| 3 Feb 2024 |
 @Entity325:matrix.org | I appreciate the help, though. | 16:12:30 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | Ah, this is Mesa Matrix. I got it confused with Mesa 3D. The favicons on the webpages were the same. | 16:13:45 |
 DodoGTA | In reply to @Entity325:matrix.org
oh, did I get the wrong channel? I might have confused this one with something else. I primarily use Discord but there's a relevant server with a Matrix bridge that we can chat in (or we can just use DMs) | 16:14:57 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | I'm cool with whatever. I do have Discord. | 16:15:24 |
| DodoGTA | In reply to @Entity325:matrix.org
I'm cool with whatever. I do have Discord. I'll send the server invite in DMs | 16:16:23 |
 Creak | I would have guessed the RX 7800 would work out-of-the-box... | 16:17:02 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | One would have thought, yeah. | 16:17:38 |
| Creak | I have a RX 6700 XT and I didn't have to do anything, it just worked | 16:17:41 |
| Creak | Is the 7800 very recent? | 16:17:54 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | It's the most recent silicon AMD has released. It's a downgrade from the 7900 they launched last year. | 16:18:19 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | cheaper version, I mean. | 16:18:24 |
| Creak | ah ok, I see, yeah that might be why | 16:18:41 |
| Creak | Well... you might not like the solution I'll propose, but what about Fedora? (it has more modern kernels and drivers) | 16:19:29 |
| Creak | there's a Fedora Cinnamon and a Fedora Mate if you want to keep the Mint look and feel: https://fedoraproject.org/spins/ | 16:20:24 |
| Creak | (I think Mint is using Cinnamon, right?) | 16:20:48 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | Mint uses Cinnamon by default, but I prefer the MATE desktop environment because it's subtly more Windows-like. | 16:22:27 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | Didn't Fedora have some really nasty scandal a couple of months ago? | 16:22:38 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | or was that Redhat? | 16:23:54 |
| Creak | I wouldn't call them scandals, personally.
Let's say that there are people without the same opinions as Fedora, and they are vocal. | 16:24:04 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | I get them confused because Fedora's icon is also a red hat. | 16:24:07 |
| Creak | I think it's more Red Hat, that's been bought by IBM | 16:24:25 |
| Creak | and since Fedora is the pet project of Red Hat, it got swallowed in the bad press | 16:24:52 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | yeah, that'd do it. | 16:25:05 |
| Creak | I honestly don't really care about what IBM might do to Red Hat which might happen to Cent OS which could potentially have an impact to the OSS community... it's a lot of ideological wishful thinking at this point IMO.
It something goes south, I'll distro hop and that's pretty much it 😅 | 16:26:35 |
| Creak | * I honestly don't really care about what IBM might do to Red Hat which might happen to Cent OS which could potentially have an impact to the OSS community... it's a lot of ideological wishful thinking at this point IMO.
If something goes south, I'll distro hop and that's pretty much it 😅 | 16:26:52 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | I do love that about Linux. Switched from Windows 8.1 for my home computer a year ago because of support sunset. | 16:27:57 |
| Creak | Like, I think that what Elon Musk is doing with X/Twitter is much more harmful and concrete for instance. | 16:28:21 |
| @Entity325:matrix.org | there's a lot of DRM in Windows that makes it so you can't do things, and you just take that for granted. Then you switch to Linux and say "Wait, why can't I just..." | 16:28:27 |
| Creak | indeed | 16:28:47 |
| Creak | What worries me most about Windows are the integrated trackers. There are hundreds of them in Windows 11, it's ludicrous. | 16:29:26 |
