You don’t have to use NTFS. In fact, it’s not recommended, but the biggest reason you’d want to is if you were dual-booting Windows and wanted to access the same files from both operating systems.

This is good info, thanks! I’ll add it to the fstab entry in a bit.

Edit: I’ve tested it for a bit and made sure the symlinks still work with non-Windows characters. Added it to the guide :)

Help you how…? If you want to make a game, learn game development.

Why are people promoting this, all of a sudden?

They just released a new version a few days ago that’s really solid and aims to be a drop-in replacement for Windows. It’s probably the most beginner friendly distro out there and has stuff like Onedrive/MS 365 integration for people using that stuff.

The paid version is useless unless you need support.

and a bunch of “professional” apps.

It is in fact a bunch of pre-installed free software. I like Zorin, but Zorin Pro just seems like a way to trick businesses into paying for the distro. I guess having access to a support team is nice, but otherwise it’s not worth it at all.

No idea what the other commenter is on about, I used Zorin ~2 years ago. It’s a great distro for people new to Linux, and IMO has the cleanest aesthetic of any distro I’ve used. It was also super stable and reliable.

My issue with it (and ultimately the reason why I moved) is that it aims to be very stable which means its packages can get very outdated. I think the Nvidia drivers they used at the time I was on it were two years old. It’s not something most people would notice especially with how much Flatpak is used nowadays, but you’ll run into annoying cases where that thing you want to update isn’t available in that package manager.

Even looking at the website, Zorin 18 is out but it seems people on Zorin 17 will have to wait a few weeks for a way to upgrade.

Fantastic, thanks! I might be spending more time on Lemmy after all.

This looks good, thanks!

Very excited for Cosmic. I wanted to like Gnome but it’s a pain in the ass in so many ways, with weird design decisions that constantly ruin the experience. They tell you to use extensions to get basic features like a system tray, but then break extensions every update.

KDE is in a fantastic spot but I’m ready for something new.

A standardized file format isn’t comparable to them changing software they own though. They can’t “take back” WEBP and it’s well-supported by basically everything these days. There’s zero risk of a rug pull, so why wouldn’t you use it when it’s objectively better at compression compared to something like jpeg and gif?

I have looked into the nim GDExtension and it looks nifty. I haven’t tried it yet though because it might not be totally ready, some github issues make it sound like it could be a pain to work with.

What the other person said. Cross compiling is as simple as adding a flag assuming you have the dependencies. I tried it and it works well (though my programs are pretty simple). See also the official docs on cross-compiling.

I don’t get the hate for whitespace personally. It was maybe an issue 15 years ago, but modern code editors easily solve its issues. You can collapse whitespace blocks, the editor can automatically replace spaces with tabs, etc.

Okay, þ is not going to happen, just say th.

Anyway, I did try V before Nim and found it way too unstable (which is corroborated by every other blog post talking about it). I also couldn’t get the language server to work no matter what I did, it just fails to start which isn’t a good first impression. This isn’t even mentioning all the drama behind the scenes for this language.

Go would probably be my 2nd choice. I haven’t used it much but my initial impression was that it felt kind of boring to write with, and a hello world would end up being a ~2mb binary which put me off a bit. I could give it another shot in the future, but I’m busy enjoying Nim so that probably won’t be any time soon.

The small binary part is just for fun - but generally my use case is to have an easy to use language that can cross compile easily so I can just pass binaries to the person I’m working with.

Performance should be relatively the same across every distro, there are benchmarks online you can check. I didn’t like Bazzite with my short time using it though, being immutable means you have to jump through hoops to install something that isn’t available as a flatpak. Like I mentioned in another comment the battery life was also not great, and I found it to be a little slow in general.

When I’m on battery I mainly use the browser. When I’m plugged in it’s usually gaming.

Battery life is really good, on par with Windows on my current laptop. For some reason battery life was really bad on Bazzite, like 30% worse or so. I don’t know how it compares to other distros.

I switched to Cachy 2 months ago and I think my distro hopping days are over. It’s so, so responsive and reliable. People scared me off arch-based distros for being bleeding edge but so far it’s been very stable, I haven’t encountered any major issues.

If you’re thinking about switching, do it. Switched off from Bazzite and I’m not looking back.