Quazatron @ Quazatron @lemmy.world

A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that like

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E1M1 but rendered on a SoundBlaster AWE32 in full MIDI glory.

So... did they find any new interesting digits there or just the usual 0 to 9?

One more vote for the original Doom, running in a modern engine with some of the colossal WADs released over the years.

It loads instantly, gets you fighting in no time. You know the rules, yet you still get surprised by one of these guys with a machine gun.

Compare that to a modern game, where you have to wait for it to update, compile shaders, the studio logo video, the proprietary launcher and the main menu before you are allowed to do anything.

This is looking like a boys only club, so I'll go with Tilda Swinton.

The amounts of copium that Windows users are willing to swallow to avoid changing are reaching stratospheric levels. Inertia is one hell of a drug.

"To err is human, but it takes a computer to really fuck things up"

First time using Microsoft products, is it?

You're right. One of them enjoys a cigar and shooting bad guys with a machine gun (even if he never hits anything but scenery) and the other loves a nice Chianti with grilled brains. I was of course refering to the former.

Here are the ones that don't get uninstalled from my potato box:

• Sable
• Ion Fury
• Torchlight
• Ziggurat
• Baba Is You
• Edritch
• Fez
• Plunge
• Valley
• Into The Breach
• Journey

(Disclaimer: some are very old, some may not be indie, eh, I did my best.)

The one that loved it when a plan comes together.

It's always darker just before it goes pitch black. -- John "Hannibal" Smith

Don't switch based on hype.

Put your chosen distro on a USB pen and boot from that. Try to do the activities you usually do, see if it works for you.

If you feel comfortable, make the switch. If you have any doubts, get a second disk and install Linux in it so you can have a fall back plan.

Mr. T.

My 73 year old mother never had a computer before when she asked me for one, so she could talk online with her friends.

I installed Xubuntu and it has been working wonderfully for her. She just browses the web, types some poems using Libre Office and plays solitaire.

I just have to do a system update every year or so.

She's now 87.

Save Ferris' cover of Come On Eileen, by Dexy's Midnight Runners.

I recommend creating 3 partitions. One for UEFI, one for /boot and one for LVM.

Inside the LVM you can assign volumes with complete flexibility. You can expand and shrink volumes. You can leave space unallocated and allocate it when the need presents itself. You can combine multiple disks in a single volume. You can do RAID over LVM or the other way around.

Or you can go with ZFS or BTRFS, they have subvolumes and other nice features built in.

What you don't have is to be stuck with fixed layout partitions anymore.

It blows my mind that we had multiple modern ways to setup volumes in Linux (LVM, ZFS, BTRFS) for decades, yet people keep using partitions like it's 1990.

It's fun to discover new distros, but in the long run it is more important to keep my workstation working.

I keep an old laptop around for trying other distros.

You brought back traumatic memories I had successfully repressed.

Bye then. Best of luck out there, friend.