Frankly the Beehaw people are kind of nuts if they drop lemmy. It will be interesting what they think is better. I will believe it when I see it.

I’m personally on the fence on how I feel about Beehaw defederating or deplatformimg, if that even happens. But their concerns over lemmy are valid. It’s not unreasonable for them to want something with less technical debt and better tools to protect their community.

Something meaningful from Robin Williams. The Fisher King comes to mind.

This honestly and embarrassingly didn’t occur to me.

I got a roku for my smart TV because I wanted something with a Jellyfin app. I don’t trust roku any more or less than Vizio, but I find I like the idea of removing internet access to the TV directly.

Like others said, convenience. And sometimes that makes sense. But consumers should think critically and research before buying/participating in an all in one type product or ecosystem.

A personal example for me is my network setup. My modem, router, hub, and wifi AP are all separate devices. I switched to that kind of setup when Comcast started started making consumer routers public wifi hotspots by default. Yes, you can turn it off but it shouldn’t even exist in the first place. My setup is more difficult to manage, and has more points of failure but it also limits the level of fuckery any given vendor can do to MY network.

Edit: s/internet/network. And spelling.

Similar boat. I’m the only one in my friend group (many of whom are technically minded) who in concerned about digital privacy and doesn’t trust black box devices.

I’ve been playing Darkest Dungeon. I just reinstalled Death Stranding to test an AAA Windows title on Linux and it works so I think I’ll start that up. I feel ready for a walking simulator replay.

I’m eyeing Starfield as well, might see if I can get that running.

The current state of American capitalism is $ > anything. So yeah, I suspect we would.

Well now I have a hankering to play Factorio. There goes September, I guess!

I think this looks fun. I’ll definitely try it out when the expansion comes out.

I’m not familiar with that video but I’m intrigued. I’ll have to check it out.

I don’t know. I don’t have much faith in people to act against companies in a meaningful way. Amazon and Walmart are good examples. I feel like it’s common knowledge at this point that these companies are harmful but still they thrive.

This. You’re mostly at the mercy of their proprietary drivers. There’s issues, like lagging Wayland support as mentioned. They will generally work though, I don’t want to dissuade you from trying out Linux.

There is an open source driver too, but it doesn’t perform well.

I use kitty and I was running at like .9 transparency I think? And after a while it’d cause the weirdest artifacts and ghosting and such on my monitor. I just turned transparency off and it’s been fine since. I’m sure it’s my monitor and nothing to do with kitty or any other underlying software or drivers. But it was strange.

Funnily enough I just, like an hour before reading this post bought an AMD card. And I’ve been using NVIDIA since the early 00’s.

For me it’s good linux support. Tired of dealing with their drivers.

Will losing me as a customer make a difference to NVIDIA? Nope. Do I feel good about ditching a company that doesn’t treat me well as a consumer? Absolutely!

I like to reference the list of applications on the arch wiki when I’m looking for a specific type of software. I don’t know if it’s the best resource for this purpose, but it works for me.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/list_of_applications

I do see a couple of HTML editors listed.

That would be a correct use of it. Sorry, I assumed a larger scope. Package managers need this.

Oh man trying to run old Linux software on a modern distro would be a painful experience!

Your desktop environment may already come with a capable text editor with syntax highlighting and all that. You should give a go.

sudo is “super user do”. The equivalent of Run as Administrator in Windows for whatever command suffixes it. Ideally you don’t want to use this unless you have to, but it might take some time to learn where that line is.

What they’re talking about is a gui based software installer. I assume it runs the dnf or apt or whatever commands for you.

So you’re brand new to Linux and you’re already hacking away at something you don’t understand well. Good for you! That’s how you learn 😊.

That being said, getting (as you’re learning) and keeping software running in wine can be frustrating. I’d suggest using an open source alternative if possible. Hopefully the one others recommended is a good fit for you. And a bonus, one less piece of proprietary software you rely on, which imo is always a good feeling.

Good luck, and welcome to Linux!

w3m on a vt terminal connected to a headless netbsd box.

Firefox, but I wanted to give a nerdier answer.

This has been my experience as well with duckduckgo. I want to like it, and I do have it as my default search but I often end up searching Google after unsatisfactory results from duckduckgo.

Thanks for asking this question!

I used to host my own nextcloud instance. It takes a bit of effort to setup and requires some maintenance. As far as self hosting goes I would grade it as easy to do. So if you like a Dropbox style option and want to try it out, you should.

But honestly I’m here to steer you towards syncthing if you go the file sync + libreoffice (or whatever) path. Once I found out about it I switched, and am happy I did.