Brace yourselves for the SatanInit Panic.
humdrumgentleman
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And, here me out here: this is a good thing. Nay, a beautiful thing. There are no better things to do because these people care and have a voice. We argue about things for years and make slow progress as people agree or capitulate, and there will always be a fork to avoid those changes people care to enough. No one can just buy the Linux ecosystem and make unpopular changes without broad support. I'm pretty sure a negligible number of people have genuine hatred or prejudice for those using a technology they don't like. The arguing of Linux and Open Source is a reflection of the most successful form of worldwide democracy ever implemented by mankind.
Since you have LAN parties in mind, be sure to check this list to know what games are (or are not) well supported by Proton under Linux.
Proton is the compatibility layer that allows Seam games developed for Windows to run under Linux. Some games, unfortunately, may have problems that cause you to be left out.
Eskimos are said to have over 100 words for snow. Cats have a similar number of expressions for "try it and find out."
I went to the Stranger Things popup in Vegas. Not gonna lie, I had a good time. It was like an amusement park exhibit with the classic gift shop at the end, but the prices didn't seem inflated. If I was interested in buying merch, I'd rather go to to one of these than just order it online. I'm not saying it will be successful, but I don't hate them for trying it.
And, yes, they did sell DVD boxed sets.
I have other thoughts, but these are the most objective ones:
- The theme was integrated with all applications I tried and I didn't spot any problems with it. (I'd tell you I liked it, but that would be subjective)
- Installing via Pamac required knowing what source (repos, AUR, et cetera) you were installing from or to try multiple.
- My Brother wifi printer couldn't connect and I didn't find a guide to resolve it.
- I couldn't get audio to work correctly on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 9th Gen.
- The forums seemed to be active.
- I ran it for a week in a VM without breaking anything. Didn't run for any length of time on bare metal due to the printer and sound issues.
Compared to Fedora and EndeavorOS:
- Default GNOME theming, of course also through.
- GNOME Store will show you all available sources when you search for the package on Fedora. For EndeavorOS I have to search two places on archlinux.org and flathub.
- My printer worked with Fedora out of the box. For EndeavorOS I found a detailed guide they put together.
- No audio issues on either.
- Fedora also has a large forum. The EndeavorOS forum seems to have fewer users.
- I ran Fedora on my laptop for 6 months. When I upgraded between versions, I ended up with two versions of some applications like "Terminal" and "GNOME Terminal," which was confusing. No breakages.
- I've been running EndeavorOS for 14 months. I broke GRUB when everyone else on Arch and EndeavorOS did. I still had the live USB, and EndeavorOS provided instructions on how to fix it, although it was written for Ext4 and I had to make some educated guesses since I use BTRFS. I was successful and that was my only breakage.
Friendly reminder of the core problem: medical treatments are all balanced against the risk of what it counteracts.
Undergoing physical and chemical changes to grow another creature inside you and have it damage everything on the way out is pretty risky. Female birth control only has to be less risky than that.
A male has zero physiological risk from impregnating someone. Therefore, anything except a miracle drug with high efficacy and almost zero side effects is going to stall at the trial stage.
On another note, that speaks to how safe and effective vasectomies are.