Yeah, looks like it’s just preinstalled with Pro.

Kinda bogus that they’d use that as a selling point. Makes it seem like there’s some sort of exclusivity.

I think it’s just a really good Windows-like. It uses a modified GNOME that looks pretty good. Though as a KDE fangirl, I probably wouldn’t be able to see it as anything other than GNOME. (◕દ◕)

It’s based on Ubuntu, so I’m sure support is good and breakage is infrequent.

It also looks like you can pay $50 and get access to the pro version, which can mimic any of the major desktops and also lets you use their exclusive creative suite. If that’s any good, it’s no wonder people are flocking to it. Linux is still kinda mid for creatives.

Kinda seems like the new Mint, not that Mint is going anywhere.

It’s almost as if the forces of good and evil don’t abide by the line we draw in the sand, for some reason.

Wait, this guy’s gay?

With how much talk of breaking your install goes around, I assumed it would be a challenge. I run pacman -Syu almost every time I update lmao.

Some people are enthusiasts that want to take the training wheels off and challenge themselves. I use CachyOS, which is Arch-based, because it thrashes everything else almost every time in speed tests. Thus far, it hasn’t proven to be more complicated than the Debian-based distros I’ve used. I also wasn’t expecting better features in Arch with certain programs. Being able to get the absolute newest version of a package at all times has proven to be much more useful to me than detrimental.

Dishonored is one of the few games that I’ve turned right around and played through again after I beat it. The gameplay is just so free. It’s not really the biggest map ever, but it is so dense and easy to navigate. I also haven’t experienced a lot of titles that just ooze atmosphere the way that Dishonored does. The art direction is off the charts, and I think it’s aged pretty impeccably. It’s always a good idea to do stylized over realistic, at least if you want your game to stand the test of time.

Dude, nothing about the US school system makes sense. Here’s some bullet points from my time there:

1. Due to a health initiative by Michelle Obama, cafeteria food had to be low-fat, low-sugar, and low-sodium… but most of it was still processed carbohydrates.

2. This policy extended to vending machines. The snacks all had to be healthy. So we had fruit vending machines, right? Wrong. Reduced Fat Doritos and Powerade Zero.

3. Collective punishment.

4. Teachers bullying students. Like, directly saying they would end up nowhere in life.

5. “monitored” official school dances that smelled like a distillery and looked like a clothed orgy.

6. Scare-tactic Sex Education. Abstinence-only sex ed had gone by the wayside, so instead they showed us a bunch of pictures of extreme STD cases and said the only way to prevent that for sure is to abstain. Which is totally different, right?

7. Wellness classes where we’d go bowling and stuff our faces with fried food weekly.

Zero-tolerance policies.

Usually the effect of these policies is that a kid who’s getting bullied puts up with it until he can’t anymore, then finally fights back and gets suspended. Same thing here.

Personally, I don’t think we should encourage violence, but I also don’t see a problem with letting kids fight it out. He was lucky all she did was hit him.

I really love CachyOS. It’s so fast. I’ve been seeing lots of reports of performance issues in The Outer Worlds 2, and I’ve gotta say I’m not experiencing any of that.

Just make sure you familiarize yourself with some of the quirks of Arch, such as why you might want to use a program like Timeshift for backups, or the risks of the AUR.

Also, get a flash drive and back up your important files, just in case. I have done full system upgrades every time I upgrade, and I haven’t had issues with my system yet. But with Arch, you gotta be careful.

Pop!_OS and CachyOS are the two I always recommend for people with nVidia. The best option for Linux, quite frankly, is to switch to AMD. However, both of those should be preconfigured for your GPU. I’ve been loving CachyOS, and my friend with nVidia has been too.

You don’t understand, I’m scouring the internet for obscure archives of videos on how to manually uninstall Windows 11 components with the command line because Linux is just too hard to learn!

I did not play Avowed. I may get it on a sale, but OW2 is like the only game I’ve been waiting for. I think it may actually have been worth the money I spent for the prerelease, but time will tell.

Not technically. I got the edition with the prerelease.

This is the only game I’ve been excited about all year, but with Avowed’s mixed reception I was waiting for the prerelease reviews to roll in, and they were pretty glowing a few days ago. Even some of the ones calling it “woke” still recommended it, which I think speaks a lot to the quality of the game. So, I bought it.

Yeah, I love it so far. Super skill-heavy. Most conversations I’ve had have had some kind of option for a skill check. Plus some exploration has been gated behind a trait or skill as well. If you liked the first one, it fixed all those problems.

Damn, CJ, why you always gotta be a busta?

Outer Worlds 2, baby! It takes itself more seriously than the first one, which I think adds to the comedy.

What got a chuckle out of me was this statue in the first town you visit. It’s a beautifully-designed, marble statue of some hero. The Auntie’s Choice corporation that’s colonized the area used an advertisement drone to project an image of the CEO’s face over the statue’s head.

There’s also the Protectorate members that have tried to integrate into corporate society saying things like, “I only recently learned that artificial means good!”

I love dry humor, and this game is much more dry than the first.

Exactly fucking right. Trump’s administration claimed they were going to target criminals and has only raided schools and businesses. If MS-13 is such a problem, then go solve it.

I replayed BO2 earlier this year because it takes place in 2025. I was shocked at how close its world is to ours.

If you had told me in like 2013 that, between the Black Ops series and the Modern Warfare series, Black Ops would have the more realistic plot points, I would have called you crazy.

Salazar: We’re all going to hell, man.