Guix.

My Dad wanted to switch to Linux because he always liked watching me use whatever distro I was on my machines at the time. So I started him out with Fedora and he didn’t really like it. he likes to tinker. He started out on DOS and the Commodore 64 back in the 80s. So I showed him my current setup on my main machine with NixOS. he liked it but I think the whole flake and configuration.nix went over his head. He liked how it worked, just really didn’t want to deal with all that. So I found a compromise for him. Guix.

He friggin loves it. Yes it’s slow, too slow for me, but he adores it. he has a system configuration setup but also different user profiles for himself and my mom. He loves that all he has to do is “guix install whatever” and that’s it. It’s not like he’s gaming or doing any dev work so for what he and my mom needs it’s perfect.

all that being said I would NOT recommend you start off new users to Guix. as I previously said, it’s slow, but it’s god damn simple.

when I first switched to linux I used mint for all of two weeks, was an awful experience and almost made me go back to windows until someone told me to try cachyos instead.

I haven’t used Mint since but I might install it on my VM to give it another crack since likely it was personal user error that made it awful for me. Just had constant issues with my nvidia gpu.

I’d cut this up into separate posts in all honesty as it’s one massive info dump and could be extremely imitating to someone looking to try linux for the first time. I think you focused too much on why to switch and not exactly HOW to switch.

Maybe just focus on one distro also. Yes there are a lot of choices but there’s no harm on rolling with one distro for a couple weeks until you get your legs under you and then feel free to hop around.

2001 or 2011.

2001 easily had the most games that were highly rated and as others have said you some real classics. The PS2 was hitting it’s stride, the original Xbox Launched, and the Gamecube was right there.

2011 also had some damn amazing games: Arkham City, Portal 2, Skyrim, Skyward Sword, Minecraft, Mortal Kombat 9, Starcraft II, Bastion, Uncharted 3, Battlefield 3 to name a few.

very much this. server with navidrome and a soulseek script to download spotify and youtube playlists.

yeah the title is weird. how I read it is that the WoW director says that there would be no reason to hide the fact that it would be coming to consoles and thus that’s not an excuse for the game potentially easier.

won’t work. Evidently The Maldives have never heard of this thing we like to call “history”.

I have so many Yoko Kanno albums and soundtracks on my server. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex and 2nd Gig IMHO is her best work.

I tried it, paid for it, cancelled it. I tested it with the same queries with ddg, startpage, brave, and qwant via 4get. The results were essentially the same. Kagi did provide more context in the description of the results but it wasn’t anything I would pay a premium for. the majority of features I just didn’t use, the assistant and fastgpt were a waste, lenses were fine and having fediverse on by default is neat but nothing I’d call home about.

If it were cheaper sure, I might stick with it but I can’t justify the price to anyone wanting to use a search engine. $5 for 300 searches a month is a joke. I also don’t like the fact that if you want to pay with something other than a credit card (paypal, venmo, etc) you get charged extra cause Kagi doesn’t want to eat the fees. Also there’s zero option to opt out of paying for the “AI” features, you can turn them off sure…but you’re still going to pay for them.

If your internet usage consists of constant searching and LLM use for searching then sure, you’re going to be paying $10+ a month and be happy with it. But there was nothing Kagi offered that knocked my socks off. if anything, felt like I was getting scammed.

Up until a few weeks ago I was running my own private SearXNG instance and it’s not just you, even I noticed on my OWN instance that it had progressively gotten worse. Initially it was great so I just left it be but then the performance and results just became horrible. It was hit or miss if the thing would even load or not when other instances on my server like my akkoma, piefed, redlib, forgejo, etc all ran smooth as silk.

Eventually I ditched SearXNG and switched to 4get which much better and faster results. thing never goes down and the search results have been fantastic.

I don’t know if I would say they’re a monopoly there are other options/store fronts out there…it’s just that the vast majority outside of GOG suck. in fact they all suck OTHER than Steam and GOG.

And as a Linux user…I ain’t got much of a choice. Steam, now, just works for me. I don’t even have to toggle the compatibility option anymore or hell even mess around with proton if I don’t want to. install steam via whatever package manager or flatpak and i’m off to the races.

Anything other than Steam is unlikely to work. EA, Epic, and Microsoft have all essentially told me they don’t want my business simply because I use Linux.

Vivaldi is great IF you don’t use the web UI. outside of that it’s fast and decent. I still use my Vivaldi email account from when I used to use the browser. now I just use it in aerc as a sort of ‘junk drawer’ email.

I use AERC. TUI that is just so painfully easy to use. integrates with whatever editor you use like vim or emacs or whatever. Account setup is a breeze via a config file thus making it easy to backup. I have it in my nix config so whenever I take my nixos anywhere or reinstall it I instantly have my email ready to go.

you’re 100% correct and I feel bad for those people but you know the saying “a few bad apples spoil the lot”

India has an ENTIRE industry whose sole purpose is to fake academic records and assist people in faking their student visa applications. That’s on the Indian government that STILL hasn’t cracked down on it similar to how they don’t crack down heavily on online and phone scamming of western nations. So individuals who are seeking a better life outside of India need to first fix what’s going on at home. And make no mistake it’s not just fake visas and scamming there’s also an entire outsourcing industry that they had propped up full of unqualified developers and engineers that western companies once outsourced to.

India, in more ways than one, needs to get their shit together in several ways be it culturally, financially, and politically. When the majority of the west looks at India and instantly thinks “scammers” that’s not a good look. that does not build trust. And the hard working honest people of India suffer for it.

They’ve been poking the bear for a while now and the bear continues to sleep. It’s either because a good chunk of Americans are wise to their scheme OR a good chunk of Americans are too lazy or afraid to do anything about it. ICE, deploying the National Guard to various places, political assassinations and attempts, potential hunger riots, etc, etc, etc and non of it has worked.

It’ll be interesting to see exactly WHAT results in Americans saying “enough is enough” but at this point…I don’t think there’s anything that will do that.

it’s so incredibly frustrating reading americans thoughts on this stuff. like you just stroll over to virtually any reddit thread regarding anything the administration is doing and it’s always “this must be illegal” or “it’s happening” and what have you. Like they still don’t get it. “I can’t believe they’re doing what they said they were going to do, I hope someone stops them” - proceeds to keep doom scrolling.

And then you have the democrats that insist the system isn’t broken, insist that if they continue to play by the rules than the other side will also eventually decide that the rules should be followed…no, that’s not how this work. A cheater doesn’t suddenly have a come to jesus moment and thinks “you know…I really shouldn’t cheat anymore.”

it’s always funny playing RE games and reading notes and you’re like “why would anyone write this down and confess to this?”

“I ate frank in the PD holding cell,he protested,but I consumed him anyways. I don’t feel right, it feels like that wasn’t something I should have done…”

I love BallisticNG, brilliant game and if you’re a fan of Wip3out (it’s my favourite game series of all time personally) then you’ll love this.

Also thanks to the modding community for this game you can literally get every single wip3out track and ship ever created and put into BallisticNG, that’s worth the price alone.

Mike also teased that Scarleltt Johansson may or may not be involved in Cyberpunk 2.