My understanding is XFCE is lighter weight and simpler. Little to no animations, for example.

https://itsfoss.com/linux-mint-cinnamon-mate-xfce/

I am extremely basic and I’m using the XFCE that came with Linux mint. I don’t need anything fancy.

It’s a little hard to square “steam is over charging for games” with “look at all these games I bought for 80% off ($5) off”, but I guess there’s more to it.

but I’m pretty convinced that Linux is not close to being ready for normies.

Yeah. I consider myself somewhat tech savvy (I do software development for work) and I had a really bad time installing mint on my desktop. I got it to work after a day but that was far more than a casually interested person would put up with.

Snake case, usually. Some perhaps unfounded fear that something will blow up on a dash in a file name kicking around. Or I’ll do a weird typo/premature enter and part of the file name will be treated like a -flag of some sort.

Does it know how to navigate NYC public transit? That’s a big use case for me. I don’t need driving directions. I need to know which subway is closest.

Been seriously thinking of switching to linux for my desktop. I mostly use it for games. Today I was looking at mods for Mass Effect, and the mod manager says in all caps - LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED :(

There’s probably going to be a lot of that sort of annoyance for years.

This is like saying “I’ve never watched movies. What should I watch?”

My dude there are so many genres.

That’s a nice find.

You just got to be a bit more stealthy.

Yep, but that’s not the lesson the school should be teaching, at least for it’s best interest. Fostering white hat attitudes would probably work out better. Instead I learned the authorities were idiots that can’t be reasoned with.

This just reminded me of a thing from my high school (many years ago). They had windows machines that were somewhat locked down, but I discovered a trivial way to bypass the restrictions on changing the desktop wallpaper. So naturally I set the background image to a screenshot of the desktop, and then hid all the actual icons.

On another timeline, the staff would have approached this with “Huh that’s clever. You fooled us and we thought the computer was broken. Please don’t do that, but also let’s channel your creativity somewhere useful.”

Instead I got a monologue about breaking things and was banned from the computer lab for a week. Soured me on school and such for a while.

The most use my steam deck has had is playing guild wars 2 couch coop style with a friend. I have a wireless mouse and keyboard* and it’s been fun.

* Actually 3 keyboards because the company shipped the wrong one twice. I’m keyboard rich.

Nice work.

My tiny nitpick is that “touch” will create the file you specify if it doesn’t exist. I’ve seen this usage a lot, so your example may benefit from mentioning it.

I kind of assumed most people working on Google maps are car first people, and the transit stuff was a second class concern. This isn’t based on any facts, just a gut feeling.

The most annoying things for me are how it’s kind of hard when looking at the map to see what stops are where. Like, I have to fuck with the zoom to get it to show me DeKalb Ave is there, and then it doesn’t even tell me which trains stop there.

And forget about getting any useful bus info. I know generally where the b41 goes. Why isn’t it easy to see on the map?

I always wondered about the people who were playing porn games and just letting that show on their profile. I know most of us look at porn and that’s fine, but I do like some privacy. When a dude on my friend’s list broadcasts he plays “Toon Tit Tapper” for 12 minutes before signing off, it’s a bit of unwanted information.

Why would you love your buttons to turn puke green? Or ugly red like in the screenshot? It made google chat unusably hideous for me.

I just really emphatically do not want the wallpaper to be coupled to anything else.

I have a OnePlus7T and there seems to be no way to change the colors without downloading a third party app to override it. That might be OnePlus’ fault.

Material You is the thing that changes colors based on your background? And people like that? I hate that. It made everything a gross puke color for me when I had a nice background of some trees. That screenshot has an unpleasant red tint.

Google sucks at messaging. They had hangouts and it was fine, but they just were too busy shitting the bed to run with it.

Nah. Diablo 3 kind of sucked. I’m pretty sure blizzard has more abuse internally than we’ve heard of. They don’t get my money.

(I say this, but it was free or like $2 I might crack. We’ll see.)

So long as Gabe doesn’t like die or have a personality changing stroke. Not sure what Valve’s plans are for his retirement