We have one like that with illuminated buttons, probably from around 2015, but it only stays on for 30 seconds or so

I don’t think red hat is even on the list, so the fact that they’re making even bigger bucks doesn’t really matter.

I would say arch is more of the buzz lightyear shelf meme, you think you’re being unique and cool but really its probably the most popular enthusiast distro

I have a reverb g2 and the only linux projects that support it don’t work with the controllers

Microsoft is going to kill WMR in the next couple years so I’ll probably switch then, luckily it seems like people are working on controller support already so hopefully that’s stable by november 2026

Read the response from the thing that read the Arch wiki

Wow, I’m glad I have auto-renew enabled.

It wasn’t that new (2017), it just had weird hardware which iirc only recently got supported without proprietary drivers by the new audio system.

This is funny because on a laptop I had I did this exact same progression - I started on Debian, but it didn’t have the right kernel version for my audio drivers, so I switched to Fedora, but it was running slowly (probably because of gnome, it lets you choose so this was my fault) so I moved to arch (with xfce) because it has a reputation for being relatively lightweight. It worked better, but it took longer to get working with the unusual chromebook hardware.

IDK, but I think it’s cool that people have the option. Maybe if you’re just coming up with new ways to do the same things, if they turn out to be better GNU can take inspiration and other distros can switch, benefitting everyone. Or it could just be as a fun hobby, many people do these sorts of things just because it’s what they enjoy doing. I guess it might be the sort of thing you do just to see if it can be done.

Are a wiki and a discord mutually exclusive? They seem to fill very different roles.

Blender is also great, probably because it has organized teams, meetings, ongoing large projects, deadlines, etc

I still use Windows as my main computer, partially because I got this computer before getting into linux and have built up a lot files on it, and because I have a WMR VR headset that doesn’t currently have controller support on the open source drivers (maybe once Microsoft kills WMR with the next windows version I’ll switch)

https://xkcd.com/149/

Kind of? There is one singular Linux distribution designed to work on macs, and it’s still missing a lot of features the last time I checked

On a laptop I had the manufacturer’s linux driver worked much worse than the open source one. I would recommend checking if any other drivers are available for your trackpad.

something like this would be really neat if you could have it interact with the borders of your other windows

Lemmy seems better for asking questions/problem solving, but it doesn’t seem as good for growing a community or more casual chatting about a project because discord has that social aspect and demands much less effort for each ‘post’.

I’m sure those videos do make significantly more money than they cost though. People are definitely clicking on them. And he also does expensive sponsored upgrades for (a few of) his employees. Of course he does do a lot more of those for himself though.

Isn’t the main problem that most of them are proprietary, so they can’t be shipped automatically if you want to avoid shipping a distro with proprietary software?