Just install it, try to install KDE (Gnome is the main desktop of Fedora), see if it works, if you like it, and if you can tolerate the slow ass package manager that is yum.

Should take you about 30 minutes; no need to be rude about it.

You can even try it in your browser if you think setting up a VM is too much time wasted: https://distrosea.com/de/start/fedora-44-kde/

That is the best description of the Discworld books that I have ever read. How you describe it was “clear” to me for 20 years now, but I could have never stated this fact as eloquently as you did here.

Just try it for yourself in a VM and you will see.

I don’t know if it is because of neoliberals, but education went to shit over the course of at least 30 years. The difficulty of the classes and exams was lowered and lowered, so that everyone - even the dumbest people - could get a university degree.

This of course lead to dumber and dumber people becoming teachers, which leads to worse teaching in schools, etc; a downward spiral.

I have been using NVIDIA under Linux since 2005, then in 2025 I switched to AMD. I have lots more problems with the Radeon, like the driver just crashing, taking the whole X server and all applications with it. That never happened with NVIDIA.

Gaming on a laptop is a path that will lead to failure eventually; get a desktop computer.

I would say it was at least co-authored by AI.

No, that is required for rm -rf /. But the command in question was rm -rf /*, note the asterisk. The * will be expanded by the shell, so what rm sees when it evaluates argv is not /, but [/bin /usr/ /lib ...].

You can test this yourself. Run: rm --recursive --interactive /. It will abort, saying:

rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’

rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

Then, run set -x in your shell. That way your shell will print the command that is actually executed. Finally, run:

rm --recursive --interactive /*.

In my case, the output is:

$ rm --recursive --interactive /*
+ rm --recursive --interactive /bin /boot /dev /efi /etc /home /lib /lib64 /media /mnt /opt /proc /root /run /sbin /srv /sys /tmp /usr /var
rm: remove symbolic link '/bin'? 

The line starting with a + is from the shell and shows which command was actually executed. After that, you can see rm will now happily start deleting files.

I can see it for porn games too but I’ve not played more than a few and didn’t really see the appeal

I bet someone is already working on using this new technology to project arbitrary celebrities into porn games.

Any engineer fighting the use of LLM’s will ultimately find that their peers are achieving more in a shorter time then they are.

How do you measure that?

I am asking because I tried all the AI coding tools (copilot, cursor, claude code, etc.), even the paid versions, to find the utopia that doubles my productivity where lots of people are talking about. But everytime I find they take more time to generate code than me typing it, they rarely get things right the first time, they produce way more code than needed (which is much more to reason about) and all in all it takes longer to achieve something using “AI” instead of doing it on my own.

The worst results are the ones that seem to be correct, but can only be found incorrect on closer inspection. For instances, a part of my job is to write data collection applications for sensors; those sensors come with a datasheet (usually 100 to 200 pages) that explain how to “talk” to the sensor. Sounds perfect for an LLM - throw the datasheet in, get a small C application out. But either I get something that does not even compile, or something that seems to collect data, but configures the sensor completely wrong. Debugging that takes more time than just working through the datasheet myself and program it myself.

This is a cool demonstration, especially with the parameters and animations, but man I hate these “made with <3” footers so much. They were everywhere in the 2010s and my hope was that they had died out by now, but apparently not.

cropping is hard

I only see reddit content filtered through the occasional Kagi summery. Fuck Reddit.

Don’t forget that you can block sites on Kagi.

Lately my 70yo mother has been sending me links from there instead of Facebook,

lol so nowadays it’s “everyone’s parents is on reddit”, like back in 2015 when nobody was on Facebook but everyone’s parents was.

The headline does not contain any clickbait-typical elements, for instance

• Most of The Words Capitalized
• A question mark at the end
• "You won’t believe’
• etc.

I am definitely not older than that Lemmy.

cloud saves

I never needed that since Steam introduced them 15 years ago (or more). It is just annoyed having to wait for that.

gametime tracking

Why would you need that? But lutris does this.

some achievements (dont care about those)

Yeah me neither.

of course you can easily backup your Games

You can easily backup your GoG games by just downloading the zip file.

built in support for gog, epic games

Lutris also has that.

Maybe it is just a matter of taste. Personally I would never use any launcher to launch my gog games, because I think the whole advantage of gog is to have the game in a convenient zip file.

I can second that. The book is definitely entertaining to read.

Why would I use heroic over lutris?

This repost is so old, it is older than lemmy.

It is the ~/.local/share/containers folder.