On one hand it’s rude not to learn the mother tongue of the country where you live. On the other hand not learning the mother tongue of the coutnry you’ve lived in all your life is peak russian culture.

Normalize supporting software and sites through donations rather than ads.

If your community dies since nobody supports it, it was shit anyway.

Hurting someones feelings or being offended is the worst thing an american could ever go through. It absolutely tanks ad revenue.

Just learn to speak russian cause russians can use every slur under the sky and they do in almost every sentance. Double standard.

The companies doing this are americans and americans are pussies who think sitting in sauna naked with your same-sex family members is traumatic but watching endless gore is fun. The mindless religious zealotry, their puritan ancestors and lack of separation between church and real life is to blame.

Smaller textures, more assets, and worse audio mainly. Textures used to be like 512 for hero props. Now even random objects you see a few times get a texture 16 times larger. And they get up to 4 of those for each object/group of objects. Thanks to pbr and normals and whatever other masks and lightmaps may be required.

Im sure there are more reasons for size bloat but this is from us artists at least.

Idunno i just click “update” on whatever the appstore is called on this window manager and watch it go brr. Terminal is mostly used for ssh and tunnel for some schoolwork or starting a database server. Which you have to do after installing extra programs on windows anyway.

Ms will be paid handsomely by intel and nvidia to push their hardware and ignore competition. Kinda like intel has always done make their cpus seem and benchmark better.

That would be like windows setting up a notification to dust your pc.

Ever since i was able to play system shock one for the first time and monhun world stopped bsoding on my fedora, i won’t experience this feature either.

Every streaming app has a reccomendation system, some are even betterand don’t lock you down into a genre to save money like spotifies. I found most of mine on soundcloud and now tidal is doing a better job. On spotify once a year weekly playlist had good fresh stuff. After i switched to tidal i discovered i had 4 ai generated songs/stock music peddled as real artists on my likes from Spotify reccomendations.

Nobody who gives a damn about artists being paid fairly and not swindled out of their already miniscule pay should use spotify.

on windows:

• My huion drivers require you to manually download them from an internet site and manually make sure it is a site you trust. Then you need to run them every time you want to use the pen functionality.
• My DAC drivers needed to be installed from a site you think you trust and then sometimes I had to restart dac to run it.
• My usb mic would randomly stop working and I’d need to reboot the drivers manually. If it hadn’t be a common fucking issue on fucking windows since the start of time it would be a very enjoyable half day of troubleshooting and googling.

On my linux: Upon first bootup after install I fully expected a nightmare but they all ended up working out of the box.
No downloads

None.

None at all.

No restarts of hardware.

No reboots.

They all just work. All the chifi and chinese tablets. Unlike on “user friendly windows”. I haven’t used the psu power button once cause linux is more stable.

I wrote a document for my sw engineering coursemates can also swap to linux if they want to. All it is is downgrading some certs specific to fedora and how to use sftp.

if installing a plugin and typing something into the admin bar requries a terminal then every password prompt on windows is also a terminal.

in my experience unless the company has blocked off linux, i works better on linux. Games that don’t work on win11 work on linux, eg old games. MHW doesn’t crash or bsod on linux and gets more frames.

Nvidia drivers is just going to rpm fusion, copy pasting some commands and pressing enter. I reccomend reading up what those commands mean and “scary hax0r only linux” becomes “oh that makes so much sense linux”. My only issues were my steam library drive was on wrong file system so I had to reformat it (imagine if you put wrong file system on windows, you wouldn’t expect it to work either) and having to disable secureboot so you don’t have to restart and sign keys. Simracing wheels work fine but only issue is huge hotases like winwing since the creator of the driver doesn’t understand that “lmao just build it” is not sufficient set of instructions for people who want to play games.

I vastly prefer gnome or kde since I can use the windows button and a few letters to start a program instead of some unremovable bloatware that bing searches me an ad.

Linux has a different use philosophy and workflow, once you udnerstand that you realize it’s not a big deal.

Windows is basically stockholm syndrome. It’s just so shit but people memory hole all the troubleshooting, searching 20 control panels and then still going to regedit, opening terminal to start regedit or dxdiag. I guess nothing says “hardcore gamer os” more than pressing windows key and typing program name only for windows to launch a bloatware browser you are not allowed to uninstall that then goes into an search engine nobody wants to use and gives you a result that is an ad all the while your screen is recorded and all that is sold to whoever wants to buy it.

I use terminal on linux less than I use regedit to fix bugs and performance issues “the os for casual people” shouldn’t have. Ever tried switching mouse scroll wheel direction on a japanese trackball? That is an user-experience of all time, while on kde for example it’s a checkbox.

KDE software center servers programs from reliable, safe, trusted sources so you don’t need terminal. Only reason a casual user would need terminal is to get nvidia drivers, which is less work than windows ones considering the aforemoentioned software center automatically updates them without extra useless bloatware and forced sign in to an account, unlike on windows.

This is what made me realize maybe I should try my luck with the command line. I haven’t had to touch any advanced stuff to do non advanced stuff in a while. Windows has conditioned me badly. For example when my laptop had no mic during a meeting I instantly assumed it was drivers fucking up again ala windows, so I started finding new drivers. After reverting the change I discovered it was just firefox that had disabled the mic. Smoothest “y no audio” bugfix I’ve ever had compared to “ready for the home user” windows discord, zoom, teams, skype constantly shitting the bed randomly.