arch is interesting to me and i’m not too worried about the install, the rolling releases and stability of the system are what i think would snag me in using it. though the minute regular updates are probably more an issue for people who delve into the system more to get the absolute most out of it. it’ll be more stable, works out of the box-type distros for me while i get a grasp of things like the file system and using the terminal. but i do think the setups people post of their riced out installs look pretty cool ngl

i havent really looked into that, been mostly researching debian based distros specifically ubuntu and it’s bunch since a lot of recommendations go to it. nobara looks interesting for the big gaming spin it has though i’m still iffy on being at home with linux for games, but from the outside looking in things like proton seem to be doing a lot of good in that space recently.

just works “almost” is pretty funny but i know what you mean. i wasn’t having much trouble with it testing it with a virtual machine. the nice thing is a lot of the applications i use on windows are already free software that im realizing are a lot of the go to’s for people running linux, so really a lot should “just work”

i’m about to take my first peek into linux on mint. i’m not completely put off learning some new things but being able to do that in a desktop that is familar makes everything a lot easier to pick up on. who knows, if it all goes smoothly maybe next week i’ll be running arch (i won’t)

no nazis is big, hope we can keep that up.

maybe i mean .ml. i was under the impression that .world and .ml were closely related but distinct instances, as opposed to kbin which is federated but not as closely related as lemmy instances. like i said, this is new to me so i’m still getting a handle on how everything exists and interacts.

i think the core of what i’m curious about is if there is an issue if a singular instance in the ‘threadiverse’ gets large enough and if that has negative implications for other federated instances. if users largely centralizing in this decentralized platform detracts from the goals of federation?

i think my concern comes from the idea that large instances could set the pace for how other instances operate. if admins for lemmy.world wanted to enact certain policies the fact that they have the largest userbase would encourage other instances to fall in line since they wouldn’t want to defederate from the largest instance.

i should also admit that i’m not completely aware of the process through which instances federate and defederate from each other. i assume it’s up to the discretion of the admins of each instance, and then once many begin to federate together the admins of each have their say on who can be included, with defederating occuring if there is no longer alignment between an instance and it’s federation. correct me if i’m wrong, but if this is correct, large instances like lemmy.world would hold an unequal share of bargaining power in these circumstances.

when i was a kid i had the option of playing on n64 with ocarina or a gamecube with wind waker. unfortunately ocarina didn’t stand a chance to a kid easily impressed with bright colors. funny how it caught flak for that design, but nintendo was effortlessly reaching its target audience.

i’m gonna chime in with wind waker. i haven’t played a good bit of the zelda games, especially the modern entries, but wind waker is still easily one of my favorite games of all time. absolutely amazing aesthetic, fun characters and story, with one of my favorite worlds to explore and navigate in any game. mileage may vary depending on how cool you think sailing is ⛵️. still has one of my favorite final boss encounters and endings in any game i’ve played.

yeah, it’s a bit of an uphill battle to create communities online with how centralized the internet has gotten, especially on a whole different platform than where most users congregate. it might be a reasonable concession to make.

though i’d hope new users can take up the task of generating content themselves, that’s what platforms like this are made for. best way to nurture a culture of posting and engaging is to post and engage, which there should be enough users for at this point i think. it’s a bit idealistic though, not an easy issue.

i don’t have a big stake since this is a community i don’t really take part in, but i will say when i see those bot posts that are just grabbing reddit posts and tossing them here i don’t really engage with them.

i feel compelled to comment on posts that were made with intention by a user that will actually see my input. it might add content but to me it seems like it would kind of be filler, less substantial than an actual poster making a thread.

i read The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins not long ago. it’s a modern fantasy story about a group of orphans raised into adulthood by who is for all intents and purposes, god. content warning for things like extreme violence and gore, sexual assault and child torture, i won’t get into those details but these things are present in the story.

the children are taught by him in this mystical library, isolated from the rest of the world, with each one learning a different discipline in a hyperfixated and certainly unhealthy manner. for example one is taught every aspect of war and combat at the expense of anything else. learning everything in all of the universe and reality in that field to the point where he can telepathically understand what an opponent intends to do next. this doesn’t really result in very well rounded individuals. so pretty much every character is extremely bizzare.

the best way i can think to describe the story would be if the kinds of characters from ancient myths were real, existed in our modern day, and were absolutely not mentally sound. the story is really just completely weird and has no interest in pretending anything should be normal. when confronted with breaking into a house, of course the solution is to recruit a plumber and a pair of lions. our friends at the library don’t know what a telephone is but if you give them the rundown we can have the president of the united states taking orders over the phone in the next 5 minutes.

i do recommend it, despite its oddness there is still an interesting and honestly kind of touching narrative on trauma and acceptance that i think is well told.

i was on reddit for 10 years. i’ve just started taking up lemmy and the ‘fediverse’. hoping this can at least partially supplant the things i use reddit for. it’s going to take time to build up the userbase/collective information reddit has built up, so i am going to try and be more active on this platform than i’d otherwise be to start building on this platform. my hope is federated content sharing can be an endpoint that will be sturdier against the kind of market and social fluctuations that are ruining reddit. ‘fediverse’ is a dumb name tho, not crazy about that.