Guess we all know what we have to do

Microsoft hate is justified.

Perfect, thank you for the pointers!

I feel this may be a dumb question, for the portion talking about mesa patches for games; how disconnected utilize these patches?

I’m in IT, so I don’t really need to handwrite much. Always a computer at the ready.

Thank you for the laugh, I didn’t catch that. Will edit my comment

I am surprised I can even write with pen and paper anymore.

Jokes aside, no. I don’t really handwrite anything anymore.

I didn’t play those more than the first gym. ORAS was infinitely better.

I really stopped caring for Pokemon after X and Y, and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. The switch games were big misses. I kinda liked Sword and Shield, but they had no lasting power on me. Scarlet and Violet are by far the worst Pokemon games to have ever come out of mainline Pokemon.

I didn’t play through Marcus Arceus at all, even though I own it. Maybe I will give that a shot.

What issues do you have?

I self host as well as use bitwardens service.

I pay $10 a year, and never have I had access issues with it.

My self hosted instance houses everything for my other self hosted services.

I can also have my Bitwarden duplicated to my self hosted instance.

However, the only way to access my Vailtwarden instance is via my network. And for my use case, this is perfect.

Neither of them have I had any downtime; like others have said it’s anecdotal.

I personally love pacman. And of course AUR wrappers like yay.

Pacman is simple and just works. No fuss.

I think one of the biggest hurdles for Linux is that Windows comes preinstalled. People are lazy, and want things to just work.

If companies could sell systems at a reasonable, competitive price, with Linux preinstalled; I do believe we could see folks use it.

The average user does not see a computer the same way a tech-savvy individual does. They want to push the buttons and the computer do the thing.

Sure steam has helped make it more viable for game enjoying folks to hop on board, even if it isn’t just click and play for every game; it has made strides.

We also need support from big entities, but that is likely an uphill battle. For as much as I love open source software, and the entire ecosystem surrounding open software standards; we have players like Microsoft, adobe, and I am sure more that will push back. Including DRM and Anti-Cheat from other companies as well.

The average user isn’t going to know, let alone fight things like kernel level anti-cheat, DRM, and closed standards.

Unfortunately not everyone has the will, the time, or the intelligence to learn something new.

And add in many folks inability to deal with change well.

This is just some of my thoughts on the subject…

I mean, I’m not going to reinstall a new OS on all of my machines.

I’m comfortable with Arch, and am looking to find a way to keep my current systems in parity.

I do appreciate the suggestions for sure!

Slated to possibly be 450 for the console, and 80 for a game… Nah. I’m good.

For any streaming, Netflix, YouTube, or anything I would always use a computer. Not some awful app on a slow device. No screen of mine needs to be anything besides a screen.

I wouldn’t say this is “better”

I do run a pihole, but I still will never connect my roku to the internet. It is much better to have a media PC or other streaming device I have control of fully connected.

Technology is going to be a part of every kids future (if they have one…) and should be taught with the other things they need to learn to be functional and successful.

There are other ways to limit social media access, and wccessnto other unproductive media. Use school sanctioned devices for work. Hire proper IT folk to lock down the equipment. But that would require funding for schools to be adequate.

This is a complex issue. You are over simplifying it.

I switched to Fennec.

I have used Tempo but I self host Navidrome