nottheengineer @ nottheengineer @feddit.de

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I disagree, it just does the steps in the manual for you. You still need to know what's happening.

I tried using it, got a bunch of python stack traces and eventually decided to do it manually. The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

An installer needs to catch stuff like that, so archinstall is beta at best.

Seems plausible, I found americans to be much more open towards strangers when I was there in 2016.

I fully agree. People seem to forget that they are controlling 1.5 tons of steel at a ridiculous speeds and can easily kill someone if they move their hand just a bit too far.

I much prefer natural scrolling for trackpads since I can do the same as on my phone: Flick it into the direction I want the content to go and then catch it once it's where I want it to be. Even though I use different fingers, I feel like the muscle memory transfers.

I'm pretty sure windows defaults to that ever since they introduced a proper trackpad API, which was 2016 iirc.

For scroll wheels I use traditional. It's what I've been using all my life and I found no reason to switch.

In germany, you need to take an 8 hour first aid course to get your driver's license.

It's better than nothing, but it's been 5 years for me and I'm not sure if I could still do it properly.

I second the "Do not use manjaro". It has incredibly many issues that arch doesn't have and the only advantage is that it comes with an installer.

Arch with nvidia is a bit of a pain though. The nvidia driver updates break my system or some games every 1-2 months.

Amd what do they do if the battery runs out? Suspend to disk?

Yes, steam will create a prefix for any game or exe that you add when you first launch it. That's why the first launch always takes a minute or two.

The same exe can be used by windows and proton, so having a dual-boot setup with all games on the windows partition is feasible.

But there's one very important thing about that: Turn off fast boot in windows before mounting the drive in linux, otherwise you will have to wait hours when booting windows the next time (which can't be cancelled because microsoft).

I expected better of valve. They have the stable and beta channels so they should use them without exception.

The beta users would've created enough crash reports for them to notice that 3.6 isn't stable yet.

They had three days of load testing and the infrastructure still failed on launch.

Sounds like the devs knew it wouldn't work but management insisted on launching anyways.

For proton games, yes. I still have some games in my old windows installation and they work just fine.

If you manually set your games to use proton, that will work for all of them. For the ones that have a native linux version, steam will detect that you have the windows version and download the extra files needed for the linux version automatically.

Yeah that makes sense, I started out on the deck so I'm used to the shortcuts. I also played a ton of elite dangerous which does something similar to fit 50 controls into 10 buttons.

If you try to call someone from firefox, you get a message to use edge or chrome instead. So you'll need to get a chromium-based browser anyways if you ever need to do that.

I wonder how many people actually use tabs. I find having a split file browser much more important for moving files.

It might be time to consider using a distro that isn't ubuntu.

Also the part where they remove some features with every release to dumb it down?

Enshittification has collapse as its fourth phase, but we tend to forget that.

Pretty much every distro supports flatpak and butterFS and for most of them, there's a plasma wayland variant.

If you want to learn a bit about linux in general and the things that you might care about when picking a distro in the future, do a manual arch installation. There's an install script, but you still need to know exactly what you're doing. It just does the steps outlined in the installation guide for you.

Arch is also one of the best distros for gaming because it gets new updates first, which is great when game updates break something and your OS already has the fixes for it.

It relaxes and grounds you. I started during a particularly stressful exam phase and it helped with managing stress.

That's honestly one of the best parts about it. Reading error messages and thinking logically is boring compared to trying to guess how this stupid LLM got the idea to spit out what it did.