A bunch of nerds on lemmy suggested it and I haven’t found any problems with it that make me want to go for another. I use Fedora KDE

Baldurs Gate 3

I’ve only tried KDE and i’m pretty happy with it. I dunno why I’d want a creepy foot gnome on my computer, and I don’t really know of any others by name yet so… I’mma pick KDE

Solved! I had to swing by a hardware store for some screwdrivers and bemoaned a few secret screws keeping the thing from opening, but I located the keyboard ribbon and removed it. All is well! I even gave the fan a little cleaning, which was long overdue eheh. Thanks folks!

Huh, unplugging the keyboard. I didn’t think of that. I might just see how easy that is to do later tonight.

!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

this pretty much… i think. I still don’t fully grasp unix surrealism

Thanks for the input ya nerds. Much love from the geek side of lemmy. I’ll be taking the advice of poking around with multiple distros before committing to one, because it sounds a whole lot less painful than I was imagining.

Quick question though, what the hell is a gnome? Or a KDE for that matter?

good insight, thanks

to those suggesting mint, any particular reasons to choose between Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce versions?

Still shopping around, so nothing’s set in stone. I’m not much of a hardware guy either, so the best I could tell you is just that I’m looking for something a step or two above ‘bare minimum’ for 2025. An SSD, fair bit of ram, ports for external storage so I can actually boot with another OS, maybe enough guts to run skyrim modded to the gills. Somewhere in that ballpark.

this is ok. minetest was an awful name.

for those of you without the patience to read a blogpost, the new name’s actually a bit of wordplay.

“Luanti” is a wordplay on the Finnish word luonti (“creation”) and the programming language Minetest Luanti employs for games and mods, Lua. The goal was to avoid yet another plain English word (good luck finding something unique…) and highlight the core principles of the project. The fusion of celeron55’s Finnish nationality and the platform’s focus on content creation resulted in the birth of “Luanti”.

General Ludd had some good points tho…