DreamlandLividity @ DreamlandLividity @lemmy.world

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now you have a shit facist as president so yes, is your fault

I am not American. But putting that aside, US has a fascist president because the so called better choice decided it is better for a fascist to be elected president than to do what voters asked for, like not supporting fucking Genocide.

How much better are the Democrats really, if they themselves did not care about handing the presidency to Trump?

It's years of voters willing to vote for the "lesser evil" that allowed both parties to field shittier and shittier candidates. Because it's not as bad as the other guy and people will vote for lesser evil. So now you have two options that should have both been completely unacceptable in any civilized society and you still pretend to be morally superior, because your completely evil candidate is slightly less evil then the other one.

Oh, right, I forgot I should have checked first if they wanted a bomb dropped on their head or literally anything else.

Plenty of European politicians support this war too. How many of them did you contact?

Thankfully in Europe, we have more choices than two genocidal maniacs, so I could just vote for ones that don't support genocide.

Not that it changes much, since US is the only country actually sending significant material support to Israel and diplomatically shields them from consequences.

Ah right, because US politicians care so much about calls and e-mails from Europeans who can't vote for them.

Who do you blame for climate change? The sun, chemistry or humans releasing chemicals to the atmosphere?

Arguably all 3 contribute to climate change, but only the last one is something you can change. So you blame humans, because it is the only productive option.

In an election, you can blame the party that lost or the voters. Blaming the voter is about as productive as blaming the sun, distracting from what changes have to happen in the Democratic party to guarantee a win in the next election.

"Vote for candidate A who supports genocide."
"Vote for candidate B who supports genocide."
"Don't vote and be loud about it so that in the next election, the losing party is hopefully forced to have a candidate that doesn't support genocide to get your vote."

Which one of those 3 has at least a theoretical chance of helping (even if it may be too late by then)?

I am not saying it was worth it, considering how much worse Trump is on most other issues. It probably wasn't. But if Palestine is the only issue you care about, it makes sense to not vote.

Yes, blame the voters. That will surely make them change and help win the next election for Democrats. /s

We probably shouldn't, but this is a terrible example why.

https://youtu.be/YmK24VAaZrg

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/reasonable_reliance

Yeah, since most people have a circular hole just like me, I am telling them that Linux does not fit. What is strange about that? Especially in the context of the original comment I relied to about people moving to Linux from Windows due to end of support.

I probably should have spent more time selecting a distro in the first place, but I don't have the patience to start over.

Sure, but that's like saying that windows doesn't work well on a raspberrypi. You put an operating system on badly supported hardware and you're going to have problems. Not much windows or linux can do about that. The major difference in this case is that the issue is with the hardware vendor NVIDIA, the trillion dollar company that ignored and refused to support Linux for more than a decade.

Again, I have hardware that I am selecting an OS for. What do I care how it runs on HW I don't have or whose fault it is?

You can use Heroic Launcher to manage all your other games

I will give it a try when I have time.

like Red Alert 2, like you said. Old games don't run well on modern Windows, so you'll need to mess with things to get it working possibly.

Honestly, RA2 feels like the exception that proves the rule since I probably spent more time tinkering with it on Windows and it run better on Linux.

Arch

I said I wanted to spend less time tinkering 🤣

My point is not that I want it now, but that I wanted a smooth transition to it when it is ready.

Yeah, I loved what I saw of Cosmic, so I figured picking Pop! OS would mean I would eventually get it when it was stable without much work.

Idk, last time I tried to switch to Linux, I chose OpenSUSE and managed to brick my install by enabling encrypted grub. Now sure, on one hand it's skill issue to click a setting I did not fully understand. On the other hand, why is there a UI toggle that can brick my install without warning? I expected UI to be mostly safe and command line to be dangerous.

After that, I wanted a n00b friendly distro.

You can add any exe to steam library and set there to hae proton to run it. The hard ones are those that have a setup.exe, there you have to change the path to exe that is to be executed after you have run the setup exe using steam. The correct exe can be found in the corresponding c drive hidden deep in your home dotfiles.

Thanks for the tip.

I agree that games for windows are more easy to run on windows. Only fair comparison is, comparing it how windows handle running Linux games/software. One can say, yea, there is WSL. But you can do exactly the same on Linux using a windows VM and RDP to draw the program window directly into a window in your display manager

I don't really care about what is fair. I care how well the OS can do what I want it to do. I have never seen a Game that run on Linux but not on Windows, so this is irrelevant to me. Playing Windows games is one of my use-cases. If windows is better at it, I don't really care why.

I guess the issue is, that mint is not on wayland yet

Yeah, I figured as much. I tried to install Pop! Os before falling back onto mint when installation failed for some reason and I couldn't be bothered to troubleshoot it.

apps are as bad on adapting to zoom settings as they are on windows (it is bad there as well)

I never had an issue with this on Windows outside a few Games.

proto.db is your friend, but yea that is valid, some games only work using a proper window VM, at least

I was so far able to get all of them working in Wine but it's just a waste of my free time to do that for every game.

i do not like flatpak, because it does not see mounted ISOs per default (and you only have this issue because you decide to use flatpak for which there is no such thing on windows)

Everyone so far recommended flatpaks. Idk. Why is there more than one way to install them in the first place?

shit just works until it doesn’t (any OS)

Yes, except on windows it takes on average about a year for an issue to pop up. On Linux, I had issue before I finished installing the OS.

Hmm, I didn't realize that is an option. I will try when I have time.

Most of your problems are probably down to NVIDIA 🙁

Possibly, but it doesn't really change that things that just work on Windows (e.g. your preferred choice of GPU and games) doesn't on Linux.

As for wine settings, why are you messing with wine when you have steam? Are your games supported?

Admittedly, I only tried 2 games on steam. One worked flawlessly. The other one was Red Alert 2 that does not work flawlessly even on modern Windows.

Most of my games are either on GOG or even more often, just random exe downloads from patreon and such since they are small games still in development.

The last category is what required a lot of messing with wine. Those also tend to not be listed on ProtonDB. I am still testing, installed Bottles yesterday to see if that helps.