This is what I expected for the Xbox one generation.

It’s not a bad idea and I welcome it. It allows flexibility and support for things outside of the Xbox ecosystem so you don’t have a broken console experience.

Of course their track record for Xbox hasn’t been good for a while and their track record for windows right now is abysmal.

So just make it windows 12 and call it a day.

The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.

I’m confused at your point and the camp you refer to.

There was an outbreak in the US in multiple states, mostly TX where there was at least 1 death and hundreds hospitalized.

Then a boy from mexico travelled to TX to visit family, contracted the disease (but may not have shown symptoms yet), then returned home. That introduced the virus to a village of unvaccinated people, which created another outbreak and deaths occurred.

Its tragic. And the article points in many ways that vaccination / herd immunity would have prevented this. But that’s not always the world we live in.

You’re presuming the infection was known.

Your instinct is right, you shouldn’t move any infected person any distance. That just stresses them when they shouldn’t be, and migrates the disease.

But also flip it. Why would you actively go to a place that has had an outbreak of a disease, even though its subsided without first being vaccinated for it? That’s equally insane.

“Brought it to them” is a misnomer. The boy travelled to TX where he was exposed and then he brought it home.

The point of the article shouldn’t be taken with the view of countries and borders, with that view the point is that the Americas (plural with many countries) have lost their disease elimination status.

The better point is that it shows how viruses move and spread. There are multiple take away lessons numbered in the article, however they are also not concrete because the data is not concrete.

Correct. And everyone needs to remember the actual problem, not the symptom. Its like leaving one social media platform for another then when it too goes to crap complaining. Oh how can this happen again!?

If you look at the foundations of the OS the pattern becomes clear. They release a concept of an OS, but its half baked and not implemented well. So they fix it and rebrand it, and that’s the “good” version. 95 became 98 ME became XP Vista became 7 10 became 10 - they broke pattern by wanting to stay in a perpetual 10 state and keep updating it (which is why it was around 10 years). 10 was not good when it launched and took years to fix it, essentially becoming its own replacement.

I tried out a handful of Lemmy apps and Thunder is what I used for most of it but then switched to Summit. There’s aspects I like about both and aspects I dislike about both, but they don’t have a bad UI.

Yo dawg, I heard you like language in your language.

It’s my opinion that most people think of all the technology as it were 15 years ago. Apple was innovative, Google wasn’t evil, Windows worked well, and Linux was not as accessible as it is today.

I had two bouts with Linux in the distant past, and neither time did I think Linux was anything worth pursuing. Not that it was bad, I just didn’t see a benefit over the alternatives. In fact the alternatives had all the benefits in my mind.

When I switched a year ago, I was blown away how far it had come as far as being accessible. Now I can’t imagine using Windows as my primary OS ever again.

The other major advantage is your ISP can’t build a profile on you. Considering they know who you are and where you live, that’s a pretty important air gap to me.

Windows troubleshooting is always SFC and DISM as the new “have you tries turning it off and on again” default first recommended step lol.

Like others said, bazzite and pop os, though I’ve never used either. I use mint and never had a problem.

Though it should be pointed out that some MP games that use a kernel level anti cheat can’t be played (battlefield 6 for instance).

But I also wanted to mention, you can run Linux from a USB flash drive. So of you want to try out one of them without actually installing it, you easily can. If you don’t like it you don’t install. If you do, then you go for the full install. Easy non committal trial so to speak.

Yeah, I always bring this up because it’s what I dealt with. Mind you, it was amplified because I set up a media server right away and got seriously confused.

What? Permissions don’t get inherited? OK fine, so how do you set permissions? This site says 755 and this site says drwxr-xr-x. Can’t I just get a straight answer?

It’s a fundamental functioning difference between the OS’s that not a lot of people talk about when talking about switching.

Even my Windows machine that is set up with an admin/user structure (as God intended) doesn’t give me any fuss with file access.

I find that one of the biggest differences is the file ownership/group design, and the non admin user. Sure, it might not come up in a straightforward manner, but it will.

Why do I need to put in a password all the time? How come I can’t just move this file to another drive?

This might be too “advanced” for what you’re looking for, but I think even basic usage comes across this.

I switched to Linux about a year ago. I was a windows power user and now I’m a Linux noob, but couldn’t be happier.

I hate to say it, but there’s still reasoning to have Windows. I use a VM with ameliorated windows running for the few things I can’t get away from.

For others, I tell them my story. Most people I talk to won’t or can’t make the switch, which I’m respectful of. To those that would benefit, I recommend at the minimum O&O Shutup but highly recommend ameliorated. This has been more welcomed.

People won’t care until they have a reason to care. I’ll still be around when they do.

Oh, good to know. I had no idea this was a thing.

Its pretty straightforward. You just need to have secureboot disabled in bios so a third party driver can load.

Welcome to the club. I switched about a year ago and its been fine.

Mind you, I was a windows power user and I Linux I’m just a below average minimalist user, but its been fine. Also mind you, I run a windows VM for some stuff I’m still tethered to (virt-manager is your friend if this is the case). But I have 3 machines in my house that are all Mint boxes and its smooth sailing.

There are some things I wish were different, but you need to choose your battles. Like I don’t want any kernel based anticheat on my system so those kinds of games I play on console if available, or don’t play at all.

As far as advice, part of what I like about Mint is their forum. Yes, you can always search and find answers but with so many variances between distros having a forum tailored to your specific OS is a nice perk. You will find a lot of answers there.

Hot tip: read up on file permissions, users and groups. Permissions aren’t inherited like they are in windows so that’s a mental adjustment you need to make.

You’ll probably pick up on the file structure fairly quickly. Though I didn’t unhide the hidden folders in my home directory because I needed to (I forger why but it came up)

And honestly, I’ve used an AI tool to help walk me through getting some stuff to work (somehow I broke my Samba sharing) so that’s always a resource to help guide you and troubleshoot.

All that aside, I just wanted to say I really like your name.