You know the “vibes” of different models - when to use

Would that be a vibe-rater?

Debian is great, though I do wish they’d make it easier for new users to find their unofficial live image/installers since booting the desktop of your choice with no hassle is great:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/

…and this is the reason I added this to my root .bashrc:
export PS1="\h:\$(realpath .)\$ " no more following symlinks on a remote mount and forgetting about it.

There have been some efforts to mitigate this by adding warnings where appropriate. But that doesn’t stop certain people from ignoring those warnings and typing “Yes, do as I say!” and bricking their install anyway.

Great response, which also helps to answer one of the first questions from non-tech users: which anti-virus do I download for Linux?

I use Quassel, it’s been a few years since any major updates but it still works great. I like that it has a server+client model that functions like a bouncer so you can move between machines without reconnecting to networks. It also allows all the configuration from the client’s GUI so you don’t have to remember commands to change anything.

um, isn’t it easier to just:
sudo apt install yt-dlp
yt-dlp -U

To clarify there are several very popular online games with anti-cheat that will never work BUT there are also a ton of other multiplayer games that do work great. You aren’t going to be stuck in single-player only moving to Linux, you’ll just miss out on a handful of popular competitive games.

I’m not a musician but I recently stumbled across https://linuxmusicians.com/ which seems like a decent forum for people that are determined to make it work.

Have you tried Deadlock? Coming from Dota2 I found it pretty easy to get into even though it is FPS.

If it’s just a matter of pulse selecting the wrong device I also had that issue and was able to work around it by adding a line to the end of my: /etc/pulse/default.pa
set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_0e_00.3 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
You can get the correct name for your device with: pacmd list-sinks

Agreed, but you still need a confirmation on the quit button to ask if you are sure you want to quit without saving.

We even have an app for it now: apt install hollywood

Putting bombs in widely distributed electronics makes you a terrorist as does launching rockets at civilians. Whatever their goals it is their actions that define them.

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And the awesome part of DF is that each time you start over (on the same world) you just add more to its history and the story continues. Losing is definitely fun when keeping that in mind.

Often animations get stuck (until a timeout is hit after ~30 seconds).
Sometimes units can appear on a city that already has a unit and is blocked from moving away which prevents ending the turn.
Sometimes linked units don’t move together properly until the next turn.
Capturing a builder or settler with a linked unit just deletes it.
Currently if you buy Gathering Storm DLC you cannot play it with anyone who doesn’t also own Rise and Fall.

And those are just the issues I noticed personally this week.

Hohndel agreed but added that the industry needs to support these smaller projects – and not only with money. “Companies need to engage with these projects. Have your company adopt a couple of such projects and just participate. Read the code, review the patches, and provide moral support to the maintainers. It’s as simple as that.”

Really glad he said this, I keep seeing posts about how all these big companies could solve the problem by just throwing money at small projects and while that is better than nothing it would help way more to have their own developers helping to review and fix issues.

I ended up writing a perl script to generate a .m3u from a root music directory that shuffles all the subdirs so I can listen to full albums in random order instead of just tracks.