After a lot of jumping around I settled for Plasma, with just use the default dark theme plus a few minor tweaks and that’s it. It’s super easy to use and it runs pretty smoothly now unlike 5+ years ago. I was into the whole tiling wm rabbithole for a while but got bored of it and I mostly just want everything fullscreen so I wasn’t even making use of the tiling.

To be fair I have used pure Arch before but EOS gets me everything I like about Arch just easier

Endeavor here, checks out

Also Luke Smith hasn’t uploaded in years now

Which he needs all the time and people are giving it to him. I’m so fucking done with seeing his face several times a day, maybe I should be touching grass instead

That’s what I’m thinking too but then remember my first corporate job where the application depended on an exact subversion of Java 8, no earlier and no later. This was in 2021. Knowing that company I’d bet they’re still rocking the same setup.

The funniest thing is it doesn’t even have to be this way with Windows. I’ve unfortunately had to go back to dual booting lately but I’m using Win 10 LTSC and I have to say I’m surprised how tolerable it is. I’d still rather not use it but eeh it’s fine.

What about Steam? Linux gaming would be a whole lot worse off without Proton

Cool, thanks!

that thing that renames stuff to non clickbait

Sounds like something I’d use, what is it called?

Hm this sounds very interesting, it would be pretty convenient, I’ll look into it

NTFS does not count

Aren’t NTFS and exFAT pretty much the only option?

Fair point, xkcd was right https://xkcd.com/2347/

Does it not? I’ve seen posts about grub being borked after Windows updates, or was that only on legacy BIOS systems?

I exhausted the WINE route, some games I want to play don’t work with Proton no matter how much you tweak (the first time I’m running into this in a few years) as well as some additional software. There’s also a driver I need to run that’s technically available on Linux but it’s a reverse engineered solution developed by one guy so who knows if it’s gonna keep working.

I should have, gonna edit the post

Will it maybe work if I just unplug my Linux drive during the Win install?

Good thinking, I’ll definitely look into that. One caveat is I’m going to need a driver that’s also Win-only so I’ll have to see if that works in a VM.

Why does this sound AI generated

Exact experience I’ve had, in every workplace I’ve been Windows users have been a non-stop liability and required support for workarounds and hacks. Seeing their workflow through screenshare was kind of a culture shock.