It’s the next evolution of planned obsolescence - it just doesn’t work as soon as you start to use it.

If you do try Linux:

• buy hardware that’s supported. For some things (storage) virtually everything works. For others, (video cards, latest-gen wifi) you need to make sure it’s supported out-of-the-box. It’s not worth the headache of trying to get it to work unless you just like geeking out.
• if some piece if software or hardware doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. If you spend more than a half hour (or whatever your limit is) trying to get it to work, just say to yourself ‘not available on Linux right now’ and move on. Linix has way more access to beta and alpha-level stuff, and that can make it tempting to try to fix whatever problem. Just don’t bother.

That said, most of the systems I use Linux on, it just works.

Meh. Most of the top comments are pretty reasonable.

fwiw, I’m now pretty darn happy with Linux and gaming. Granted, I use Steam, so there’s that.

There are issues sometimes, but I just keep a copy of windows around for windows-only things. Generally, Linux “just works” for me, but I’ve also learned to just skip it when something requires too much involvement to get working.

Be careful not to cross that line of request vs desperation.

Like on YouTube - A tasteful “don’t forget to like and subscribe” is fine, but mentioning it multiple times during a video is just increasingly demanding or cringe.

Proper instruction.

It’s been a little annoying. Anyways, thanks for thinking of FMHY.

Likewise.

Is liftoff homegrown?

Stellaris. Extremely long games, a lot to learn… …and they change it. Mechanics that worked before stop working. The bad parts are added to same become a DLC, the good parts disappear or are algal paved in DLC. Overall, it just doesn’t feel worth it.

Hey there!

From the home screen, at the top shpuld be ‘local@lemmy.fmhy.ml.’. You can also select ‘all@lemmy.fmhy.ml’. That will show you a feed from everyone FMHY is federated with.

If two inatances you like block each other, you can get accounts on both. The entries have a ‘via fmhy…’ Or ‘via sh.itjust.works’ for whatever instances you have listed in your configuration. Long-press on instance name in configuration to delete it if you don’t want it. I deleted lemmy.world, because I can just see lemmy.world stuff in ‘all’ via fmhy.

Technically, it’s not federation, it’s confederation, but we have some bad history with that word.