Yet Another Electron Shit probably.

Is this She-Ra?

Can you showcase this specific feature you are asking about? Maybe other software or platforms have it under different names or a different solution.

Lemmy pretty much converted me from Windows to Linux within a year of API-gate.

Average Canonical employee post.

Are you plugging in a headset through jack or USB? Or are you letting the speakers of your laptop do the work?

I know you’ve hopped from Mint to PopOS to Bazzite since, but I had a hard time getting built in speaker audio working on my laptop as well with Mint. I’d probably go with arch or something other bleeding edge.

What if you boot a windows installation, from an external drive or something? Does the sound come back?

I already use super+meta+arrows to move/tile windows around in xfce (modified it a bit from how it behaved in win10), but I was wondering if a tiling manager could elevate the experience.

How do you use it? Do you need to use hot keys constantly?

I just use a windows laptop for those occasions.

What mouse is that?

This is a joke comment, right? I upvoted it because it has to be a joke.

DNS provider? Plenty.

This is it. Exactly it. Internal IT management wants a good, centrally managed system to lock down and control corporate devices. Heck, corporations often even contract this task (and help desk) to management companies.

Let’s assume the tools and the experts are there to perform these remote management shenanigans, after this it only comes to “money talks”. Don’t have to replace a 2-4yo laptop with a new one if the old one still performs fine for another 2-4 years. So then you have to weigh the cost of expertise against slower amortization.

My company disabled VPN access for anything but macOS and Win11. Because even though the VPN we use is mandated to be used with a closed source app, and the app has a Linux version, the IT dudes couldn’t exit vim when asked to manually edit /etc/environment

I disagree. Majority of average office workers do not use CAD software. It’s not a hurdle to widespread adoption.

Whatever you do, don’t switch to the react start menu OS.

Stay on win10 with an ltsc version, or don’t. Get a second SSD or your crotch goblins mom’s laptop that you install Fedora, LMDE or another “easy” distro on to experiment with. Either way, you are not in a rush. Win10 support ending is not as imminent.

Honestly, at 1.5 months it’s hard. Really hard. But once you get the pattern down and sleep schedule starts stabilizing, say 4-6 months in, it may be your most productive time when you know the kid is asleep for the next few hours.

This is how I’ve learned to solder and build mechanical keyboards during the first kid hitting that age# and ditched ms shit for Linux during the second. There’s always other challenges, but not having to deal with a user hostile OS reduces stress tremendously.

As in abandonware? Or delisted due to cultists? Either way, the answer is yes.

We don’t disagree. Our approach is just different. Neither of us are throwing much money at these companies.

Just the other day I’ve bought the FO4 GOTY edition for (checks email) C$13.37 (lol), which included all DLCs, and I thought it was a fair price for the quality of the game and content it provides. With the 30% cut that steam takes, I hope Bobby or Todd or whoever is in charge now is happy.

I’m a Linux user as well (arch btw) and I just look at protondb and https://areweanticheatyet.com/ as a reference. If something comes up as less than stellar, I’ll just skip purchasing it.

Longest I had to tinker with were Project Zomboid (due to ancient gfx before I bought a new one) and Jedi Fallen Order (just to fine tune for performance/fidelity, took about 15 minutes).

I understand if you regularly go for games that require a lot of tinkering you might need more time though, but the Steam return is 2hrs of played time, not 2hrs of owning the game.

Right. But again, that’s on the individual for buying it for loads of cash upon release. The writing was on the wall for all these shitty AAA producing companies for years, yet the preorder FOMO train never stopped.

I agree about piracy/cracks for stuff that you already bought, but the publisher broke it in some way. But these are the exception, not the norm.