Laurel Raven

Probably the person who down voted me

What about JProton or Proton on Rails?

They’re not though.

In Steam, you have to open the settings for each game individually to set it.

In ProtonUp-Qt, you get a list of all of the games installed with their proton DB rating in one column and a drop down to select the compatibility layer in another. So you can easily set several games almost at once, without having to set it globally.

Really the only things I’m still using Windows for are work (even if I replace my workstation with Linux, which I’m working on doing, I still have to manage the Windows servers), and simulator games (peripherals work in Linux but often need extra fussing to get them working correctly so for now I’m just sticking with Windows on that machine)

XanderOS way tf back in 2005 or 2006, but mostly just messed around and had no clue what I was doing with it… After that I did a Gentoo install. Been kinda off and on with Linux since, flirting with the possibility of switching to it fully but never actually making the jump until last year when I built a new machine and put Mint on it.

The problem is, Ubuntu from my understanding will try to install the snap version even if you explicitly are installing the deb version, including replacing a deb version with a snap when you update.

I’ve not experienced this personally as I stopped using Ubuntu before they started doing snaps, maybe they’ve gotten better about that, but I don’t trust a corpo run distro to not enshittify at every opportunity, so…

Mint is basically Ubuntu with a lot of the questionable decisions fixed (and uses Cinnamon instead of Gnome, so it’s a bit more Windows like).

It doesn’t have snaps (though they provide instructions to add them if you want), it uses apt for packages and I believe pulls from a mixture of the Ubuntu repos and their own. It also has Flatpak out of the box and the software center does both, and clearly marks which you’re going to install with an easy drop down to switch if both are available.

Flatpak has been pretty solid for me overall, though there are occasional gotchas.

Honestly, I’d recommend going with Mint, pretty much anything that works with Ubuntu will work with it, and it’s better put together in my opinion (and doesn’t try to sell you a pro subscription by implying your system will be insecure if you don’t, which Ubuntu does). I know you’re not looking to switch, but I’ve honestly been very unimpressed with Ubuntu for the last, oh, decade or so

Well, then… Maybe I’ll switch, I’ve been adamantly using the one in the Mint repos

What are you talking about? Law absolutely can specify that something is allowed.

ACLs are literally what makes up NTFS permissions, too, they just aren’t as clear about it

The only real permissions systems I’m familiar with are the basic octal permissions in *NIX and NTFS permissions. I know those aren’t really quite the same but they’re the closest I have actual experience with to be able to have an opinion about.

At one point I also knew a little iptables but that was over fifteen years ago now.

As said, I really should spend some time with them, I just need the motivation.

For me it’s not so much hate as just not really having experience with it, so most of the time if it causes an issue I either just find a command that sets the policy correctly, or more likely disable it.

I should spend some time figuring it out, but it’s just one more seemingly esoteric and arcane system that feels at first like it merely exists to get in my way, like systemd, and I’m left wondering do I really need this headache, and what is it really giving me anyway?

As good as it runs on Windows, anyway… It is still Star Citizen ;P

(No shade, really promising and most of it is pretty slick and impressive when it’s working and I hope they get it stable sometime soon-ish)

This is my thought… Don’t hide it, really, more like toss a blanket over that part while people get settled. Most will stick with the defaults (whether a single default like lemmy.world or regional defaults like lemmy.ca), but they’ll get the option if that’s something they want to change later (I do wish there was a way to move instances rather than having to make a new account, that might also help improve adoption… “Just go with this one while you settle in and move when you know where you want to go”)

Sounds like they were right

Zen browser is pretty interesting too

Adding a bit more context, X.Org/X11 is often just called X for short

Same, did a rebuild of my PC when I cannibalized my old one into a media server (really only kept the drives, so not really more like just built a new one…), bought two nvme drives for it with the intent to put Linux on the first and Windows on the second, but held off on putting Windows onto it to force myself to stick with it until I got a real sense for what I’d need it for…

A couple months later I decided I’d just use that second drive for more storage. Hasn’t run Windows once in over ten months of use and I’ve yet to miss it.

Only took me sixteen or eighteen years of saying I’m going to switch to actually do it…

I feel like they could have at least some success marketing machines with Linux preinstalled as “ad and spyware free” and get at least some people interested

Yep.

I use it as a command shell regularly and the verbosity isn’t an issue at all, between aliases and tab completion.

Honestly, having used both for years, PowerShell is actually easier in many respects just due to the object pipeline and dotnet, once you get to know them well enough. Being able to just toss output into a variable and mess around with it to understand its structure and contents is huge