They were just pointing out that saying “my PC my rules” is pretty funny when you advocate for closed source software on it. Your PC their rules.

Obviously it was tongue in cheek so chill.

Using calibre to just upload books directly.

I’ll check out KoReader. Never heard of it.

Ya good point.

Seems like I’m doing it backwards lol

Giving money to Amazon for the hardware and then stealing from the authors.

I should do some more research before buying my next ebook reader.

I bought a Kindle so I can pirate all my books. Am I resisting?

Good point. Way less staff to keep this service running as long as growth is not a priority like it is with most companies.

I don’t want it to have ads either but bandwidth is not free and someone somewhere is paying for it.

Is the donations don’t cover the bills there are few options.

Could easily see certain subreddits being like OF or Patreon. Pay for access to content. Pretty tried and true business model and it will probably work well enough to keep it around.

Even YouTube has “memberships” to channels now where you get bonus content and stuff.

The people that are interested will pay and those that aren’t won’t.

Yes I’m also capable of reading the wiki but it did nothing to help me.

My point stands that it’s not “ready” for the average person. This is a Linux community of course people here know how to troubleshoot and get shit working.

Yea like I said I’m not a total noob. I have built my own Linux From Scratch distro which is something I think most of the users on here would struggle with. All I’m saying is that it’s not a totally smooth and hiccup free experience for normal people. I’m a grown man now and sometimes I just want shit to work cause I only have like an hour to game in the evening.

I will try Linux again for my daily driver once Win10 support is gone but I will likely try something other than Debian as others have suggested. Something more gaming centric.

I’m not a Linux noob, but I’ve been out of the scene for a few years.

Recently tried debian with KDE and Wayland on a modern PC with a 3060. Just a default install.

My mouse could barely track across the screen, it was very choppy and stuttered like crazy.

This was in the last 6 months. I got it fixed by switching to a different compositor, but I shouldn’t have had to do that. Even then I found YouTube to be super laggy.

It’s just not ready.