JayDee

I think it deals with familiarity defining personal aesthetic? You grow up within a space, and the trends of that space become the norm, and within that norm there's a sweet spot that's 'cool'.

Every generation that grows up in a dramatically different aesthetic space thus ends up with completely different aesthetics from one another.

If they did, they seriously fucked up by not making his eyes look melange-infused.

That is some fair criticisms mixed with some things that are unfortunately not tackleable by linux devs. Arch is more a toy for configuring IMO; you lose alot of productivity up front getting it set up. I can't really speak for Wayland.

I've also been a fan of using Voicemeeter Banana, since it allowed me to output to both my speakers and headphones simultaneously, but only binding the audio control buttons to my headphones. Currently nothing like that functionally exists on linux that I've been able to find yet.

Nvidia has historically dragged its feet when providing support for its GPUs, and I definitely noticed alot of issues when running an Nvidia GPU back in the day, though I can't speak for how much of that is explicitly Nvidia and how much that's linux Dev lag.

Discord is even worse. It was news to me when switching back this year, but Discord has altogether stopped maintaining audio for game streaming. It's closed source, though, so there's nothing that can really be done about it. Overall, a not insignificant blow for gaming on linux.

I still get bad vibes from PopOS and have steered clear of it because of it. I would recommend you try Linux Mint at some point, since I've had a good experience with it and I regularly see others who equally recommend it.

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Do you mind mentioning the others you've tried and what snags you hit?

I've worked with Arch, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and SteamOS, and I would say that while arch and Ubuntu can have a learning curve, Linux Mint is on par with SteamOS in usability.

I did a similar thing on linux mint while trying to get my audio system working how I wanted. Luckily it comes with terminal-accessible rollback by default via timeshift and I was able to revert the mistake.

Linux's modularity and customizability vectors for complications which Windows lacks, which is both an advantage and an issue. I prefer having it over not, though.

It's not so much that I'm limiting myself to public works - I do have a library card and look around for various books that interest me. I'm just choosing to focus on them more currently.

I will have to check out Libby, it sounds very useful.

Absolutely, actually during my geometry class we read it.

Absolutely a pivotal work with a very interesting fiction within, but goddamn is it a dry read. It's a blessing it's so short.

Alot of good advice.

I am choosing books that are free to acquire because it means finding them and downloading them is usually very straightforward, compared to trying to illegally torrent a book or hunt it down via shady links and the like. I deal with ADD and have a history of having great difficulty reading things, so I am avoiding sinking costs into the hobby until I am actually able and invested in it3

I have to agree - I previously tried to read project Gutenberg's copy of 1984 and it was rife with his-spellings and typos and had no useful punctuation. I have found much better luck when exploring Wikisource.org. It seems that its texts are much better formatted, and the EPUBs I've downloaded from there, while plain, read well.

I an hesitant to read just any copy of Capital since it strikes me as very dense. I have heard there is a very faithful translation due to release this year and I might purchase that when I feel ready.

I do also have a library card at my disposal.

I remember reading "Call of the Wild" and "To Build a Fire" a long time ago and those both have stuck with me. It was only when looking him up again that I discovered he'd written all 3.

Anything else of his you'd specifically recommend?

I remember reading "Little Brother" In high school. It's very cool of Cory Doctorow to let people read his work for free on his website.

Thank you for recommending this. I'll have to check it out.

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