I didn’t expect them to inject ketamine into a child

proprietary software that I don’t trust, or programs that aren’t on zypper

It absolutely does. Godot is growing a LOT. I see it frequently in my local game dev community.

It costs $1000 to legally kill someone.

It’s updated whenever your package manager puts up the new version. If you’re using something like Ubuntu or Mint, then you’re using apt as your package manager, which takes a while to update stuff because they like to test it for a while first.

Not everyone feels like having a mascot fits with their branding

First off, I want to make it clear that the distro doesn’t really matter. Different distros are just what it comes pre-packed with by default.

TLDR:

• For something easy to use: Linux Mint

• For something that has pre-installed audio software (but maybe not the ones you want): Ubuntu Studio

• If you want to build your system from scratch: Debian (or Arch if you want the latest and greatest software, and don’t mind the occasional update breaking your system around once a year or so, and needing to spend an hour fixing it)

• Regardless of which distro you get, use JACK or PipeWire for your sound server. PulseAudio (on its own) has too much latency.

More details:

I first tried Ubuntu Studio. It comes with a lot of software related to audio production. But I found it to be insanely slow, and it didn’t even come with Reaper anyway.

I tried OpenSUSE because I liked that it had the option to manually deselect the software you don’t want (and I was too much of a beginner to know how to pick my packages from the ground-up). It worked well.

Eventually I moved to Debian. I didn’t want any of the extra fluff and found it was pretty easy to choose everything myself. One thing that’s important is that you don’t want to use PulseAudio. Either use JACK (which I think needs to be used in conjunction with PulseAudio actually) or use PipeWire, which is what I use.

For any Windows software, use Bottles to emulate them on Linux. I actually ended up needing to go back to windows because of one audio software: Wwise. There was no way of running it in Linux. A VM probably would’ve worked, but that would’ve been a massive hassle for how I’d need to use it.

Free Linux VSTs: https://vital.audio/ https://lsp-plug.in/ https://github.com/TukanStudios/TUKAN_STUDIOS_PLUGINS

Paid Linux VSTs: https://www.acmt.co.uk/products/index.html https://librewave.com/ https://www.audiodamage.com/collections

I’m glad the option is available, but I still suggest people try using Reaper over Studio One. More powerful and more affordable.

God I wish he promoted socialist policies. But he certainly does not. I do not agree with the statement that “the biggest capitalists in the world are actually socialists”.

People on the left are generally anti big tech, anti-google, anti-microsoft, anti-NSA. Anti-government is also not inherently right wing, especially if you look at anarchists instead of tankies. But adding restrictions onto giant corporations (that effectively become more powerful than the government) is more of a leftist opinion.

He’s a capitalist and one of the richest people in the world. Nothing about him fits the bill of a leftist. I think you’re coming at this with the US’s perception of the left, like the democratic party, which wouldn’t be considered left almost anywhere else in the world.

Linus Torvalds is a bit more of a leftist, and the whole ideology of Linux is pretty fitting for the left.

That voice was really difficult to listen to. And then talking about how Bill Gates shoves left wing media down our throats and uses msnbc as an example lol

I dislike Trudeau and don’t find this funny

That’s fair. I just have hundreds of thousands of crafting items so the craft bag is a big one for me. I also actually go through every single DLC. I’m almost done getting every single trifecta in the game (arenas, dungeons, and trials).

I could probably make do with how you go about it, but since this is basically the only form of entertainment I pay for, I feel like it’s justified. My lifestyle is otherwise incredibly frugal.

Very nice community. I try to contribute to that in and outside my guilds.

I’m about 4600 hours into ESO, but I’ve been paying for the subscription for half of that time. I only raid. Very challenging at the high levels, which I really enjoy.

I just hop on for my scheduled raids and log off. I don’t do any kind of grinding.

Just wanted to pitch in my experience and say my volume up/down keys on my keyboard worked out of the box, so it’s not a universal issue, and still worth giving OpenSUSE a try.

I do use NVidia with OpenSUSE, but I don’t use Optimus, so I can’t be of much help.

OpenSUSE checks everything except the part about enterprise influence. Mint maybe? I don’t know much about it though.

And let me know if you’re ever in search of a guild of any kind. I have my connections :)

Yes, it has plenty. In the base game alone you have:

• Main story line (with Molag Bal being the main antagonist)
• A story line for each of the three alliances (you can even play through the other alliances’ storylines even if youre not part of them)
• Guild storylines like Mages Guild and Fighters Guild
• A separate storyline based in the zone of Craglorn (south eastern Hammerfell)
• Plenty of side quests everywhere

And then with DLC/expansions, the amount and quality of storylines grows by a lot.

But I don’t even play for the stories. The raiding is very fun and challenging. I don’t play the game like a time sink. I just log in for my scheduled raids and log out, and I play at a pretty high level. It’s one of the less grindy MMOs. They’ve reduced RNG related stuff by a lot over the years.

I’m always happy to help out anyone on PC NA

Thanks, I see it now. The left-leaning sources are what I would consider more centre. Neo-liberal and left are quite different. Seems like it’s taking an approach closer to mainstream American politics, where Democrats are called left, but the rest of the world wouldn’t.