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I have never had an issue with subtitles on Jellyfin, and my wife has turned our household into an always-on subtitles household. Are you making use of the Open Subtitles plugin?

Just gonna... Drop this here...

I got tired of the subscription while I was still Windows-bound, so I trialed CaptureOne Pro. It didn't even have a subscription plan at the time, and I loved it so much I bought a perpetual license. I love the software, it's my favorite photo editing software period. They do offer a subscription now, as well as perpetual licenses, but you can't even begin to get it running under Linux so... Major bummer.

This is, again, an atypical use-case. Despite that, it's not hard to find the answers. Googling for "Linux Japanese keyboard layout" comes up with an easy-to-follow guide in the first 5 search results, literally on the Ubuntu forums. Understand I'm not saying the use case is particularly RARE, but it's not the norm either. And honestly, Snap sucks anyway. 😂

It could certainly be better supported and better documented, but you're looking through the lens of your specific experience, not realizing your experience is not that of the every day, average PC user.

Put up a dart board of the most widely used KDE distributions and throw a dart. You've got a KDE distro that actually meets the needs of a non-technical user. Kubuntu, Linux Mint's KDE edition, Fedora, OpenSUSE, hell throw Manjaro with KDE on. The desktop environment has zero bearing on a distro's ability to act like a computer, it's only the paint on the walls. If a distro "fits the needs of a non-technical user" by your definition with, say, GNOME or Cinnamon or XFCE or Budgie or whatever else, it'll do it with KDE too. Desktop environment != distribution.

The one everyone always drones on and on about is Darktable... Don't get me wrong, it's a powerful piece of software. But... It's lackluster compared to the competition. I used it for a long time, figuring if I just made myself keep using it I'd get used to it... And then I actually stopped and thought about that sentence, lol. I shouldn't have to Stockholm's myself into liking a piece of software.

Lol! I'm fine with GIMP, actually. As a matter of fact, I prefer it to Photoshop. That's likely due to GIMP being my first introduction to photo manipulation though, and so I'm used to its paradigm.

Photo EDITING, though? There's no competition on Linux for the likes of Lightroom or Capture One Pro (my preferred RAW editing software). I gave up photography for a while because I hated editing my photos on Linux so much. I tried EVERY alternative Linux had to offer, and they all suck. Eventually, I started carrying around a USB-C SD card reader and just transferring photos of my camera to my phone to edit them in Snapseed of all things, I hated editing on Linux so much.

Really? MacOS? Why's that? I've never had the pleasure of working with a Mac, but I'd be open to trying it.

Actually, I'm thinking about picking a previous gen MacBook for my wife, I just need some confirmation on how it handles The Sims and Minecraft... 😂

I'd argue that for the vast majority of users, a stable, modern Linux distro will meet their needs perfectly. Web browsing, watching YouTube, checking e-mail, looking at pictures of cats on the internet...

It's special/professional use-cases that are still lackluster. Try doing professional level photo editing on Linux... It's a nightmare. Integrating with corporate cloud solutions? Nah. Are these things doable? Absolutely. By the majority of users in that specific use-case? No.

But day-to-day, general use PC stuff? Yeah, absolutely. Even gaming is more accessible than ever. There's exactly one game in my Steam library that doesn't just work... To be clear, it doesn't work at all, but that's just because of my hardware setup. (Halo Infinite + Intel ARC + Linux = Game can't even launch. Worked fine with an AMD card, but when I upgraded late last year it borked. Known problem with Vulkan, DX12, and ARC)

Give us a version of our Mentor from a timeline where Claw Island DID end with death and sadness -- but it was the commander instead? Mentor and student reunited after all this time.

A chance for both to have the other back, and do better by each other next time.

I just don't necessarily think the feature should be removed just because it isn't always used as intended. I know there are folks who use it as a "disagree" button, and that's... fine, I guess lol. I think Lemmy does a decent enough job of preventing abuse of the downvote button by removing the concept of karma. There are no imaginary internet points to be gained or lost. As a bonus, you can always turn vote values off entirely for yourself, as opposed to disabling downvotes on an instance. That way you can upvote/downvote organically, without your perception being skewed by existing votes.

I wouldn't necessarily refuse to use a service based solely on whether it has a downvote feature or not, but I think downvote serves a different purpose than reporting. If I were on a platform that didn't support downvotes, I do think I would feel obliged to be a lot more liberal with my upvotes, lol. Which... maybe that's not a bad thing. 🤔

But again, through the power of federation we can both interact on a platform that can satisfy both our beliefs, and that's a pretty awesome thing.

I have not applied to beehaw, myself. I dislike the lack of a down vote personally. I think it's a useful utility to have as long as people don't abuse it... Which people always will, but I don't think that merits taking it away. That's the great thing about decentralized services, though!

Signing up is open compared to Lemmy which requires an explanation and review.

Only on certain instances. Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org, for example, require you to answer some questions (I've heard people say beehaw requires you to write an essay, lol) which I think is primarily to avoid being overrun by bot accounts. Not all instances do, though. sh.itjust.works has open registration, for one.