Nefara

Geneva Convenience attacks leftists and progressives more than anyone else I see on my feed.

Try a used Dell Precision series from the past 6 years. That should be roughly in that price point and will probably be an old business cast off with either decent integrated graphics or a real graphics card depending on how patient you are about waiting for a good deal. They are solidly made with aluminum cases and made to take a beating. I have a Precision I bought used from 2012 that's still going, and just got another from 2020 for about $230 usd with shipping. Mind you this is a US perspective and I don't know much about international markets.

Geneva Convenience is basically synonymous with constantly attacking anyone even mildly progressive. Essentially they are so far on the other end of the horseshoe they're doing the same work as the far right.

Ok so you do mean to offend people then. Have fun with that, I'll just be over here enjoying things on their own merits despite your whole thing going on over there.

This is a very narrow and limited way of seeing music. Music can be created for a purpose and a setting but once it's out there it has no boundaries beyond what you impose upon it. Somewhere Over the Rainbow was written for the Wizard of Oz but it's not like the only way to enjoy it is in a movie theatre. Certainly, music can be more or less appropriate for certain activities and moods, listening to EDM to fall asleep might be self defeating. However, music made for games can evoke all sorts of mental states and people are free to find appropriate settings and uses outside of them to enjoy it.

Was the last time you listened to game music when it was all chip and midi? There's some beautiful and moving music in games.

I inherited a set and I agree, they're perfectly decent knives that hold a good edge, but the handle takes getting used to. I use their paring knives and bone knife but use my second hand Spanish steel Henkels for mostly everything else, because I can practice home sharpening and make them look as ugly as I want without guilt. The biggest difference I noticed is that the simple wood handles offer way more options for holding the knife in different ways comfortably. There's clearly a "correct" intended hold with the Cutco. They also feel heavy, which can sometimes be limiting.

Even though I enjoy using mine I still wouldn't recommend them, just based on how inexpensive a nice second hand set from other brands can be on the used market.

Incredible movie, and the 4k version just became available in the past year. One of my top 5 favorite movies.

Not sure if you've tried installing things outside of Lutris or Steam, but just for reference here are the instructions for creating a launcher for a program that's not part of a software manager:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/desktop-create-launchers

My response was to a post saying they 100% recommended Linux to grandparents, and that "everything worked fast and flawless". I think setting unrealistic expectations like that only discourages adoption when someone inevitably runs into points of friction. I'm not attempting to vilify or idolize any OS, I just think it's important to stay grounded and not oversell things.

All of the things I listed are examples from my personal experience that I ran into within the past 6 months. The sharing folder adventure happened just about two weeks ago. Don't try to tell me that it's all so easy now, I literally just went through hours of research and experimenting and samba settings and changing my disk's fstab file just to get a folder to show up on my home network. "Oh well you should have done x or y or not used z" Well, frankly it doesn't matter what the optimal workflow solution would be, what matters is this was my user experience. This was something I went through and was not some whacky fringe use case. Sharing a folder on a home network is not black magic or calling upon arcane demonic powers.

Now, I'm not going back at this point and I'm committed to Linux now, but pretending it's all smooth sailing and so easy and polished is misleading. It's certainly more usable than it ever has been but I think most people on Lemmy have no idea how hands off the average person is from their tech. It's important to be honest about Linux's shortcomings and prepare new users that they will probably gave to look up info or documentation for some tasks. You also can't expect the average person to ever open Terminal without hyperventilating.

It's fast and easy and no big deal until you want to do something radical like create a shortcut and pin it to your taskbar, or share a folder on a home network. Or share your screen with a TV... there have been too many damn times where I've wanted to do something that should be simple and the matter of a couple clicks but it sends me down a rabbit hole chasing dependencies and searching terminal commands and spending hours doing something that takes less than a minute on mainstream operating systems. My user experience has drastically improved since I swapped to Plasma but don't pretend everything works perfectly and intuitively immediately for everyone unless the expected use case is literally turning it on and opening a browser.