Not for buying new DSiware games?

I hope they didn’t close their account two years ago!

I feel like most accessories these days either use Bluetooth, or (for e.g. cars) have a phone-agnostic USB port so they can work with Android too. Plus cables aren’t that hard to replace. I feel like the days of the iPod speaker dock and the iDog with a proprietary cable stub are long gone.

I can at least try to wait a few years to forget as much as possible.

What if I want to pay a little extra to get something ready-to-run? Windows for me then?

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

And probably Tears of the Kingdom too but I haven’t played it yet.

That’s why the Java programmer looks happier in the “after” pic. Not as much as Python but it’s still there.

No, making a sandwich is more effort equivalent to sending an email, or maybe adding items to a shopping site cart and buying them. Both are fairly intuitive and don’t involve memorizing weird commands like “ls” and “cd” (“cd? But my computer doesn’t even have a CD drive!”).

No, most people don’t need to learn shell scripting to browse the internet, play games, or send emails. Especially if they have jobs that don’t involve a lot of computer work. And it’s unfair to expect them to learn that just so they can use their computer as they were before.

Doesn’t it natively run on the Steam Deck?

That sounds like a lot of hassle for someone who doesn’t want hassle.

Someone clearly doesn’t play Cities: Skylines with mods

Because they care about your experience and want to ensure you’re getting the most out of your computer by suggesting helpful productivity apps?

Why not leave the defaults as-is? They’re probably set like that for a reason.

Agreed, just glance at the linked Reddit thread and it’s refreshing how little Linux is mentioned. I’m really tired of seeing it (and related FOSS circlejerking) on every vaguely related Lemmy thread and I suspect that’s where most of the “Linux bashing” is coming from, we’re just sick of it.

I think the hurdle isn’t money but time, and yes it takes quite a bit of time to learn a new OS, figure out why your graphics card is running so slow, move your files to an external drive and back, find alternatives to the programs you use and learn their quirks and missing features, learn the difference between apt-get and snap and flatpak when programs only support one, figure out what a .tar.gz file is and how to install one (what was that chain of commands with “sudo make” in it), find tweaks and workarounds to get certain games working in Proton, and do that all again if you don’t like the distro (because Linux users love suggesting new distros)

Trying an orange is a lot easier than creating a boot USB, copying all your files over to an external hard drive, installing a new OS, fixing weird things like the graphics card having crap performance or the laptop screen brightness not dimming, learning the weird 3 letter file structure, being bogged down by apt-get vs snaps vs flatpak and adding repos (why not search and download an .exe like a normal OS), realizing that your more specialized programs don’t work, etc.

Besides, it’s not just ONE person, seeming everyone says it every time a lemon has a scratch or a blemish or too many seeds. And then they dramatize it by calling it an “abusive relationship”.

Did Lemmy even exist 3 years ago? I thought the Lemmy migration was only last summer.

It would be useful for electric bikes and things that you could feasibly own alongside a car and use for 90-95% of trips.