I can go weeks, dozens of sleep cycles and never see a hint of instability with my Arch daily driver. It only needs a reboot after update and didn’t even ask for it.

My windows computer (work, 2025 lenovo, fresh install) can’t make it an hour without explorer crashing. They also fucked up task manager… The latest new bug is right and left click getting swapped requiring a reboot. I never imagined that was even possible.

The labor cost though, it’s at an all time lo… Wait no that’s gone up… What are they even doing?

Something like business metrics being measured in board salary $/frame-hour?

Yes but we’re in the bait and switch phase of it. They’re pushing the AI responses at the top of search to cut down the through clicking to Wikipedia. They’re trying to capture behavior by being the lowest effort route to an answer. They’re gambling that people will forget these other sites and then stop donating. Then it’s to the courts until they’re too broke to keep the servers online.

The information will still be free, but maybe obfuscated enough that most people accept [erratic] information as a service.

His work on malaria in Africa focused on bed nets to the explicit exclusion of larvacide control of mosquitoes. Millions of preventable cases over the last 30 years.

Then there’s the circumcision to fight aids.

Guy’s a fuckwit.

Behind the bastards

This is why they want Wikipedia and internet archive, etc, killed off. They have it for their training data but they won’t have a profitable model via paid subscriptions without a monopoly on information.

I agree on the mechanics.

Game wikis and meta knowledge result from experimentation and lead to communities. Any game with a following organically develops this community and it’s part of the creativity that makes a game worthwhile for long-term players.

AI would simultaneously rely on that community’s knowledge base while precluding the players interactions with that community. These communities are already strained and AI adoption spells death to a games development because of this increased isolation. Veteran players and the communities are simply the best way to generate market interest in a game without a giant budget.

If a developer produces version 1.0 and this cycles through, the Dev has a hard choice about any patches that impact meta. Will the players get frustrated because it giant play the way there told it should? How will the AI understand the new stuff?

These thoughts aren’t fully fleshed out but it seems to me that AI game assistant would hurt small developers, hurt gaming communities, and concentrate the market even more on those with the biggest marketing budgets.

Windows 10 will still be usable after support ends. Security is the only concern, and not that big of one if you regularly back up. It may be a good idea dual boot with Linux on a separate drive while you hammer out the issues with whatever distro.

I personally think anything with plasma 6 will fit for interface coming from windows. Some sort of distro like Ubuntu or Debian that commonly has pre-packages in the wild would make sense.

But it peaked the same year Doom came out. Obviously Doom was the cause of the peak!

I should add, that as less people played Doom, violent crime reduced.

I never suggested it.

More or less,

Arch gave me some issues on install getting steam games to run on my main graphics card but since fixing then it’s been maintenance free. There were some other issues that resolved with system updates, e.g. HDR on Wayland/KDE but Plasma update fixed it almost a year ago.

I’m running AMD/AMD/ASUS RoG.

My windows dual bout however takes 5min for all the bootup apps to launch and explorer is unstable. Probably because of local account and some policies I’ve been locking AI and metrics down with. Also Office clock to run burns my cpu when at idle and it ignores the manual start setting in services as well as startup-apps menu. It’s just there for work.

Edit given below comments: I am NOT suggesting Arch for a beginner who wants simple and easy. Plenty of more beginner friendly distros will need even less maintenance.

It’s like picking between beige and off-white to give the living room a little ‘character’. I was thinking of maybe going with a taupe accent but it was overwhelming. Don’t want to offend anyone!

Non-pastel colors. My phone used to be fire orange on black and i loved it!

Really just personalization in general.

I despise Material You. Well, not Material You, but that it’s not optional. I miss non-pastel colors. I miss contrast. I miss better screen utilization.

Modern UIs have lots of functional improvements but visually they suck ass and they are an assault on customization.

A low place indeed when even the high seas deliver not your treasure.

Why the downvotes though!? This is GOLD!

🤣

I don’t think sarcasm is the problem. The bad actors are. In fact i think sarcasm is more necessary than ever:

1. If we don’t understand what is and IS NOT sarcasm, the opinions of bad actors won’t be laughed at. If they aren’t actively laughed at they’ll be encouraged by the idea that they’re being taken seriously.
2. If people don’t learn to recognize bullshit with friends(in a safe environment) then they’re going to fail to differentiate the truth elsewhere where it can truly hurt them and those around them.

1. This seems sarcastic. I can tell by the punctuations i am seeing.
2. It’s abit gay tho

Yeah that’s hard to see when i have to boot windows for work every weekday.

The issues are the little things, like 300ms lag here or there where things are instant on Linux. Or the flashing taskbar icon when an app wants your attention. Or the obfuscated settings. Or the ‘everything is an edge applet’. Or the cpu fans racing to send data back and forth with MS services. (Seriously try simplewall sometime. It’s scary to see the connections, and blocking them makes your computer silent)

Booting into Linux at the end of the day is such a relief every single time.

I just use it if the package/dependencies aren’t available or functional in the default arch repo. I like to be able to turn nuts and bolts but also avoid it when it’s inconvenient.

2 package managers is fine for me.

The desktop environment is just the graphical interface. The OS doesn’t handle the GUI(not directly), some people run Linux without a GUI at all, opting for life in the command line. (Don’t do that) Plasma is just a flavor of it that looks more windows like (but customizable beyond a windows user’s wildest imagination). Gnome looks more Mac like.

You might run across the term Compositor, this sits between the OS and the DE. IT handles graphical input(mouse, game controllers) and display. Wayland is newer with modern features, Xorg is technically more reliable but legacy and missing some modern elements. You don’t have to worry about this unless it comes up in a prompt when you install your distro. If it does, go with the suggested option in the prompt. Otherwise default to Wayland.