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  • But plenty aren’t!

    Just a pet peeve of myself and probably plenty of other Linux users/fans. This phrasing makes it sound like there’s way more incompatible games than there are.

    https://www.protondb.com/

    Out of the top 1000 games on Steam only 21 don’t work on Linux. I personally wouldn’t call that “plenty”. And for most of those games, the devs actively chose to make the game incompatible with Linux and Proton.

    I get that the games you want to play aren’t compatible, and that makes you not willing to use Linux. That’s good and valid, and I have nothing against that. It’s just annoying when people (usually accidentally) exaggerate game compatibility issues on Linux.

    There’s something to be said about the fact that I’m not super comfortable with doing everything with commands and am used to GUIs

    I’d like to add that this is somewhat outdated information. While there are some distros where you still need the CLI a lot (mainly server distros), many of the mainstream distros have enough GUI support that 99% of users don’t need to touch the CLI. I switched to Nobara a few weeks ago and I haven’t needed to use the CLI yet.

    It’s not the world’s smoothest transition.

    Another thing to note is that the transition doesn’t have to be a hard break. Many people dip their toes into Linux by dual booting. That being said, there’s some pitfalls, namely not keeping Windows and Linux on the same drive, since Windows has a habit of deleting the bootloaders of other OS’s during updates.

    But, as I said earlier, it’s fine if you want to stay on Windows. I just want to clarify some misunderstandings you seem to have about Linux








  • That’s still rather vague tbh. There’s a pretty big spectrum of how involved an AI gets beyond just letting the AI do everything, and the line between ‘vibe coding’ and not is blurry and changes between individuals.

    Are you treating the AI like a glorified StackOverflow/Google to get suggestion and then manually writing/adapting the code yourself? Are you letting the AI do all the coding and running a lot of tests? Is it something in between or outside those examples?

    I’m not trying to string you up, it’s just that communication and disclosure are important in FOSS



  • I’ve been looking into Joplin and LogSeq to potentially replace Obsidian. My issue with both of them is that they don’t seem to offer hierarchical organization. I want to split topics into different folders, with sub-topics in sub-folders.

    This feature is a must have for me, and OP’s app seems to fulfill that while also being open source (unlike Obsidian). Tbh, it seems like it’s mainly a drop-in replacement for Obsidian (which is good imo) if you’re not using Obsidian’s sync system





  • Goddamn I hate the internet sometimes. Why have I only heard of the Moddo Mouse now despite several searches the past 2 years!?!? AND IT’S WIRELESS!?!?

    (Edit: Ah, missed the part where you said this just released)

    Anyways, thanks a lot for sharing that. Definitely going to be eyeing this for a new mouse.

    Also, do you know if the PCB supports more than 2 side buttons? I’ve been deperately looking for an option with 4+ side buttons



  • Railroads replaced canals in the Midwest because the canals weren’t large enough to handle a lot of cargo, unlike the Suez or Panama canals. The canals here are maybe 20ft wide, and locks were maybe 50ft long. Trying to modify them to handle more cargo would have cost tremendous amounts of money and also disable the canals while they were being worked on.

    Trains were simply able to carry significantly more cargo to their destination in less time