Quoting: FinixFighterI've been waiting for this feature for a long time! I love it! And it's also extremely useful for non expert users: I know person who would gladly use an alternative free (as in freedom) system, but don't know anything about computers, they don't even know what a terminal is.. For all these people, it will now be so easy to have an up to date system, without the need for their grandson to come visit them and updated their computer XD

Now I feel sad for the poor old people whose grandson just lost his only reason to visit even once every two years.

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Quoting: GuestThe comparison was never about myself and Socrates. But it was about the similarity between you and Socrates' murderers (or simply the average person).

The significant difference between me--let's say as the average person (of whom I might not be very representative)--and a murderer is the bit where, at least according to accounts of arguable accuracy, they actually killed the guy because they didn't understand his wisdom and/or disagreed with his politics.

Get over your ego please and realise that the personage of Socrates and the actions of his murderers bear no similarity to the situation here. I have no wish to murder you or anyone else, nor do I object to the way you behave because I lack the intelligence to appreciate the brilliance of your message. You're not getting the response you want because you're acting like a nuisance, not because you're too smart for the rest of us.

Maybe pause for a minute and reflect on your contribution to this thread. Unless you lack all self-awareness, you should be able to see that what you're doing is reminiscent of the stereotypical Windows fanboy jumping into a conversation about a Linux port on a Steam discussion board. Please, either find it in yourself to be constructive or find a better venue for your decidedly unproductive antics.

Quoting: GuestRead that last sentence, again, and extrapolate.

Sure, I'll start extrapolating as soon as you stop throwing up bad analogies and completely missing the point.

This feels futile but I'll try one last TL;DR: You will not achieve anything useful by repeatedly hitting us over the head with your preferred non-Linux OS on a site called Gaming on Linux.

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Quoting: GuestPretty much the exact same situation, isn't it?

What? No, it's obviously not the same situation at all. But I do admire the sheer size of your ego, thinking you've earned the right to compare yourself to Socrates for simply choosing to use different software than the rest of us.

Also, you ignored my point. You're doing more harm than good to your cause here, and making it even harder to take BSD (and its advocates) seriously.

Oh and if you're just trolling, have fun I guess. We all have our kinks and I'm not one to judge.

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With all due respect, Jaromir, maybe you think you're doing some good with your BSD crusade here, but you're really not achieving anything of value. You could try to show a user of some non-free operating system that it would be for their own good to try a free one instead, but no, you're here on a site called Gaming on Linux, trying to convince people that they'd be better off without Linux.

Not that you'd be able to convince a man dying of thirst to take a sip of water with your needlessly confrontational style of "evangelism". It should be obvious by now that you're pushing people away instead of drawing them in.

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Quoting: michaldybczakI personally had only bad experiences with all RPM distros, so I keep away from them. I always thought that expression "dependency hell" is only a historical one, till I tried RPM distros.

Late-nineties' Red Hat and Mandrake scarred me for life! :grin:

Seriously. I know it's irrational, but that's the main reason I've shied away from distros like Fedora and Suse for the last couple of decades. My phone uses RPM packages though...

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Mint's major version upgrade process has been okay on the few systems I've gone through it, but a better tool certainly won't hurt. The previous one was basically a collection of rather clunky scripts. On my own systems I like to do a reinstall once every couple of years anyway. I think of it as a biennial* spring cleaning of sorts. I tweak my partition setup if needed, decide on whatever custom configuration I want to carry over etc. Honestly, it doesn't even take that much longer than an upgrade.

That said, I'll definitely give this tool a try.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut we'll see . . . past Mint upgrade-related tools have been a bit iffy. I'm certainly not going to stop keeping /home on a separate partition!

I'd say having a separate home partition is a good idea regardless of the distro.

EDIT: bi-annual? biennial? Whatever means once every two years. :D

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Quoting: TuxeeSpeedometer: 78.0 (deb) vs. 77.2 (snap)
JetStream2: 63.678 (deb) vs. 67.811 (snap)
MotionMark: 48.29 (deb) vs. 65.92 (snap)

This is completely off topic, but what's going on with your Firefox? I know my 5700 XT is slightly more powerful than your non-XT 5700, and your 5900X packs a good deal more oomph than my 3700X, but how are you getting a measly 65.92 in MotionMark when I get 876.18? That's like nowhere near comparable. JetStream2 gave me about double your result, and Speedometer way more than double (164). What's going on with Ubuntu if Mint's build of Firefox is this much faster?

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Quoting: F.Ultra

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Quoting: frykBut what I never want to go back to, is having to read all that conversation on screen. Voice-Over please :-)

Hah! I'm very much the opposite. Zero patience for voice. I finish reading. I click to skip. :tongue:

What I never get is why they voice the replies that my character does, I mean I read the entire reply when choosing to click it so why did I just have to spend time hearing it as well?

Especially since they always get someone to do the voice that doesn't sound like me at all. Terrible research on their part! :grin:

Hard to tell since I don't know how you sound ;)

He's a Library Guy: he rarely speaks and when he does, he does it very quietly.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: damarrinWhen I click on "The Wheel of Time" link FF warns me of a potential security threat listing a adtraction domain. Not cool.

Sounds like a plugin doing that? Get no issues here.

Adtraction is on the default filter lists of common adblockers like uBlock Origin.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlIt won't be the same unless I have to swap floppy disks

That's really not something I'm nostalgic for. Twelve floppies for a damn adventure game. I can still almost feel the frustration of finding out disk 10 of my copy of MI2 had multiple errors...

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