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I used to run the Liquorix kernel with Mint. Should work fine. It’s based on the latest upstream with some extra tuning for desktop specific performance. Usually only a day or two behind upstream latest.

1. I’m not a liberal

2. I don’t consider them to be more valuable

All I’m saying is that if we’re measuring the degree of the slide into fascism, one side is significantly more accelerationist about it. 10x is nothing to sniff at. I know ICE is just one symptom of the problem. Are we going to cherry pick symptoms of fascism, now?

I’m all for a socialist revolution in the US.

I also value nuance in the conversation about the state of things.

One of the more likely paths to community building in the states is through the union movement, so electing the people spending 10x as much to physically assault the working class and actively grinding down any protections unions have is, uh, still pretty bad.

I mean if we’re talking actual substance, the scale does come into play. It’s not a clean cut “they’re both equally evil” scenario unless you’re happy to ignore the difference between atrocities and vastly better funded atrocities. ICE funding increased by an order of magnitude under Trump 2. I mean it’s literally over 10x now what it was a decade ago, and almost all of that is from the budget bill from 2025

The language itself is not hard. It’s reading other people’s code written in it that is hard.

So basically like any other programming language.

Math is math

I would say probably the Spanish-American War.

Remember: the Maine was a pretense for continued expansionism.

Just threw up in my mouth a little

Yeah, if they were just running it locally off a GPU it would be cooler

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Only 5.4 hours before you hit a UUID collision. That’s insane

I have the same preference, but companies keep giving me macbooks to use for work no matter how many times I ask for a cheaper (or better specced at the same price) Linux laptop.

If you don’t upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don’t need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.

You should really try Kodi. There are a ton of alternative theme options for it and the video player built into it can play anything

Sure we do. Just only in and around cities

Yeah. It’s improved by leaps and bounds since DXVK and VKD3D came into existence. Wine was already incredibly robust and powerful with like 20 years of development on it, so Proton combining Wine with those other 2 projects for better DirectX support and then also managing Wine prefixes and tweaks automatically brought us from “if you’re persistent and tweak a lot of settings a good chunk of games work” to “most games just work”, and now even “if a game doesn’t work on Linux now it’s because the devs are blocking it actively”

And of course, Valve’s active financial support and direct contributions to all of the projects involved has improved the reliability and performance of all of the tech involved by leaps and bounds.

When Proton started, it was kind of a joke, killed the Steam Machine idea in large part because the game compatibility was so limited. A decade later, we have a multi billion dollar handheld PC market lead by the Steam Deck, a Linux handheld that can play tens of thousands of Windows games without issue, in some cases with better performance than their native platform.

Proton’s existence did not overlap the existence of the Steam Machine program, like at all. Proton’s initial release was on the 21st of August 2018. Steam Machines were first released in 2015 and had been delisted from Steam entirely by April 2018.

Wine existed back then, sure, but Steam Machines didn’t benefit from DXVK, VKD3D, or any of the myriad per-game and gaming-oriented tweaks that Valve and Codeweavers have made to Wine in the version bundled with Proton. For most people, the prospect of using Wine on a Steam Machine was a huge pain at best. Valve’s official position at the time was that they were helping pay for Linux ports of games.

About 20 years ago, I wanted to add recording studio capabilities to my gaming PC but I was a broke high schooler, so I installed Ubuntu Studio as a dual boot option alongside Windows XP.

Anyway, I installed Arch on my laptop about 3 years later in college using the Arch Book, which was essentially the same as the wiki’s install guide at the time.

I had a dual boot system with Windows and Mac (it was a hackintosh) as my home recording studio Pro Tools/gaming PC for about a decade, then my Windows install had to be wiped due to an issue I had, so I decided to just wipe the whole thing and go single boot with Linux Mint, so now I use Reaper for recording and Steam + Heroic + emulators are meeting all my gaming needs. I use the Xanmod kernel and the kisak-mesa PPA, and since making the switch I’ve upgraded essentially all of the parts in my PC, which is good because I first built it in 2013

It hurt itself in its confusion!

Yeah, exactly. I was trained on Pro Tools and Ardour worked OK and made sense to me, but Reaper feels more intuitive to use than either Pro Tools or Ardour.