I remember this post! I ended up buying the game afterward, and although I don’t have a huge number of hours on it, I did find it pretty good.

I use PopOS because I have a System76 laptop. It runs well on my hardware. I’m allowed to complain about things without some shit telling me to just “use another distro”. If I wanted to run another distro I’d run another distro. Lordy…

I originally responded to you with a suggestion that I hoped would be helpful, not knowing what your experience level or reason for using the distro was. You responded by being rude and insulting. I hope you have a good day!

Because you just complained about them not releasing updates? Work on the underlying distribution is most likely going to be slow for a while longer since they’re continuing to work on Cosmic. I’m sure you have your reasons for doing it this way, but you’re already using a different DE than Pop comes with. Why not put your DE of choice on another distribution where you can get the normal system updates you want?

After all the time they’ve spent on Cosmic, I doubt they’re going to stop using it now. If you dislike it that much, you might be better off looking for another distro that offers a different DE.

It does feel like they lost some momentum by doing that. I don’t have numbers of course, but it seemed like everybody was talking about it around the time 22.04 came out. Now I don’t hear nearly as much. Hopefully the new release will regain some of that!

Exciting news! I now need to decide whether to try to upgrade from 22.04 or just wipe and start over with the beta.

I sometimes feel like I was the only kid that always tried to make sure my citizens were taken care of as well as I could!

American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 at the moment, finally with head tracking! It’s so much better, to the point that I would find it hard to go back.

I second the recommendation! I’ve sunk a lot of hours into the game, and the plugins add even more variety and replay value if you finish all the content that’s already there.

Finally somebody else decided to put trackpads on! My Deck is still more than capable at this point though, otherwise I might be tempted.

I’ve been waiting to see MI - Dead Reckoning until I can see it and Final Reckoning back to back for that exact reason! I’m hoping it’s a satisfying conclusion in case they actually stick to the statement that it’s the last Cruise led movie in the series.

Godzilla Minus One (2023) 9/10

• I finally got around to watching this one, and I quite enjoyed it! I prefer the movies where Godzilla is the antagonist and the only monster, so having a movie like that with memorable characters was a breathe of fresh air! The atmosphere of dread Godzilla evoked when on screen was very good, and that lingered even when they were gone. I really liked a lot of the characters, and although I don’t understand Japanese I thought the actors did a good job. I’m also a plane fan, so seeing a J7W portrayed in a movie was a treat as well! Other than a few minor nitpicks I enjoyed it a good bit, and I watched it for the second time the next day, which is something I rarely do.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) 6.5/10

• Star Wars as a franchise has never really clicked with me, although I did think the original movie was pretty good as a standalone. However, I did get hooked on the Andor series and really enjoyed it, so I watched this movie after finishing season 2. Due to watching it as a follow-up to a very good series I may have rated it a bit lower than I would have otherwise, so I may revisit it later.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 7.5/10

• This is a film I’ve seen several times, and I think it holds up pretty well. It does a good job of building the tension throughout, and the atmosphere was good as well.

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 7/10

• An interesting, although somewhat predictable, time loop story. I did feel like they overdid some parts of the loop just a little bit, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. If it would have surprised me a bit somewhere along the way I would have been happy, but it kept me entertained, which is the important part!

Sounds good! I don’t have a lot of experience with plain QEMU, so when you mentioned needing a second mouse I thought maybe it was a bit more complicated to do the passthrough.

The VM is what I’m doing, it works well for the rare times I need to adjust something. Piper works good for everything else. I just use Gnome Boxes for my VM though. It’s pretty easy to pass USB input into it temporarily.

Ubuntu was my first when I started poking around with it. Not sure which version, but it was during the Unity era. Pop!_OS was the one I started using when I switched full time. I’m still using it on my main computer, but I’m also using Fedora, Ubuntu, NixOS, and Mint on other devices because I like variety!

Very true! Being early adopters of something new like this is definitely fun, but it has it’s challenges!

Yeah, same! There’s a few others I’ve experimented with posting in, and gotten the same response. I would keep going, but I feel like people are also going to avoid the community if it’s just me talking to myself! So it’s tough to find a good balance.

That sounds fun too! I take some screenshots here and there too, there’s some really great landscapes.

Yeah, I’ve noticed that a lot unfortunately. I’ve got a community I moderate and try to post in when I have something to say, but there’s so many others and not enough time in the day!

Your ESO screenshots look good! It has been my go-to for a while now, it’s been fun. It’s a shame the community on Lemmy isn’t that busy, but I guess there’s not a lot of players here yet.

I’ve been starting to get a few posts (besides me) showing up in [email protected], so that’s good! I feel like there are a few too many communities (there are 7 general Star Trek communities, plus the more specific ones) for the amount of users currently here, but that’s how it goes! The community founder decided not to continue, so I decided to take over rather than let it disappear.