Do you think buddy would have a shot at convincing someone (or anyone) of his worldview if he wasn’t such an insufferable cunt in every comment and reply?

I’ve tried 5 and 6. It’s got a bit better but I still have big gripes with it. My fiance uses KDE on their desktop and I’ve had to help troubleshoot why the sound didn’t work half the time… turns out it was defaulting a submenu of a submenu in the sound settings to one that doesn’t output sound. There were 5 options for the one device and only one of them worked (no I don’t remember specifically which menu or which one worked off the top of my head, it’s been a few months since I changed that default)… I’ve yet to have this problem on any other desktop environment.

Between shit like that and panel editing crashing the desktop I’ve wrote off KDE, I’ve never had a stable experience with it and I’m tired of trying to fix what should work out of the box. GNOME, for all its faults, works out of the box without much hassle.

That has literally always been the default KDE experience for me. I find KDE to be a constantly buggy unstable mess. I’m glad it seems to work for everyone else, but it clearly doesn’t like me and the feeling is mutual now.

Sounds like retail to me, that industry is a breeding ground for abusive environments.

At my last job the store manager got away with smacking the assistant manager on camera in front of people. Multiple reports sent up the chain. But the assistant manager had already put in two weeks notice a week before this happened, so head office just brushed it under the rug. I had watched the security video of it happening myself so I know it’s not for lack of evidence.

The running theory was that that manager gets transfered to stores as the company’s wrecking ball when they want to clean house. She would get transfered to a store, then all of the staff would end up quitting or getting fired for bullshit reasons. We weren’t the first store it had happened to. I ended up quitting to go work at a warehouse for more money with a fraction of the responsibility.

Tone is an absolute bitch to convey properly over text, if you don’t add indicators it’s up to the reader to determine the tone you’re using. Miscommunication causes larger problems. Using lol helps indicate a lighter tone so people don’t think I’m pissed off or grumpy when I’m not

If you run into the issue again, an enzyme cleaner works quite well in my experience. Nature’s Miracle makes a decent one, I’ve had to use it before

Which card? There’s a few distros that handle installing the drivers for you (Nobara and Bazzite spring to mind)

If it’s an issue of outdated hardware it can be tricky but doable. I have an old Thinkpad with an Nvidia Quadro K2000 that I got working with MX Linux without too much hassle

I worked retail for many years and I consider children pests as well

This sounds like someone that has never seen what cats can do to a property when the owner doesn’t take care of them.

Piss drenched carpet and moldy walls are a pain in the ass to fix.

As much as I love Linux I’ll be the first to admit that it probably won’t catch on with average users for a long time. Most people really don’t want to have to troubleshoot anything and just want something that works out of the box, and Linux isn’t really able to deliver that consistently.

I’m curious to try a Linux phone myself, but being in Canada importing new hardware is expensive and the other phone models that are compatible are ancient, and often without VoLTE support which is gonna be mandatory pretty soon here

They’ve been saying “maybe it’s the year of the Linux desktop” for years, mobile Linux only reliably works on a handful of specific modern devices and some fairly old ones

I wouldn’t hold my breath for it

I knew I had a good old fashioned photoshop version lying around