I’ve used Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and Manjaro. All viable options. I’m currently using Mint on my daily driver, Ubuntu on my HTPCs, and Debian on my servers.

I liked the rolling release aspect of Manjaro, but I missed having a system that works with DEB files. I’m not a fan of flatpak/snap/appimage due to the size (I’ve often had to use slower internet connections). I settled on Mint for my daily driver because it has great and easy compatibility for my hardware (specifically an Nvidia GPU). It worked okay on Manjaro as well, but I’ve found it easier to select and switch between GPU drivers on Mint. And Cinnamon is my favorite DE, and that’s sort of “native” to Mint.

I’m using vanilla Ubuntu on my HTPCs because I have Proton VPN on them, and it’s the only setup I’ve found that doesn’t have issues with the stupid keyring thing. And Proton VPN’s app only really natively supports Ubuntu. The computers only ever use a web browser, so the distro otherwise doesn’t matter that much.

I’m using Debian on my servers because it’s the distro I’m most familiar with, especially without a GUI. Plus it’ll run until the hardware fails, maybe a little longer.

Then sell it to a demolition derby show.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. When you look through the classics, they’re not “typical”. Hell, one of the most iconic games involves a plumber fighting a punk-rock turtle to save a princess, with a variety of mushrooms both helping and hindering.

Can confirm it works on Linux.

Two teams that alternate between playing the heroes and the rat guys. Playing the rat guys is a little tricky at first, but I’ve had fun with my buddies on it.

The new versus mode is probably where it sort of matters, but I agree. In any case, I’ll be testing it out tonight.

Check out GetSimple. It’s a flat file system (so no database to mess with) and can run with just basic PHP (though it’ll guide you through installing modules if you want fancy urls, etc). Super easy to set up. I’ve been using it for years without a hitch.

It’s not dumb to feel sad about it. Enshittification is sad, especially when you see it from the inside.

Yeah, in Eternity, they show up as thumbnails and you have to click them to see them properly. Better than nothing, though!

Note that I’ve had some issues with images from some hosts not showing up, but the “big” ones (e.g., giphy) seem fine.

Any time I’ve tried uploading them, they are converted to jpg files. The only way I’ve been able to include them is by referencing images that are already hosted somewhere.

For reference, the way to include an image is:

![alt text](http://link.to/image.gif)

Beelink Mini PCs or ones like that, plus a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo.

I did, but I already paid for two years (plus did a bunch of work to migrate files over). So I’ll be here for a bit.

Game of Game of Thrones.

And the sequel, Game of Game of Game of Thrones.

And the sequel to that, Thrones 3.

I switched to Proton about 6 months ago.

Wish I had waited. Ah well.

What DE are you using? I noticed that under XFCE, I have to use the display-managed suspend option, rather than the “system-managed” one (not sure why there’s a distinction).

This is probably the best way to go. You won’t be able to beat the flexibility for the price.

Not as far as I’m aware. The Linux community is largely cooperative, the idea is that everyone can choose the DE they like best. I don’t remember seeing anything about Cinnamon trying to bring back an older GNOME version - you might be thinking of MATE (though I’m not aware of ANY friction there either) considering MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.

It’s just called “Driver Manager” in Mint, I’m guessing it’s specific to the distro. I’ve tried a few different ones, and it’s by far the easiest to switch compared to any other. I think it can theoretically be installed on any Ubuntu-based distro, but I don’t know of anything for EndeavorOS.

Good to know! I haven’t had any AMD GPUs, but it was my understanding they’ve been well supported for a while.

Unfortunately, the open source Nvidia driver isn’t suitable for gaming yet. But some distros (Mint at least) provide an easy GUI to switch to proprietary drivers. Very easy tinkering, as these things go.

AMD is very well supported in Linux, especially on older hardware. If you use something beginner-friendly like Mint, you shouldn’t have to do anything special to get it working well.