Why does this look and sound like the inspirational scene of a Mockumentary?

Luckily, nobody is this passionate about liking javascript.

Gorgeous! You can see people keep touching his little paws!

(FYI: either something piques your interest, or your interest peaks at some point)

If the pants are stretchy they could fit one of the lowest (already pantsd) branches in each leg of the jeans, and easily pull it up. You need bigger and stretchier pants as you go up the tree, though.

Oh right, atomic distros work differently, didn’t think about that! That is convenient!

If you’re on Arch, then you want those tasty hourly updates om nom nom

source: I use Arch btw

Neat! I was just thinking, if it starts updating the kernel as you turn it off, you’d have to wait a minute for it to finish. M$ style. Has that never happened?

I don’t think the first two are distro specific, more a question of mindset. Unless there are distros that force update your system like some other OSs, which could cause the second picture to happen more often.

Is your HDD NTFS? That can sometimes be an issue, I think.

I always found it weird how people are willing to install obscure extensions just like that. For any program that supports them. This doesn’t surprise me at all.

That being said I’ll go recheck the few I have installed…

My laptop’s mic seems to have some contact issues. It never worked for a second on windows. I put Linux on it, and it usually just works. When it doesn’t, some percussive maintenance does a quick job of fixing it. I guess I was dealt the opposite hand than usual.

If you’re that worried about privacy, then your only option is hammer+fire+spread the remains in multiple places. For the average paranoid I think it’s enough to make generic file recovery tools ineffective.

Probably that they very obviously are!

My brother gave me his alt account because it had TF2 premium. Still using that one!

Not even the official Lemmy app can do that. I don’t know how Voyager does it, but afaik there is no straightforward way to get to the same post on a different instance. I’m curious, if someone can tell me! (And save me having to decipher it from the source code)

A better title might be, “Solutions to newcomers’s most common problems with Linux”

The video is about the results of a survey regarding the problems people are having using Linux. Only 10% of them described themselves as beginners. That would not be a good title.

I personally see zero condescending tone in it. The video doesn’t prove to be toxic like you described either.

IMO this just isn’t a good community for this, because nobody clicks on a 20 minute video to figure out what it has to do with “Linux Gaming”. Plus YT links are almost always downvoted anyways. I agree that the title isn’t the best, because it fails to convey what the video actually contains.

CTRL+face on keyboard. I guess Z got me out, but who knows.

If you have the space (on a different drive, preferably) you could use Timeshift to create regular snapshots of (parts of) your system. You can restore deleted files like this from even months ago, if you configure it like that.

The first snapshot takes up as much space as all the files you want to save, but every following one only uses as much disk space as the new/changed files since the last snapshot.

Proton can run any Windows-only game on steam, you just have to enable it in the settings. The ones for which you didn’t have to enable this either have a native linux version, or are officially supported in Proton, and should run very well. The other games may have more issues, but even those might work excellently out of the box.