Not much. Mint generally works very well. It’s not bleeding-edge fresh and is based on Ubuntu. I don’t think it would cause you to be unable to do any of your use cases any more than any other Linux distro - like the kernel level anti-cheat thing for games, or Adobe Creative Suite products. Doesn’t matter which distro you run, those things ain’t gonna work.

I was the same as many others here, started my journey on Mint. I eventually moved to Fedora because I like KDE and wanted quicker package updates and stuff.

I kinda want one of those, they’re cute. No bluetooth support though, and only supports up to 256GB on the MicroSD slot. Fine if you just have MP3s but you’ll eat that up pretty quick with FLAC.

*EA made good games. Not so much nowadays. Also, really it was Bioware that made these games, EA is the publisher that later bought them out after Mass Effect 1 had completed development.

I only really have two pain points, one of which isn’t the fault of linux, and the other that probably is.

First: Adobe shit. I depend on Adobe Lightroom. This is entirely on Adobe. I know about the alternatives, but apparently I suck and can’t get good at them. I keep a Mac laptop around just to use this application. I tried screwing around with Wine and VMs to get it working, but it’s pretty useless without GPU acceleration, and so far the only way to get that in a VM is to have a second dedicated GPU just for the VM. Plus, that still requires keeping a Windows installation around.

Second: Wake from sleep. Just doesn’t work properly on my desktop PC running Fedora 43 with KDE. AMD CPU and GPU, etc. The computer does wake up but the display never does, and nothing short of a hard power cycle seems to make it recover. Works just fine on my Thinkpad which is running the same environment, also all AMD but with just whatever AMD integrated graphics came with the CPU in that case.

Having chatted with some other people experiencing the same thing with similar hardware setups and F43 with KDE it apparently doesn’t manifest if using GNOME, just KDE. For now I just have the desktop set to turn off the display when idle but to not put the machine to sleep. I am a KDE enjoyer, GNOME does not float my boat.

Lightroom for me, although it is more than just the installer that breaks it.

Neither would I. They can deduct it from the running tab of money vending machines have stolen from me over the years, the pricks.

100%

Rumor has it their garbage AI thinks they are hacking techniques.

Dude, you should review everything. 10/10.

This looks to me like a flyer for a class at the local library

Because of the continual enshittification of Windows 11 with each major update.

Canceled my subscription. Fuck you, Microsoft.

It still is, if you’re a piece of rail freight.

I have a very similar Brother - HL-L2370DW. Just works with any Linux distro I’ve tried out of the box. Has wifi, USB, and ethernet, black and white laser, duplex printing. No copier functionality. Third party toner cartridges are readily available.

Thanks, Hollywood!

The Blue Brother

The only AI tool I’ve found actually useful and reliable is AI denoise for photo editing.

Turn based RPGs. I played through Persona 3, 4, and 5 on an elliptical machine in the past few months, and am now on Metaphor Refantazio. Atlus games seem perfect for this, heh. Not your pre-2005 style, but there’s plenty of old RPGs out there.

I also played through most of the Yakuzas on the elliptical too, although on easy difficulty since they didn’t become turn based until very recently.

Seems insane to run multiple machines for something like this. I wonder if maybe it is virtualized under the hood and one VM went kaput or something?

Amazon Alexa has followed the same trajectory.