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Inversely, why not? Why aim for a large user base? That doesn't sound aligned with the ideology behind this language

Keeping the scope niche/small seems like a feature to me, not a bug. Let non-FOSS OS users find something else (?)

I am personally no FOSS zealot but I can respect a project that has a firm idea of its scope and targeted user base and wishes to stay limited to that

Not everything needs to be huge or growth hacked to death

I am quite certain since having COVID my sense of smell has never been the same. It has fully returned in terms of sensitivity (things don't smell weak or undetectable). But certain things just don't smell or taste the same anymore.

It worked well for me. I've heard the same stories and understand in some cases a the better version of a driver ends up being an older one, instead of the latest, so there are some quirks. But the games I tried all got great performance.

Experience will vary widely by game, however. From the lookups I've done on ProtonDB so far, I do understand in some titles I may lose some fps- but it's yet to have been a big enough hit to bother me

Wow, interesting. I had been considering building a pfsense/opnsense box to get fq_codel on my network to help solve issues like the ones I was seeing, didn't occur to me it would already be enabled within Linux distros- that def might explain my different experience on Linux then

I forced 11 to be more like 10 to make it work for me, used various utilities/etc to have a custom taskbar/start menu, bring back normal right-click context menus, etc. So, there are ways to force 11 to work better for you- I agree users shouldn't have to go to those lengths, but the options are there. After those changes, it was close enough to 10 to not bother me.

But after trialing Linux for a while, there is so much I enjoy about it. Things are so snappy. Built in screenshot tools are so much better. So many options for utilities and small little apps that just do one thing well. Theming/customizing is great. Sure it all has its quirks, but compared to Windows it's a breath of fresh air. Respectful OS update systems (no forced restarts).

I feel like even the networking efficiency of the OS itself feels better. For instance, on Windows 11, even with 300mbps internet connection- if I download a large file in browser window A while watching a Twitch video in browser window B- the Twitch video will hiccup and buffer/etc. For some reason this never happened to me on Linux. I don't know if it's just doing better internal QoS-like things at an OS level, or if I got lucky? But it was an awesome, noticeable difference.

Same with opening many tabs at once. If I want to open a folder of 10-20 bookmarks- on Windows, doing that while watching a video causes the video to stutter for a couple of seconds. Again, this is on a 300mbps connection, 10th gen i7, GTX 3070, NVME-drive system. On Linux- I can open like 50 tabs at once with no hiccups at all. Amazing.

That's why I think the time has come for me to make the full switchover. That, and Proton's increasing maturity (and even ability to quickly work for some new titles, like Elden Ring).

I'm about to embark on a journey myself of abandoning Windows(11) completely on my primary/gaming PC. The way I use the PC I'm prepared to deal with the trade-offs (and I'm making a backup, but trying to make it not super "easy" to run back to Windows, that way I commit to Linux for a while). Might document this whole process.

Proton/etc isn't 100% there yet- but it's doing so well at this point, I want to experience the trade-offs and see if I can live with them. Always can go back to Windows as a last resort.

I do know some trade-offs already, from my test-runs (done via dual-booting). Proton + controller vibration issues might be the top issue for me. In Rocket League vibrations happen- but like 2-3 seconds after the feedback should have happened- making vibration useless as a feedback mechanism.

I have tons and tons of games installed- many I've tried work flawlessly on Linux so far (or with easy adjustments from suggestions on ProtonDB).

I'm sure there are games I may completely lose out on- and that's what I want to experience for myself- if those gaps are fine- or maybe if committing will actually help prod me to be part of the feedback/dev/etc communities trying to improve gaming on Linux for everyone.

Either way, this is all personal hardware- work laptops are separate- so this should be a fun experiment with very little downside- I don't do anything critical on my primary home PC that requires Windows

Glad to see a number of others that feel the same as I do. I would love for this sentiment to grow.

I wonder if this will break the hardware acceleration I've enabled to run in Firefox in X11 by using the VAAPI flags/etc

I'll third them, though I have mixed feelings about the company itself (their decisions have sometimes been a bit unaligned with what I would prefer).

Currently using an ER-X with two Unifi APs.

Best thing about this level of hardware is uptime. Unlike many consumer/retail routers I've used previously, this thing has months/years of uptime at a time.

When something fails on my network, I can almost always assume the router is not involved in the problem.

I could see myself going for a OpenSense/PFSense custom build at some point for more power and even more options, but EdgeRouter hardware right now has enough configuration settings for me, but there is one configuration the ER-X doesn't have exactly enough power for- which is QoS.

Trying to QoS my 300mbps results in about a 1/3 speed reduction because it's pegging the CPU pretty hard. (QoS causes hardware-offloading to be turned off).

Getting robocalls from spoofed local numbers in my area code.

Extremely frustrating because they look more legitimate this way, like it's a local business calling me back or something.

Provider: Boost Mobile (MVNO for Sprint/Tmo)

I wish this were satire

I've definitely had a bunch of weird KDE quirks on multiple distros (Kubuntu, KDE Neon, etc). Nothing huge for me but still annoying. I do tend to prefer it over Gnome, but I am thinking of changing

I know USB booting on pi is still not perfect, but it almost seems to make more sense at this point to boot off of a decent USB flash drive, I would think? If you get a decent brand with good benchmarks, I would think that reads/writes would blow all SD cards away. What I'm not sure about is latency or lifespan, though I would think _good_ USB flash drives are likely to be better quality flash than SD, without really being significantly costly in comparison?

I say this as someone that uses SD cards currently, and I understand if others do also- it's the easiest/default option, but I've definitely given thought to switching

Because in no way should payment product y be able to see, store, access, or otherwise use google product x's sensitive stored information without explicit user consent

In storing card data in product x, the assumption of the user would be that that product is storing that card data for future autofill purposes in product x

Discovering that this data has somehow been turned into an entire financial account on product y without consent should enrage any reasonable user of product x

What an absolute plague upon humankind advertising is, and this is maybe one of the grossest executions of it that I've seen yet. For the majority of people, I cannot see these screens adding any actual value

They aren't saying you can out run a bad diet- parent post I thought made themselves exceedingly clear that they suggest exercise as a way to help someone eat healthier because of its effects on cravings/etc. The two things can work together.

I say this as someone that knows how much easier it is to cut calories than to burn them- but I know if I was a bit more active, it would be easier to cut the calories

I don't understand how most replies to multiple of parent's posts keep completely missing their point. It's like the replies didn't even read the post they're replying to

Why must they reset the "always ask" download setting upon upgrade? And why is such a reset labeled a "fix"? Respect my existing settings, regardless of your new pointless UI features.

I found an interesting use for Sugru. I've found out that the little plastic piece at the end of the hose and that constitutes part of the nozzle of windshield fluid assemblies is a two part piece of plastic that is held together solely by friction/fitting, it doesn't lock or snap, and when held in the hand, the two sides of it can come apart rather easily. One piece normally is pressed into the hose, the other piece (nozzle) into the hood, and then those plastic pieces fit together.

Apparently the spray/pump power for my windshield fluid is enough to make the hose side of this assembly "pop away" from the nozzle underneath the hood, causing it to fall somewhere and spray fluid between the heat shield and hood.

Sugru was perfect to hold the two sides of that piece together so that it never pops away again. So far it has held up great.

This just doesn't make sense to me. If an opinion involves factual information it can be proven or disproven. Facts and opinions are not mutually exclusive.

An "opinion" that is clearly in opposition to a fact certainly has very little value, and I would consider it invalid. I'm not saying someone doesn't have the right to a useless, proven-wrong opinion, but the value of any of their words will be near-zero in my eyes.

Not all opinions are equal, not all opinions are valid or represent truth.

Some opinions may be purely subjective and not even involve any kind of truth or fact statement ("X tastes good") but those opinions have very little value overall. Not completely useless, but not far from it

I personally feel we're accelerating towards a future where little thought, time, effort, or trust is given to anything factual and opinion somehow is the holy grail (especially the tragic idea that all opinions are somehow on equal footing) and I think we'll be worse off for it

I wish the company/organization behind my favorite and only browser didn't continue to be so tone-deaf. Their reputation in my mind had already been soured, in spite of them having the best browser for my use.

Now they make a ludicrous decision to involve Meta in what they think are privacy discussions? I cannot be swayed into seeing Meta's involvement as anything other than a detriment

Been using Plex but thanks for mentioning this. I think I'm going to try switching to Jellyfin

Looks like they've reversed on this, one of the latest comments on the bug link is:

"The new plan is to take the alternate approach of presenting a confirmation dialog when deleting built-in search engines. This should serve nearly as well to protect against accidental deletions while still allowing users to intentionally remove built-in search engines"

Yeah there are "external SATA" style USB solid state drives that are fake too. A colleague discovered this after someone we knew purchased a few and all of them failed within 10 minutes, and were extremely slow.

Opening one up explained it all- it was a cheap "USB flash drive" PCB/internals hooked to a USB A 2.0 to USB-C conversion board (so that it looked faster/better than it is). Amusingly, they used masking tape to hold some pieces together inside the drive.

Just, completely made for fraudulent purposes.

The brand is made up, the "storefront" name changes periodically (was VHSGUUDS CO. and now CSGARH CO.,LT), and the listings are super generic.

The place I notice it most is when launching it. I don't keep it open all day, I open it periodically to work on this or that and close it when done.

Opening it feels like it takes forever (5-10s) compared to something like Sublime Text (<1s) and when there are a lot of launches throughout the day, that adds up.

Wow, an incredible amount of work/updates in this version. So glad to see a project like this continue moving forward in significant ways and I hope that these improvements bode well for things like Proton

This line of thinking makes the incredibly naive mistake of thinking that all Democrats feel the same about online advertisement (or anything, really)

What makes you think that Democrat legislators and "democrat run companies" (operating on the assumption this is true and on the assumption that all of the company's operations match it's executives' political views- again a pretty big question mark) in any way share the same views concerning surveillance advertising?

Finding a workaround is fine but tangential at best, but that doesn't mean we should ignore or stay silent regarding company philsophies/choices/actions we find repulsive.

Even if we pay them, someone else still will. What makes you think that someone earning a lot of money is magically going to stop looking for even more money?

Hell, maybe even it would be okay to have lack of money become a worry in their life- potentially would help them understand a significant portion of their electorate better. So many of them are out of touch as it is in regards to financial security, the prices we pay for things, etc.

I expect it to be all downhill since the Sprint merger