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No we don’t, we have 400+ years of capitalist history to tell us what comes next; Oligarchy, neo-feudalism…

People: Cory Doctorow didn’t invent this concept. Read a book.

It will end up being like FreeVee on Prime for anyone who’s ever watched a movie or anything on there. They straight up randomly just inject ads in at random times, often not even during scene breaks. Characters are sometimes mid-sentence… Oh, and we’re back to the volume of the ads being 2x louder than the movie itself because I guess that law Congress passed way back in the day only applied to cable and broadcast TV.

It makes it nearly unwatchable. So get ready for that experience.

Man, the way that headline begins, I thought he had died.

On a macabre, but related, note: how long after Gabe’s death before Steam goes public and turns to shit? I’d give it 6 months.

Fair enough… It’s been nearly a month since I commented here so I don’t remember the exact situation, but if having a lot of updates was an issue, then yeah maybe not EndeavourOS. There may be LTS versions, but since it’s based on Arch, I’m not sure. I personally don’t mind it, and have yet to have a single issue with an update “breaking” something (though I have Timeshift set up to take a snapshot before updating just in case), but I guess

I could see someone being annoyed by having the little thing pop-up to tell you how many things you could update, but I kind of like it I think. It kinda feels like I’m very slowly, incrementally, making my laptop better, albeit usually in ways I can’t even perceive at the time.

But hey, everyone has their preferences. That’s why there’s a billion distros to choose from.

I second EndeavourOS. My first distro and it’s been a great experience. I’ve felt no desire to switch.

Steam/games have worked great.

Competitive chess just got a whole lot more interesting.

You can do all of that with most basic file explorers. I use Dolphin on KDE. Change the view to “details” and right click the top and choose which metadata fields you want to show up. Then you can sort or filter using metadata.

But regardless of what distro they use, they’re probably going to have to Google stuff every now and then. If they’re not ready for that, then maybe they’re not ready for Linux.

I switched a few months ago, and EndeavorOS is the only distro I’ve used and see no reason to switch. It’s been fantastic.

Recently switched to Linux a couple months ago and can’t recommend EndeavorOS more. It’s great.

I’ll look into it, thanks.

Tocuhpad worked fine with 3+ fingers when it was still running Windows (before I put Linux on it).

I’ll look into using KWin for this. As I said in the other reply, I’m using Wayland, so if that’s a feature from X, that could be why I can’t do it currently.

I’m on Wayland these days. I’ll keep that in mind though if I ever need to switch back to X for whatever reason.

FYI, I just switched to Linux few months ago from Windows and have been using Arch/EndeavorOS with KDE, and have had a wonderful experience.

I have a relative who’s been using Linux for years, and that’s the one they helped me install. I needed their help a handful of times the first couple of weeks, but since then I’ve been on my own and I love it.

Depends if you want bleeding edge or not. I don’t mind it, but I get update notifications like 3x a week.

I think I’ve started learning that I’m kind of ok with that barrier to entry… I mean, it’s pretty fucking low. It’s not that difficult to understand if you are willing to take 5 mins to learn how it works.

Don’t want to be gatekeeper-y or anything, but maybe if you can’t pass that simple test, then the overall discourse is better off without you in it.

Oh hell yeah, three/four finger touchpad gestures. Been wondering why tf I can’t do that on my laptop.

Edit: ah 3d gestures. The little hand showed 3 fingers, so maybe it’s kind of implementing it in the background as part of that fix? Or maybe it’s already a thing in kde and I’m just dumb lol.

If anyone is running kde on a laptop, and is able to use more than 2 fingers at once for touchpad gestures, please let me know how.

I had to get a plug-in to add click to play/pause so it’s like almost every streaming site. Also, I don’t believe there’s a way to get it to automatically play the next video file in the folder after one video finished, without making a playlist.

Small gripes, I know. I’m coming from MPC on Windows so I miss some of those features.

And yet at this moment it has +16 points.

There was a good month or so there where lemmy wasn’t inundated with far right nonsense… that was nice, wasn’t it? Sigh…

Hilariously, the data don’t back them up, my wife does research on this very topic for a company. The dollar signs do though, they have to justify the property expenditures.

No. That’s sunk cost fallacy.

If they’ve already bought and paid for the buildings, they are not losing more money by not using them.

In fact, they probably save money on things like maintenance, overhead, security on physical sites when they’re not being used. They could also be renting those spaces out, or straight up selling.

Ooohhh fanboys doing (presumably) unpaid PR work in the comments!

Does this mean lemmy has “made it”?

Reader mode is clutch for getting around paywalls. I’m just waiting for the day it suddenly stops working.