its just scatman john for the children

i like realdebrid + aria2c, but i agree

normally id say “linux is free, there’s no harm in giving it a go”, but between your lack of free time, nvidia graphics card, dependence on proprietary software, and previous experience (and slight distain) for linux i’d say just go with win 11.

there may be a way to get your music software to work in linux, but youll likely need to mess around with wine configs and it may never actualoy work right.

if you are interested ever, fire up a vm and play around with linux to get comfortable with it. maybe when win11 reaches eol (or even before) you’ll want to make the switch.

none of this is said to scare you away from linux. searching for drivers is rarely a thing in linux. there are built in tools in most distros to deal with graphics drivers, but apart from that, given the open source nature of linux, everything else is just handled by kernel modules and are basically seamless unless you have some weird proprietary hardware. linux is fairly easy to use these days, but there is quite a bit of a learning curve because it is a fundamentally different os than windows, and the way you solve problems is very different.

you did nothing wrong. ubuntu is a perfectly fine distro for beginners. the reason i dont use ubuntu anymore is the age of the packages started to bother me. also its kinda annoying that releases hit eol at some point. i like arch for the rolling release (no eol) and the fresher packages.

if ubuntu worka for you, keep using it. there is no correct distro.

Linus didnt name it after himself. he wanted to call it freax or something, and the guy hosting the repo hated that name, so called it Linux instead

i noticed facer was killing my battery. just a heads up

what is a front sata port?! 😍

ok, and i’ll just buy a house to build wealth like my dad suggested. and dress better than the manager if i want a job. and stop eating avocado toast.

im not.

yeah i feel you. I’m in a band, so instagram is basically a necessity for promotion and communication. getting the word out about shows, other bands will message me for gigs etc

just try to use it a little as possible, and try to lock it down as much as possible in the os. you can do alot in the android app settings.

basically treat it as you would having a conversation near a security camera.

here’s the deadspace i was noticing:

here’s a potential way to make it more compact:

the com@inst 🗨️1🔼2🔽 line could either go above or below the post (ive seen moth on lemmy clients)

oh wow, the web app looks great. always thought lemmy looked pretty bad from every desktop ui ive found

yeah i think putting the com name and the up/downvotes on the same line would fill some of the dead space between posts

just installed. looks great so far!

about 10 years ago, i noticed steam was available for linux. for the longest time i had pretty much written off gaming on linux (apart from like tuxcart, nethack, emulators…). i hadn’t considered actually being able to play “real” games.

that was before proton, so there really wasn’t a ton of stuff i could play, but i found some good stuff like hotline miami, papers please, super win the game.

obviously now we have proton and linux can be argued as a superior gaming platform in many cases.

i may be wrong, but arent you paying for support, not features?

bruh

yeah i have this on emulationstation

in order (2000-present): red hat, slackware, debian, ubuntu, arch, manjaro, nix

have your husband remove the feature. explain all the downsides like how it affects your work and social life to not be able to add contacts.

if he refuses, as the rest of the comments point out, you may be in an abusive relationship. a marriage is built on trust. would he accept you locking down his phone the same way?

otherwise, maybe go pick up a burner phone from walmart or something.