Had a slow day yesterday so thought, why not wipe the gaming PC and put Linux on it.
I work with Linux every day for work so I wanted a debian-based distro as that's what I'm most familiar with. After a short impulsive-driven search, I picked pika-os. Never heard of it but thought I'd give it a go.
Picked KDE, installed the OS, booted first time and immediately regretted it. No network. I have a 2.5G Realtek 8125 nic and whilst it was detected, it was showing RX packets as "dropped". Couldn't install firmware-realtek as it conflicted with linux-firmware. Tried the Realtek website, what a mess that is, compiled a driver, couldn't get it to load. Ended up finding a git repo that created .deb packages for all realtek drivers.
Got network up and running and its all been great from there. Last time I tried this in 2021 I had loads of issues but so far, other than having to download a later version of Proton and select it in a game, or add some command-line arguments in Steam, its been great!
I'm so surprised that every app I normally use on Windows is either available as a Linux native app, works with emulation (bottles) or there is a decent alternative.
Definitely, 100%, the Linux desktop is ready.
In a time where Nazis have made a comeback and racism is rampant world wide, maybe it's time we dropped the whole "master race" joke
You do know that the PC Master Race was originally intended to make fun of the pseudoscientific Nazi ideology "master race"?
It feels like we need this joke more than ever before.
I think they did since they called it "the master race joke"
Let's mock nazis by appropriating their ideology. That'll show them
It's originally for lame PC gamers to feel superior. It's always sucked
No. It was a joke that made fun of the PC users as well.
You do know know that "Trump for president" was originally intended as an ironic joke?
It feels like we need to stop making jokes that normalize nazi shit.
Edit: also your statement isn't even true. First time I ever saw "pc master race" was on 4chan /pol
I don't know anything about what happened in the US in regards to Trump. However. I find it unlikely that any meme has ever had any play in him being a president, but I said, I don't know anything about the US history, so I don't have much to say about it.
Regarding the PC Master Race joke, you should read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race#History
PS. Joking about things doesn't make them true. We have made fun about various serious topics over multiple centuries now, none of them have come true so far.
Oh boy could you not be more wrong
Feel free to prove me wrong!
This isn't like some new concept, people have been writing and talking about it since before 2016. Just did a quick search...
https://www.udel.edu/faculty-staff/media-experts/spotlight/?postid=11512
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/09/january-6-insurrection-meme-wars/671397/
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/how-donald-trump-backers-weaponized-memes/
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trumpinc/episodes/trump-inc-all-presidents-memes
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/27484
Just google "how memes led to trump" or something similar. There's tons out there about it.
Oh my. I'm in lack of words... :D
Yeah. It's real bad.
Seems like 4chan edgelording regardless. That's kinda the point. Hide facism in plain sight
That is taking what is said so far out of context that I'm more concerned for your comment than the title.
What does the term "master race" mean in your head?
I think they have a point.
Nah, let's keep associating that concept with a joke, because that's just what it is
Remember when a Trump presidency was just a joke? I do.
Jokes get taken over by people who are too dumb to understand satire and irony. They don't see a joke, they see an appealing idea being normalised.
How would a normalization of the "PC Master Race" joke look in practice, though? Death camps for console gamers? Venues where entry for mobile gamers is forbidden?
Yea but like this is a linux thread?