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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And my recommendation of KDE as opposed to GNOME was because I think it is more similar to the experience someone would have coming from Windows, not necessarily related to any problems with gaming

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

As do I! I have been a Fedora GNOME user for the past three years now, and I love it. Gaming won't necessarily be impacted by using Fedora as opposed to Bazzite, after all Bazzite is just Fedora with some stuff on top. And that's my point: if you are a more advanced user then you'll appreciate not having those things on top and being able to customize your system more to your liking, and be aware of what things you're installing because you're doing it manually (as opposed to having them bundled with the system), but those things will make the experience smoother for a newcomer who's afraid of making the jump, as OP is. Because yes, having pre-installed drivers, pre-installed compatibility layers and a set-up dialog when you first boot the system that allows you to install all basic software will make it easier, even if it's not needed. Plus, Bazzite is atomic, which Fedora isn't, and therefore harder to break (or rather, easier to repair, by just returning to the last working image, which should be as easy as selecting it on start-up)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

If you do ANY gaming at all: Bazzite KDE

If you don't: Fedora KDE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The Eastern South Slavic languages (namely Bulgarian and Macedonian) are distinct from all the other Slavic languages in that they do have definite articles (and don't use grammatical cases)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Mumble + Element (Matrix)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

ITT: English speakers saying English is easy to learn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Several companies sell Linux desktops nowadays. Tuxedo and Slimbook come to mind

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Got a second-hand Fairphone nine months ago after my older phone broke beyond repair and I'm really happy with it planning on using it at the very least until the start of 2027 and then upgrade to a more recent but still cheap second-hand version

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

you can even tap on sone bikes to rent them. everyone saying owning a car makes you free can suck it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

AFAIK every function of NoScript exists in uBlock Origin. So just get uBO and cut the redundancy. The less vectors the better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Igual te interesa echarle un ojo a postmarketOS. Están haciendo un sistema operativo para teléfonos forkeado directamente de Alpine Linux, en vez de AOSP

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you are going to play games you might as well go and try Bazzite instead! It's built on a Fedora base with some good additions:

  • It's atomic: this basically means that everytime yov boot your computer you'll have the choice of booting onto the newest version of your system, or the one before. If you fuck up anything it's as easy as reverting to the last version where things were alright!

  • It comes with a bunch of preloaded drivers and compatibility layers: makes compatibility with modern games and software as good as you can get it without having to tinker heaps. It's pretty seamless.

  • The installer includes many programs by default. Just tick a few boxes and you can choose to have Spotify, OBS, Discord or Darktable automatically installed in your computer

As for the documented support you can probably go a long way with the Arch, Gentoo and Fedora wikis. Other than that I'm afraid it's gonna be relying on forums and Reddit. I've never irreversably broken my Fedora system for what is worth, and I don't consider myself that tech savvy!

Game support is also really good these days. Anything that you can play via Steam will basically run. And performance is better for some games on Linux these days! Itch.io also has good support I think. You should be able to run most things that don't use shady anti-cheat, but forget about League of Legends, Valorant or Fortnite.

I'm not sure what you mean by Linux version! But Fedora (and Bazzite) belong to their own "branch" of Linux, apart from Debian and Arch. Their philosophy is a balance between rock-solid stability (Debian) vs bleeding-edge software (Arch) that many people, including me, think hits the sweet spot quite well!

If there's anything I missed or you are curious feel free to ask more questions :)

 

Hello, I started donating to my favourite open-source projects a couple years ago, but stopped about 6 months ago for different reasons and wanted to get back into it.

I wanted to ask if anyone here has a set system or process they follow when donating

  • How much money do you donate? A set amount, whatever you feel like, a percentage of your earnings?

  • When do you donate? Whenever you remember, on the first of the month, Thursdays?

  • Do you have a minimum donation amount?

  • How do you decide what projects to support? Do you forego donations if you've contributed in other ways? Do you keep a list?

  • Do you donate to all equally or do you have some sort of ranking? Is it by amount of use, subjective preference, something else?

  • What platforms do you prefer using? Liberapay, Opencollective, Patreon, ko-fi, Paypal, Monero, actual post?

So far the system I've devised for myself would go something like:

  • put 2 % of all my earnings, whatever they are, in a separate account
  • every quarter (on the first of January, April, July and October) donate the full amount of money in the account (with a minimum of 5 €, so as not to lose a big amount in fees)
  • keep a ranked list of projects that I've used or deemed important or promising in the last three months (projects I donated to recently go to the bottom of the list), things at the top get more money than things at the bottom
  • prioritise Liberapay since it's open-source itself
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