Are you dual booting Ubuntu with Windows? Because Windows fast boot causes that behavior.

This week I went to a concert, bought the vinyl there and it came with a download code to get the FLACs.

I won, the artist won, the middlemen got shafted. Great success.

I got a little bored with the anxiety of point version upgrades that standard distributions follow every 6 months or so.

Rolling distros like Manjaro work much smoother for my use case (web browsing, some gaming, light coding).

It’s not going away. The cat is out of the bag.

As with any tool it has its use cases. It’s not a good fit for everything. You can drive a screw with a hammer but a screwdriver works best.

We’re experiencing the capitalist euphoria that happens when something new comes along. This needs to get regulated into submission like all the previous bubbles.

Good.

As a long time Manjaro user is good to see something happening.

As to why I’m a Manjaro user: I installed it on my laptop years ago and it served me well, with only a couple of hiccups (the now famous SSL certificate issue and some repo keys that were broken), nothing too difficult to overcome but that points out some major organizational problems.

Other than that, it just works wonderfully and I’m too lazy to hop.

You have options, no need to advocate against them.

Think of it as the gaming subsystem for Linux.

Winamp.

Actually no, Audacious player can load old Winamp skins.

If you don’t notice any change, they are working as intended.

You’re not going to get popups to ask you to please use Copilot, if that is what you’re expecting :-)

I did not imply “no option to show it”. You can see it, it’s just not out in the open like it used to be.

Nah, KDE also hides the path, you have to click to see it.

At some point Linux desktops bought into that whole ‘less is more’ religion that plagues Windows, and started to hide crucial things like file paths in the name of esthetics and to not confront the poor simple users with the ugliness of the Unix file system tree. This is the result.

As a future customer, please include high quality connectors to import legacy data from Jira and Confluence. We’re going to need them. Thank you in advance.

One man’s e-waste is another’s Linux homelab.

Well, Portuguese is a Latin language, so there’s a common root.

The Linux onboard ramp is as shallow as it has ever been. Just pick up a usb stick, shove a Linux distro on it and boot it on your PC or on an older machine you don’t use anymore. Use it to do what you do usually. Things will be different. Resist the urge to shove random software from the net in it to solve problems. This is not windows. Don’t reinstall even if you fuck up your system (and you will, multiple times). Ask questions and fix it yourself. Learn. Level up. Use the huge software repositories that are built in the system. Use flatpaks for the other stuff. Persist. Things will eventually click. One day you will feel at home. Then you have won.

You try it and see if it fits you. This is not a religion. You use what works for you.

Thanks, I’ll give it another try.

I’m finishing Talos Principle II, which is quite awesome with some great new head-scratching mechanics.

Other favourites that I always keep around to chill:

• Sable
• Journey
• Valley
• Torchlight
• Into the Breach
• Baba is You
• Plunge

Some others that I jump in for a quick adrenaline boost:

• Into the Pit
• Immortal Redneck
• Ziggurat
• Ion Fury

Alright, if you promise me highways and zip lines I’ll give it another shot.