One thing I’ll say is that for a lot of distros these days you shouldn’t really need to use the terminal much if ever. That being said don’t be scared of the terminal. It’s just another way to tell the computer what to do. It takes some learning but if you want to learn things with the terminal you might eventually find it easier/faster than using the mouse for some things. Go through some tutorials and you’ll probably find out that the terminal is not that actually all that scary.

Most distros allow you to try them out before you install them. You can run them from a USB stick to let you try a few out before you settle on one. You won’t be able to install any programs this way but you’ll at least be able to get an idea of the interface and see if there are any you like more than others. Even still you can dual boot your PC with Windows + Linux and switch back and forth whenever you need. It’s not an all or nothing ordeal. I still have windows 10 on my machine but I rarely use it now.

Gaming on Linux is better than it’s ever been thanks to Steam coming with proton out of the box. protondb.com is your friend for figuring out what games you can run. That being said there are occasionally some rough edges that I have run into personally. I can run most games I want just fine but occasionally I have some issues. I’m just telling you this so you know it’s not like a flawless experience. Then again I’ve also spent plenty of time trying to get games running on my windows PC in the past too so…

My recommendation for a first Linux OS is Ubuntu because in general it’s the most popular and has the most support.

Best of luck!

Geez Onana, that’s a howler

Honestly I thought we played pretty well. Could have easily won that with better decision making and finishing

I’m a fan of Voyager. Very nice experience in my opinion

Frustrated at how winnable that game was. Commentators were ready for us to get pounded before the game so at least we proved them wrong.

Hadn’t heard of this guy until we got linked with him but first signing of Amorim era let’s gooo

Hoping for that Bruno Fernandes effect of immediate impact.

Yeah that’s what I meant to say. They didn’t start playing it on USA until 17 minutes in or so cause of a college basketball

The game is over and they’re still playing replays for a college basketball game😤

Game got bumped from NBC Sports because of a college basketball game I’m fuming.

There were two minutes left on the clock like 10 minutes ago. Frequent breaks stopping the clock so that they can stand around and talk.

Wish him the best. Maybe he’ll find some form and come back with more confidence

For $15 you can have endless hours or fun with Balatro

I’m using the android app and I’ve found it decent. I think the UI/UX could use some quality of life improvements but it’s a simple and straightforward app to use.

I’m not on the main pixelfed.social instance but mine went down for a bit this morning. I just waited a bit and then I was able to login again.

Mastodon and Lemmy also had a lot of trouble even they experienced these huge waves of migrations partly because no one had scaled the software this far before

Mastodon is an app for sharing text that can also share pictures and videos. Pixelfed is an app for sharing pictures and videos with limited text.

You can curate a feed of pictures on Mastodon by following hashtags like #cats or #catstodon, but the interface is going to always emphasize the text first. Meanwhile on Pixelfed I can follow those same hashtags and get a much better experience for a feed primarily of pictures. Even though many/most of the posts will inevitably come from Mastodon users I can still browse those in my Pixelfed app in a much cleaner way. Artists can post their work from a Mastodon account, but the best way to view all their posts is going to be from Pixelfed.

This is why interoperability is a good thing. The whole point of federation is that different apps can implement their own version of the spec to curate a different type of user experience.

I don’t do Instagram either but PixelFed has pretty chill vibes. I followed some hashtags like #cat and #nature and now I have a nice little feed of cats and nature.

I think that’s the number one thing Mainoo needs to improve is his progressive passing. He’s still young so he has time!

Amorim’s subs were impactful today. Moving Bruno deeper helped the buildup and gave us better control. Zirkzee was the unsung hero with his link up and pressing in the first and third goal. Eriksen with the assist on the second.

Massive from Amad again today.

It makes sense that they’re playing it safe this time around. They’ve already had successors to well selling consoles due to gimmicks (*ahem Wii U). The Switch is already a well selling console so it seems like they’re just making the same thing but with better performance and some usability improvements.

Surprised Lemmy is so low tbh. It feels pretty active here to me!

Omg so close to getting a winner. Come on lads 7 minutes to go