floppyslapper

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[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don't mind adding forks to the list, or distros based on other distros, as long as the distro they're based on is a community distro and not a corporate distro. Like you point out though, there aren't a lot of those.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I used to use Mandrake back in the day. Those Mandrake descendants, as long as they're actively being maintained, could be interesting.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue isn't if something is a fork or not, the issue is if something is a fork of a corporate distro. For instance, there are forks of Arch that still meet the criteria because Arch is a base community distro, whereas OpenSuse is a fork of a corporate distro.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem with OpenSuse is it's based on a corporate product, not an original community base.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

But how many of those meet the criteria of not being based on corporate distros and are also user friendly? For instance, I wouldn't exactly classify Gentoo as user friendly.

 

Since Red Hat made their recent decision, there has been a lot more talk about people wanting to focus on communiy-based distros instead of corporate-backed distros.

I was trying to think of how many active, stable, user friendly base community distros I know about. When I say a "base" distro, I mean a distro that's basically the base for its ecosystem. For instance, Debian would be a base distro because it's the base of its ecosystem. A community distro based on Ubuntu wouldn't fit what I'm talking about here because Ubuntu is a corporate distro.

So, there's Debian.

Arch is a base community distro but it's not user friendly to install, but there are more user friendly varieties of Arch available like Manjaro and a few others.

All of the other base distros I can think of are either corporate, or aren't particularly user friendly to install. Care to add your thoughts to the list?

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Musk is a moron that's about as smart as any moron that's a moron that's been given vast sums for cash from their father's African emerald mine.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No, the game I'm thinking of isn't an action game, it's an adventure game similar to Myst where you navigate by moving from room to room.

 

There's a game I'm trying to remember the name of.

It came out for DOS, or possibly Windows 95. It was a first-person adventure game in the style of Myst, probably trying to capitalize off of Myst's popularity.

It was a sci-fi game where you played a drone exploring either a derelict spacecraft or space station.

I seem to remember the predominant colors being green and black, such as a green title on a black background.

When the game came out it received a fair amount of attention in the gaming magazines and was available at all the game stores.

Can anyone remember the name of this game?

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'll be honest. WarGames. I'm a big fan of 80s movies, but when I saw WarGames, it was very much meh.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first experience with the Fediverse was Mastodon, and my second was PeerTube. Having interconnectedness between the different platforms, like Mastodon and Lemmy, is interesting, but also a little confusing with how it all works, so I just use the individual platforms directly instead.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think people naturally tend toward the servers of the people that started the project and also the servers that have the most people on them. As the federated technology continues to smooth out I think more people might be more comfortable spreading out to other servers.

Personally I started out on the Beehaw server but they had some rules I didn't like so then I found another server.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The way I would handle things is first I would look for a native Linux version, and if that wasn't available, then I'd try to use Wine / Proton, and if it didn't work that way either, then I'd look at streaming it through a service like GeForce Now. It would be easiest to have a separate drive with Windows on it but now that Microsoft is turning Windows into ad-filled spyware more than ever before, especially with Windows 11, I'd rather use one of the above options instead.

I'd even be tempted to get a Mac Mini to handle the software that wouldn't work with one of the above options rather than use Windows.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These days I mostly use Manjaro, though I've been thinking of giving the Suse rolling release a try.

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