The Steam Deck and my Framework 13 use these and they run games no problem

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen.html

Telling a tinkerer they can’t modify their system is terrifying.

So essentially you have a base system and you add what you need through flatpak, distrobox, homebrew, and if all else fails, by layering the packages on the base image with rpm-ostree. What you can’t do (that I’m aware of), is remove packages, or make bigger changes like adding another desktop environment aside what it came from. I mean, I guess you can do it by layering but it’s probably messy.
Configuration and customisation are not an issue: /etc and /var are not immutable of course.

Distrobox is super cool btw, I knew it existed but Bazzite pushing me to use it was what I needed to finally try and appreciate it.

I’m afraid I’m too old for that journey

Btw if typing scary, you can always use the KDE Task Manager like a Windows user. Just don’t let people see you.

You will regret your weakness!

I used to be afraid of immutable distros. I was wrong.

Linux users on Lemmy hit an all-time high

Do it. Don’t you want to run btop and feel badass?

Because it downloads nothing and it’s got several softwares and tools bundled in

So, work and home.

Work, therefore Windows: has to be a tie between (new) Outlook and VMWare workstation. New outlook is absolute crap, just like all new windows app, I guess it must be Electron-based as it crashes or fails to load sometimes when you open it without connecting to the internet, and displays a blank window. VMware is such crap with poor performance, hang-ups and their fucking “this VM is already in use, take ownership?” dialogs that never work.

Home: I’d say FreeCAD. I mean, I love that they’re developing it, I donated and I hope it’ll have a similar trajectory to Blender, but right now it’s really frustrating to use. Frequent crashes, solving errors, even adding a simple bevel is often a challenge, many simple things require complex procedures that make little sense to new users. It’s crazy how, when you add a feature it can’t solve, your model just disappears, and you have to open up the diagnostic buffer to find out why.

That’s hilarious

I don’t have a Windows computer on hand, but I think del works on directories? I’m going by very old memories here

Eh, we’re still moving electrons around in wires like Faraday did in the 1800s!

If it’s possible at all

Windows has rmdir?

I used to use arch btw, but then I grew old and moved to Fedora. Then I saw the light and installed Bazzite on everything, even my coffe machine. It’s got RGB now.
You should install Bazzite, save your soul.

Are you saying that you use arch btw?

The article is talking about officeware, so documents, file sharing, chat and e-mail. My comment was about documents specifically. I’m sorry if your work is frustrating, but as a non-academic, what am I supposed to do, except vote for candidates that promote education? That’s been my priority from when I was old enough to cast a ballot.
Your university’s leadership failed you in the decades before today when they went for closed-source, foreign-controlled options. I cannot describe the stupidity of hosting research data on American services, a choice that to me points either to stupidity or bad faith.

But the crux is still this: the best time to switch was the previous 30 years, the second best is now. Saying “we can’t do it!!” only lets the tumor grow and grow. Nobody’s expecting change overnight, what should be expected, though, is action.