I’ve installed Ubuntu on both of my old laptops but they are so old that I can’t effectively daily drive them (they are heavy, thick, terrible screen, battery is dead, etc)

I’m thinking of switching to Linux for my newer laptop, but I want to wait until the holidays. Hopefully the bugs around touchscreens will be fixed soon!

Fedora. I thunk my device might not be supported, or maybe there’s some software I need to install to make it work. Not a huge deal though.

not hear, but read…see?: aluminium, your is possessive and you’re is you are (IT’S NOT THAT HARD IF YOU ARE FLUENT IN ENGLISH), it’s vs its (NOT THAT HARD EITHER FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS)

vibes man

I think it might not be supported. My device is an Asus Zenbook 14 Flip so might not be supported compared to something like a lenovo yoga or the tuxedo flip.

Ahh that’s why. Okay gotcha that makes sense. If I do switch, I’ll probably test both a bit more to see which I like using the best. I just booted the live usb and played around for a bit, testing things like touchscreen support and auto-rotate

Linux Mint XFCE, it was easy to setup and could run on my really old laptop.

also one annoying thing is that normally on windows, since my laptop is one of those flexy 2-in-1s, it auto-rotates depending on how you put it (like “tent mode” or “book mode”). On both KDE Plasma and GNOME, it doesn’t work. I guess my specific device isn’t supported? I can live with that though, I can rotate the screen manually and don’t realistically rotate the screen all too often.

Cinnamon with Mint is still great UI, it just feels slightly less modern in my opinion. Still much better than Windows with their pre-2000 UI once you go deep enough

Studying for exams…

I would encourage you to try to learn gaem development, it’s fun :D I’ve personally tried Unity and Godot and prefer the latter bc it’s oepn-source and I like the workflow but both are good.

Brackeys makes the best Unity tutorials and he’s starting to make some pretty good Godot ones too. My first games were pretty much following along the Brackeys tutorials and then trying to extend the game by adding more levels, gimmicks, etc. and learning a bunch of new things along the way. Some more Godot specific tutorials I like are GDQuest and HeartBeast.

Good luck on your game development journey! :D

music is good :D

everything would taste weird though

Yeah, everything would just taste boring vs unable to see, hear, feel, etc. Smell could be fine, but is still pretty important compared to taste

hooray!

taste one thing would be too easy as everyone would just choose pizza. fight me.

oh I saw the picture and assumed it was more than two. Planting plants seems very difficult. Plants are cool. They can eat dirt pretty much. I want to be a plant

browsers: Librewolf (privacy stuff), Floorp (very customisable)

search: SearXNG (the all of all worlds, no ads, self-hosted!)

music: Navidrome (self-hosted)

office suites: OnlyOffice (it works well for me and is pretty decent)

OS: Fedora (is also user-friendly…)

that is not a couple. 6 is not a couple.

On an actual note, that’s pretty cool. :D

When Win11 first released, the idiot I was (or maybe still am) decided to install it on my ancient laptop because it was the newest one. It had a 6th gen i3, 4GB of memory, and 128GB storage. Didn’t have TPM 2.0, so I found a workaround (forgot what it was but I did) and when I installed it, it CHUGGED.

I even installed Unity on the thing because I liked game development, and when I tried to mouse click while it was running, it took a good half a minute to register (and I somehow put up with this for like a couple years). Even without Unity, I remember the battery life being a lot worse and simple apps took ages to load.

Once I got a new laptop and learned that Linux isn’t voodoo computer magic and had a usable GUI, I installed Mint on my old laptop to try it out, and it was FAST. Gone were long load times. The battery at this point had completely died so it only powers on when connected to the wall, but the laptop felt like it was new again. The screen was still garbage so I wouldn’t use it as my daily driver, I much prefer my current laptop. If I ever got a new laptop, I would definitely install Linux again. (honestly I’m just not bothered to re-setup everything on Linux and backup all my data and settings and such on my current laptop, don’t think I have a thumb drive large enough to back up everything)