Years of using gnome is why I finally got the gumption to try and eventually stick with Hyprland. It’s so much easier to get the aesthetics I desire in a functional and minimal desktop than it was in gnome, which I love, but used to break frequently.

lol, my riced out EndeavourOS install running Hyprland could probably be considered aggressive modification, but with the right wallpaper and settings it looks pretty clean and minimal. I’ll see about getting some screenshots when I have time for a post.

But yeah, I like the idea you’re running with. I’ve been all over the linuxsphere distrohopping and there are a lot of very pretty desktop environments out there. Even just Linux Mint Cinnamon without any modification is a gorgeous desktop.

I’m gonna get some screenshots together for a post, leaving this comment as a reminder to myself.

But yeah, if this community could have a few less chibi anime waifu wallpapers than UnixPorn does, I’m totally down to support it.

A good thing to keep in mind is, is Linux asking me for a password right now? It will ask for a password whenever changes to the system are made. It’ll ask when you update, it’ll ask when you mount a drive, etc. basically what it’s asking you, is “do you know what you’re doing?

If all you’re doing is something like an update, installing a new piece of software, yeah, it’s fine, type the password for authorization and you’re good to go. But if you’re tinkering, just make sure you know what changes you’re making and why. Mint actually guides you through setting up a utility called Timeshift that creates restore points to revert to if something gets messed up.

What if something does get messed up? Well, keep backups of important files. Either in your cloud storage of choice, or physically on something like a thumb drive. Also keep a thumb drive with a Linux mint install bootable (also called an ISO). That way if something does go wrong, you can just wipe the system and reinstall mint, and not lose anything important.

Linux mint is a fantastic choice, and to be quite honest, there isn’t much you’ll need to learn. The software center allows you to install anything you need securely, updates are applied with a click and a password prompt, and day to day navigation of your system is not so different from windows.

If I may make one hardware suggestion. It doesn’t sound like gaming is a big priority for you, but I would avoid laptops or desktops that have an Nvidia GPU. They can work fine, but while AMD and intel have open source drivers built into the Linux kernel, Nvidia unfortunately refuses to open source their drivers, and their driver as a result doesn’t always play nice.

If you do run into any issues, forums and search engines will usually provide you with plenty of advice, and the community is very supportive.

I think it’s pretty fucking obvious what their problem is. They don’t want the newfound visibility that trans people have gained over the last few years to present a visible option for their kids and grandkids. They didn’t care about trans people years ago because they were largely in the shadows. Now that the language and culture around trans people is becoming visible to the average American, it has become the perfect shibboleth for the right wing to rally around no different than when the Christian right pulled abortion out of thin air as a rallying point to drive right wing voters. Don’t want your daughter to embarrass the fuck out of you at social functions when they introduce themselves as Xe/Xer/Xim? Vote Republican. That’s the point of the manufactured outrage. A way to drive funding and votes for fascism. And it worked. Trans visibility is the golden egg dropped in trumps lap that put him back in office.

This isn’t just mindless theorizing. I work with these right wing jackasses. It’s all they talk about.

There’s a lot more incels than femcels, and they’re all equally insufferable, toxic, and broken.

“Linux for me, not for thee”

They need the serfs to be hapless surveillance targets, not power users with technological agency.

Not really. Nobara comes prepackaged with a plethora of game related utilities and tons of kernel tweaks and packages to optimize it for gaming, but I highly doubt any gamer could tell the difference, between it and mint in the middle of a game. Use the distribution you like that works well for you.

“We sure wouldn’t want those people who can’t afford PlayStations to be armed”

• Ronald Reagan, probably

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My big in game accomplishment was making it to SagA*, I spent some time in colonia and joined a discord of nerds that hung out there getting big exploration creds. I actually made the trek all the way back to the bubble after spending about a month in the galactic core. It was an epic adventure in my mind, but afterwards it was hard to be motivated for the engineering grind.

Yeah, I never even bought it after reading the reviews about how janky it is, I want to use a HOTAS and rudder pedals and it doesn’t sound possible in X4

Yeah, and it’s sad bro. I put about 900 hours into Elite: Dangerous, which I enjoyed a great deal, but it still left me longing for something with more depth. Back then I thought Star Citizen would be the next leap forward in my career as a space trucker who dabbles in bounty hunting and deep space exploration. I wanted to have games worthy of justifying a home cockpit setup, and now it seems like a lost cause.

I really hope someone picks up the torch. Even if it’s just Frontier making a generational leap with the Elite IP.

I dunno, there are plenty of valid criticisms of both games, but they were both great games. I played through both of them more than once and loved them. They were janky, glitchy, and the second game added a lot of new ideas, seemly at the cost of map size and polish.

I’m buying the day it’s available, I know it’ll have an issue or two but I’ll still love it.

You’re absolutely right on the confession bit. This is also Louisiana, I’m not sure police and legal systems get any more corrupt than theirs, especially if you’re black.

Shooting one family member might be an accident, shooting two is almost definitely not.

This is right up my alley, so I bought it, congrats on your first release! I have to imagine it’ll play great on my steamdeck, hoping anyways.