ThatGuy

Built my first pc in 2020 in windows 10, tried ubuntu for a couple of months but stopped cuz it was unstable and was hurting my productivity.

Switched back to windows 10 through 2021. I did tried ubuntu again for a little bit, but it was just not working out for me. And then earlier in 2022, I tried linux mint and outside of needing to follow an extra step to properly boot with my Nvidia gpu, everything worked out of the box for me and I had a superior experience compare to windows. More stable and I also strongly prefer the UI.

I still love linux mint but I am thinking about trying fedora for the KDE experience. No issues in mint, but my time in linux makes me curious and want to see what else I been missing.

Same, its the first thing I do when I install mint.

I remember seeing an older lemmy user talk about it on reddit, but he basically said that for these alternatives to be successful, we have to avoid supporting instances that push other ones away cuz otherwise it heavily cuts the userbase and prevents the entire thing as a whole from growing.

It sucks cuz I understand their prespective, but if instances keep separating from each other, we wont make progress and will just confuse users into thinking they are less communities and people than there actually is.

It also seems instance admins dont have as many tools as they should have. They apparantly cant make it read only for other instances or any sort of partial blocking at all, its either all ban or nothing. Polishing these issues up should help instance admins make less extreme decisions.

Yep, from lemmy.world and can see this.

I heard it from somewhere else, but it only pops up if someone else in that same instance subbed to it before. Otherwise typing in the entire link supposely works.

I tried typing in for pokemon last time, but their instance seemed to be down at the time.

Edit: I checked it and its working for me now.

I dont even remember when I got mine but its been 5+ years for sure.

Isnt that just tiktok lol

Reddit isnt dead yet, and it will be much harder for youtube to die. Kinda hard to make creators move when its their job, and without them moving, there is no chance of any progress occuring.

Right now, the best thing they can do is host their content on youtube AND other alternatives like Odyssey. This lets them make the same money they always had, but also gives people an option to watch it somewhere else. Unfortuately, your average youtuber is completely clueless about this option and so you mainly only see tech people doing it with only a few exceptions here and there.

I think the bigger problem is how commital those games are. They all want you to play 24/7 which makes it hard to enjoy other games.

I love competitive games, but I have too many other games I want to play. Im not gonna grind on one when I could of played like 30 games off my list.

Its definitely a mindset thing. In any game with any sort of competition, the majority of people seem to have this thought that "I must win". And if they dont, then they are having a bad time.

I notice this alot in smash specifically when I play with new players, they put all this emotion into matches with nothing on the line. Then beat themselves over every loss.

I even get questions like "Why you did this dumb thing?" which sometimes leads them to thinking im trolling. Like bro, im playing for fun.

Or if im not sweating 24/7, "Are you sandbagging?" Dude, we are playing friendlies, this is not a tourney that decides my future career, its not that serious.

Its like people forgot what casual gaming was.

Casual multiplayer games still exist, but are pretty rare these days. Stuff like left 4 dead, minecraft survival, and halo minigame maps are all very casual. I would think VR multiplayer games are probably casual too but I never got into it lol

If you hate any social interaction with randoms at all tho, then I would still avoid those probably.

Left 4 dead is probably the best example of that.