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it took an infernally long time to open the store, search for an app, and then install that app.

After about a year of Linux and using package managers/AUR to install and update software, it blows my mind to think that I would ever choose to do it a different way.

I don’t know how I put up with that shit for so many years.

Goddamn can this man be any more GOATed?

Ooooohhh can’t wait to see the idiotic conspiracy theories about this…

Also, just more shit for crystal mommies with no scientific literacy to use to try to explain “energy” to me.

Dude, same. I cannot understand it (for games. I’m sure people have valid reasons if they’re using the Deck for some other purpose). It seems there is a cohort of otherwise relatively tech savvy people who are just terrified of all things “Linux.”

Maybe they heard horror stories from friends or family while growing up and aren’t aware of just how close to complete compatibility Proton is. In fact, in some cases, it can somehow run games better than if one were to dual boot and install in Windows.

Even Valve’s own Steam Deck verification should be taken with a grain of salt, it seems as though they’re being extra conservative with those. I’ve gotten several "unsupported " games working (very easily), for example , Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition is listed on Steam as “unsupported,” but it works great (with DSFix even) on my Deck.

ProtonDB is a far better resource for anyone reading this who hadn’t heard of it.

But yeah, it’s almost like this subconscious aversion to Linux. And they want to be in their comfort zone I guess.

Does it mean Nvidia support on par with that for AMD?

I’m probably not the right person to answer this, but my immediate thought was no. I believe AMD allows for open source drivers on Linux, which this specifically states Nvidia won’t be doing.

I don’t know what it is you want to distribute, but if it is newsworthy or political in nature, I think most media outlets (like “legit” ones like WaPo, NYT, etc.) have ways of contacting them through Tor for situations where the person with the information might have legitimate fears for their safety (e.g. whistleblowers).

But that’s really only for a certain type of “post.”

Fair enough… It’s been nearly a month since I commented here so I don’t remember the exact situation, but if having a lot of updates was an issue, then yeah maybe not EndeavourOS. There may be LTS versions, but since it’s based on Arch, I’m not sure. I personally don’t mind it, and have yet to have a single issue with an update “breaking” something (though I have Timeshift set up to take a snapshot before updating just in case), but I guess

I could see someone being annoyed by having the little thing pop-up to tell you how many things you could update, but I kind of like it I think. It kinda feels like I’m very slowly, incrementally, making my laptop better, albeit usually in ways I can’t even perceive at the time.

But hey, everyone has their preferences. That’s why there’s a billion distros to choose from.

I second EndeavourOS. My first distro and it’s been a great experience. I’ve felt no desire to switch.

Steam/games have worked great.

I switched my laptop EndeavorOS in 2023. Windows 11 was the last straw. Terrible OS.

You can do all of that with most basic file explorers. I use Dolphin on KDE. Change the view to “details” and right click the top and choose which metadata fields you want to show up. Then you can sort or filter using metadata.

But regardless of what distro they use, they’re probably going to have to Google stuff every now and then. If they’re not ready for that, then maybe they’re not ready for Linux.

I switched a few months ago, and EndeavorOS is the only distro I’ve used and see no reason to switch. It’s been fantastic.

Recently switched to Linux a couple months ago and can't recommend EndeavorOS more. It's great.

I'll look into it, thanks.

Tocuhpad worked fine with 3+ fingers when it was still running Windows (before I put Linux on it).

I'll look into using KWin for this. As I said in the other reply, I'm using Wayland, so if that's a feature from X, that could be why I can't do it currently.

I'm on Wayland these days. I'll keep that in mind though if I ever need to switch back to X for whatever reason.

FYI, I just switched to Linux few months ago from Windows and have been using Arch/EndeavorOS with KDE, and have had a wonderful experience.

I have a relative who's been using Linux for years, and that's the one they helped me install. I needed their help a handful of times the first couple of weeks, but since then I've been on my own and I love it.

Depends if you want bleeding edge or not. I don't mind it, but I get update notifications like 3x a week.

Oh hell yeah, three/four finger touchpad gestures. Been wondering why tf I can't do that on my laptop.

Edit: ah 3d gestures. The little hand showed 3 fingers, so maybe it's kind of implementing it in the background as part of that fix? Or maybe it's already a thing in kde and I'm just dumb lol.

If anyone is running kde on a laptop, and is able to use more than 2 fingers at once for touchpad gestures, please let me know how.

I had to get a plug-in to add click to play/pause so it's like almost every streaming site. Also, I don't believe there's a way to get it to automatically play the next video file in the folder after one video finished, without making a playlist.

Small gripes, I know. I'm coming from MPC on Windows so I miss some of those features.

Let children be children.

At least in the US, we don’t need child labor. We can get by just fine without it. So there is no reason.

Other than that, children will consensually work if the alternative is seeing their little sister starve

I’m not sure I would call that “consent.” It’s coercion.