Sometimes i really despise this hobby and the community in general. Masterpieces are rare by nature, so to expect exceptional at every step feels unfair and an impossible standard.
we really ought to celebrate and enjoy the good enoughs, and the deviants.. ain't nothing wrong in a 7/10 sequel that approached differently.
With the momentum that Mint already has, it has the highest chance of succeeding as the primary distro for Linux newbies in the coming years.
some long winded thoughts...
Like every PC Semi-enthusiast sufferer of Windows, when I was looking for a Linux distro to respite,
I deliberated way too long on which distro to use.
Finally I realized that the way I use Windows, I'll not be able to fully switch over to Linux anytime soon. So instead of burning midnight oil, one day i said fuck it, and installed Mint as a dual boot option. I spent quite a lot of time trying to make the Mint as close to my Windows setup as possible, but couldn't do fully. Plus the VKD3D performance penalty for Nvidia GPU in DX12 games meant I was never going to ditch Windows as my primary gaming OS.
so I'm not very knowledgeable about the Linux world, but I'm also not completely green. In my lifetime I have dabbled with trying out 4-5 distros either dualbooting or VMing, Ubuntu being my first experience.
But i feel like, as much as I love our Lord and Savior GabeN, what Valve's doing with Steam OS is not fully how I image a PC Linux Utopia vision looks like? Maybe i am not able to word it properly, my thought salad, but it feels like there is something missing in the Valve's approach to challenging Microsoft's grip on PC market
Agree 100%. The amount of "help" content and documentation, both formal and informal, for other distros doesn't even come close to that of Ubuntu. It's like tenfold more. And so 90% of it becomes immediately, if not applicable, alteast in the right direction, for Mint as well.
this comment was written on June 2025. So as of this day Mint is fabulous. And if I were to save a single distro from a burning building of all the popular distros, i would grab mint twice.
I know I know, there are many good distros, even texhnically better ones. But having used Mint as a secondary dual boot to my primary Windows, I have felt that Mint has been least annoying and actually worth retaining and updating and maintaining.
absolutely. sometimes things as simple as a one-to-one DM or email requires me to actually start writing first, to get my thoughts "on paper" first, in order to actually see through the word salad that my thought soup cooked up, and then sorting through the mess to get a coherent sentence or two in the final version that i actually send.
Tap on Someone's shoulder, pretend to start speaking but raising a finger weakly and opening the mouth a bit, then nod head in disbelief, turn around and walk away
Even before The Boys, I saw Karl in Almost Human. In pilot episode it was clear what a treat Karl is to watch act. Was very disappointed to find out the show got canned just after first season
Space Marshals 1 and 2
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Holy shit I am not able recall anymore decent games I have enjoyed on mobile! 😂
Well definitely ports of old games from other platforms, like Professor Layton and Ace Attorney series.
I mean the bitter truth is, mobile games nowadays are completely plagued with the same cancer of trying to sell you stuff inside the game. Virtually every "worthwhile" game on mobile has become a flea market in on itself. So even the decent games a chore to get through to the actual meaty part. I used to enjoy PUBGmobile and CODmobile with my friends but even that I stopped playing because it was just rinse and repeat live service model of trudging through gutter waste. It became just an obligation to my friends rather than anything I would enjoy so I quit.
Problem is that nobody takes mobile as a serious platform for gaming. And somewhat sad reality is that the huge user base you see in mobile space, especially Android, is coming from people who are not going to spend a single penny on anything software.
hey me too! Andromeda had such a tragic fate..
Sometimes i really despise this hobby and the community in general. Masterpieces are rare by nature, so to expect exceptional at every step feels unfair and an impossible standard.
we really ought to celebrate and enjoy the good enoughs, and the deviants.. ain't nothing wrong in a 7/10 sequel that approached differently.