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Linux crosses 4% market share

GTA VII projected to be released in 2050.

A few things. If you sign up, don’t then go use the number with things that associate it to your real identity like a bank account or credit card. Also, if you’ve already used your phone with a provider that has your real name, then it’s compromised because you could be linked by the IMEI. Get a fresh phone that you’ve never linked to your identity before. Also, don’t transfer your number to this service. Get a new number provided by them. Additionally, pay with cryptocurrency.

This is all if you want to stay truly anonymous with no traces back to you.

The fact that they were using 5-6x more space than required in the first place is pretty infuriating. How many other games are doing this shit? Explains why many games now are 100-200GB.

Be trans, use arch, and also be a communist (not the naive, idealistic kind, but the kind that defends Putin and modern day Russia)

I don’t understand this attitude. I did a bunch of research, used Ventoy to try out five different distros and went with Zorin. I think Zorin is a very good intro to Linux for noobs. It’s a pretty polished experience and would say if Zorin doesn’t convince complete noobs to switch, then they likely wouldn’t have switched. What other distros might I ask, were you thinking they’d have chosen instead?

It’s a 3 year old article, but Zorin has been building its relationships with the media and putting some effort in to marketing. The journalist here explains why he features Zorin OS in his articles. Probably a lesson here for FOSS and Linux in general. If you want adoption, you need to tell people about it where they are and not hope they find you. It’s not, “if you build it they will come.” It’s “if you build it and tell them about it, they will come.” I think the average Linux user is probably not an expert on how to spread Linux because the average Linux user is into niches and doesn’t believe in marketing and probably even has an aversion to it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2022/01/17/what-linux-distros-and-foss-projects-can-learn-from-zorin-os/

I have used Zorin for the past year for gaming. It’s been mostly fine, but they are a bit slow to upgrade certain things in the interest of stability. Zorin is on a two year cycle for major releases, which can mean waiting awhile for certain package upgrades. This is probably for the best for non-gamers and regular users, but some games I wanted to play required the latest graphics driver, which in turn required some newer dependencies in the OS.

Lately, I’ve been kinda toying with the idea of switching to Bazzite because every time I tinker with the graphics driver in Zorin, I break it. Additionally, sometimes some random package upgrade breaks things. I eventually get it working, but it is never fun to login for the night planning to play with a friend and then need to instead fix an issue. I’m thinking Bazzite might be a bit more suited for my gaming use cases given that it’s their priority. I don’t know for sure though. I could really care less about the OS and have no ego about doing things myself. Fuck Windows, but beyond that, I just want a zero maintenance OS that lets me game.

Zorin OS has been around since 2009

Zorin has been featured in some major publications — like Forbes

I personally like Zorin better than Mint. Mint is very dated looking, while Zorin feels more in line with a modern OS. They also try to create an easy experience for non-techie people to use Linux. They need some model to keep themselves going though. The money for pro also unlocks some features they’ve added to the OS and the free software is still free, they just make it easy to acquire it for non-techie people who don’t want to spend time trying to do their own research, or don’t know how to.

4% is a very odd way of saying 1 in 25

Use Linux to game folks

I judge my delivery drivers — especially the ones that deliver the wrong fucking order and then run away. True story.

Fox News and Trump make it so that if members of Congress oppose the president they get death threats and definitely won’t be re-elected. Republicans will let Trump do anything at this point.

I’m just not feeling it this time around.

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Most of last year’s Steam games went undiscovered and unplayed by the majority of users. But a surprising number were received quite well. Of the 1,431 games released last year that garnered more than 500 reviews — an indication that they were played by at least a few thousand people — more than 260 were rated positively by 90% or more of the players. More than 800 scored 80% or better. In other words, this isn’t like the 1980s, when the US gaming market crashed due to a flood of poorly made products. Today, there are too many video games, and many of them are great. Today’s titles are also competing not just with the new games released every year but with countless old “service” games designed to keep people playing forever. The three most-played games on Steam are almost always Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and PUBG: Battlegrounds, all multiplayer games that have been around for years. Some of the other biggest games in the world, such as League of Legends and the top titles on Roblox, would be alongside them if they were on Steam.

Pretty cool, though I think that would just encourage my dog to bark and get worked up any time someone walks by

The distorted face memes were mocking the size of his face compared to the size of his head by exaggerating the difference. People didn’t like him because of the things he said. Also he abbreviated Turning Point USA to TPUSA, so people would call it Toilet Paper USA.