Both were on my radar as well. I want to say I tried Bazzite before Pop but one of those workflows I could not solve was a problem on Bazzite (some virtual kvm switch software I've used forever). Nobara was almost where I went after Pop before retreating back to Windows :)
Looks like I'll be the negative one. I gave it a solid try dual booting for about 6 months before I went back to Windows.
I think I took for granted how much is abstracted away in Windows when it came to being my daily driver for my computer. Wrapping my head around things that "just worked" in Windows proved to be more difficult than I anticipated and I dealt with more friction. Trying to learn new concepts stood in my way of fully embracing it as well as not understanding what the "Windows equivalent" was for a given feature/function/action so I could wrap my head around it better. I also had a couple of workflows that I never got working in Linux despite all my attempts at searching for answers.
And I know people will come out of the woodwork with all sorts of questions or input on how if I just tried it again I'll get it. For the record, I tried out Pop OS since it bills itself as a dead simple. I know the problems for me were more around my knowledge, years of built up muscle memory with Windows, and limited time to game so messing with whatever my current problem was made it more frustrating and soured me on the experience.
This Fantastic Four marketing is getting wild.
Definitely good to know. I don't think I'd call it one of the best I've ever played but it was certainly awesome as pieces started clicking into place and I could see the outline of how it would go. I'm curious to see what else is really in there (I've spoiled some bits and pieces to it) and may go down that path. Thank you!
Called it quits on Blue Prince last week. 20-30h in and I hit the main goal of the game of reaching the 46th room. I started scratching at some of the deeper puzzles and mysteries to solve but I think the combination of some frustrating mechanics (drafting the right rooms, running out of resources, etc...) along with time being a premium, I had to stop myself. I just realized my excitement for "one more run" just wasn't there and rather than sour my opinion on it, it was better to move on and appreciate the depth that's there for people getting into it. Super impressed by everything that I've seen in it and definitely recommended if you're a fan of puzzles and taking notes to piece a lot of things together.
And on what feels like the other end of the spectrum, I started Skin Deep and am having a blast. It's such a weird, stylistic immersive sim where you're rescuing these low-polygon cats from pirates taking over their spaceship. The humor is good and the systems interact really well. Everything telegraphs what it can do, how it can be used, and the game seems to reward experimentation. I'm trying to be stealthy but there's no penalty to breaking stealth, and some rewarding per-mission objectives that encourage you to check everything out.
You also get to flush heads down toilets which is pretty cool (and definitely something missing from Blue Prince)
"But a dog isn't allowed to play basketball!" protests Democrats as golden retriever scores another two points.
By and large, you should ride it out unless maybe you're intending to retire imminently. Yes, the overall value of the portfolio is going down but generally speaking the market is always going up in the longer term. That was the advice we were given at least was to ride it out because you can acquire more stock at a cheaper price for the same amount of money you were already setting aside into those accounts.
(all assuming your day-to-day needs are met first and foremost)
I think it's fair to say that those "with power" are the ones that ought to be blamed, so I lay that on Harris and the DNC vs. the voters. I don't think anyone had illusions that Trump would be good for Gaza and the Palestinians, but neither party was willing to show a difference of opinion except to the speed of Gaza getting leveled.
I would also argue that Gaza was an important point, but not the whole point (or a symptom, not the cause). Democrats continue to think that if they just run the same playbook, clearly the "evil" of Donald Trump will speak for itself and they'll win. It clearly doesn't when he's not in power. The Democrats are spending this time hemming and hawing about bipartisanship. I couldn't find the article I saw recently on Hakeem Jeffries basically saying they have all three branches so we're going to find middle ground between us and them, but I think this from CNN is a great encapsulation. "Don't shut it down, we might get blamed. Don't make a big fuss over everything."
It's the toothlessness that gets to me. Why play nice with the Trump administration? Why not just go for the throat if the Democratic party believes that Trump is the existential threat to democracy they say? The Republicans sure love to whenever there's some opportunistic grift for them and maintain that the Democrats either haven't figured it out or are willingly choosing to ignore it. If there's a strategy to their approach, I cannot wrap my head around it.
So w/r/t the uncommitted movement (and others who looked at Harris v. Trump and just didn't bother turning out), I don't know how else you force the DNC to listen and doubly so if they choose not to collect the necessary data. You shouldn't back a candidate because the party says this is the person we're running or because the other candidate is so much worse. The candidate should listen to the voters and run a campaign that brings people in. If a key voting group isn't on board, it's on the candidate/party to figure out WHY and HOW to include them.
a smart campaign would have at least tracked this data.
even if the campaign steadfastly maintains their “we are entitled to your vote either way, so shut the fuck up and stop complaining” stance, you would want to gather the data about how many people on these contact lists responded and mentioned Gaza.
Thank you! It's one thing to philosophically not view what's happening in Gaza as a genocide or not want to upset the Israel lobby, but you have to know where the people are at. The amount of people in this world who cannot reflect on their failures and grow from them is astonishing. I have people on my team that I tell them that it's OK to make mistakes, just please make new mistakes each time.
It leads me to think the Democratic Party, those in charge, either are fine with what's happening now or are too stupid to reflect on why they lost, and neither of those are good options.
Nearing the end of the non-DLC portion of Pokemon Scarlet. I'm trying to finish my Pokedex before I jump to the DLC here and just have a little bit more focused breeding/leveling up the babies before I'm all set. I forgot how much fun a mainline Pokemon game is as it's taken up a lot of free time as I get towards the end. I do think this has been one of the better entries and the technical issues, while present, are nowhere near game breaking from what I've experienced.
The open world was a little daunting at first. They give you three "quest lines" you can follow right out of the gate and I was initially stuck trying to figure out where to go and what to do, especially since two of the quest lines are literally in two different directions. The region is basically a big circle/clock face. You start at 6:00 and the first things you can do when the game opens up are at 4:00 and 8:00. Once I got the hang of the travel down it was a lot easier to do, but they throw a lot at you to start.
It's been a while but if I remember right, MGSV has a lot up front but then dramatically drops off and is more gameplay vs. movies. There will still be SOME cutscenes but it's nothing like the beginning of the game (which is more like the other MGS games that are cutscene heavy)
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Honestly, it's my assessment of turning my only PC, which is primarily gaming, into a Linux machine and the struggles there with day-to-day usage. I have no idea what OP's comfort level with Linux or tech is in general but my assumption is it's enough to think "Yeah, I could install Linux and do this." which was where I was at too. Nothing I'm doing was exotic but the investment required in finding suitable alternatives that worked nearly out of the box was too high at the time.
Gaming was decent by all accounts. I think I had a few compatibility items that will iron out as developers support Linux more and the technology that enables gaming on Linux just gets better and better. I have an AMD card and from what I gather that's better for switching to Linux. A lot of my frustrations were not related to gaming and I recognize the issue is time and knowledge on my part. If those are in short supply when something breaks, you could have a bad time is all I'm saying. Everyone's got to start out somewhere and if you've had Windows forever, it can be a mental shift.