Highly specialized people live in bubbles and assume that everyone else lives in their same bubble and so if someone else doesn’t understand, they aren’t worth communicating with.

In my experience, all the Linux documentation I have read has been written for peers of Linux developers, who are familiar with technical terminology and several concepts and steps are left out and implied rather than explained.

It’s a way for developers to ensure that Linux never receives adoption past other developers. Literary equivalent of pulling the ladder up.

So from this thread it looks like I need to disable this font. I’m not able to as it gives me errors :/

I’m going to restart and see if I still get these errors.

Edit: still have the errors. Nuking this install because I’ve exhausted all troubleshooting. Moved all files to new user and redownloaded and configured my apps. Gives me an excuse to start fresh because the home folder was getting cluttered.

When I run fc-match sans I get NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

and when i run fc-match serif I get NotoSerif-Regular.ttf: "Noto Serif" "Regular"

All things seem normal :/

Edit: I made a new user account and the fonts are all fixed on that one. Wondering if I should just move everything to my new account -_-

For me it’s because Nextcloud also has a mobile app and it’s easy to transfer files between my iPhone and my server and other computers.

I can even create public folders easily so I can share data with people I give the link to.

I’ve been self hosting Nextcloud for over a year now. Fantastic. It’s like OneDrive. Syncs all my files on my computers so I’ve got multiple backups on different machines with one central location (the server running Nextcloud).

Tons of plugins and documentation, so any errors you may have are easily fixed. Haven’t had it mess up on me once. It just works.

I’ve never had a problem with any media playback. I don’t think this is an issue on Bazzite, the immutable distro I’ve been using for over a year.

I think you overestimate the average persons need to configure their computers. Most people just use a web browser, email, and maybe some light gaming. No one new to Linux is going to be really upset that they can’t do complex system operations on the command line.

Get an immutable distro. You’ll never need to touch it again.

By this logic, would su root be like breaking off the safety???

If it has the equivalent to the shape tool in Illustrator I’ll throw money at Inkscape. All my quick and dirty vector art comes from that tool. Merging shapes is zen 🧘

I love chmod 777. It’s like not wearing a condom. It’s more convenient and feels so much better and I’m definitely gonna get a bug or something eventually. Yolo.

Worst transparent png ever.

I don’t want to install nexus mod manager and then play Russian roulette with stability :/ thanks for the link though!

Last night I tried doing the Corruption and Conscience quest in Cheydenhall and got to the very end.

It told me to wait 2 hours before meeting a dude at a tavern. I waited 2 hours and the dude never showed up. Turns out you’re supposed to wait in front of the tavern and not right next to him. Totally bugged, can’t complete it.

I looked it up and used a console command which reset his character and allowed me to finish the quest but at the expense of any and all future achievements (since using a single console command removes steam achievements).

Had to decide if quest completion or achievements were more important to me. Sucks.

This was a real nail biter at the beginning. Atlantic Canada usually votes liberal and the conservatives were making unseen gains.

This absolutely does not belong here.

Your questions will have different answers depending on which flavour of Linux you choose.

A good chunk of windows programs can be run using a program called “WINE”. WINE is just a command line program but you can get a GUI version easily.

Updates depend on your flavour but Debian based Linux (like Ubuntu) you just type “sudo apt get update” and then “sudo apt get upgrade” and bam everything is updated. No restart required.

If a program doesn’t work in Linux there can be workarounds or alternatives but that really depends on what program you are talking about.

You can play almost every game that exists on steam on Linux with the exception of games that have kernel level anti cheat like some competitive multiplayer games.

You’re arguably safer security-wise on Linux. Most people are on windows so that’s the majority of all viruses. Your security updates are included in system updates. No antivirus required.

I have never heard of Linux damaging hardware. I don’t think you need to worry about this.

Recommendation: get Bazzite. It’s a special type of Linux that is closest to a windows experience than anything else. It won’t let you do dumb things and mess up your install. It has all NVIDIA drivers preinstalled as well as gamepad drivers and everything you’d need for gaming (including dock support). It’s a no configuration needed OS. Linux on easy mode. You don’t even need to use the command line ever. Updates and apps are installed through the Linux equivalent of the Microsoft App Store (except this time it is great and doesn’t suck). And I say this as someone who only used windows until 15 years ago I messed around with Ubuntu and other Debian based Linux distributions.

Th game was fantastic. I might redownload it and play it again. Wingsuit, driving, killing religious Americans. What’s not to love?

Font name GitHub. Bam.