It gets to a point where it doesn’t feel like you have control over your own computer.

For me, a big one was how it would constantly wake from sleep for no reason or to update. If put it to sleep and most times it would wake before I even s stood up from my desk. And there are settings you can change to stop that, but Windows will just randomly reset them.

And this is a really small one, but Windows 11 dropping features that Windows 10 has. It’s very stupid that Windows 11 won’t let you have a vertical task bar.

I’ve been a Windows user for 30+ years and always loved that OS until recently. But now I love Linux. An OS that truly lets me own my computer and do what I want.

Yes!

I’d love to know why this is getting down votes.

I can’t speak for ASCII mode. But DF is not hard, once you learn the game, unless you specifically go looking for a challenge.

The only real difficulty is just how much there is to learn about the game.

If you build defenses, never dig too deeply, and learn the basics of keeping your dwarves happy, you could play a fortress for hundreds of in game years. But that would get boring.

From a metal tumbler so every time they get some it’s “slide, crunch, CLANK”.

This was the first one that came to my mind. I was like 17 when that game came out and it blew me away.

Noises Off is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in my life. Loved every second of it.

Update: I love you.

It took a couple tries to get my desktop and laptop connected, and I don’t know why, but it definitely works.

I’m going to really miss clipboard sharing, but I can make do for now.

I don’t think I mentioned it, but my work laptop is Windows 11, so I’m happy to report that this is working great even on Windows.

Ublue are based off of Kinoite. If you want something less “bloated”, try that. You can even rebase from Bluefin to that, I believe.

Keep in mind there are two versions of Bluefin/Aurora. Regular, and “-dx” which is more developer focused with more developer tools.

I will give that a shot. It definitely looks like it fits the bill.

If it works, I love you.

Any software KVM like Synergy.

I work from home and Synergy has been a core part of my setup for many years.

It lets me use my personal PC and work laptop from one KB+M seamlessly.

I’ve tried so many different things. Input Leap, installed on Aurora by default, is supposed to work with Wayland, but doesn’t work out of the box.

I’m resigned to using Windows during the week so I can use Synergy and switching back to Linux over the weekend because I prefer it now.

I think KDE is doing the heavy lifting of being like Windows. As a long time Windows user who would every now and then try Ubuntu and hate it, it was Gnome that really turned me off. KDE is so much nicer, IMO.

I started on Bazzite as my first real Linux desktop. After a while I rebased to Aurora (Bluefin but KDE instead of Gnome) and I really liked it. I ended up rebasing back to Bazzite for a while.

My only issue is around a very specific piece of software that has issues with Wayland. That’s why all the rebasing.

Being able to rebase so easily like that is so freaking cool.

I love the idea of that game. But in practice, I hate it.

Exploring the house is fun. And then the haunt usually ends up with a lopsided win. I can’t remember a time where the haunt didn’t feel like a forgone conclusion once revealed. Basically, I’ve never felt like I had any way to impact the outcome outside of potentially just throwing it.

Edit: in my mind, it’s less of a game and more of an experience or story generator.

As a Java developer, and someone who never learned Python or other scripting languages, Node is my go-to scripting language. I’ve only come around to it for that in the past year or two. But it’s great.

I thought I’d be the only one mentioning this game. It’s completely desolate. Only machines. One day the floor beneath you is deleted. You fall into the void.

Edit: I’m hopelessly addicted to the game. I’ve already played it for 40 hours.

Breville (Sage in the UK).

They’re expensive, but they’re good, and they last.

I’ve owned: espresso machine, coffee grinder, automatic loose leaf tea maker, coffee maker, toaster oven, bigger toaster oven, waffle maker… I think that’s everything?

I’ve never regretted any of these purchases and never had one shit the bed. I did sell the tea maker and the smaller toaster oven, but I still have everything else. The coffee grinder I’ve had for over 10 years.

Oh they sure do. They really like shoving the steering column through your spine.

https://youtu.be/C_r5UJrxcck

…until you get in a collision and the car crumples up and squeezes you out like red toothpaste.

And then when to do learn it, it pisses you off when something doesn’t have a freely available image.