Too many updates. I fear leaving a laptop in the drawer for a few months and then it crashes when I update it.
I've had that issue with Arch in the past, on a couple of my laptops that I don't use very often. Which is why I installed Nobara on them (gaming/multimedia-optimized Fedora). I update them every 2-3 months without any issues, and Nobara itself is rock solid like Debian, whilst still providing bleeding edge app versions like Arch.
Arch was great thanks to the AUR, but now that Flatpaks and containers have become so commonplace, I find myself using the AUR lesser and lesser.
My main Desktop is still on Arch (ArchLabs), but now that ArchLabs is no more, I might switch to Nobara on my Desktop as well.
LoL and WoW basically work perfectly on Linux (platinum rated). As for BG3, it works fine for the most part with Proton-GE / Proton Experimental. But since it's still very new though, expect bugs, but also expect the compatibility to get even better within the next few weeks.
My question then is "Well, do you game?"
Really though, the question shouldn't be "do you game", but "do you like tinkering around, fixing things, troubleshooting, and learning new things, in your free time? ", or, "do you like major changes, and having the patience to make a major change in your life work, or would you rather prefer familiarity and stability, a mindset of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'?"
If someone has been running Windows for 35 years and hasn't checked out Linux already in some capacity, I doubt they're the kind who likes change, the kind of person who likes to experiment and tinker. Personally, I wouldn't recommend Linux to them based on that reason, unless they're also the non-tech-savvy kind who have very simple requirements - like my Mum and Dad, who've been running Linux for over a decade now without any issues (because their requirements are very simple, so Linux fits their needs perfectly).
Also, since you're already on Fedora, you should check out Nobara, which is gaming-optimized Fedora-based distro made by GloriousEggroll, the guy who makes Proton-GE.
Interesting, never heard of ReviOS before. Is there a list of changes they've made? I looked thru their site and couldn't see any such details their docs. I'd like to know what sets it apart from the likes of Tiny11 and Ghost Spectre Superlite etc.
Why anyone still plays the ink jet game I do not fuckin know.
Space. At least for me, space is the reason. I'm flatting at the moment and can only keep the printer in my room, and it's already quite cramped with all my gear here. If I could get a compact color laser MFD within the same dimensions as my current Brother inkjet, I'd switch in a heartbeart. Most of the compact laser printers I've seen are either monochrome, or don't include form-feed scanning, or have some or the other shortcomings.
Just tested this - looks like it only works if you've got the direct link, if it's an album link (ie URL containing /a/), then it'll only show up as a link.
If you think about it, Twitter was a shithole and was in downfall long before Musk took over, and it's founder Jack Dorsey did very little to address it's many issues. Now that he's created Bluesky, you can bet that it's going to be yet another Twitter, just with a new set of clothes, pretending to be different. You can't trust these billionaires to run a decent service.
A fork bomb no longer works on modern distros which use systemd btw, since systemd imposes limits on the user and system cgroups (IIRC, a user can't have more than ~10,000 tasks or something).
This could get your Spotify account banned, use at your own risk.
A better option is to use Spotube, a fully opensource Spotify alternative, which combines the audio streams from YouTube with public metadata from Spotify.
The other comments explained what a launcher is so I won't go into that.
Instead, I'm here to plug one of my favorite launchers, AIO Launcher, which is a very different kind of launcher compared to the others.
Here's what it looks like, on my Galaxy Fold 4:
AIO stands for all-in-one, and as you can see from the screenshot above, it has a lot of things, which is handy because I don't need to open a bunch of different apps to get my news, weather, emails, calendar events, notifications etc - all of it is on my home screen, which makes it very convenient and saves me a lot of time.
Hah, same here. Nobara for me and Zorin for mum, works like a charm. If only mainstream OEMs pre-installed Linux and promoted it more... But I guess this is fine too. One day, when I have enough capital, I'll launch my own Linux Desktop company and be the change I want to see.
I've had that issue with Arch in the past, on a couple of my laptops that I don't use very often. Which is why I installed Nobara on them (gaming/multimedia-optimized Fedora). I update them every 2-3 months without any issues, and Nobara itself is rock solid like Debian, whilst still providing bleeding edge app versions like Arch.
Arch was great thanks to the AUR, but now that Flatpaks and containers have become so commonplace, I find myself using the AUR lesser and lesser.
My main Desktop is still on Arch (ArchLabs), but now that ArchLabs is no more, I might switch to Nobara on my Desktop as well.