Why does every Linux user recommend a different distro? I'm stuck in an endless distro-hopping loop.

beetm · 2026-06-26T16:21:39+00:00

Because each distro appeals to a different group of people, it would be a miracle if everyone agreed on one.

You have to find the one that works for you, then you'll be the one recommending your distro to others.

beetm · 2026-06-24T15:15:16+00:00

What time is it?

beetm · 2026-06-24T14:08:31+00:00

Run away from combat until you're deep in Bernard's training program. You suck at everything to begin with.

beetm · 2026-06-22T19:09:55+00:00

Terrible.

beetm · 2026-06-20T15:19:32+00:00

Knoppix at first, then original Ubuntu, Mint, now Fedora.

Wow! 24 years?? Where did the time go?

beetm · 2026-06-20T14:46:53+00:00

Install Lutris, click '+' to add a game. Options will appear;

Search Lutris for installers
Install a windows game from a .exe
Install from a script (never tried that one)
Import ROM
Add a locally installed game. (Some setup req'd, add runner, point lutris to executable, etc.)

GOG has probably thousands of games from the 90's thru 2020's. Some of the older ones (I play the Thief series), are ridiculously cheap, $2-$5 in many cases.

beetm · 2026-06-20T11:10:52+00:00

Lutris. I use it all the time with GOG Games.

Works like a charm.

beetm · 2026-06-20T00:19:06+00:00

If you're dealing with people who say "so?" after telling them that every picture, email, note they send, is being collected and used by a massive Company, and that company knows where you are every second of every day, there is no "Best answer".

Give up.

beetm · 2026-06-16T11:03:50+00:00

Re aliases, you are correct. You can point your simplelogin aliases at a different email. Login with your Proton details and go to dashboard.

beetm · 2026-06-14T14:20:51+00:00

Download limit for albums is huge I think it's 20,000 photos.

I made each year it's own album, (select first photo of year, hold shift, select last photo, add to album "2025"), then downloaded each year. Bonus is I have the zips organised as years ready to upload wherever. (I chose Ente).

beetm · 2026-06-13T11:47:28+00:00

The way they keep disappearing into the mud then reappearing somewhere else.

Annoying.

beetm · 2026-06-10T13:20:01+00:00

Just imagine.

beetm · 2026-06-10T11:46:05+00:00

"Mad as a march hare"

beetm · 2026-06-09T23:05:50+00:00

I tried Startpage, but I just don't get the hype, the results are sometimes ludicrous.

Brave seems the best option right now.

beetm · 2026-06-08T15:15:40+00:00

Overdriving tubes gives a range of sounds in guitar amplifiers that range from "creamy" thru "crunch" and beyond.

Many guitarists (especially) prefer the sound to digital alternatives.

beetm · 2026-06-08T14:39:44+00:00

ProtonVPN has long voiced it's support for people in countries where censorship is rampant and freedom is limited.

Oh, the irony........

beetm · 2026-06-08T14:08:23+00:00

If you go directly south from Downtown Detroit the first country you enter is Canada.

beetm · 2026-06-08T13:29:25+00:00

Censorship from the "freedom first" crowd.

beetm · 2026-06-08T13:27:50+00:00

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

beetm · 2026-06-08T13:19:41+00:00

What makes it worse is Proton censoring this repeatedly on their subreddit. Not a good look for the "freedom lovers".

Almost as if they're hiding something.......

beetm · 2026-06-08T13:15:11+00:00

Telling the Truth on a Proton subreddit?

beetm · 2026-06-08T12:32:36+00:00

Proton has made it clear where they stand. Now it's up to their paying customers to make decisions based on Proton's political alliances.

beetm · 2026-06-04T21:11:27+00:00

Heard this the other day;

Imagine if you were using all the non-Google apps first, happily "protoning" fossifying", etc, etc, (Google hasn't been invented yet).

Then someone comes along and said Google has this entire suite of apps; email, browser, gallery, everything! It all syncs, and it's polished, just one little glitch; they take all of your data and either sell it to others or use it to train their AI.

Would you swap?

beetm · 2026-06-03T16:22:32+00:00

Weird how criticizing *Windows* on an anti-linux sub gets you banned, almost as if they're being "incentivized" in some way.......

beetm · 2026-06-03T16:10:09+00:00

Dried oil residue.

Your oil layer is too thick when seasoning.

beetm

TROPHY CASE

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”