You seem to be under the impression that I’m obligated to take every claim and see if it’s backed up by evidence.

I’m not, and I don’t feel any compulsion to find out if Vaxry has made rational claims or not. That’s the beauty of using subjective reasoning; it’s not reasonable for anyone but the subject (me).

Be my guest and see if he’s justified. Tell other people. I stopped caring what he has to say here the minute I read that paragraph, and I choose not to hear him out any further either way.

I knew that’s where you were going. I knew it.

I said nothing of the sort about the validity of his statements. I did not engage in an ad hominem (i.e. Vaxry is an asshole, therefore he’s wrong). I did not imply that it was easy to make a compositor. You were the one that read all those things into my statement and took umbrage on his behalf.

I implied it sounded like complaining, specifically about other people simply existing and having hobbies that intersect with his own. If his opening salvo is “almost all the other compositors suck beyond opening terminal windows,” on a blog post titled, “We don’t need more Wayland compositors,” I’m not required to be interested in what sounds like hyperbolic criticism.

And since that choice is based on my entirely subjective assessment, I’m not required to justify shit.

Nope. Have you?

The reality is that, although there are quite a few standalone Wayland compositors, you don’t hear about most of them, because almost all of them suck in one way or another if you go beyond opening terminals.

Ah, classic Vaxry. I’m sure he would love it if his compositor was the only one.

I lost interest after that.

These are all great examples. And sometimes, you just start your own, like inviting a few neighbors to a cookout.

Too early to say, but assume Social Security and Medicare/aid are fair game.

I don’t care what people say on NixOS, this OS is not ready yet, I don’t have time for this shit when I’m working and that server will be going back to debian next summer.

I like the idea behind it, but I’m with you. I’ve tried to learn it and given up several times. There’s just not enough tutorial info, yet, to get people up to speed, and making changes seems to be a bigger deal than pretty much every other distro out there.

Its current state feels like Arch for people who think Arch is too easy.

Is secure boot turned on?

So good. Now let’s eat Grandma.

And that’s exactly my point. You aren’t going to get a basic feel by booting a live USB. Better for him to try out the update mechanisms, install a few programs, and maybe test some theming from within a VM.

Plus, some of the ones I listed don’t have live environments but would be great choices for gaming distros and better than some of the ones that do have live environments. You’d be limiting your options by having this unnecessary requirement.

Thanks. Stats are hard.

I agree, and also, the Arch distros I recommended have varying levels of preset configurations. Garuda is about as opinionated and complete as any green user could want, whereas Endeavor and Cachy are blank slates but not as bare as starting from scratch.

Arch also has the biggest community and the hands-down-best wiki out there, so when something happens, there’s a lot of people who can help.

I think a better option than live boot is VM. Live boot doesn’t always save settings, and you may not get a full-install experience, since certain things are set up after install.

For gaming try:

• Bazzite (Atomic Fedora)
• Nobara (Fedora)
• Garuda Dragonized Edition (Arch)
• Linux Mint (Ubuntu)
• EndeavorOS (Arch)
• CachyOS (Arch)

It involves a lot of self-setup and management. A lot of the benefits of Valve working on Arch will find their way to upstream and then to other distros, so that benefit is likely very small.

It’s Battle for Wesnoth for me!

This is the group handling hotline coordination: https://866ourvote.org/about/

This one is actually administering the English-speaking hotline: https://lawyerscommittee.org/

They don’t go into specifics of how they handle things, likely because it will vary by situation, but it sounds like they have a number of tools and actions at their disposal.

Some people prefer GOG, some people do itch.io or FOSS games, some people only do emulation. It’s possible that I’m misinterpreting the data, too, but Steam having 50% of the gaming share with the other 50% spread amongst other platforms and activities doesn’t seem that outlandish to me.

No, I mean 4% of the overall Linux desktop share does some amount of gaming. This is based on a survey, and I can’t for the life of me remember who does it. It will show up again, with updated totals, on one of these communities eventually.

I can’t remember who does a more comprehensive survey, but the overall Linux gaming share is ≈4%. So, Steam users are about half of that, if I’m understanding correctly.

Sure, but that’s kind of a nonsequitur to the question of whether this would have ended up as e-waste.

A: Would this end up as e-waste?

B: It's the end-users' fault if it does.

A: Okay, so...would this end up as e-waste?

We don’t literally know, because we can’t predict the future, but we can be reasonably certain that old tech like this laptop would have become e-waste in the hands of your average user, regardless of whether they should have been expected to take the time to learn how to prevent that or not.