOS with KDE since it’s what both of us were using and it’s been a lot smoother sailing since.
I can’t live without Oxygen.
Just recently started using Avalon, Before that I was just using a Windows 7 icon pack because I really hate flat themes.
Glad to see some non-flat themes starting to spring up again.
2023 was my personal ‘year of the Linux desktop’ I barely knew anything about FOSS up until 2018 maybe?, And the only reason I used Firefox was because I had been using it since 2010 and didn’t wanna change.
Now I’m EXTREMELY grateful for FOSS software and use it over non-free alternatives any chance I get.
You can find a cracked copy on most popular torrent sites, I’ve had an old copy saved for years.
Some of the PCs versions can be abit tricky to get running on newer systems at times unless you download 3rd party patches.
I recently 100%'d Need For Speed Most Wanted (2005)
I played that game as a kid on the PS2 but I was too bad to actually finish the game. It can get abit grindy towards the end but the driving feel and soundtrack alone is satisfying enough for it to not damped the fun for me.
I’d like this even if I had to manually combine what communities I want into one.
Boost for Reddit used to let you make custom feeds of a few communities I used for that reason, Haven’t tried the Lemmy version of Boost tho.
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Older gen z and I remember sometime in my mid teens most chat apps started automatically converting emoticons into emojis. It bugged me to hell and back you either had to swap :) to =) or turn them back to front to avoid getting “emojified”
I absolutely sucked at games as a kid, Most of my absolute favourite games I played all day for months on end as a kid I still never finished… even on the easiest setting.
Wasn’t until my 20s I started going back to a lot of these games and finally completing them 100% on hardest mode. It’s quite a feeling :)
I use KDE now but during my time with Gnome I fell in love with FlyPie. It replaced all my desktop shortcuts and even a lot of stuff I would normally keep in the start menu.
It’s kinda weird I could understand the habit a decade or two ago when computers were still mainly using harddrives and some were just…slow hunks of junk.
But the majority of my peers I know who keep their PCs on for weeks or months at a time, All run at least a Sata SSD for the boot drive.