For some reason it infuriates me that they compare ChromeOS to “other Linuxes” as a plural when they could’ve just said Linux distributions

Out of curiosity, did you download the nvidia drivers with the distro’s package manager or did you go to nvidia’s website and do there installer thing? When I had an nvidia card I had plenty of problems over the years but I specifically remember that using the installer from nvidia’s site caused all kinds of hell to break loose haha

On many popular distros there are graphical apps preinstalled for that. The distribution maintainers have repositories with common packages to make it so that you can open an app store and install programs from one place rather than going to different websites and downloading installers.

Haven’t really felt the need to. On Linux ad blocking + common sense has worked out fine. When I was still using Windows I just relied on Windows Defender since around the Windows 8.1 days, but either way my time downloading .exe files from sketchy sites is long behind me.

The Valve one has been the most exciting for me. AFAIK Valve has been thinking about the issues with Windows controlling PC gaming since Windows 8 first came out. The Steam Machines were a flop at the time but in recent years they’ve been able to maks big moves for Linux gaming and instead of giving up has been doubling down on the importance of it.

I’m well aware of its capabilities and it can do a lot, undoubtedly. I just imagine that if they’re going to a social media site to ask a question the goal is to have a person give them advice rather than being told to take the question elsewhere.

But it is what it is, my reply wasn’t meant to be a diss on ChatGPT, it’s a cool tool. Just personal preference at the end of the day. For some things I could see myself using ChatGPT for convenience, for other things where I’m not so hellbent on saving time I find it much more fulfilling to research and gain a better understanding through my own searches or from interacting with others and getting different human perspectives on a topic.

To add onto this, yabridge is a great tool to try out for using Windows VST’s on Linux

They came to this place to get an answer from a person with firsthand experience, not to be told to ask an AI

How so? Flatpak has other contributers it’s not excludively a Red Hat thing. It’s also not exclusively used in RHEL. How does the Red Hat stuff affect the Flatpak ecosystem as a whole? You’re just saying it does without any context

You don’t gotta know how to code to use Linux. Maybe some basic skills in scripting will be useful as a tool but other than that it’s more about learning how the system is laid out and where to go to do things. Just becoming familiar with doing things in a Linux environment

I’ve gone like 5 moths without updating a laptop on Arch before and the only thing I had to deal with was updating keyring first

Scary but hey at least Reddit isn’t handing out the info so easily in this instance

This is one of those things that I’d come across and went “huh thats pretty cool” then promptly for got about, so this is a nice reminder about distrobox haha

I’ll have to go back and mess with it, such a cool tool to have

For most people using a tiling window manager is something they want for their whole user experience, not just for tiling terminals haha