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Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?
  • Oh, I'm certainly not arguing with you. I have to use Windows for work and hate it. Been daily driving Linux for years on my own PC. I should find out if I can get WSL up and running on my work machine. I've been contenting myself with git bash thus far. PowerShell is at least better than CMD, but truthfully I've never really put the effort in to learn it properly since I very rarely need to do anything complicated on the command line in Windows.

  • Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?
  • Yes, they knew that, you described it fine. They were asking if Window's equivalent, PowerShell or CMD is preferable. Though they fail to realize that most Windows users will never need to use either of those tools under normal operation, even if they could choose to use them to simplify some tasks. The terminal in Linux is encouraged, whereas equivalent(-ish) tools in Windows are optional and really only required for Sys Admins.

  • Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?
  • Multiplayer games often use a third party anti-cheat software. Some of them work on Linux, some of them don't. What the previous commenter was referring to specifically is that some anti-cheat, like easy anti cheat has been updated to work in proton, but it requires that game developer push out an update to enable that functionality. Some do, and some (Bungie) have outright refused to do it, and even threaten bans for players that try to play on Linux.

  • How does Lemmy/Mastodon/Fediverse store videos and images?
  • It's possible that I've misunderstood. And it's also important to note that I was looking into this for the purposes of creating my own, single user instance. I wasn't planning on posting to my own instance, just using it as a single logon where I could control what other instances I federated with.

    Here it mentions not installing pict-rs and removing its configuration if you don't need image hosting. My interpretation at the time was that it would mean that no images would be hosted locally on my instance. But that was very early on before I understood more about federation, and now I realize that it may in fact also mean that any content coming from federated instances could have images broken, not that it would load the images from the remote instance. So now, I no longer think that this is a solution for not syncing images, but I'm not at all sure of that.

  • What's a single player PC game you can't get enough of?
  • Paradox recently announced that one of the studios they publish for is working on another life sim too. Don't know much about that, but given it's Paradox it's going to suffer the same issues that EA has with just so much DLC to make it a complete game.

  • What words do we perceive as negative or positive in the US? (UK version inside)
  • Don't worry, I already know I'm wrong. The graph on this post clearly shows that I'm wrong and in the minority. But that doesn't really change how I interpret it. I almost used Pretty Bad as another example that I think many would have agreed with, but didn't end up doing that.

  • What words do we perceive as negative or positive in the US? (UK version inside)
  • See, I don't agree with this analysis. It works fine for your pretty straight example, but that's because Straight is already as straight as it can be. Something can't be extra straight. But if I were to say something is pretty cheap, I would actually mean that it's cheaper than I would mean if I just said it was cheap. Generally when I use pretty to qualify something, it's in relation to my preconceived notion about something, and that's typically made obvious by the tone of my voice as I say it.

    You know, I went into this movie with low expectations, but it's actually pretty good.

    but if I had just used good in that statement, it would be indicating nearly the same thing, but with a little less emphasis.

  • What words do we perceive as negative or positive in the US? (UK version inside)
  • I've always considered pretty good to be a positive modifier on good, making it a little better than good. Not much, but better nonetheless. I've never really understood why other people consider it to be worse than good.

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  • It's different for different RSS feeds. I haven't tried the feeds on Lemmy, but I would assume that they contain a link to the post, plus the content of the text for that post if there is any. So you could read the post and decide if you want to click through to interact.

    I just had a quick look at what's included in the Lemmy RSS feed. Each item in the feed has a Title, Link and Description. The description appears to give a summary of the post, the number of comments and upvotes it's received, and links to the content.

    The core concept for RSS to understand though is that an RSS reader is a link aggregator where the links come from different feeds you subscribe to from all over the net. If you see an RSS icon, you can copy the link and past it into your reader to add a new subscription and be notified when there are updates without having to visit the site in your browser unless you see something that interests you and you want to click through to read and interact with.

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