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SteamOS uses an immutable filesystem, and Valve curates the snapshots of the packages before pushing them to the end user. That pretty much removes the entire issue we’re talking about, and is completely different than running rolling release distros.

If you update once or twice a week, chances are there are literally hundreds of packages to upgrade every time. There’s no chance someone will look into every single one of these packages to verify what could potentially ‘break’ their system or not. They just upgrade the whole thing and THEN, if something breaks, they work around it.

As someone who uses CachyOS daily as my main distro, I wouldn’t install it on a device for someone that doesn’t want to do some maintenance from time to time. Maybe I wouldn’t go as far to say that it is UNSTABLE, but point release distros such as Mint or Debian are definitely more stable and require much less maintenance. Rolling release distros are, naturally, much riskier.

I believe it’s a mix. Both ‘nostalgia goggles’ and straight up facts.

What I mean is that, when we were kids or teenagers we didn’t see things the same way our parents did. They were the ones struggling, and we were pretty much just playing around and complaining of mundane stuff. So it’s hard to tell how much ‘easier’ life was back then… we were just young.

But at the same time I do completely agree that the advancement of technology and growth of USA giant corporations really fucked a lot of things up badly. While back in the day we couldn’t find answers or information to everything so easily, we lived a more ‘natural’ life, where everyone actually expected things to take a while to happen: you had to wake up, literally read the news if you wanted, take the car or bus to the job, and just then you started working, and while working you had to do some research and so on.

Nowadays things either happen immediately or you’re tagged as lazy or something like it. You wake up with a lot of e-mails or message notifications on your smartphone, and people expect you to answer these demands ASAP. It’s not expected anymore that we do each thing in it’s own time anymore, and the volume of work is much bigger because you’re expected to solve problems much faster. This volume of demand and unrealistic expectations definitely generate stress and anxiety, which are huge health issues nowadays.

And the fact that we now realize, thanks to the amount and speed of information we have today, how the industry leads are fucking everyone up without consequences doesn’t help in the slightest, since it leads to a feeling of being powerless and exploited.

I love how even modern Linux distros run so damn well on what’s considered today ‘outdated’ hardware.

I love Linux Mint btw! I think you did a great choice! Even though it’s known as the beginner friendly distro, I think it’s just a damn great distro for pretty much anyone, experienced or newbies. Fantastic choice!

I was partially kidding. I mean, sure, if that’s what they want, then what could anyone do about it.

But since they came from Windows, wouldn’t they adapt to something like Linux Mint Xfce or Q4OS (that mimics Windows XP)? These are very lightweight distros.

It smells a lot like a honeypot to me. It doesn’t seem to have any proof that taking the exam actually converts to any benefit for real people, AND they collect TONS of data from people taking this exam.

Their privacy terms indicates they don’t directly sell your data to 3rd parties. But they say that, if another company eventually acquires them, they inherit all the data and can basically update the privacy terms how they see fit and do whatever they want with it. They also admit to share your data to a lot of other companies and services in order to be able to do their ‘job’ whatever it might actually be, which in simple terms probably mean they share your data to commercial partners so these partners can do whatever they want with it.

So, even if they really don’t (directly) sell your data, God knows what they and their partners will use it for.

It seems very clear to me, though, that they will collect all your data and will not give you anything in return but false hopes.

It doesn’t surprise me. After all it’s the default way to start using WSL.

But for people running full distros, it seems to me most are avoiding Ubuntu these days except if they are required to use it by their employer or something. In DistroWatch it seems Ubuntu’s popularity is slowly sinking.

Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping!

Yaaaayyyy!!! Nice one!! Congrats on pulling that off!

So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex

Sorry, you what???

Just disabled it with Shizuku + Canta. Hopefully it’s enough.

I really like Foliate. Great interface, easy to use, enough customization. It’s available through Flatpak.

If you want something more feature rich and don’t care too much about UI, then Calibre.

I particularly couldn’t care less about Game Pass at this point. I’m just fine without paying Microsoft for anything. But I suppose that’s good for those who still use Windows just for that.

At least I find it interesting to have Linux supporting software that it wasn’t technically suppose to.

I think people tend to be naive about Steam.

I mean, I DO think that Steam is miles better than Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Epic and I would say they’re probably one of the biggest responsibles to make Linux that much more popular (both for consumer and for devs) in the latest years.

But I don’t know what’s gonna happen to Steam after Gabe Newell leaves. I think there’s a huge risk for a dramatic shift in Valve / Steam monetization and culture. Things are fine now, but that’s still a corporation, and shareholders will want to get the last drop out of it just as these shitheads do to everything else.

Who would have thought that Stremio, after adding paid subscription, would not just not improve but actually get worse. That’s shocking.