I'm a Pluralistic individual. I believe everyone has a reason to believe. But I think the way someone believes is very telling about that person's personal values.

Ergo, I don't care what a person's religious beliefs are, I care what that person's values are. I believe that is a much more honest approach that doesn't needlessly alienate anyone or stoke petty, tribalistic behavior.

You write like you just came here to be angry at people who've made a personal decision to leave Windows like it affects you, and that's gonna help neither you nor us.

At no point in my comment did I say you "write a single command." I'm saying basic, every day things that I do are point and click. I want a new program? I open my distro's app store, which is a GUI, and click download on the app I want. I want to play a game I have? I click play on Steam or Lutris. You know. With a mouse. No typing involved, my guy.

It also sounds to me like you've run into some real fucking assholes when you needed help. And unfortunately, they're out there. But that isn't all of us. I hope one day your negative first impression of our community changes, but it never will if you keep engaging in bad faith like this. So please stop.

I don't mean superficially. Linux Mint was very similar in feel to the Windows 7 days. Just thinking about it makes me nostalgic.

I mean in the way that sometimes you gotta run something in WINE, or trying to mod a game only to run into how different the file structure is. Back end things that make you go "Oh, this really isn't Windows."

And it's not. But that's okay. It doesn't need to be. It shouldn't be. We moved to Linux before it's not Windows. It's a little frustrating at first, but taking the time to learn how it works was worth it. I've never looked back.

I swapped away from Windows about a year and a half ago. The last straw was them sticking ads in the OS. And from everything I've heard, they continue to boil the frog; they continue to add more and more telemetry and unasked for "features" and bloat the system more and more and more with every update. Even my own parents are growing tired of Windows; it's a clunky, poorly optimized operating system that's positively frustrating to use.

I will concede that not everything that runs on Windows will run on Linux. It's true. But I severely disagree that Windows is "easier to use." Of course, when you grow up on Windows, Linux has a learning curve. It's different OS. But once I got past that? Nah, Linux is far easier and more intuitive in most cases.

Installing programs? Open your software manager and click a button.

Playing video games? Open Steam or Lutris and click a button. Occasionally you might need to tweak things, but you have to do the same on Windows sometimes, especially for older games!

I could go on but those are the biggest two examples that come to mind immediately.

As to another point you made, I personally gave up almost nothing. Destiny 2 and League of Legends don't work, but I quit league before fgsh added Vanguard and neither of these games want me. That isn't my fault, and it isn't a short coming in Linux's fault, it's the devs being assholes.

In spite of this, I do acknowledge some people would have to give up more than me, and for some people that's too much, and that's valid! I hope one day they truly get a choice.

I kinda recently came to the conclusion that I'm Therian. I'm still a bit unsure if that term is syonymous with Otherkin or not, but it's at least adjacent.

As cool as it would be to be a fox, I don't think I'd wanna give up my current lifestyle for it. So like, if I could be an anthro fox, absolutely! But, I'm not sweating too much about it. I'm (mostly) at peace with my human body.

I've been getting back into Guild Wars 2 lately! Nobara Linux has made the game run the smoothest it's even been, and ReShade has it looking even better.

The answer is: no. It doesn't "trigger" me. You're not important enough to me to "trigger" me. I just think you're a piece of shit.

That's definitely not for me. I'm somewhere between a basic and an advanced user. I'm not afraid to do things that might break my OS, but, I also like my pretty desktop environment lol.

Currently using Bazzite with KDE plasma, but I'm very excited to see how Cosmic comes out.

But honestly, that's what I love about Linux! Like Mutahar said, there's definitely elitism, but I've personally never run into it. The community has grown and matured. There's so many distros, it can be confusing at first, but that also means there's something for everyone! What attracts me is the ability to customize however I want, but what attracts others is unbridled efficiency. And me getting my more laid back, casual experience doesn't mean that others can't have the most bare bones, lightweight Distro that's more efficient than my 2 brain cells can handle.

It's like I said the first day I started using Mint: "Linux really puts the P back in PC."

Funny to me that this comes out just a month after my one year anniversary of having ditched Windows. Mint is what got me into Linux, even though I quickly out-grew it. Definitely gonna save this and send it to anyone that needs a good, in depth explanation of how to get into Linux and a demonstration of how easy it is.

To be fair, they're nothing if not consistent in this view, because they think straight relationships are just about sex as well:

Why do you think they always seperate boys and girls? They think they're gonna fuck if they're left alone unsupervised.

What is the purpose of marriage to them? To have children. Which is just a really elaborate breeding kink. It's about sex.

Why do you think the concept of a man and a woman just being friends is so damn alien to them? Because it's all. About. Sex. They can't fathome the notion that two people of the opposite sex won't tear off their clothes and fuck like animals the moment they're alone in a room together.

Bigots are the most sex-obsessed people on this planet! And it shows in their actions and their rhetoric.

Terraria. Hands down. No other game I've ever played has had the same sheer amount of value for $10 fucking dollars.

A honorable mention would be Stellaris and good ol' Skyrim. But their larger price tag definitely means that Terraria is greater value.

Now we just need to add some robot animals and dinosaurs to complete it!

That aside, H:ZD is a beautiful game, so it's 100% a good thing IMO that it resembles it. You did a fantastic job!

That's exactly what I was thinking!

This has some serious Horizon: Zero Dawn vibes.

My own therapist recommended a book that was already very helpful less than a chapter in called "Unmasking Autism." It may help you with learning more about what it means to be autistic.

I feel that man! It takes a long time to get through it. If you're able, therapy is a huge help with it, but otherwise it will sort itself out. Just take your time to process it all and learn to accept yourself! Sharing with those closest to you and getting their acceptance is also an amazing and helpful experience!

The hardest part about figuring out you're autistic is just the fact that so many of the symptoms are things that are perfectly normal, but you experience it to either an abnormally high or low degree. And you really only have your own experiences to go off of, so when you find out that one of your experiences is a symptom of autism, it's like "wait, you mean to tell me that's not normal?"

And that first discovery starts down the rabbit hole and before you know it, your entire life is flipped upside down and you spend months re-evaluation your entire life and putting the pieces together.

Various story spoilers:

!Palawa Joko literally tried to murder a teenage girl (Taimi) by turning her own golem against her, you fought clones of Zoja in HoT as they begged you to kill them, you listen to survivors in Bjora Marches scream in fear (and possible agony) as the Boneskinner drags them away to gods know where, and you watch Aurene die in her own vision in barbaric fashion again and again and again before it actually happens. !<

Tl;Dr Tyria is a dark fucking place at times and they're not always afraid to show it. The only difference in tone between GW2 and ER is that ER is a lot more graphic and visually shocking.

I think a good amount of it is also "the straw that broke the camel's back." Twitter users have been taking abuse after abuse. Like many others have stated, they use Twitter to follow specific people. If those people aren't on other platforms, then they're going to stay. But after a certain point, the cost becomes too high. Now the platform is rebranded and now it looks as alien as it's begun to feel. I think that's why so many are once again leaving. Before they could just ignore everything else going on and try to move on with their day. Not there's a big, fat X reminding them of how much they're starting to/already hate the platform now.

Didn't know that my autism made me racist too. Damn.