It's either that or maintain a swamp cooler that won't work on humid days and can cause respiratory infection if not cleaned properly. A renters options are very limited and a window unit is a pretty good compromise if you don't want to loose a deposit.
If you want to sit in a sweltering room during a 100° day, no one is stopping you. I've heard it's a pretty typical thing for Europeans anyway. I'm not judging, the guy wants to cool the room down.
I don't know how big your apartment is but why not a window unit. It's probably the most efficient way to cook your apartment down short of redesigning the building.
I like the aur too but a proprietary app that isn't updated to support newer dependencies, it most likely won't run anyway. At that point it's either broken app, broken system, or you don't have anything else installed using that library(yet).
Also companies are lazy and if we don't want to be stuck on Ubuntu for proprietary app stability. We should probably embrace something like flatpak. Also when companies neglect their apps, it'll have a better chance of working down the road thanks to support for multiple dependency versions on the same install.
I mean they don't need drm if updated requirements can't be met by the host system. Steam stopped officially supporting windows 7 because of some core platform security libraries that is needed for newer versions of chrome just doesn't exist on windows 7 and won't because windows 7 is EOL.
I don't like Ubuntu that much but one thing they really do right is a tool that made installing the few drivers not built into the kernel stupid easy. That's the number one thing I see people mess up with Nvidia drivers. You always install Nvidia drivers through your distro app store/package manager never the website.
I understand the mistake but it's painful to see someone manually install Nvidia drivers from their website just for it to shit the bed in a kernel update.
I'm sure the update manager was probably very important back in the day but I am glad updates come through the software manager now. Even though I don't use it it's very intuitive.
You sound like a Linux veteran.
I wonder how many years until all mainstream websites and web based apps like steam refuse to work because you're os isn't supported by the latest browser version.
My mother asked me to switch her over and she loves it. I love it too because she isn't always asking me for help all the time. I was playing around with windows games on Linux and while I was testing her game because it was fast to download, she was impressed and she wanted to switch right there.
I don't remember when it started but every other update to windows home popped up an advertisement for the Microsoft account (she had a local account) and an advertisement for office 365. She would literally call me every time it popped up saying it looked important so she didn't touch it. Libre office is close enough to excel that all the time I spent teaching her Excel didn't go to waist and I could finally cancel my office 365 subscription.
I'm thinking of recommending it to my aunt because her PC is slow and won't be supported by windows 11. If she's interested I'll let her play with it on an old laptop for a while before verifying she wants to switch over. The same thing I did with my mother.
Yeah, that's what I found when I looked it up. It was a typo according to him.
It's amazing how fast we got here though isn't it. There were a ton of talented people, most of them working without pay just to make it happen.
I love the sense of community from something like that even if all I could do is be a beta tester, request potential improvements, and donate to my favorite projects.
Sounds neat! Don't really care much for messing with config files for hours. This is from someone who uses arch on all his systems. I've been in config hell for a while, I use kde now.