I have a bunch of issues(some way smaller and borderline nitpicks) with windows, but I guess there’s some big ones:

1. Linux runs smoothly on older computers, even with KDE which everyone talks about as if it was heavy. Windows is a slug in comparison.

2. Linux is free, truly free. Microsoft can’t beat that.

3. Shit just works (unless you are on Nvidia…), don’t need to install drivers and shit like that.

4. most of the software you don’t get from a random website and they all update at once, rather than having each one update itself and only itself

Issue is that Immutable also conveyed a different type of information. When I first heard of it, I genuinely thought it was something like DeepFreeze for Windows

Yeah, I’m thinking about doing some really weird shit by sharing the steam folder between users and then mounting compatdata inside each /home so that save files from proton games are individualized.

Sadly this requires a more traditional distro instead of ChimeraOS or HoloISO, which I didn’t really want, but it offers more possibilities later down the line

The issue is that AFAIK there is no way to get an event when the Steam user is swapped

It depends on the game. If the game uses Valve’s recommended file path there’s no problem. If the game uses Steam Cloud it will sync your save file with what it should have.

Those distros are basically focused on offering a console like experience on Linux, as in, a machine that is hooked to a TV, has no keyboard or mouse and only method of input is a gaming controller. They all start directly into Steam Big Picture mode, and there’s a single system user, all users are Steam Users. This works, but has the issues with save files I’m trying to get a solution that hopefully doesn’t involve changing to a traditional distro

Afaik it isn’t an option in SteamOS/HoloISO/ChimeraOS and would require a more “traditional” distro to be used, which does fixes those issues, but now we have other issues, like how those distros aren’t made to be used as consoles, and there’s the issue with Steam Family Sharing (as I understand, you need to be logged with the Steam Account in each system user you wish to share the library with)

Btrfs is really cool, just a warning: I had a surprise when I found out the subvolumes make a device more of a hassle to mount externally, you can’t just put it on an external HDD enclosure and expect it to work as painlessly as it is with more “traditional” file systems, I had to mount each subvolume manually as GUI file managers only mounted the root.

It’s not complicated, but more than I’d hoped for.

I don’t really understand that argument, and I want someone to correct me:

If you were keeping your battery at the ideal charge (i.e. 20% to 80%) that means you are really only using 60% of your battery during its lifetime. I’ve been using my phone since July of 2021, always changing it to 100%, preferably only charging when it gets close to 0%. Using AccuBattery I get the battery stats and after 2 years and a half, the battery capacity is at 85%.

I still have 85% of usable battery, this is more than the 60% I’d get if I was using the battery ideally. So I don’t really get this argument about taking care of the battery cause it appears it would take a while before the battery is degraded enough to hold less charge than the recommended rate.

I’m mostly using Flatpaks on Tumbleweed, I only use the package manager if I can’t find a Flatpak version. Reason for that is that with Flatpak I can precisely know what I manually installed, as Tumbleweed lacks a proper easy way of getting a list of user installed packages

I love the minimize all windows button. It is so small and functional, I always use the KDE Widget that copies it, and IMO, KDE should use it by default

KDE has the option to disable middle click paste, so I do that. Out of sight, out of mind

Not going to lie, I hate the middle click clipboard and disable it ASAP. I really dislike the idea that it copies things without my explicit permission.

You don’t vote with your wallet or usage, you abstain from voting, and that’s it

Also cloned apps which is big for me

It makes me really mad cause YouTube is clearly taking ideas from Material Design 3, and even M3 recommends customizing it, but the way YouTube has done it is to make components smaller and harder to use in comparison to canonical M3. Like the bottom bar which is way thinner than the M3 one in comparison.

It makes YouTube look like it’s using a M3 knockoff