People who don’t understand windows or the minimize, maximize, and close buttons. So they constantly close the window and then relaunch the program to get back to the main screen or switch tasks.

It is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance.

It’s basically a rootkit.

I like having all my games in one place, on a platform where Linux “just works” and I don’t have to fuck around with it.

Eliminating third-party launchers sounds great in theory until you have 20 different half-baked second party launchers that serve no purpose other than being a barrier between me and the games.

I prefer Quod Libet but I have fond memories of rhythmbox.

whipper is my goto for that.

“Without further due”…

… yeah …

NixOS is not special there. It runs the same software as any other Linux distro.

Sure. And this is why we have measles outbreaks still today.

Not talking about viruses despite the vaccine comparison.

Software has vulnerabilities, even on NixOS.

It’s not just your decision though. Like vaccinations, your decision affects everyone else so it’s not your decision alone.

See? They forced you to upgrade to Linux, now you’re more secure!

Forcing upgrades at Microsoft’s convenience.

This is the only one I agree with. Upgrades are necessary for security, it’s just a fact of life.

Ignore anyone who says anything about a “gaming” distro. There is literally no performance difference.

I’ve never heard of anyone suggest a gaming-focused distro for performance reasons.

It’s always for compatibility and shit-just-works reasons. And that is wildly different between distros.

There’s nothing especially gaming-focused with bazzite that would interfere with general PC usage. I think it’s a great choice for “25% gaming”.

The only thing is that there’s not a lot of distro-specific guidance out there, and the immutable concept is a bit new and unusual.

An ‘istoric occasion (if you don’t pronounce the H)

A historic occasion (if you do)

It’s all about the sounds, not the letters.

Kids are frequently taught that letters are vowels (or consonants) when it’s actually the sounds they represent, and there’s not a 1:1 mapping between letters and sounds.

That sounds weird because it is weird.

I think that sort of thing is from people who have read it without hearing it, or are blindly copying others without thinking about it.

Yes but no. Some folks are purists and feel that the actual code must derive from the original BSD/SysV code.

Doubt it, they were more likely using md5sum files in 1999.

Nah. It’s got a big fat [citation needed] from me.

10% of people? Sure I’d believe that 10 % of people have transferred data using fax technology at least once in the past year or something. But 10% of households, and you can’t count email to-fax gateways?

No way.