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I agree! :)

Like all distros, they have their place. And sometimes if you want to boil a frog you have to heat them up gently. 😅

Any distro can be a steep learning curve and sometimes something to lessen that curve will be a good thing. I wanted my dad to try out Linux and I knew that it had to not look different as he would immediately get confused, he’d seen my setup and I tried to gently show him around and he said he liked it but it was all a bit too different and he would get confused. My dad’s late-70s and apart from programming on the ZX Spectrum in the 1980s he’s always used a PC with Windows and is at the point where if something is too different he knows he’s going to have trouble with it.

I do get where you are coming from, for people who are more mentally agile I would prefer to try something a little less Windows-like but in some cases I don’t think it’s a good idea and it is nice to have a more Windows-like alternative available.

AI text checker https://gptzero.me/ says it’s likely written by a human.

Really fascinating piece, thanks for sharing. Hurt my brain a bit though. :D

When I use my bluetooth headphones I have to physically unplug my wired headphones from the front panel and wired speaker’s line-out at the back of my PC, then the audio automatically switches to my bluetooth headphones. There might be an easier way around this but it works for me until I can figure out something better. Running alsamixer from the command line (just type [alsamixer] to run it) can help you see all the inputs and outputs that are working/muted/not seen, this might give you a clue as to what the issue is.

Chris Titus Tech has a pretty good video explaining alsamixer (it’s a few years old but alsamixer hasn’t changed very much, if at all) https://piped.video/watch?v=gs9I1gPGn9A

Here’s the answer, but I have absolutely no idea what it means…

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn’t need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable.

There’s a reported bug that sounds sorta kinda a bit like your situation? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469756

Not mentioned in the list, but a project worth keeping an eye on:

“llamafile: bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computer - Introducing the latest Mozilla Innovation Project llamafile, an open source initiative that collapses all the complexity of a full-stack LLM chatbot down to a single file that runs on six operating systems.”

https://future.mozilla.org/blog/introducing-llamafile/

Nobara is built for gaming (it’s a Fedora based Linux distro), I’ve tried it and it’s very nice. To be honest, try a few and see which one you like best. You can dual-boot a Linux system and still keep Windows. This might be a nice way to ease the transition. Each distro will have lots of ways with interacting with its community - Linux is much more about community than Windows so you will find lots of lovely new places and people to help you on your journey.

This channel is great for dual-boot explainers for many difference distros: https://piped.video/channel/UC7QBh73Rm2PYQs8WFPV1ELg

I was just looking at this graph and thinking of posting it here… thanks for saving me the trouble! I only had a couple of thoughts (and accepting the data comes only from ProtonDB and I’m a gamer so this makes the data especially interesting): it’s nice to see Arch and Arch-based distros doing so well; if you add them together they’re quite a large block, and I’m also not sad about Ubuntu’s falling share (it’s become very corporate - at least that’s my feeling, I don’t follow such stuff very closely). Oh, and I just tried out Nobara and was very impressed with it as a gaming distro (I got better FPS playing Warframe than I did on Windows 11) and it’s good to see that getting a small but growing share.

It is literally just windows-C to open copilot. Good grief. 🤣