Idk, I still think it has some merit. It can reduce a lot of troubleshooting when something not playing right. There’s 1001 things that can go right and wrong with PC gaming. Reducing the hardware to near zero with a standardized rig takes a lot of headache off IMO.

Some people just want to play games from Steam without all the pc gaming hobby’s baggage. They probably already have other fulfilling hobbies they learn from. What’s wrong not adding another hobby to go down a rabbit hole?

Maybe I’m too optimistic

I remember reading somewhere that Netflix produced shows needs to cater to “second monitor” usage, or passive watching. As in constantly repeating plot points, simpler plot, anything that makes it easy to follow something while doing anything else

AI slop is just another way they do it. Even better, no need to deal with pesky actor unions or production unions and other such annoying anticapitalist things.

Same here. The AI answer doesn’t fix or solve anything for me, but it does give me enough pointers for me to refine my search or find old posts that leads to the right information.

It’s too bad that the big AI services are world destroying

Edit: also most of my noob Linux questions I just don’t know how to ask. Google search being the shit fest it is now, duckduckgo I feel like doesn’t work as well as google when they’re quietly enshittifying (I thought google search peaked at 2010s for how good it is finding me things with all the “google-fu” I learned that’s for nought now). And quote frankly, I am “afraid” to ask in Linux forum sites (including here). I don’t want to gamble getting some asshole Linux guy mouthing me off.

When I was shopping distros to jump ship from winslop, came across niri videos and I was smitten. Having decided to try cachyOS because 1. gaming, 2. Arch with training wheels, 3. Installer has niri option, I went for it.

I was dual booting with winslop for a week, but that one was cachy with plasma, then seeing I truly do not need winslop anymore, I wipe the whole drive and installed cachy again but this time with niri.

I use colemak as my keyboard layout, so during the dual boot period I set that as system layout during installation, but that had some problems with games. So when I wiped and reinstall, I just leave qwerty as system default. The cachy installer installed niri with noctalia as its shell

Well too bad, currently I do not have the understanding nor the inclination to learn how to configure niri and noctalia lol. Even adding colemak was too much. Tbf to myself, it was already 11 pm and I have work the coming morning. I’m glad that another reinstall and having all my needed software restored is o my 10 minutes.

Tldr, niri noctalia too hard for me now. Will revisit again when I have time to learn by trial by fire.

Although I have to say that I found a plasma plugin called mousetiler that’s almost exactly like fancyzones. That was the biggest thing I was missing dearly. I don’t have to remember so many keyboard shortcuts lol

Idk, it could still be genuine. maybe I just don’t fly enough, but every time I get the chance I’m amazed that humanity managed to achieve flight.

Yeah like the example dudeface give, Dell have been offering Linux options since a decade ago in my country. Just have to go to their commerce website instead. Same with Lenovo here.

And both of them offer Ubuntu with the expected discount of a Windows license.

I assume Canonical did a lot of legwork to make big brands like that to adopt Ubuntu. IMO it is still the more well known Linux distribution that seems more suited for the non techy segment of Dell and Lenovo customers.

According to steamdb, it was on sale down to 20 euros as recent as January, March and April this year. Expect more sales later in the year, as I think Square Enix would like anyone that haven’t played them to catch up