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Do you find it's worth the loss of gravy potential?

Terminal -> foot Text editor -> neovim, or more recently I've been trying Helix.

Those are the biggest two. I also recommend mpv over VLC.

Massively so. I sincerely doubt their post was serious.

They're human beings who have chosen to sell their body and will to the state to be used as a cudgel to enforce the state's will through violence. We would prefer that they voluntarily stop participating in the oppression, but if they don't they are willingly taking up arms against the disenfranchised, which means I have less than zero sympathy when they get what's coming to them.

I've got some interesting information for you about how voting works

Those are all literally harm reduction buddy. If those are the only options available you'd take them because they all mean a better chance of better results in the future. Of course, in these situations you would definitely have better options, but you're deliberately framing it like there are no others. So are you comfortable saying you'd leave your friend alone with the bottle of vodka, let the woman get disemboweled, and not recommend the sport with helmets?

This is such a dumb take. You can't say "thirty years of harm reduction brought us here" with the implication that if Republicans won every election in the time frame things would somehow be better, unless you're actually just a right wing voter.

I'll say it for the thousandth time: voting in national elections in no way affects your ability to do other activism. If your argument is along the lines of "voting for the worst option will unite the resistance and we'll make real change", well, I hope you realize that that "real change" is bloody revolution with an uncertain result.

In FOSS, community & volunteer made software, yes, there is onus on you as the user to do a bare minimum of effort. You have to meet the developers and the software where it is.

I very literally said "GUIs are better but harder to implement." The second half of that sentence is not trivial.

If you want to customize and tweak things in the guts of a program (like OP does for this discussion), you can actually do it with FOSS applications. But expecting developers to expose every configurable option with a GUI would massively slow down the pace of development. Making them available in config files is a nice compromise between doing all that work and not exposing the option at all, in which case you'd need to actually patch the executable or otherwise modify the source code.

I'm not discouraging people from working on GUIs. I'm just pointing out the fact that if an app doesn't expose a setting you want to change, your options are a) complain that the dev hasn't implemented that, b) change it yourself which would be hugely easier if you looked the documentation, or c) find another app. Saying "the onus isn't on me" doesn't work when you don't pay for the software and the person who wrote it is a volunteer, it just makes you an entitled asshole.

Okay if finding the file is the problem I assume you're just allergic to documentation, which, yeah, would make configuring things pretty annoying.

Hypothetically yes it would be great if all settings were easily discoverable and all users could easily make all their software work exactly how they want. In practice you're asking for a huge amount of development by unpaid volunteers whose time could be (and is) going to, for example, the actual features or configuration options that you're trying to set in the first place.

Most apps with GUIs do expose most settings that "laypeople" would use, anyway. OP is literally asking to be able to run custom scripts from context menus, I'd love to see your suggestion for implementing a clean and user-friendly GUI for that.

Well, sometimes it's gonna be. What if there's a field that can take an arbitrary string? You would rather input that string into a styled form input with some buttons to click than use a text editor for a second?

Editing a config file takes a few seconds. Implementing a GUI takes hours of unpaid labor, and depending on the case the UX in the end might be almost identical.

That's generally the function of any state. I mean, it might be written down as something else, but that's what all states become once they gain their monopoly on violence.

The problem is not the organization or lack thereof, the problem is that someone in your household buys too many niche specialized single-purpose kitchen tools. Wtf is that thing with the green handle?

I try to donate any kitchen tool that I haven't used in a year or two.

First of all, many games can very easily be built and packaged for Linux, devs just don't target it as often because it's a fraction of the market share.

But as for Windows-only games... It used to be because functions games were trying to access simply didn't exist in Linux. Wine is a translation layer that could help with that, but it was both underfunded and had a general focus on all windows apps, not just games.

However these days, thanks in no small part to Valve bankrolling the Proton project -- a gaming-specific branch of Wine that has also contributed plenty of improvements back to Wine itself -- virtually any game you care to play will run on Linux. At this point, if a game doesn't run, it's because the publisher or developer is choosing to not let it run -- likely because of specific anti-cheat software. In the case of Easy Anti-Cheat games like Fortnite and Apex Legends, EAC runs fine on Linux, but the devs chose explicitly to turn off Linux support.

Sway has been super solid since before Hyprland even existed.

My two favorites:

Santa Claus Go(es) Straight To The Ghetto by James Brown

Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

The biological hypothesis is that they look like an ass on your chest. Asses are visually arousing for males for what I hope are obvious reasons.

Not to mention bank and corporate bailouts. Socialism for the rich, harsh darwinism for the poor.

GNOME on desktop is built for keyboard-centric workflows, it really shines when you don't need to use the mouse. I'll also say that the official extensions do not break, that's why they're official. Third party extensions can and do break and have weird wonky behavior, because they're not up to the same standards.

It's certainly not for everyone, but a big part of the reason some people have such negative views of it is because they install a bunch of third party extensions to change it into something it was never designed for, and then inevitably there are bugs or conflicts or updates break some of them. A vanilla GNOME environment with maybe a couple judiciously picked third party extensions is a very comfy experience.

Unless you're barely meeting the minimum specs for a game, on a properly configured system any impact on game performance between the two should be a rounding error.