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Instead of calling that person a moron, a cunt, a racist, a homophobe, a bigot, you could have explained to him the issues that he wasnt seeing it. You could have led him to resources that gave him a more well rounded picture of what was happening.

Those comments were there. They never got responses.

I'm not sure there is a go-to, which is good. There are some gaming-focused ones to be sure, but i'm using Mint which is super mainstream focused and user friendly (and based on ubuntu and debian) and I've had a great experience.

Oh man, any time I'm tempted to read some post on nextdoor because it might be nearby enough to care about, I mindlessly start checking comments. Within seconds, it is apparent that my only options are to close it immediately or to set myself up to despair over the state of society.

It's funny you mention the office side of things in addition to gaming, because I have remarked about the same thing.

Using Librewolf(firefox) on Linux, all of the M365 applications work fine in the browser. Probably even better, since I can actually close them when I want to. I use Teams the most, which is obviously a very connected thing. But for a word processor, which seems like the most local thing ever, the web app lets me share in MS format and accept comments and all that.

I could absolutely see Microsoft's execs planning out the most efficient way to grind every bit of value out of the windows brand on their path to subscription everything.

So, I don't know off the top of my head, but I need to figure it out as well because I have plenty of game installers that I'll want to use eventually. Lots in my GOG account, others from 20 years ago with sources lost to time, lol.

I would expect that Steam could be used as a launcher, but I know there is also an app called Lutris for managing games and compatibility layers and such.

I'm thinking about it, and yeah I may have not yet installed a windows version of a game outside of Steam at all. Honestly I have most often installed Linux native versions via steam.

I don't see that at all. This meme is referring to some niche application or to a person with their fingers all up in the nuts and bolts of their OS.

It's common for beginner-friendly desktop distros to have Firefox and LibreOffice installed out of the box. For mainstream use that covers the vast majority.

Games work great in Linux!

And that's not like "oh, about 3/4 of my favorite old games work without too much trouble." It's more like opening steam and "holy crap, half of my old favorites have native Linux versions and everything else just works using proton."

Remember, the Steam Deck and the general shittiness of Microsoft has directed a lot of Valve's resources towards gaming on Linux.

If you want to play some brand new AAA multiplayer thing with rootkit type anti cheat, then maybe you'd be stuck dual booting into windows.

I'd argue that those games could be abandoned, because there is SO much choice out there that I am certain I already own copies of dozens of games that I will never play. But if it's a matter of playing what your friends are into, then yeah make the computer adapt to the human needs and not the other way around.

From the perspective of the MBAs and economists, small landlords being nice like that is just an inefficiency that the invisible hand of the market will eventually sweep away in favor of cold efficient corporate management.

It seems to be that a local landlord is basically just a mom and pop shop that hasn't closed down yet because it only needs to find one customer to buy its one service.

Tens of thousands of people who had a clear motivation to come across as upstanding citizens, and who generally had a political leaning towards environmentalism. I can believe they didn't leave trash behind.

See, that's the kind of thing that can happen when you value community and work together. You can have significant and nice shared resources. It's not a tragedy of the commons race to the bottom you get with rugged individualists and/or selfish children who see trash on the ground and say "that's bad, the person who did that needs to clean it up and be punished" and then it sits there and rots.

And yeah there are WAY more important things to worry about than how various groups do or do not litter. But it is an illustrative example of the different priorities and values of the groups. It seems like a topic for discussion as we live in a world where some people are still somehow just finding out that this Trump character might not a be all above board.

But for something so minor why are you so insistent upon pushing it away and disregarding it? That's two different justifications now for doing so (these are cherry picked, ok maybe not but it doesn't matter).

Hell yes, friend. And off you aren't already, apply that to everything and everyone in your life!

After living in a mostly untouched house for over a decade, now in the past few years I've been going nuts making it suit the personalities and habits of my family.

In my case, I think the old bullshit attitude was driven both by our hyper capitalist greedy individualistic conservative culture (why yes I'm in the USA) and wholesome traditional catholic guilt and self-denial.

How truly fucked it is that we live in a world where people will limit their life experiences in their own home for decades, just so that they can believe that after they die their home sells for 10% more.

Meanwhile I'm over here having my back yard turned into an active construction site all year, but that hasn't hurt the enjoyment of my family or my numerous pets, and the next decade in that yard is going to be awesome.

Oh yeah, that's true with weed as well as with every other piece of the puzzle I've put together over the past several years to find some peace and happiness in life.

I've described it as being like we all have different customized user manuals for our brains & bodies, but we don't get a copy and have to reverse engineer it. Even in my case it's not simply just "weed good" because some strains won't even work well for me like my usual ones do.

I've had bad experiences too. It's just very positive on the whole for me because there's the short-term effect of being essentially a pain reliever, and the long-term benefit of knowing what it's like to have good days again, and that makes it easier to find my way back to that state even when I'm not using any cannabis for a while.

Let's try to convince everybody you must have a traditional looking family from a 50s TV show. Like it's a religious caliber requirement.

Oh but number must go up, so we're gonna put every economic stress we can on them to make that impossible.

And we might screw up some childhoods and send some adults over the edge. It's a real shame. But hey let's find that silver lining: cheap prison slave labor! Number go up again!