I just set it up this week, I was just settling with nextcloud memories before. Night and day difference.

A few pain points in the process but overall was pretty easy to set up and even add 2FA (though I can’t say authelia was easy to set up to do so), and once it’s off the ground it’s super smooth

I set up a dual boot over the winter, I’ve gone back to windows maybe 3 times at most.

I’ll still keep it around in case I ever decide to dabble in games that use rootkit anticheat (though since quitting destiny 2 I don’t see that happening lmao) and for other very occasional utility, but I’m definitely thinking of shrinking that partition even further

Microsoft, and by extension Bethesda, is currently a big target of the BDS boycotts as well. Hard pass on this one for the time being.

Nah they’ll just jump ship to the next one

I’ve always sworn by Arch builds. Built one up from scratch back in college ten years ago, and this past winter I decided I wanted to try a linux box again. After a bit of distro hopping I settled on CachyOS, but Endeavor caught my eye too.

Shit breaks, but fixing it is a learning experience. Small price to pay in exchange for the customization it offers.

Not even, pirating it still keeps the name in relevance.

I just got it set up yesterday and it’s so good

Replying to save this for later. I’m about to start on my own selfhosting project next week so I’ll definitely add this to my list

Fair, I stand corrected lmao

The last time I tried a linux system for a daily driver was over 10 years ago. At the time everything felt rough, unstable, unsupported, and gaming in particular was nonexistent.

Set up a CachyOS dual boot back in February, think I booted up Windows 3 times at most since then (and have since sorted out the issues that I had to do that for in the first place).

I still can’t seriously recommend the switch to less tech savvy folks (try putting grandma on Mint and see what happens lmao), but we’re definitely finally getting there after all these years.

I knew it was over as soon as they said the tech demo is a paid title

at least someone’s actually standing up for themselves and their people, and not just rolling over for the US

Nintendo’s really making it easier and easier to not buy the $500 Metroid Prime mouse control box.

The trump admins have both been a shitshow but realistically they’re just taking the problems this country has always had and is blasting them on full display, and now people are finally starting to realize this country has ALWAYS been a capitalist shithole.

Three big issues.

Usability: A lot of these alternative platforms are incredibly confusing for people who aren’t tech-savvy. You can’t expect most folks to really understand the idea of Lemmy instances for example. Bsky kind of hit the sweetspot of being super easy to use, offers not just familiar features but better features than its competitor (blocklists), while also being an open protocol. Though they’re FAR from perfect (their team is extremely questionable to say the least), and it doesn’t seem like the protocol itself is gaining traction.

Population: This is a self-defeating prophecy. We saw it with twitter to bluesky, and we’re JUST starting to see it with reddit to lemmy. The vast majority of people just won’t shift to platforms where the people they want to interact with aren’t present. They won’t move until they feel like they absolutely have to. People put off moving from the Nazi bar formerly known as twitter for literally a year - the site’s been nothing but a cesspool for ages now, but the vast majority of users couldn’t be bothered to moved to an alternative site until bsky got lucky. Hell, even now, so many people still stick to it because they’re afraid of losing engagement or some bullshit.

Algorithms: I HATE algorithmic feed bullshit, give me chronological 100% of the time, but frankly the vast majority of people have been spoonfed algorithmic feeds for at least a decade now. Going back to bluesky as an example (since it’s probably the most successful example of an alternative platform at the moment), it prioritizes the chronological feed, sure, but I’m actually amazed (and appalled) at how many people apparently only use the Discover tab. It’s a necessary evil until we can wean the general populace off of their instant gratification and endless scrolls.

Platforms and protocols should be tools first and foremost, sure, but communities should never be tolerant of fascists and nazis. Any viable platform should have, at the absolute bare minimum, enforced rules against hate speech, which is something that’s not remotely enforced on any big platform today.

Letting the right run rampant is why social media is in the state its in today, and a shift to open platforms is our chance to take these spaces back and show the right that they’re not welcome in society as a whole.

Dual boot is the way for right now. Proton is huge, but there are still a good number of games with compatibility issues or rootkit anticheats. Personally I advise steering clear of the latter, but that’s neither here nor there.

I use CachyOS as my daily driver and booted up the Windows partition maybe 3 times since setting this up back in February (and most of those times were just to play REPO because Elgato hardware with dual input and output has serious issues with Linux, but I’ve sorted that out now with a workaround)

Let’s add a 4th person in there, someone who thinks they’re helping by doing nothing but yelling that the fire isn’t allowed to burn things

This is absolutely one of the reasons they’re pushing this garbage so hard. It’s VERY easy to manipulate as a propaganda tool.

You can already see that most of these tools lean right because their userbase does - leftists don’t touch this garbage because of numerous ethical concerns as-is. Add more astroturfing on top of that, and now it’s just a straight up automated fascist mouthpiece.

I’m just using Nextcloud’s Memories app. I prefer to keep my photo backups in the same place as everything else in my cloud storage anyway, so it works nicely