Compared to the usual game console os windows offers a A LOT of freedom, just because you personally hate windows does not make the statement any less true.

Plus if it runs windows then it will also run linux. So do like you would with every other pc on the market and install what you want.

Everything, fuck microsoft.

If you happen to remember what it is called it would be appreciated. I had to install Gnome Disks in order to get it to work because the default KDE disk manager wouldn’t do it even though there was an option for it (greyed out).

I have found it won’t mount internal drives on boot except for the main OS drive and its a real pain in my ass to fix otherwise it’s been fairly good. definatley much better than any other distro I have tried.

The only thing I ever liked him in was The Jackal that scene was so cathartic.

I feel it was made quite clear that the kids testimony was the excuse not the reason.

jack black has always been a cringey loser, I’m glad the rest of the world is finally waking up to it.

…and he used to be well respected, it’s so weird to see what has become of him lately.

Bazzite has been the winner for all of my old windows pcs but all of my pcs are AMD cpu/gpus. There is and nVidia specific version of Bazzite but I have no experience with it so I can’t verify if it works well or not.

All the adults in my life with the exception of a very few are exactly as stupid or far stupider than I thought when I was a kid.

Well now I’m a little intrigued, I may have to look into that I have like 2 million steam points I might as well make them useful.

If you care about that sort of thing I suppose it would be. I’m just on steam to play games the rest seems pointless and I honestly forget it even exists until someone mentions it.

In my opinion, no they are absolutely worthless, you can “buy” stuff from the points shop but its stupid shit like avatars or backgrounds. you can’t use them for anything you might actually want like games or hardware.

Most people just ignore them, a few actually care if they like customizing their profile but even then your options are limited to whatever steam offers you. You can’t use your own pictures or icons.

Regarding not auto-mounting, the main reason there most likely security related.

I would be inclined to agree with that if it didn’t auto mount my external drives, if you aren’t mounting media in the name of security removable drives is the thing you generally block.

If you’re talking about the filesystems on the disks installed in your PC case, they’ll auto-mount if they’re a Linux filesystem.

It doesn’t on Bazzite for sure, these are new disks that were formatted at install with BTRFS. They aren’t old drives ported from another system. Even with a native file system it still refused to mount unless I did so manually.

As for the command line, I fully intend to learn CLI in linux and thanks to all the fucking around I had to do I’m already on the way. But to put in in context I would never try to start off a novice windows user with powershell or command line as there are very few things you can’t do with some part of the GUI.

I can navigate both with ease because I grew up doing it, but someone new is not going to know how to use it or feel comfortable with it so I will provide any instructions needed through the GUI unless absolutely necessary. once they have become comfortable then I walk the through the more advanced stuff if they care to learn it and if they don’t then I don’t pressure them.

Regardless I have it working now but the idea that I had to jump through all those hoops just to have basic functionality leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.

Because I dont care.

Thank you for clearing that up.

Of course it would but politicians are famously stupid, they have no idea and little care if something is actually feasible.

I have been trying to switch to linux for over 10 years, I have been using bazzite with some success for a few weeks. I have been using windows since the dos days and I am a windows system admin with 10 years of experience. I can make windows do unholy things with little effort. Granted thats mostly because I have 10 years of experience but in those same 10 years I still know fuck all about linux because between the seemingly purposely unhelpful community and all this stupid segmented bullshit I can never get it to actually do anything so I just say fuck it and harden another windows install.

Finally Bazzite seems to be making some of that stuff a little easier but then I still run into quality of life shit like not mounting all of my installed drives by default like literally every other OS I’ve used.

P.S what is a DE? I’m sure it’s basic knowledge for linux veterans but I have no idea what that means.

Can people not read?, I never said gnome should be default in fact I stated clearly that it was just the tool I used. I said drives should mount on boot by default because it’s basic functionality.

The more I try to learn linux the more I hate linux, this fragmented crap is not helpful and only adds pointless road blocks.

It is easier for me to strip all the privacy invasive bullshit from windows 11 than to setup a usable linux install.

I feel like that shouldn’t be a sentence I should ever have to say.