Ah, I thought because of the very dense few characters it might be Chinese. Thanks, will update post.

So it’s eating its ancestor?

Can someone explain why MacOS always seems to create _MACOSX folders in zips that we Linux/Windows users always delete anyway?

For me, a two party system seems really odd too. The flipside though, is having like 18 parties that all represent something, which takes way more cooperation and finding middle ground. This might seem good on paper, but can sometimes lead to indecisiveness or an unwillingness to take unpopular decisions. In the long run, that might cause a country to slowly fall behind on various topics due to a lack of vision.

Source: I’m a Dutch guy who has seen this happen in it’s own country.

So, I live in a European country where our right-wing politics would probably be considered “left” by Republican Americans.

I vote sort of central. Not too left, not too right. Even though I disagree with many things that our rightwinged politicians stand for, I can see some merit in them at times. The same with our left-leaning politicians.

When I see discussions among Americans, it seems to me either party just hates the other party, automatically calling them bigoted. And it comes across as a heavily divided country without any hope for reconciliation.

So 2 questions: Republicans: is there any democratic strength you wish your party would implement?

And democrats: is there any republican strength that you wish your party would implement?

Yeah, thought this too. Identified a similair looking spider with an app once.

Big nope vibes.

I have the OG 46 mm (since its launch) and still charge it only about every 3 days.

Mostly use it to track steps, check time (obviously) and skip songs on my phone.

After typing this message, I realized how much crap I have to deal with in Mint (with my specific setup, not saying everyone has the same experience or that Mint is bad for everyone). I just installed PopOS. It absolutely handles different screen resolutions better out of the box. The tiling feature is interesting, but I’ll have to learn how to use it properly the coming weeks.

Overall, feels more sleek than Mint with the two hours I spent with it. Pop!_shop feels less cluttered with random repos than Mints Software manager. Where Mint out of the box feels like Windows 7 with a theme that sort of works but sort of feels unfinished and dated, PopOS feels more like OSX. This comes with less customizability on the looks, but atleast stuff that has a place on your screen looks right and has the right amount of padding.

Time will tell if this is the distro for me, or if I’ll be a distrohopper for life until I eventually land on Arch for the bragging rights.

I kinda lowkey wish there was a signature option so that we could proudly put our early 2000 forum signature banners on display.

My experience with Mint the last 8 weeks has been… mixed.

My biggesst issues:

-It handles two monitors with different resolutions poorly. I settled on accepting that one screen has just bigger UI now. There is an experimental setting that allows individual scaling per screen, but some apps don’t seem to use the systemwide scaling. It basically creates more problems than it solves.

-Dark mode is random. Some apps don’t support dark mode, but Mint still forces light fonts. Which makes those fonts unreadable on the light backgrounds.

-Window management is… weird with two monitors. If you have your screens setup in a certain way, windows will appear partly off screen,aking them undraggable or closable. Some windows you can just WIN+arrow but some popups don’t allow that.

Permissions can be a pain in the buttocks. Some flatpaks don’t give the right permissions, so you’ll be googling and sudo’ing your ass off at times. How can a flatpak for Arduino NOT give permissions to use USB? Dafuq?

Also, any permissions outside your home folders can (out of the box) only be changed through commandline. Which makes it a pain to install, for example, fonts, unless you dig through the 6 font managers that software manager shows. 2 of those font managers don’t have a gui, 1 can only install 1 font at a time, so after trying 3 programs you finally find one that works.

-Now that we talk about the software manager… It can be a pain to find the right stuff. Sometimes you search a program, and you’ll find 7 versions because thank FOSS and all it’s forks.

-Most documentation and questions are answered with using commandline. And sometimes, as a noob like me, you’ll damage more with those answers than you’ll solve.

I have had multiple OS wide hard freezes when unplugging USBs from an external USB hub. Only hard resetting the PC worked.

What I like so far:

-You can split the explorer in to two navigations. Super useful.

-you can fully customize your start menu and launch bar.

-the backup function is amazing

-most steam games work great

-it starts up rather quick

-it doesn’t track me like Windows does.

Might try Pop OS soon, although I also accept that switching an OS can just take time to get used to. Took me a few months to get accustomed to OSX years ago when I had a Mac Mini for 6 years.

And what about the rights of the muggles that do streetmagic, illusionists, magicians and slight-of-hand masters? They can sort of bring some magic to the table.

Druids, mages, sages, shamans, that one weird aunt.

No problem!

-Yabridge is still actively being developped. The developer responds to issues on it’s Github frequently.

-Ableton 11.x currently has gold status on WineDB. other versions have varying ratings bronze to platinum.

-I don’t use iLok plugins a lot, but I just tried installing one. iLok gave an error for me. Some searching gave me a thread about a user that got a specific iLok version to work though, so you may need to experiment with this yourself: This thread

I don’t know much about CLAP since I always used VSTs (Cubase user after all :P ). I hope more developers will implement it as an alternative, but I don’t have high hopes. .Au could only become a standard because of Apple’s willingness to not support VSTs in Logic. I’m not sure if a third-party format can shift that much weight. All DAWS either support VST, AU or AAX and I don’t think developers want ANOTHER format to maintain.

Steinberg plugins are not working at all for me. I have Absolute 4 and Cubase Artist 12.

The licensing app installs fine. However, the download center cannot be installed. If you download the installers directly from Steinberg, those don’t install.

I did have some luck with downloading Steinberg installers on a windows pc with download assistant, and then opening THOSE installers on Linux. They installed correctly this way and Yabridge (vst bridge for Linux) even identified them correctly. But the vsts would crash on start.

Yabridge is essential to using VSTs on Linux. Works great from my experience, IF the vst actually can start at all. But that is never a Yabridge problem, always a VST specific Wine problem.

Arturia stuff can be installed without any problems (through wine)

Spitfire’s recent update broke things.

From what I’ve seen, Ableton is pretty nicely supported by the Wine community. But any Ableton or Wine update can break things, so you’ll need to have Wine and Ableton updates freezed if you want a hasslefree life.

Hardware stuff I had no problems with for now, but I have mostly simple midi controllers. I have an external soundcard (UR22 mk2), so my latency is as low on Windows. I use Pipewire, because PulseAudio seems to sometimes give problems being detected by VSTs.

For now I cannot recommend anyone that has extensive VST libraries to fully commit to Linux. The support is simply not there yet. Wine is not reliable enough, and I would hate to be stopped by a Wine error when inspiration hits. You’ll be troubleshooting for days to hopefully get your favourite VSTs working, and pray they don’t break when they update.

I dual boot for now. Music and VR on Windows, all other tasks on Linux. I’m considering making stems for all my projects so I could switch to a different DAW with only Arturia plugins in the future. But I’m not ready yet.

I’m not a super expert, but I did try very hard to get my steinberg stuff and Spitfire Labs working. Feel free to ask any followup questions.

I’ve been usung mint for about a month now.

I want to get rid of Windows, but I don’t want to spend my day sudo-ing my ass off.

Give me a gui for everything and doubleclick installers, and a release that is stable above all else.

I’m open to suggestions though! So shoot away which distro I should be using :)

My nephew uses arch btw.

I’d argue for not stressing too much about practices when you are a beginner. Learning to code is hard enough already. At first, it’s just important to start creating.

Software practices are important. But just get code working at all is, as a beginner, more important.

To be fair, it’s currently pretty straightforward in Unity. I haven’t checked Godots implementation yet, currently making my first 2D game in godot.

Also, meta is currently funding Godot, a comment further down mentions it.

Secretly plays Shotgun King

Like others have said: If you have a decent GPU in your PC, automatic1111 with stable diffusion is absolutely worth a try. For windows, it’s not that hard to install. Just follow the guide on github step by step.

With my old nvidia gtx 970, it took about 45 seconds to render an image. Anything newer will only grant you faster generation.

Do note that if you have an AMD gpu, it’s a pain on windows currently. My current 6700XT is about as fast as my old 970 on windows.

On Linux, AMD works great (6 seconds for an image for me right now), but that requires some tinkering.

I believe there are shower tubs that use the old water to partially heat the new water. Saves energy. E: its called water heat recycling.

Also, there are many water-saving showerheads that still feel great to use.