Ow.

Indeed. A cellphone with google search opened in a browser is all you need.

I will be “that guy” and suggest you to watch a few linux-related videos before choosing. i.e go to youtube and search for “what is the best linux distro for beginners”, “how to install on (distro name goes here)”, “how to configure (audio, video, etc) on (distro name goes here)”, etc. Write em down, install the distro you wanna check, get used to those methods until they are stuck on your forehead. If you lose interest, go back to 1- and choose another distro.

That’d be the same as asking if leaving your house front door open is dangerous – it depends. If an ill-intended individual sees it open however, s/he won’t think twice to trash your home.

Indeed! I’m not planning to go back to Winblows unless I’m being paid for it.

Self-validation is one hell of a drug. :^)

Cpupower can both show cpu info -and- tweak it, so nope. Not really.

Thanks for your input tho.

Been using Wayland since 3’ish years ago and my desktop experience has been really smooth – no crashes, errors or anything of the sort. Everything “just werks” just as if I were on Xorg instead. Even on a completely obscure/zero linux support single board computer (Orange pi zero 3).

Gentoo “purist”: “Welp, Gentoo is now officially dead.”

Non-gentoo user: “Welp, Gentoo is now just another Arch fork LMAO!”

Yeah… I’d rather spend some time doing those manually and not risk losing money (or even worse) because of a mere couple seconds less on the internet.

Call me a conspirator or whatever you want, but this seems like a “under-the-carpet” cope – “I can’t/won’t bother learning how to configure Linux, so I’ll throw a fit, raise a baseless assumption about it and move on to my safe bubble, i.e Winblows.”. Because even if it does have lack of better options for battery – it does have lots of user control. Which you should prioritize over being “spoonfed” by the system. Specially in times like these that anyone can track your device even if it is turned off thanks to bluetooth.

Why not? It’s simple, lightweight, has a lot of interesting commands that fills its respective niche really well (btop, for instance) and (the best of all) it doesn’t explode my PC everytime I run such commands.

My “rite of passage” to the magical world of GNU/Linux was… well… boredom. My Windows install was run fresh, with TCPOptimizer, with some things removed out of its core… until I took the decision of “trying to figure out how to use Linux even if it means losing my sanity.”

…and here we are. Sanity is still intact tho…

…I think. :^)

“Not exactly Linux”, but FreeBSD. Gave it a couple tries but gave up when I realized its minimalism is a placebo at best and its “super security features” can (also) be achieved on any other standard Linux distribution.

Yes officer, this heretic right here.

When folks will stop with the “If Linux won’t become another Windows, it’ll fail” mentality? Linux is not Winblows – and we really mean it. To “increase adoption” users need to acknowledge (only) this – that both Windows and Linux differs from one another and that won’t change in any time soon.

Asides from “ew installing Winblows stuff in my distro ewwww” that will be a gamechanger if they do it right.

No, but I used this back when I was a little penguin and I had to “see” something working on Linux.

That’d be true if I were a Winblows tryhard. Thankfully, it’s not the case. :^)

We haven’t, but there’s this thing called “hierarchy”. There is God, and its subordinates (angels, archangels, etc), and all the way under theres us – humans. And below humans, the rest of the Gods creations – dogs, cats, etc. And the logic behind this is diversity and beauty. And yes, even on a flaw (suffering, as mentioned here like a some sort of Gods curse rather than our “natural flaw” “why we suffer?”, etc) can bestow beauty on its own. Why? Because everything have sense when we acknowledge that God is behind all suffering – no matter how critical it is.Because He is Our Father, and The One and Only. We are His Children, and in suffering is how we learn that we are flawed and we need His Guidance.

I kinda tried to avoid being “biblical”, but I had to in the end, heh.