absolute workhorse of a card, still have one on a very old Dell with CachyOS on it.

CachyOS is also a fantastic distro. I use the CachyOS kernel on my NixOS laptop. And the recent CachyOS Protons on steam are great. Also have some great Arch repos. It’s just a great distro that tries to improve just about everything and does it well.

easily bypassed though. literally just refresh your browser a few times and it’ll stop asking you for 2FA.

it’s because with Archinstall it tells you what to do/setup as opposed to the user having to utilize something like the Arch Wiki to set it up. So it acts almost like any other distro install. It walks you through the process.

I would suggest when you decide to give Arch a go for the first time to start out with something like CachyOS to get your legs under you so you can easily understand it. That being said Arch is painfully easy to install now thanks to Archinstall but going the CachyOS route it’ll install the packages you need and then you can understand what you do and don’t need when it comes time to install regular Arch. Otherwise you might just install Arch and then wonder why some stuff doesn’t work because you didn’t install certain packages.

There are quite a few great linux content creators on youtube. The Black Don, Tony (his tmux config is top notch), typecraft, Diinki, Vimjoyer (who pretty much taught me how to use NixOS completely), and Veronica Explains.

Although Veronica is unfortunately taking time off because of the comments she receives which really sucks as her videos remind me of old episodes of the Screen Savers and Call for Help.

Love her videos. she got me hooked on DWM and ST.

I don’t know a single person that uses MX Linux and yet it’s always at the top of the distrowatch list

it’s never as simple as that. Sure you can take it over to continue maintaining it but you now also have to stay on top of git issues. I’ve known maintainers who are the only ones on a fork they took over so not only are they continuing to develop they’re now also the only one dealing with issue requests which can easily derail you from development. Sure there are ways to handle that and schedule it but a lot of people don’t do that and get burned out.

I mean I dealt with this myself. several months ago I built an extension for firefox that tied into lemmy and mastodon and I just abandoned it. I was spending more time dealing with users than actually working on it and just said screw it, this isn’t fun. So now I just make all my repos private.

Well they’re clearly not taking it all that seriously as it should be an Opt-IN feature, not an Opt-Out. They’re banking on a majority non tech savvy userbase to not even bother disabling it. fine, whatever, that’s on the user.

But it’s just more Firefox bloat that I have zero desire to deal with. If I wanted bloat in my browser I’d go use Vivaldi.

you don’t even need AI for that and can do it on your phone. Piefeed for example asks you when initially setting up an account “Hey do you want to see stuff about Trump, Musk, etc? no? cool we won’t show you that” and that’s it. works great.

I’ve played on one of the fan servers and it was fine. if XIV has burned you out, and honestly I don’t blame you, not sure you’re going to find what you’re looking for in XI.

remember XI is a pre-WoW mmo so that means it’s quite difficult when compared to modern MMOs and plays like other MMOs of the day i.e. Everquest, Anarchy Online, Ultima, etc.

You’re not going to find as many new players and other players are going to be literally years/decades ahead of you. I’d suggest you try one of the fan servers first to see if you like it before spending money on the actual servers/game.

that’s the thing about FFXIV it’s always had great music in it. the Shiva fight still being my personal favourite. I don’t play the game anymore, last expansion really turned me off it, but I might pick it up again one day. It’s not bad, but it can get boring once you wrap up an expansion.

“destroy cinema as we know it”

please, cinema has been destroyed for a good long while now and WB made good work of that themselves. yeah, lets go to the movie theatre to see yet ANOTHER reboot of the DC universe.

yeah +1 for Niri. I love it. in most cases I don’t even bother with workspaces anymore because of Niri, makes things easier and the vim nav is perfect. great documentation, it’s fast, and very easy to configure.

same. I looked at the under $12 for example and I own most of it.

there’s nothing there that makes me want to pull out my wallet. MAYBE Jurassic World Evolution 2. maybe. I’m just not seeing anything that I really want.

regardless if you switch distros or not it’s good practice to backup stuff to either a personal server or even a private git repo.

I distro hop every so often, heck just did it lastnight, and what makes it easy for me is using borg which backs up daily to my server. It backups personal files, ssh stuff, and some dotfiles. I also do a push to my private forgejo before hopping and that will be configs and what have you so when I’m on a new distro it’s just a matter of cloning that private repo and then accessing a recent borg backup and i’m good to go. For Arch based distros I use something called DCLI which backs up a list of packages I have installed so I can pull that down and then merge it to my system and it automatically installs the packages I want. All of this allows me from once spending a couple hours setting up a system to now a few minutes. Doing all this makes distro hoping a non factor for me.

also other than Nintendo a serious lack of exclusives/zero console sellers.

the PS5 has what? maybe 15 exclusives? less? whats’ the point? There’s nothing out on the PS5 that makes me say “I need to own this console” especially when many of their “exclusives” are now available on PC. I just wish they gave us Bloodborne.

I’ve owned every Playstation console with the exception of the PS5. I even had the PSP and the Vita which I adored. but yeah the PS5 is the first playstation console where I’ve said I don’t need to own it.

I’ve gotten more free games from EGS than buying anything and I don’t think I’ve ever bought anything on EGS. that’s all it’s good for to me.

nope it’s a GTX 3050 mobile. so a few years old.