I have learned absolutely nothing about the strengths and weaknesses of each distro, just learned which ones are difficult to install.

We will perhaps never beat adobe but nowadays there are some amazing tools!

… Which are developed for windows as well. Haha.

Second but I use Nobara with KDE.

Linux is the modern OS and windows is just a bunch of old shitty technology in a trench suit.

I try my best, but this is not a level I’ve achieved yet.

I commend your open-minded behavior.

Bad take but I do prefer my keyboards to have big nipples

CPU bound games run better on Linux because of the god-tier scheduler

This is awesome, I didnt know that!

I think the counter argument is also valid and the open source drivers are in the kernel, but proprietary drivers that… I actually dont know how to get, so I use Nobara… Proprietary drivers seem key to some of the performance gains I’m getting with my AMD + Linux rig.

Protondb.com is very helpful when a game doesnt run. I forget where I found info but like a good 10% of steam games dont run using Proton, no matter what you try. And a good 70+% of games work out of the box or with easy, common tweaks. We have some other tools available like Winetricks, Lutris, and if all else fails VM with GPU Passthru.

windows can have a similar troubleshooting workflow, dependent on Compatibility Mode for older games, and using GOG.com repacks to make things easier.

Queue our see pee. If they stick with this acronym I’m gonna call it Quirkypie.

Awesome. Glad the days are over when important whistleblowers in the white house are using Confide, or some other encrypted bullshit meant for horny young people and like a genuinely professional and email-adjacent encrypted service.

I’m new to linux DE stuff but I think I have adwaita things on Nobara (Fedora) with KDE. 🤷‍♀️

I’m new to this but KDE basically has all of the aesthetics customization features and quality of life features I always wanted out of Windows + Rainmeter. Finally I can have my videos pinned on the top easily every time. Finally I can have my fancy widgets. I can have universal color themes and fonts beyond what Windows ever offered. So there is more abstract stuff out there, but for now I’m living the long lost dream.

You’ve probably figured this out by now but KDE has all the theming and rainmeter style widgets available. I just installed most of my desktop aesthetics direct from the System Settings on KDE, it’s mostly Catppuccin Mocha. Had to search for the Github for it to find some cool basic wallpapers that matched the theme perfectly.

Steam has some weird issues and I had it set to launch in terminal so the progress and errors get posted in there. Then I could search the web with the error codes. I don’t know the command though.

For games try ProtonDB.com, and then sort by “Tweaks” or whatever to see what people did to make the game run correctly.

Yep, found this page, the commands don’t work, I followed this in my search engine, and forums said the AMD open drivers are built into the kernel.

Now the proprietary ones (Mesa, OpenCL)? Dunno. I’m on Nobara because that stuff is set up to be one click.

Thin clients! $30, sometimes $15, for just as much CPU power as the Pi. More power usage, though. And ensure you buy the cables and SSD, check carefully what the seller is including or excluding from the shipment.

I really like design! Little buttons and colors and all those bits of tweaking. I’ve been looking more at projects on Lemmy to see how their UIs are coded, but I think the tools and frameworks all sorta run back to HTML/CSS/JavaScript so like if I learned that then I’d understand how to use Qt, PyQt, or Kotlin. Idk. I think designers tend to contract themselves to capital so the idea of an open source UI developer sounds goofy, but fun.

So what are KDE projects coded in?

Edit: https://develop.kde.org/

Page explains KDE frameworks, languages

Https://develop.kde.org/docs/getting-started/kxmlgui/

And then has guides on learning to code within this platform.

🤯

NGL I found this page about how new goals are chosen every 3 years and this organization has rocketed into Fascinating status in my mind.

KDE’s Current Goals

Accessibility
Sustainability
Automation of internal processes