Switched over to Linux last year. I gave Windows 11 a fair chance and it was a horrible experience. Installed Linux instead and now I basically never use Windows.

The distro itself doesn’t particularly matter. Unless you’re picking a niche distro or one designed for experts, all of them will have a good level of polish. What does matter is the desktop environment, which is the look and feel of the OS.

Many distros offer various desktop environments, and it can be a good idea to take a look at different desktop environments and see which one you like. I personally enjoy KDE Plasma, since I feel like it resembles Windows 10 the most. A bunch of popular distros like Bazzite and Fedora offer KDE Plasma variants. Alternatively, many people also like Cinnamon, though I personally think it looks somewhat outdated. Cinnamon is primarily offered by Linux Mint.

With the right desktop environment, Linux isn’t actually particularly technical. There’s definitely been a push recently to try to make things more user friendly. From time to time, you might still have to open terminal to do more advanced things, but I find that you can generally get by.

However, the way you do things in Linux is pretty different than in Windows, and it definitely takes a bit of getting used to and building up a new set of muscle memory. You will get frustrated that something isn’t where you think it is. My advice is that you should dual boot and keep a copy of Windows, so that you can switch back to Windows when you just need to get stuff done.

As for gaming, basically everything just works out of the box. I don’t even bother to check for Linux compatibility. Make sure to enable compatibility in the Steam settings and you should be good to go. The only time when games don’t work is if a game uses an anticheat that specifically blocks Linux - if you plan to play online games, it might be worth checking if the anticheat that it uses allows Linux or not. I haven’t tried modding so I can’t comment too much about that

To me, that sounds like it’ll create more issues than it’ll solve. Part of why it’s difficult to get rid of large journals is because people like the centralization. Even beyond the obvious pride aspect of getting into an exclusive journal, a big reason for having journals is that it is much easier to find relevant papers if they’re collected and catalogued into a small number of large repositories (ie, journals).

Federation intrinsically has lower discoverability, and it is difficult enough to find relevant papers that you want. And due to decentralization, it is more difficult to separate out the troll articles from the serious ones. That doesn’t matter if federation is used for a social media platform or if it is used for peer-to-peer communication, but it seems to run counter to the purpose of publishing scientific articles.

And that’s not counting the issues that you would have with the review process on a federated service

Sort by Scaled. That fixed it a lot for me. Sorting by Hot or Active or whatever the default is tends to bury the smaller/nicher communities, causing the feed to just be a bunch of news articles

Man, I’m not even old, but reading this post makes me feel old. And I’m certainly on the younger side of the spectrum for those who use Lemmy

There’s a lot of things to unpack here, so it makes sense for me to just list them out:

• your boyfriend seems to have some manosphere-esque tendencies. To me, it seems like it’ll be important for you to talk about this with him. The manosphere teaches young men about false truths and causes them to interpret the world in unusual, misogynistic ways. I don’t currently see any indication that he’s solidly in the manosphere, but it sounds like he may be influenced by it. It will be important for him to acknowledge and refute those influences if he plans to have any form of satisfactory long-term relationship.
• it’s not your fault for receiving unsolicited sexual messages. Both you and your boyfriend will need to acknowledge that fact.
• building on the previous point, getting sent an unsolicited sexual message does not and should not damage your relationship with your boyfriend. It’s not like you cheated or broke his trust. It sounds like he may have some unclear expectations for you that are impossible to meet. I would guess that it ties back to the first point about him being influenced by the manosphere. In any case, this seems important to bring up to him.
• it is definitely your fault for sending false nudes to other people. If/when you are approached with an offer that you don’t like, the appropriate response is to say no, not to scam the other person.
• it may not be your fault for getting unsolicited messages, but from a purely practical perspective, there are certain things that you can do that either encourage or discourage that sort of behavior. It sounds like you perform some sort of gig that tends to encourage this behavior. If you do not wish to get these sorts of messages, it would be a good idea to reconsider whether you should continue doing this gig
• it’s important to learn, truly learn, that a relationship partner is someone who adds on to your life, not someone who completes your life. If you believe that your boyfriend is the only good thing in your life, I would recommend that you consider that this opens you up for exploitation or abuse, either intentionally or unintentionally. It sounds like you are affirming his manosphere-esque tendencies instead of calling him out on it. This will lead to greater strife and friction in the future

Crappy paint memes are an internet-honored tradition

To specify, this was a retroactive correlation from a time when the Romans thought that maybe the barbarians were worshipping the same gods but just used different names for the gods. To my understanding, they drew correlations to a handful of other religions too

Depends on how much you like drawing. If it’s something fun for you, then it’s not time wasted and it’s definitely worth the effort.

I will say that while constant practice is definitely important, it’s also important to have structured practice. Practice without structure will just lock in bad habits.

By far the fastest and easiest way to improve quickly is to practice blocking. This is a technique where you simplify an object or a scene into simple geometric shapes - cubes, spheres, rectangles, etc. You draw out those shapes onto the page. Then, you add in the details. This forces you to map out where the objects are in your composition before you start drawing. Not only does it help with spatial awareness, it also lets you notice if the positioning of objects doesn’t look quite right and requires fixing, before you’ve spent a lot of time on drawing that object

If you plan to draw comics, then you might be drawing scenery or backgrounds as well, in which case you’ll probably also want to study and practice perspective drawing

Welcome to the world of the living, clone

His belief is that Trump isn’t fascist enough, if you can believe that

Gamers: this game is unplayable on the Steam Deck

Valve: OK, this game isn’t playable on the Steam Deck

PCGamesN: VALVE JUST MADE THEIR RATING ACCURATE I WILL NEVER TRUST VALVE AGAIN

What kind of logic is this?

I don’t like feeding the hype beast. The same thing happened with Cyberpunk, where there was no physical way that the game could have met the hype.

I expect Silksong to just be another Hollow Knight, and that’s good enough for me

I honestly really liked the Zen garden in Plants vs Zombies

It should also be mentioned that the two methods aren’t mutually exclusive, and there’s a ton of synergy between using the old ways (x-ray crystallography and cryo-em) and using the new way (AlphaFold). Because even when you measure the protein structure, the old ways only tell you the shape of the protein but not the skeletal structure of the protein (which is the actual important part), so to my knowledge, there’s a bit of finicking around to figure out how the protein folds into that shape. AlphaFold predicts how the protein folds, so you can cross reference that with the measured shape of the protein to better estimate where the protein skeleton is in the measured shape

I figured it was a phishing scheme, but harassment campaign also makes sense. Good to know

Bad guys who aren’t misunderstood but aren’t bad. They occupy a niche mindspace in which they have a genuine and noble goal but their goal is mutually exclusive with the good guy’s goals (the Shadowlord from Nier Gestalt)

Then, on the flip side, bad guys who know that they’re bad and revel in it (Jack Horner from Puss in Boots)

Good guys who are good leaders. They have no superhuman abilities but their power is to bring out the best in others. They don’t beat the bad guys through sheer strength or being inspired by the power of friendship (which IMO is just the same thing), but they do so by strategically playing to people’s strengths (Senku from Dr. Stone)

The person being downvoted is the mod of c/conservative. I’m guessing this is a political maneuver to bury his posts/bully him off lemmy

No, that’s exactly it. Framing this story as that they’re reviving extinct animals is misleading at best

Technical debt applies not just to coding! (though it’s most often talked about in that context) It’s the general idea that whenever you rush a project by taking shortcuts, you have to spend more time later to sort it out (and let’s be honest, it’s never actually going to get sorted out)

It’s not even about narcissism. If this man gets back, he gets to talk to media about his experiences, which will likely turn a lot of people against Trump’s plans. Trump’s fascism is contingent on people being complacent about the things he’s doing

Perhaps not necessarily wrong, but people sometimes don’t like hearing the truth. I don’t agree with the other comments that you should support him - to me, that sounds like bad parenting to not at minimum set up a backup plan when things start to fall apart.

My take on this situation is that you may have to tell him in a more subtle manner. Fortunately, professional athletes are known for being notoriously competitive, where even talented people can lose out on an opportunity simply out of bad luck. This could give you a way to voice your concerns in a way that doesn’t directly imply that he’s not cut out for the job, ie “you still need to be very lucky to go pro. I was very fortunate, but we shouldn’t be counting on luck for your living. You can still try for it, but I really think you should also have some backup options if things don’t work out”