Fedora Workstation. Gnome is pretty great on the eyes, and there’s a healthy Libadwaita apps ecosystem that is just *chefs kiss*

ElementaryOS also looks great for the system and core apps, although there’s not really a third party app ecosystem that fits with the Pantheon theme, unfortunately.

Making the sentence make sense doesn’t undo that joke. It still says broken arm.

Ray tracing works fine, I don’t know what you mean?

I don’t have a Logitech keyboard, but I find it hard to believe something as simple as a keyboard doesn’t work. I have a Logitech mouse and that’s completely fine.

My Xbox controller connects just fine with no special behaviour required.

Windows only software mostly works flawlessly. Almost all of my games are “windows only”, and they all work fine. Which is astonishing, really. How many other OSes virtually flawlessly run software from other OSes without any tinkering?

It’s amazing. Everything just works. Plug and play. No headaches like with Windows.

Lmao, are you seriously salty that I gave my experience after you gave yours? Grow up little man.

Governments and markets are saying so.

Well yeah but they know their days of selling that are numbered, at least for lots of markets. If they can get people onto hydrogen they’ve got more money coming in for decades.

Huh. I find windows way harder to figure out. I guess it depends on DE, but Windows is kinda just layers of cruft, with old confusing menus mixed with newer ones, installing apps in particular is a confusing mess.

Updates breaking things I guess depends on distro. If you go with something like Arch you’re gonna have a bad time, but that’s on you for installing Arch. If you installed Debian or something, stuff will break faaaar less often than with Windows.

Video drivers not being built in is an odd one, because… they aren’t in Windows, but are in Linux, assuming you use AMD or Intel. With Nvidia it’s usually a case of typing in “Nvidia” in your software centre, clicking install, then being done.

Support can be hard or easy, that’s very true. Although most stuff I see in terms of windows support is “have you tried a system restore? Oh it didn’t work? Ok reinstall Windows then”, which isn’t very helpful at all.

I had an update completely and permanently bricked my webcam, and another that fucked up my audio (but that eventually got fixed months later).

Linux on desktop is amazing. My experience has been absolutely flawless.

Wait wait wait, you’re telling me that taking electricity, sending it along wires, generating hydrogen with it via hydrolysis, packaging it, compressing it to an extreme degree, physically transporting it, putting it in pumps, pumping it into your car, then doing reverse hydrolysis to charge a battery that then powers an electric motor…

Is less efficient than sending electricity along some wires to your car battery, to then drive an electric motor?

I’m shocked!

Huh? It’s big oil and the like who are pushing hydrogen over electricity.

And the problem with hydrogen is largely to do with the laws of physics, so it’s unlikely to change soon.

in the Gnome multitasking settings, there’s an option to disable hot corners. I don’t know why these settings don’t show up, when you search for ‘hot corners’ in settings, though.

Huh, you’re right. I type “hot” and it turns up, but as soon as I type “hot c” it disappears. I also tried “hotcorner” and still nothing. How strange.

If I remember to I’ll do a bug report tonight 🤓

E: known issue, and it’s not limited to just this search by the looks of it

Yup. The one thing that is certain is that you cannot just leave companies to self-regulate.

These companies 100% said they’d be carbon neutral by 2030 in order to take the wind out of the sails of people pushing for carbon taxes, rather than because they actually intended on doing it.

Yup. Literally just add “To” before the “blame” and it suddenly becomes a lot more parsable.

Good video though.

That all gets better due to having far more users. You can’t just say “let’s ignore adoption rate” - that’s a pretty huge deal. It’s by far and away the main thing that holds them back.

And again, they were fine with SMS, which is far far worse.

Some level of privacy, yes. Solely in WhatsApp-signal chats. And users can be notified of that, like they were with SMS.

But you know what the alternative is? Nobody using signal. And that’s objectively worse.

Cross-compatibility with WhatsApp would mean way more people on signal, and way more people willing to try, meaning more signal-signal chats. Meta would scrape metadata like when two accounts send messages and the like, but the contents of the chats would of course still be E2EE.

Signal-SMS is FAR less private, but they were fine with that for years, and people are still angry about it being removed.

Cross-compatibility removes the biggest hurdle for Signal - the chicken and egg problem of nobody using signal because they can’t talk to anyone. It would act as a Trojan horse for pushing signal-signal communication.

I’m a signal donor and while I disagree with your point regarding UI (have you used in the past couple of years? It’s went from feeling dated to feeling pretty modern), I agree with the rest.

Even worse, though, is that the EU offered them the opportunity to become relevant on a silver platter, by forcing WhatsApp to open up their app and be cross-platform with others who want to. Signal said no thanks.

I get it, WhatsApp stores metadata, and Signal doesn’t like that. But they were fine with (way way worse) SMS for a while? The day Signal chose that path was the day Signal willingly chose to be irrelevant for the vast vast vast majority of people.

I love this app but the way the project is managed baffles me sometimes.

“Jeff, why the living fuck have you tried to claim 5 femboy OnlyFans premium-tier subscriptions on your work expenses account?!”

sweating “uhhh… to… ummm… make sure it wasn’t CSAM…?”

“Oh! Nice work Jeff. Very proactive. For a second I thought something dodgy might have been going on.”

The absolute sass lol