Thanks. I remember seeing that thread on Mastodon, but I hadn’t associated it with his actions. I think open logs are good and if someone acts like that as a moderator, it is best if they step down.

Can you provide some more information about him abusing his powers here?

Go ahead and report it to the Mint team. Even if it is an issue upstream, they will verify the issue and then report it as well. Never hesitate to report a bug you find, especially if it’s a security or privacy issue.

Even if the bug is a duplicate, it helps to know other people are having the same issue. At worst they will mark your report as a duplicate, which will let you know they are aware of the issue.

Almost every emulator lets you remap buttons on your controller. There is nothing that stops you from mapping the buttons based on position instead of what the face button says. There are also plenty of controllers you can use on PCs that have the Nintendo layout.

How so? It’s just a controller that is just the most standard for PC because Microsoft fully implemented the drivers in Windows.

Both are fine. Ufw has a set of applications that are defined in terms of what ports they need for convenience. You wouldn’t have to know that 3389 is for RDP, you could just allow RDP. Ufw ultimately modifies the iptables, it is just another interface for interacting with it.

Ads in Windows Explorer was the final straw to make me switch to Linux a few years back. I would imagine that ads in the Start Menu could convince some others to do the same.

I’ve been waiting for this update for a while since GE doesn’t do wine 9.0 builds.

Seems you already fixed it, but in general the system should be updated with nobara-sync or dnf distrosync. Sometimes he will downgrade packages so it’s best to just have it synced up with the same versions upstream.

I think most people are just used to Window’s BS, so these issues are just expected and they know how to fix them.

Linux has an easier experience getting up and running, but when they have an issue, usually it’s something completely different from what they have experienced before and get frustrated.

This is why mainline OEMs shipping computers with Linux by default will be a huge step forward.

Those updates in Discover are for flatpak, not dnf. You can verify that with flatpak update.

As for discover wanting to restart to do their update, that’s a fedora thing for an extra level of safety while updating. You can read about it here.

I used it previously. I never had crashes because of it, but it would mean I would have to wait for the aur packages to be updated before I could upgrade to the next iteration of GNOME.

The lack of VRR in GNOME is what had me change to KDE. I prefer GNOME in many ways, but I was tired of having to use the vrr patches to keep the functionality.

I do find that the days I need it the most it’s slower than molasses.

WSL2 is faster than WSL1.

WSL2 can be slower if you are modifying Windows files as opposed to the files in the WSL system.

I’ve used a few controllers. Generally, controllers with direct input have worked the best. My favorite controller to use is the Dual Sense controller(PS5). The Switch controller also works right out of the box. Xbox controllers seem to be hit and miss. If you do want an Xbox style controller, consider the 8bit-do ultimate controller, as it has a dinput mode. Avoid the Bluetooth variant, as the 2.4ghz mode is xinput only.

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From the link posted elsewhere in this thread on the Gnome website.
https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/10/17/foundation-welcomes-new-executive-director/

Plenty of developers prefer Macs to anything else. Forcing developers to use Macs for iOS development isn’t okay though.

As other’s have suggested, PopOS is pretty good. I would also consider Nobara as well. It’s based on Fedora with plenty of tweaks that makes it much better for gaming. It also has the ability to quickly install NVIDIA drivers. after the first login.

Nvidia is fine on Arch, the drivers are in the base repositories.

For tutorials, the Arch Wiki is one of the best resources for Linux. If you are unsure how to do something, there is likely an article that states how to do it.

If you are unsure, I would install Arch in a VM before swapping.