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Anyway, what I wanted to know is why do people self host?

For the warm and fuzzy feeling I get when I know all my documents, notes, calendars, contacts, passwords, movies/shows/music, videos, pictures and much more are stored safely in my basement and belong to me.

Nobody is training their AI on it, nobody is trying to use them for targetted ads, nobody is selling them. Just for me.

I don't use the Solution explorer but I also don't think it has one.

I usually kickstart a fresh application with a SLN and a few projects in the dotnet CLI and VSCodium picks up the launch project automatically when I tell it to create a launch.json. For existing applications, if the .vscode folder already exists it will just pick it up or I can also just ask it to create a launch.json.

That workflow has been ingrained into me since there were no real C# utilities for VS Code when it first launched, so not much changed for me when going to VSCodium.

Is there something missing in OmniSharp that prevents you from using VSCodium?

I do most of my C# development with the OmniSharp plugin in VSCodium on Linux.

Helldivers works fine on Linux, I play it from time to time.

Ms office windows apps are kind of great compared to libreoffice

Did you give OnlyOffice a try? https://flathub.org/apps/org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors

VS Code (i know it's still MS but I do C# .NET work and rider is too expensive, I don't want a subscription for an IDE)

VSCodium is a thing too if you want to un-Microsoft even further.

https://vscodium.com/

I use it for C# development on Linux and it works well.

getting a password manager

Bitwarden and Keepass are usually the go tos, depending on your use case.

then a new browser

Firefox or if you want to decouple from Mozilla as well, Librewolf works pretty well.

potentially a Google pay replacement

I'm not aware of any open Google Pay replacements other than taking a card with you.

As soon as you get rid of Google on your phone, you get rid of Google Pay.

You had me at "No Java".

• jellyfin didn't like when files used periods instead of spaces.

At least that can't be the problem since my entire library (except music) uses periods instead of spaces.

Then again, I spent quite some time organizing my library when I first started using Radarr and Sonarr. Ever since those manage my library I had no issues in Jellyfin.

Wow, I haven't used Plex in years but this reads like some Windows 11 installation guide with all those checkmarks and hidden options.

I thought the human operators only step in when the emergency button is pressed or when the car gets stuck?

Do they actually get driven by people in normal operation?

Hardware MIGHT be controlled by signal RGB

OpenRGB to the rescue: https://flathub.org/apps/org.openrgb.OpenRGB

controlling the pump in my AIO?

What do you need to control about your pump? I sure hope it works without OS support.

Or the sound levels on ny headset?

Move the volume slider up or down?

Or the DPI in my mouse?

Save them to the mouse as profile if it can or use Piper: https://flathub.org/apps/org.freedesktop.Piper

in AMD you lose access to certain features like AMFM2

FSR Frame Gen works just fine, not sure why you need fake frames in more games.

the FOSS solutions are not industry standard, so sure, I can learn to use LibreOffice, but that's worth absolutely nothing when you apply for a corporate job and they expect you to know how to use outlook as a bare minimum

There is also OnlyOffice and online MS Office. Not sure what you need to know about Outlook to open it and use your eyes to read the mails.

even the Google office suite is being adopted faster

Good news, it runs in a browser and works on every OS!

Ah, but if the software is available there's still a chance it doesn't work because it's missing a dependency or something and you have to ask people to use the terminal and... Sigh

I have not fixed dependencies issue on Linux since the early 2000s. Flatpaks are your friend https://flathub.org/ .

All in all, it's just behind in many ways, sure, for some people it's ok, and for laptops I'd think is mostly ok, great even.

I run it on my high end PC and I disagree. It's ahead in many ways.

• The graphics drivers are included and don't need any bloated software to work
• It has a banger OpenGL driver, which makes games like Minecraft run significantly faster.
• It has a very active community for game support for games where the developer does not care
• It translates older DirectX versions to Vulkan automatically, resulting in a performance uplift and more stability. People on Windows are installing DXVK just so older games work. Look up DXVK in the Steam forums.
• It downloads shader caches from Valve, preventing shader stutter in games that don't do it on their own

That list could go on for a while and it's only for gaming.

I haven't even gone into installation and not having to run ShutUp10 every time just to make the OS usable. Or how KDE is so much cleaner than Windows. Or how I don't have any ads in my start menu, don't have to force download Candy Crush on first boot, don't have pre-installed apps I can't remove, don't have to block my own OS in its firewall to get rid of telemetry, don't have to be told that I need to upgrade to Windows 11 constantly.

For work: Docker just works, complex networking setups are not a pain to setup, creating VMs is so much easier and has so many more features. VPN is so seamlessly setup. I can read almost every file system on the planet and use ROCm without jumping through hoops. Not to mention I don't get Copilot and Recall shoved down my throat.

Are there issues on Linux? Sure, lots of them. But if I find them I can tell somebody about it and don't have to deal with them for centuries.

I'm rooting for Steam OS to release to desktops because my living room PC is LITERALLY just for gaming, so that "could" work nicely.

SteamOS is just a modern Linux distro with Steam pre-installed and in autostart. If stuff works there, it works on regular Linux just as well.

Bazzite achieves the same thing right now: https://bazzite.gg/

Why not install Linux for them once Windows 10 is dead?

They are a prime candidate for a dead simple Linux distro with the "Web", "Mail" and "Documents" shortcuts on the desktop and nothing else. Can't get a virus, can't get scammed by fake Microsoft support and most won't even notice.

I have installed Fedora Kinoite for my mom and have had zero complaints.