Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to work no matter how long I hold it for…

Nice

Nice, I’ll add that to the playlist

I need to save this for later, damn

Dreadnoughts will be added to the playlist, thanks!

I would like to add more.

I really like being able to just install, update, and remove programs using the “dnf” and “flatpak” commands, it is super nice and simple! I have accidentally removed an audio driver once, but after reinstallation it worked again.

KDE Connect and Localsend are both super awesome, no more words need to be said

I got into self-hosting as well, setting up Radicale, Immich, Forgejo, Nextcloud, Vikunja, and the aforementioned Minecraft server. They work quite well for my use case.

Removing myself from Window’s incessant adverts and Microsoft’s tracking feels like a breath of fresh air

The printer just works

The fact that you can just change from GNOME to KDE Plasma to whatever else without reinstalling the OS is kind of insane to me. You can even install multiple at once and switch between them!

The OS actually lets you do the things you want to do (the power of sudo is in my hands!)

You’re able to install it without signing into an account and without an internet connection, as it should.

The fact that there are no incessant advertising and marketing and all this other crap for no cost! I applaud everyone who develops these super cool software, technologies, and operating systems, and if you can, donate to projects that help you a lot!

I switched to Fedora Workstation 41 a year agoish, and am currently running 43 KDE!

I really like being able to theme my desktop to my liking, esp with KDE, my current theme is using the Catppuccin Macchiato colours (with “Mauve” accent, i.e. purple) and window decorations (solely because they were the only one available with big, colourful buttons. The rest had tiny icons that were hard to differentiate) + a cool black hole splash screen I found that has a date too! I am using the Bibata Modern Ice cursor and Papirus icon pack.

I also like having loads of additional software to pick from. LibreOffice works really well on Linux, Lutris and Prism Launcher are great for the games I play, Okular is nice (though by now someone has told me it existed on Windows, damn!), and there are just some simple tasks where the Linux-native apps that are simply perfect (see KAlarm, Dolphin and Nautilus file managers both having actually useable search that doesn’t require a third-party app like Everything on Windows, Elisa music player)

I had no issues with software incompatibility, all of the ones I use either had a (better) Linux alternative or had native Linux support (like Steam, Firefox, OBS Studio). The only thing that I am unable to do on Linux is a) (Re)install Windows for friends and family (weird, I know, but the Installation Assistant is not compatible with Linux. Technically I think you can use CLI tools to write the ISO to flash drive, but I couldn’t get that to work. If I had the time I probably would been able to figure it out…) b) Access files from an iPhone, but that’s more an iPhone stupid problem than anything. I use an Android phone now, and I have full access to its file system just by plugging it in, and c) Playing Minecraft Bedrock (hmm, I wonder who owns Mojang and how they could benefit from this…) but I have set up a MC Java server with GeyserMC+Floodgate and now my little brother (who plays on an iPad) can play Minecraft with me, which is awesome! There’s a bit of lag due to the translation layer, but nothing major.

Interesting

That third one doesn’t seem very representative. Maybe Green Lantern (not Marvel) or Captain Marvel (too Marvel)? Spider-Man for his agility (you could’ve gone with Silver Surfer), Venom seems okay (but acid != poison != venom), Ragnarok is very hot (right? It’s like the Norse version of hell, right?) while Mars is pretty chilly. Maybe Mars could be Deadpool, or some other red character? Thanos and Thor make sense for the two biggest planets (though where’s Hulk?), especially Thanos since it has a fine collection of asteroids (the stones! Over 60, maybe 70 of them, but still), I wonder why Black Panther for Uranus, Groot for Neptune is really weird, and I guess Pluto is quite strange indeed.

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Bob is our true god of war

Fun!

p.s. if the ancient planets were named by monotheists (that’s the word, right? Like how atheist means believing in no god, monotheist means believing in just one god) and were named after their god (singular), they would all probably be simply called “God” (maybe something like “God’s hand” and “God’s head” if they wanted to be smart about it?)

I meant that many people don’t know what the Roman deities were, the myths, etc. and that it would be helpful if they were “modernised” to have a glanceable detail about each planet, as they did during the times of the ancient Romans (they believed the planets were the embodiment of the gods), but using information that we have discovered in modern times. So then if someone sees or hears the name of a planet, they get a quick understanding of something interesting about the planet (it could also make learning the names of the planets a bit more interesting for some)

For that particular comment, that was the (literal) translations of the Chinese names for the planets. The naked-eye-observable ones were named after the five elements (fire/water/earth/metal/air) and the ones that required a telescope to see were based on the Roman mythos (“king of the sea” star, “king of the sky” star, etc.)

If it were up to me, I would go with:

Mercury -> Planet Grey Rubble / Rockland

Venus -> Acid Death Cloud / Planet Acid Yellow / Acid Deathland

Earth -> Planet Dirt / Homeland

Mars -> Red Rovertopia / Planet Red Rover / Red Roverland

Jupiter -> Planet Big / Bigland

Saturn -> Great (Onion) Rings / Planet Ringring (or Planet Onion Rings) / (Onion) Ringland

Uranus -> Toppled Side / Planet Sideways / Sideland

Neptune -> Planet Storm / Thunderland

Bold are the non-“standardised” names, non-bold are the names that could be standardised, “Planet A” or “Zland”

Peggles maybe, birds are cool

TLDR: IKEA (the Swedish furniture company) sold a shark (blahaj) plushie that people compared to the trans flag (blue, pink, and white) and it kind of stuck. Pretty interesting.

Personally, I’m using Debian in my little laptop server thing and it runs pretty great. There’s a bunch of help, guides, tutorials, etc. online about Debian (and lots for Ubuntu, most of which will work on Debian) meaning it was really easy for me to get set up!

Ooh yeah that could be a thing. Like how the Switch 2 game card box is red

These look pretty cool. I wish they tried experimenting with non-grey colours for the full shell, like the fun Nintendo Switch Lite and much of their previous consoles/handhelds (see GameCube, Game Boy and friends, etc.)

I hope they eventually do maybe a special edition with the full shell (Switch and Joy-Cons), similar to what they did with Mario, Zelda, and Animal Crossing for the Joy-Cons and dock. That would be pretty cool.

As others have said, full-colour Joy-Cons would also be quite nice. I think there should be an option between the “accent ring” colourways and the “full colour” ones, depending on whether you want to be boring or fun. Preferably the latter, but boring colours (and being boring in general) is “premium” nowadays unfortunately.