First sentence of each paragraph: correct.

Basically all the rest is bunk besides the fact that you can’t count on always getting reliable information. Right answers (especially for something that is technical but non-verifiable), wrong reasons.

There are “stochastic language models” I suppose (e.g., click the middle suggestion from your phone after typing the first word to create a message), but something like chatgpt or perplexity or deepseek are not that, beyond using tokenization / word2vect-like setups to make human readable text. These are a lot more like “don’t trust everything you read on Wikipedia” than a randomized acid drop response.

I played FF7 only and loved it. I did not care for the first remake game, and have not finished it. Hanging at like 70% complete.

Darktable.

I recommend sticking with it and customizing the visible tools to your liking. Especially if you’re not trying to power user, there’s not that much to it.

It’s not super “discoverable” meaning it’s hard to just sit down and use it if you have never done it before, but it IS effective.

What a fat old piece of trash.

Just two cents on “downloading”. System setup and programs are basically all from your distro’s package manager with sometimes a couple of things from GitHub if you have particular needs.

For the rest of stuff (media / files / more) there is no windows defender and I don’t personally try to chase down antivirus. You can totally get malicious stuff out there so maybe don’t click pop ups and download everything the pirate bay has to offer, but security is more baked into the Linux permission structure and user space. Find a guide and do it “the Linux way” if you decide you need to go set up deluge or transmission with a private tracker to get some Linux ISOs for personal use.

Some people do a lot of sweating over the security of the system, but I would generally say if you need that… you’ll know it. Sure a VPN is a good idea (I don’t use one for anything), good permissions are important (I don’t play the immutable OS game), and encryption may have a place for you (or maybe not, not everyone needs a luks filesystem system encrypted at rest); but you’re making a setup that you can use / prefer to use. Make your own call, basically anything on the beaten track is safe enough and sane enough.

8 up zero down yo. Maybe you’re using those features, but looks like it’s not exactly controversial not using them.

Y tho?

I’ve done split view on purpose like twice ever. The bubble mode and most split view things are an unwelcome accident IMO.

Voyager Mobile is short swipe to upvote and long swipe to downvote. Sometimes mistakes happen.

Bro I can’t finish getting myself into it

Hippos?

And it won’t give you a vibrate on pick up or push notifications to attached devices like your car… Very cool :/

I think you’ll still want filetype indent on just as a matter of principle.

Weird suggestion: have you rebooted lately? I find sometimes (rarely) I get a file that will fight me on indent until reboot for some reason, and I think it’s related to python updates but not sure. I’ve otherwise have never had problems.

Any particular reason to make the switch? Arch is solving all the problems for me that I know I have… But maybe there are others

It really is super good

“I wish I knew the difference between fourth and forth”

“I wish I had 5 wishes”

Gotta get that sweet sweet pandoc-bin

Yeah I run an xrandr profile generated by arandr. It just seems really brittle. My monitor is also my kvm switch between machines so there’s a lot of input swapping and it doesn’t always behave.

I was unaware of no desktop mode, I’m using dwm but I find occasionally if a monitor gets jostled it will lose the input. Going back to login screen on my work PC fixes the problem but on dwm only it’s a reboot. I suppose this allows fixing that problem…

You missed the part where you either sign in with your Microsoft account or cut your Internet, remove the webcam, fake your own death, and do the secret tap code in the bios to just have the OS without letting Microsoft into your butthole.

It’s a lot easier to do the former than the latter. Windows fixes a lot of things about the experience, but maybe not the exact flavoring / theming.

Linux you can’t say anything about the experience besides sweeping generalizations by distro.