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I'd definitely love to move away from Discord, but unfortunately I've not been able to get my friends to move to anything else. Additionally, I have to use Discord for work (yes, it's strange - definitely wouldn't have been my decision) so I'd still be stuck using it even if my friends went over to something else.

Another vote for shitty Discord from me. If there was any app I could just magically give a speed boost to, it's that.

Some days it annoys me enough where I just run it through Firefox/Web, especially on Linux where it's really janky.

Hopefully one day we'll see something like Element X for desktop. Right now the only way to run it on PC is through the iOS compatibility thing that some MacBooks have, AFAIK.

True, that's a fair point, one which I forgot about!

Yes, but a lot of devices don't support getting root access, or come with caveats from doing so (I remember at least on Sony devices in the past, doing so permanently erased the proprietary camera blobs which resulted in forever low quality pictures).

That being said, you can disable system apps in Android (with exceptions, can't disable SystemUI obviously) which is about as good as deleting them. Since they're on the system partition which is separate from the user data partition, it doesn't actually grant you any usable free space anyways AFAIK.

For me, it's been Last Epoch which is an ARPG. It's been doing a fantastic job of scratching the itch that Diablo 4 just failed to do.

I finally made it past the campaign and am in the endgame (as far as I understand), and I've had a good time trying to come up and play with various builds on my Runemaster character!

Also, American Truck Simulator for when I just want to turn my brain off and relax.

Yeah worst come to worse, it just "doesn't work" - but its not like it would be damaged just because drivers/firmware aren't installed. I would bet most people don't even install the drivers right away in Windows either, they just plug it in and see if it works - and then if it doesn't work they may do some further digging to why (leading them to the drivers/firmware that is potentially needed).

I'm assuming this dock just has ports for video output, USB, etc on it? I'd expect most ports to work, with the only potential one not working out-of-the-box being video depending on how Dell implements it. My only experience with docking stations is an old Star...something dock, and that worked in Linux with no issue, I think at the time I had to install a DisplayLink driver since that was the video output tech that it used to send video out through USB (and even then, older models already had a built-in kernel driver, I just had a much newer one). These days with the prevalence of things like Thunderbolt/USB-C I wouldn't be surprised if everything works out of box just fine.

I did do some quick research on dell docking stations in general, the only one that needed any manual intervention was their TB16 docking station. Apparently that one does require some firmware to be installed for a few components of the laptop that is required. Did you ever run Windows on this laptop? If so (or if the laptop itself is just relatively new), that firmware should've already been installed long ago via Windows Update as this information was from about 5 years ago.

Either way, I'd say just try it and see if it works - if it does, then you'll be able to skip the hassle of trying to get Windows installed (either via a live environment, or via a dual boot)!

Wine may unfortunately not work for this, as trying to install drivers and firmware through Wine isn't really a thing AFAIK - because it doesn't have the same level of hardware access. Not to mention, even if you did get drivers installed, it would probably only work within applications that are also installed into that Wine prefix (some people do this for say, peripherals like mice & keyboard that have accompanying software such as iCue for specific games).

Out of curiosity, have you tried the dock even without installing these components? I'm not super familiar with Dell's docks, but I know that others tend to "just work" due to already having drivers baked into the kernel.

For the firmware side of things, I've heard there are various projects that can create a Windows Live USB for you, which you could use to run the firmware installer theoretically.

It is also dependent on how they've installed Prism, if through the Flatpak it bundles its own Java versions, Java 8 is included and can just be selected in the settings specifically for that instance

For me, the macOS way of scrolling is actually the "reverse" method. On my PC with a mouse, I scroll the wheel down and the text goes down. On mobile/trackpad though, I do get what you mean about it being a learned behavior. On one hand (ha), when you drag upwards the content is going upwards as well, even though you're technically just going down the list.

I like the way that the GNOME desktop settings explains it, personally. They still use the term "natural" for the mobile way of doing it, but use "Traditional" for the standard desktop PC/mouse way of doing it - but even better, they differentiate between the "view" and the "content". Perhaps that's the picture you should use in your post as I think it does a better job of explaining it (as if you first used PC, then the "reverse" method is natural, and vice versa if you grew up using mobile first).

Oh thank gosh! Will certainly be happy to see that.

Now if only I could find a way to fix the weird rendering issue that happens with Electron apps... and by a similar nature, screen sharing in Discord (on a whole screen-basis, rather than just only XWayland apps). Couldn't get that to work even with xwaylandvideobridge. But, those aren't KDE specific issues.

I'm looking forward to the day I get to eventually just move off of Nvidia hardware.

Aww man, you're telling me I'm just a figment of someone's imagination?! ☹️