I only just switched to Linux this past week and I use Mint. It was suggested to me by someone here on lemmy. It was easy to set up, customize, and get all my stuff working on it. I have World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, Elden Ring and a few other games all working on it. The only issue, and right now it’s a minor one, I’m having is the 535 nividia drivers can cause random stutters/lag every now and then but nothing major.

My point is for people like me who are new to linux and don’t want to get overwhelmed I think Mint is great. I know eventually i’ll change to a different more “advanced” distro, right now I have my eye on CachyOS, but I don’t think I’m there quite yet to confidently install it.

it was the nvidia 535 driver. I switched to nouveau and that solved the stuttering/lag. but made gaming suck. so then I tried installing 550 drivers and that just outright bricked my system, recovered and went back to the 535. works for gaming so I’ll just tolerate the stuttering I guess.

So either use Nvidia’s driver and deal with the stuttering or don’t and can’t game. great.

and since I do game I take it that it’s not advised?

yup after posting I did a bit of reading. It was the nvidia driver. switched to the nouveau driver and problem solved. sorry still new to all this.

you can ease it by volunteering. That’s what I do. I volunteer with my local community center and food bank. I mean it’s something instead of nothing.

Until that point in time people have to accept that there will be people living on the streets, they will be drinking, they will be doing drugs to cope with living on the streets and nothing will change until people stop complaining and attempt to make said change.

“I hate seeing homeless people trying to cope with being homeless”

ok so do something about it, vote for people who will fix it, donate money to places that will help, volunteer at food banks, community centres, soup kitchens, be the change you want to see.

you: no, I prefer to complain

you’re part of the problem.

“then idk what to do.”

good lord you’re an idiot. and the terrifying thing is you procreated.

and they hire pretty much any joe schmo off the street to be a cop. I’ve seen NYPD officers and good lord they make Uvalde cops look like navy seals.

I swear gamers have the memory of a gnat. How many times has Bethesda pulled shit like this and people continue to support them? no one remembers the Horse armor all the way back in Oblivion? no one remembers the Skyrim paid mods in 2015? hell can’t even remember the SKYRIM PAID MODS IN DEC OF 2023!

This isn’t an outrage and no one should be upset AT Bethesda over this, but disappointed and upset with yourselves for yet again falling for their constant desire to nickel and dime their playerbase.

I was hooked on the Real World. just random people that looked so cool living in a crazy cool place. But honestly I’d say it really dropped off after Seattle or New Orleans. Then it was just painfully obvious manufactured controversy. They did Stephen dirty on Seattle as they REALLY played up the closeted homosexual thing with him. like almost spoon feeding it to you.

they HAD that, MTV 2. in the mid to late 90s when MTV started getting into tv shows (and granted, most were quite good) they started up MTV 2 and just showed music videos, generally more unknown artists, but if you liked hardcore/emo music in the very early 00’s MTV 2 was a haven to discover new bands.

The writing was on the wall for MTV with Total Request Live. originally they’d show the entire video…then they’d show maybe 20 sec of a video…then they’d just tell you what videos placed where and maybe show you the top 5. When you’d watch MTV for music videos and they ended up showing you 30min of music videos, if that, 5 days a week you knew it was over.

The Real World and Road Rules showed the execs you could get decent ratings with minimal effort/budget so they axed everything else. All their awesome animation shows just vanished. having VJ’s? nah just dump it all on Carson Daily.

THEN they hit their cash cow with Jackass, but they could go cheaper…so Viva La Bam…but wait, they could go cheaper, so lets do Rob and Big, no wait fam…cheaper lets attach our cart to the Drydek horse and now you have Ridiculousness which is the cheapest of cheap they can make, they have to produce ZERO content, and make money off that.

don’t know about horrified but residential superintendents. Ok with being on call 24/7? cool here’s a free place to live you’re hired. Many just do it for the free rent but from my experience previously working in the residential maintenance industry very few actually know how to even unclog a toilet or shut off a water line in a building. Most were alcoholics believe it or not.