ChristianWS

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[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have a bunch of issues(some way smaller and borderline nitpicks) with windows, but I guess there's some big ones:

  1. Linux runs smoothly on older computers, even with KDE which everyone talks about as if it was heavy. Windows is a slug in comparison.

  2. Linux is free, truly free. Microsoft can't beat that.

  3. Shit just works (unless you are on Nvidia...), don't need to install drivers and shit like that.

  4. most of the software you don't get from a random website and they all update at once, rather than having each one update itself and only itself

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Issue is that Immutable also conveyed a different type of information. When I first heard of it, I genuinely thought it was something like DeepFreeze for Windows

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 8 months ago

Btrfs is really cool, just a warning: I had a surprise when I found out the subvolumes make a device more of a hassle to mount externally, you can't just put it on an external HDD enclosure and expect it to work as painlessly as it is with more "traditional" file systems, I had to mount each subvolume manually as GUI file managers only mounted the root.

It's not complicated, but more than I'd hoped for.

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I don't really understand that argument, and I want someone to correct me:

If you were keeping your battery at the ideal charge (i.e. 20% to 80%) that means you are really only using 60% of your battery during its lifetime. I've been using my phone since July of 2021, always changing it to 100%, preferably only charging when it gets close to 0%. Using AccuBattery I get the battery stats and after 2 years and a half, the battery capacity is at 85%.

I still have 85% of usable battery, this is more than the 60% I'd get if I was using the battery ideally. So I don't really get this argument about taking care of the battery cause it appears it would take a while before the battery is degraded enough to hold less charge than the recommended rate.

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 8 months ago

Oof, my bad, posted the message without completing it. I was gonna say that PayPal is a bad payment method cause it doesn't take into account the intricacies of local payment methods despite being used as an sort of international method to transfer money (The play store is a fantastic payment method for instance, almost makes me wish for Google to take on PayPal). Credit Cards are also bad cause you need an international one and it isn't always easy to get it.

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's more of a frustration thing rather than guilty, mostly because it is possible, but not convenient. KDE isn't the only thing I'd like to donate to, but it also uses PayPal

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Yes, except none of those are the most convenient payment method for online purchases in my country, even credit card requires an international one IIRC, furthermore, it is a pain to figure out a proper amount cause it uses Euro. The minimum € 3,00 isn't a huge amount converted to my local currency, but it isn't a small amount either.

So you end up with something that is too much of a hasle even if you had the cash and wanted to donate. Cause you can't stop thinking along the lines of "even if I wanted to deal with all of this the amount I'm giving isn't going to change that much"

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)
  1. I'm broke

  2. PayPal is horrible and inconvenient

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

It makes translation more of a headache than it needs to be.

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 10 months ago

Hmm, the GUI is reasonable and easy to understand. I wonder if Gamescope can be changed while the game is running, so it could be put in the Quick Access menu

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 10 months ago

So one big disk for your Steam library and whatever you play might be slow on the first load but then as you play the game files gets promoted to the NVMe cache and perform mostly at NVMe speeds, and your loading screens are much shorter.

I really love/hate how you can immediately understand the practical application of new technologies through the use of games.

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