It was definitely a Ubuntu thing - Pop, 2 version of Ubuntu, and Mint all failed at various points when dealing with GPU drivers, but I’m using closed-source nvidia drivers on the same GPU in Nobara (Fedora) without issue. Though I guess I haven’t tried updating it yet, but all my hardware accelerated games work as they should.
The problem is that Microsoft is ending Win10 support so you won’t be able to get updates and such (especially security updates) for the OS anymore which will ultimately lead to things breaking or being vulnerable anyway, plus if that business-critical software ever gets updated to the point where it also doesn’t support win10 anymore (I’ve run into this in the past with XP/Vista) then you’re going to have to change anyway. But you don’t have to change to win11. Companies and governments all over Europe are switching their mission-critical systems to linux and FOSS, yeah it’s a pain, but it’s going to save you pain down the road.
I thought so too, largely on the basis of some very bad experiences with ubuntu-based distributions (they seem to hate my bog-standard RTX3060 GPU for whatever reason), but in frustration I tried one last time to install a linux distro and went with something based on fedora and it has 95% just worked, it’s been great. I haven’t booted up windows in almost 3 weeks, all my games work (battle.net was a bit of a pain to get working), the proprietary windows software I use for work runs great in wine, etc. I’m at the point now where I’m transferring all my files off of NTFS partitions and reformatting them to btrfs and integrating them into the linux filesystem, cause I’m done with windows forever to the greatest possible extent that I can be.
Simple but extremely useful, someone pointed that out the other day and I’ve been using it ever since. It’s my favorite feature of dolphin so far.
Yeah I tried gnome for a little bit on a previous Pop install and didn’t like it as much so I went with KDE when I switched to Nobara.
Huh, I didn’t realize. I’ve had it installed forever, I guess I didn’t realize. Oh well, I just switched back to Brave and I don’t even have uBO installed anymore and it’s been fine.
Don’t buy microwave popcorn. You can buy popcorn kernels that you can just pop in a covered skillet with some oil.
I used to live in New Mexico for a while and there was a common joke: how do you tell if someone is a native New Mexican? They keep a fire extinguisher in the bathroom.
It’s not so much that you taste it on the way out, it’s that there’s undigested capsaicin that burns, uh, other mucus membranes on the way out. Fortunately not something that bothers me much either, but I get hints of it sometimes when my niece makes what I call her nuclear fire curry.
I don’t like drinking water. Obviously I can and do, but even then only filtered water with ice. But my main complaint is that it has no flavor, it’s not very satisfying. Maybe it’s because I was raised on soda, but I like something a little sweet and with a little flavor, so I drink slightly-sweetened iced tea.
Not disputing that it’s good, it’s just so much stuff is built to work with KDE or Gnome that I think you’d miss out on using E.
Enlightenment has been around for decades, and it was quite a bit more popular in its early days because things like KDE/Gnome/etc weren’t the de facto DEs pretty much everyone used like they are now. I used it back when I had a linux box like 25 years ago and it was great, it was very slick and pretty, but now so much is written for KDE/Gnome that it feels like using anything else is just asking for trouble.
Yeah, I have since discovered pCloud as a replacement for OneDrive and that I could just have everything saved to a pCloud directory to auto-sync… but IMO UpNote is worth the $25 anyway so I don’t mind. Also it requires considerably less effort to just install the android app vs setting up some kind of multi-device syncing with pCloud/equivalent and managing that myself. I guess I value convenience over privacy in this one area.
Thanks for the explanation re:gollum/zim, I was curious why you were using 2 different sets of software to accomplish what seemed like the same thing. My notes are definitely more of the ‘scribble some shit down and organize it later if I get around to it’ variety, but I stopped using zim because I wanted synced notes with multiplatform apps and also it felt a little archaic, and I wasn’t really using the real star feature of wikis (cross-linking) anyway, I just wanted something with a traditional tree structure.
Shorts are the only thing that really annoyed me, I don’t mind recommendations or comments, and I just keep a tab open on my subs page all the time anyway.
Whoa, I had no idea! I knew about alt+shift+F4 to open a terminal in the current folder, but that spawns a whole separate konsole instance, F4 is amazing, thank you!
How does the dolphin/konsole integration thing work? I’m curious.
UpNote. I use it like a combination of the gollum wiki described by OP, but I just put everything in there. I have watch and reading lists for things I want to check out, writing projects, notes for TTRPG games, I keep extensive notes on healthcare-related stuff, and so on. I like UpNote because it’s lightweight, has windows, linux, and android apps, and because it has a one-time $25 lifetime membership that does free syncing forever instead of a monthly subscription like most other things seem to. I’ve tried OneNote, Evernote, Obsidian, Joplin, AnyType, and a bunch of others and didn’t like them for various reasons, but UpNote is both pretty small and also has a pretty full-featured editor that can do rich text, all kinds of formatting, media files, etc.
The only thing I’ve run into that UpNote wasn’t ideal for is I started writing a novel a couple months ago and managing the structure and notes and all that got a little unwieldy so I picked up Scrivener. Still wish they had an updated linux client or there was some good, complete, feature-rich linux-native equivalent, but it runs pretty good under wine, so.
It’s like anything else, it will take time to get comfortable with it. During that period you should probably focus on getting practice in out-of-the-way places where you’re less likely to be overwhelmed or distracted and can potentially cause problems. As someone who has never been able to drive and lives in country whose general opinion of public transportation is ‘Hahaha no’, not being able to drive can suck pretty bad. I’m always relying on others, beholden to their schedules, their bad planning, their poor time-management skills, etc, and the only alternative is taking a cab which gets expensive quick. Being able to drive, even if you don’t do it a lot, is a valuable skill and something you will get more comfortable with the more you do (and doing it regularly is key to build that familiarity and level of confidence.)
I haven’t had the app installed since I got my phone. I don’t believe it was installed by default, or if it was I removed it immediately.
I’m 52, I remember when websites were little more than ‘Oh I guess we have to have an internet presence, so here’s a website that’s nothing more than an ad for our TV show, book, movie, etc.’
Why is that? What’s the problem with ubuntu? I mean ubuntu-based distros seem to hate my bog-standard RTX3060 GPU for some reason, but besides that. I’m pretty happy with nobara tho, and wouldn’t switch back to ubuntu even if I knew it’d work with my GPU.