Quoting: rustybroomhandleHeh, don't take this too seriously, but I find the tag "NSFW" amusing. Are there any games that are "safe for work"? I imagine even Candy Crush would get you in trouble.

To nitpick on other strongly established terms, I find the common usage of "mature" highly offensive to language and original meanings of words. Things tagged "mature" are more often than not some of the least mature (non-infantile) things out there. And I would really like to search for mature (non-infantile) content sometimes. But I do not have the words for these searches. "Adult" and "mature" are taken. "Grownup" or "non-infantile" or "non-childish" don't sound too promising.

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Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: Rooster

Our installer aims to make the complicated process of installing Fedora to replace another operating system as easy as possible, but it’s still a barrier even for tech-literate people

Wait what?

Maybe in the sense of "tech-literate people, too, are lazy".
Just because I could deal with a complicated installation process, doesn't mean I want to.

What I fail to see is, what is complicated about installing Fedora 32? It's about as easy as you can get.

Another hypothesis: maybe they mean tech-literate people who have never installed an OS? Or Windows-users who would need to research what is swap and how many GiB you need and what file-system is best on SSD. Then again that just sounds like over-optimizing rather than not managing to do it.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySince your ire was apparently aroused by someone saying bad things about uncivil behaviour, my best guess is you're taking a principled stance in favour of people being able to act like assholes without anyone ever mentioning that they've acted like assholes. Not sure quite what the principle is, there.

I would suspect their disagreement with those statements might have stemmed from not believing that those things are real.

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

As a sign of my respect towards you as a fellow intelligent being I read your comments and haven't yet blocked you and chose to engage with you, even though it clearly isn't in my best interest.

Whenever I see an issue I can understand with something somewhere, I try to address it. A typo in some README - I submit a pull request. A mistake in some code that I understand - I submit a pull request. A statement made by someone I disagree with - I try to synchronize our terminology and starting views to see why we disagree.

I do this often unless the number of issues is overwhelming. What is overwhelming can ofc vary from day to day. And when you in your first comment in this thread indicated disagreement with statements portraying gamer culture in negative light in one sentence, I was willing to discuss it. Still not in my interest to do that - arguing on internet is a huge waste of time (practically never accomplishes anything), I have many interesting or important or pleasant things to do instead, I do not benefit from having a discussion with you in any noticeable degree. I still chose to gift away my precious time on this Earth to connect with a fellow intelligent being over meaningless arguments in a way that adds practically nothing to your life or mine.

But then you made several more comments. Bringing the number of addressable issues I had with your statements to dozens. That is an overwhelming amount. Even if I decided to throw away my time and give you the enjoyment of being engaged with like an equal instead of being blocked and ignored, it would take several hours of my time (and if you would choose not to ignore me - probably several hours of your time). All of this in format that is not designed for having winding debates about culture and philosophy.

So I think discussing through every point of disagreement and synchronizing our views to the greatest possible degree and in other aspects understanding each other - why the other feels differently, is theoretically possible, just not practically viable. And I can speculate that the more people are capable of doing that, the more they have better things to do with their time. I.e. the most likely people to agree with you are people without the skills needed to put their thoughts into words very well or understand and empathize others or a deep understanding of philosophy and culture and psychology and history.

So if my previous statements would be near-true, I think it might be for the best to just accept each other as much as we can (know that if we put enormous effort into it, we could all probably be friends and understand each other and even live together) and not needlessly provoke each other with comments intentionally insulting towards any group. Ofc this is very difficult as what is considered a matter of obvious fact for one group is an insult to another group. Also I think it is unreasonable to expect people to discuss things with you thoroughly whenever.

With enough training I can always take my upset reaction to your comments and breathe deeply and accept these emotions and let them go and think what degree of discussion I want to start and commit to here and how much I can expect other people to take me up on that offer and accept when they are uninterested of that. And try to word my possibly very negative emotions in constructive and friendly and respectful ways despite the other person using language that I find hurtful. If I can do, so can you. But you don't have to. You do who you want to become.

Thanks for reading. Meta-feedback very welcome. Long winding discussion less welcome, but I will try my best to process yours as you have processed mine. Respect to all intelligent beings (every human and maybe more).

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: xaviI always prefer to buy and doing business with Taiwan than with China!

This.

Say what you want about ol' Trump, but I don't trust China as far as I can spit, and I'll avoid products that have or likely have ties to the Chinese Government, where ever possible... No - before any "Social Justice Warriors" put their 5¢ in - that's not me being "anti-Chinese" or "racist", that's an opinion based on the apalling track record the Chinese Government has with regards to privacy and human rights, which are known (albeit often-ignored) facts.

This is true enough. Mind you, there are similarly solid reasons for the world community to avoid products made in the USA (and I'm not even talking about Trump).
So yeah, products from Europe, Taiwan, Japan before products from either China or the US.

Yup, this. Every time someone says they avoid Chinese products, I wonder why don't they apply same principles to USA.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: PhlebiacOff topic: is "Bartleby Lawnjelly" a real name?!?

Maybe they're a Unity developer working on Godot under a pseudonym so they don't get caught! ;)

Best conspiracy theory in recent years! Cute.

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I find tiling sexy, but currently I have a small screen (14" laptop). I enjoy my current workflow - 16 virtual desktops with most apps (e.g. Pidgin and email and notes) having their own dedicated desktop. So I'm not tempted to procrastinate as much by seeing it constantly. But switching to an app has a predictable flow (specific shortcut key) and a predictable result (all maximized). I hate regular alt-tab'ing because you either need to keep the state (order) of windows in your head or you have a slight overhead understanding how many times you need to press the hotkey again to get your desired window.

I have used xmonad for some months, but doing so much basic configuration manually was not my cup of tea. I like to outsource to KDE and config when I want to.

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Does any one understand more fully - is this feature a step closer to VR support on Wayland+Gnome? (Is that already supported and it now became faster?)

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Quoting: chr

Quoting: KnefA heads up: GamerOS requires a wired connection for at least the first setup (this is listed in the instructions but not on the requirements).

You should make a PR or at least an issue here [External Link] then.

Hey, look [External Link], the open source method worked!

Wait... how? That's not a PR nor can I find any closes issues. You sent a pm/dm somehow?

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I bought two copies for my siblings to hopefully understand a bit more of programming. Thanks for sharing, Liam!

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Apparently they also have a deb available [External Link]. That is pretty impressive amount of packaging.

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