Analog media was better and more fair to artists, and easier to make money off of (why sell an album when people will stream it), and allowed people to become more intelligent and involved music fans. The digitization and non stop consumption of media cheapened it. Not to mention, I’d bet 90% of young Americans have never heard a good home stereo that actually represents how the music is supposed to sound.

And no, I’m not 80 years old!

Nice, thanks for that.

It’s amazing how this is demonized in American culture. Really makes one think.

Now, to get rid of the 2 party system…

I agree. I still think regular peiple would view that as “the government stealing their property” though. For example i know a few people who buy places and fix them up to rent out. Are you saying they should get their properties taken away?

If you’re only referring to billionaires and corporations buying housing, i agree. But if any laws were put into place, we know how it always goes, it would only affect those regular Joe’s renting properties, and theyd further hate the government for too much regulation. I see no way to possibly stop the rich from buying all housing.

Maybe this is a good place to ask this, as I always think about it. I am all in favor of abolishing this nightmare of late stage capitalism and coporate ownership of government. However, how do you explain that any other form wont take away from those of us who are (admittedly lucky) home/land owners, that actually are sitting fine ? Those people don’t want to give up what they have so someone in an apartment can have more. Think of it this way: you have an acre of land you worked for, it wasn’t given. Someone else has a 2 bedroom apartment they also worked for. For reason (either laziness, or unfortunately events) the apartment owner can’t save enough for a house/land. Maybe their mental capability is maxed out (be honest, we know people like this) and they can’t get more schooling etc. Under a socialist system, it seems like anyone with their house/land would be forced to give it up and live in blocs of apartments, which no one I know actually wants. This is just one example. But it’s something that I feel like will always hold the US back from socialism, because those that currently have “the dream” don’t want it to be taken. Now, people living in shacks that vote for Musk because the immigrants will take their jerbs, those people are idiots. But I’m talking about people who work full time and are decently well off, probably have a decent amount in stocks etc. Those people don’t want corporations destroying us, but they also don’t want full socialism.

Awesome!!!

Everyone has opinions but mint has been the most stable for me. Plus large user base. It doesn’t come with everything built in like bazzite, but it’s so easy to install wine, steam, proton, etc anyway.

How did you get AC to run?? I’ve tried every proton instance and proton ge, it will not launch at all. And I haven’t even started trying to get content manager working which seems pretty hard.

Thank you! Maybe I need bottles. I have wine, and proton.

If you’re a gamer like me and you play a wide range of games and vr, dual boot mint on another drive to test it. If you enjoy tinkering and learning, it’s awesome. If you want to jump in and instantly game, you won’t have a good time. I treat it like a classic car. Sometimes you want to tinker and get things running good, but you don’t want to daily drive a 69 Chevelle, unless it’s restomodded. Move slowly away from windows and bolster the linux community !

Ill have to try again! I thought anti cheat borked it

Amd fx 8 core cpu and rx580… really shouldnt be any issues. Never had Nvidia.

I should have specified, gtav online doesn’t work.

You’re lucky! I’ll keep tinkering. Still going to have to upgrade to 11 soon to keep using my wheel and playing any vr or pubg though. Someday!

I must play different games than most on linux, because so far I’ve had issues with

-Assetto corsa -iRacing -Automobilista 2 -Lego racers -(Obviously pubg and gtav are a no go, as well as lethal company) -Diabolical

More than I’m forgetting. Agreed proton helps but it’s still way too glitchy to be daily used by me. Its fine to tinker but trying to get any games working while your friends wait on you is just a pain. Especially in any game with mods.

I wish it was as easy as people say! It is fun once something gets working though, feels like a huge accomplishment on linux if a game even starts up for me. I’d love to leave windows behind but I don’t see it happening soon.

Do the dual boot and test it. For now, it’s mint when I want to tinker and be happy 1 game out of 300 works, and windows when I want to actually play any games.

It’s true they’re easier in a way, but there will be bugs. For example i thought lego racer would be easy. Indeo codes crashed the game instantly. Had to search for a fix. Now intro video loads but very choppy, and the menu only has sound and the screen goes black. All amd hardware too, on mint. Unless you like to tinker a lot, just dual boot for now.

Are there actual races in beam? I only use it for scientific reasons (20 ton coil) hehe

Don’t worry they’re usually free and you should only need 1 account. Get custom shades patch and crew chief!

Mostly assetto corsa, but recently got AMS2 and wow, it’s awesome !! Some LFS for fun, some iracing (i hate their sub model though since I can’t always play every month it’s a waste for me )

I still love rbr! The feel is so good.

It looks cute but art of rally did this vibe better imo. Also no in car or wheel support that I saw…

Wonderful, hopefully I can get this working!