I think a “fuck it we ball” attitude helped me a lot in my jump. I didn’t even bother researching what dual-booting was to give myself a backout option.

A bunch of nerds on lemmy suggested it and I haven’t found any problems with it that make me want to go for another. I use Fedora KDE

Baldurs Gate 3

I’ve only tried KDE and i’m pretty happy with it. I dunno why I’d want a creepy foot gnome on my computer, and I don’t really know of any others by name yet so… I’mma pick KDE

Solved! I had to swing by a hardware store for some screwdrivers and bemoaned a few secret screws keeping the thing from opening, but I located the keyboard ribbon and removed it. All is well! I even gave the fan a little cleaning, which was long overdue eheh. Thanks folks!

Huh, unplugging the keyboard. I didn’t think of that. I might just see how easy that is to do later tonight.

follow a bunch of artists on bsky and shoehorn their artwork in there

I mean, if it had invidious’ functionality tacked on, i might be swayed to use it. That being said, rip public invidious instances

fuck it, I tried mastodon, I’ll give pixelfed a try too.

!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

this pretty much… i think. I still don’t fully grasp unix surrealism

Thanks for the input ya nerds. Much love from the geek side of lemmy. I’ll be taking the advice of poking around with multiple distros before committing to one, because it sounds a whole lot less painful than I was imagining.

Quick question though, what the hell is a gnome? Or a KDE for that matter?

good insight, thanks

to those suggesting mint, any particular reasons to choose between Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce versions?

Still shopping around, so nothing’s set in stone. I’m not much of a hardware guy either, so the best I could tell you is just that I’m looking for something a step or two above ‘bare minimum’ for 2025. An SSD, fair bit of ram, ports for external storage so I can actually boot with another OS, maybe enough guts to run skyrim modded to the gills. Somewhere in that ballpark.

FIGHTING DISTRO LOGO TEAM

this is ok. minetest was an awful name.

for those of you without the patience to read a blogpost, the new name’s actually a bit of wordplay.

“Luanti” is a wordplay on the Finnish word luonti (“creation”) and the programming language Minetest Luanti employs for games and mods, Lua. The goal was to avoid yet another plain English word (good luck finding something unique…) and highlight the core principles of the project. The fusion of celeron55’s Finnish nationality and the platform’s focus on content creation resulted in the birth of “Luanti”.

Sure, but I’m not exactly starving for protein over here. I only ever really make anything with poultry once every two weeks maybe? And that’s just with some stir fry - plenty of substitutes I could use there. It’s those chicken eggs I’d really be missing.

I’ll drop Chicken, being fully aware that eggs are now also banished from my diet. Maybe I can import powdered turkey eggs or something, but I just can’t give up 'taters. Hashbrowns, potato chips, loaded baked potatoes… they’re all just too important to me.

Hell yeah CDDA.

I’m currently installing solar panels and wind turbines on the roof of a firestation to act as my garage and home base while I’m fixing up a luxury RV that I drove out of a mall. Surprisingly, it was in great condition except for all of the glass, boards, and quarterpanels; the chassis itself and all of the internals are practically untouched.

General Ludd had some good points tho…