Early red flags are always appreciated.

Ha, I’m not on here. Wait, that’s probably a bad thing.

How is #6 only GIS and not also normal for many gaming rigs?

This is how the meme should be used.

They saw things. Terrible, horrible things.

The early ones were easier. The one I had needed to do some mess with a grounding screw and some other stuff that I forgot (there are websites dedicated to the procedure guidelines and which requires what), and like you say, it’s not going to be able to do much anyway. Such a contrast with throwing Kubuntu on an old MacBook, and 10 minutes later it was better than new.

It’s true that most people just want instant on functionality with no need for major changes beyond colors and backgrounds. Totally fine too, for many that’s all they need. But as a “power user”, which would mean anyone that needs more than a portable browser, I was very disappointed to find that’s all that ChromeOS is (twas a used one in the family). And then when I researched putting actual Linux on it so it could do more… good god they locked that shit down hard. Not even worth that rabbit hole. And that was the intent of Google.

If it’s very dry and not much vegetation, that’s a desert.

It also means the OS is in total control of the things it’s running. This goes for running programs, shutting down, and crashing. The only crashes I have on my Linux are when I use up memory, and I’m still convinced that even though everything looks seized up, if I left it for hours or days it would probably end up resolving itself. I’ve had some cases where the OS saw the program wasn’t going in a good direction fast enough and killed it.

Maintained, a bit slow on the updating sometimes, as I mentioned. But a big factor for going with Ubuntu was if you’re looking at software out in the wild, chances are they’ll have either an Ubuntu version or something that will work with it. I’m not a fan of compiling stuff (although maybe with more Linux exposure that will change too).

In hindsight that’s probably not a great reason, after all it’s why Microsoft dominated the field for so long.

Being supportive of Ubuntu seems to be a minority, but I picked it over others simply because it felt more like what I wanted from the Debian lines. And I haven’t had any major issues at all. The main project I’ve got ahead of me is to remove Snap, as I see that’s a problem, mainly due to updates being so far behind (plus I’m pretty sure it’s a resource hog, I can see it there in Btop all the time). I’ve had several apps that I originally used Snap (I mean, it’s right there, why not) to find the version is old and missing newer features. So I just find the Apt or deb version, or even AppImage, and I’m back running. The OS itself is solid, and I so, so love just booting up and going within seconds, as well as shutting down right away. Not the classic Windows “hang”.

But I get that some people run into incompatibilities sometimes with hardware, so you do have to look around and find what works best for you. An example of mine on that was an old MacBook I had that simply was stuck since the OS isn’t supported anymore. So I put Kubuntu on it (since it needed a light OS), and it works fine for what it is.

I can’t wait until we do find some place which has some type of life not connected to us (I think the probability is high), and we get to fight out the Red/Green Mars arguments in Robinson’s Mars trilogy.

Based on calculations, not observations. And we know a lot is going on on the surface ice, even far more than I had realized. GEO GIRL on YouTube has a couple of great videos (one made with Geosociety’s channel) on the Europa Clipper mission and what it’s measuring and looking for. Until that info becomes available, we’re doing more speculation than anything else. And uh, life finds a way.

Also, how they’re accomplishing that mission, including the planned orbits and other aspects, is incredible.

Copying an old Waterfox logo. They really are going downhill.

I’m… good with this.

That’s assuming Copilot could form a coherent report to send back to them.

I’ll be glad to give more info. I’m not sure where to find the logs to tell you what VLC is doing. See my other comment on the comparison of a browser - I want it to use VLC as if I was browsing websites where it just loads into the existing window.

I’m trying to get any new video I click on to play in the existing instance of VLC after running a first video. Not in a new instance. If VLC is open no other video will ever use that instance. It’s like if you load a new webpage in a browser but have to either close the existing browser window first or load into a new tab or window, and I find it difficult to believe that’s an accepted behavior.

It’s “Build Trigger Warning”, aka experimental. It will likely break everything.

It’s weird to group Mint with Arch. I see Mint as the best intro for a Windows user, hardly similar to Arch.

I use Ubuntu btw. I don’t care what anyone thinks, it’s working great and that’s all I wanted from an OS (yeah, looking at you Microsoft).

That’s one way to tell time on the internet. The other way was while gaming and looking at the rise and drop of online players.