Number 15 will surprise you! Fuck outta here with that title

The nightmare in question is windows. My point was that since their client isn’t distributed by a mechanism with automatic updates, they could at least have made it work, but no.

I have checked on every new update because their fuckass client apparently can’t update itself in big 2025 and instead just opens your browser to the download url because that’ll convince people that Linux is great.

Discord is distributed as a .Deb if you don’t use flatpak because they can’t be bothered to set up a repo.

The very useful thing about local file install is that unlike dpkg, apt will install dependencies automatically

My ranked teammate’s reading comprehension

He certainly will have an interesting July 2028.

The other day I read a post by someone who was wondering, and yes, the IC in a standard usb-c cable is (marginally) more powerful than the computers we used to go to the moon.

1. yes you do. A good distro I recommend newbies is Linux Mint, because it’s visually similar to windows. Another great option for beginners is Pop!OS, because the developers take more care to automate things that you might encounter when first starting to use Linux. Overall, it doesn’t really matter that much what distribution you choose in terms of what software is available, it all comes down to design choices that change how hard things are to do (but reward you with more customization, of course)

2. you will not be able to play some games that have an anticheat that forbids linux. The main culprit is EasyAntiCheat (while it does support linux, enabling that support is a choice by the game’s developer). The main games I have noticed can’t work are Fortnite (EAC), Hunt: showdown (EAC), league of legends & Valorant (Vanguard), R6 Siege (EAC) and PUBG (EAC). You can use protondb to learn what games in your steam library are known to simply not work.

Don’t expect games that you own on the windows store to work at all (this includes Xbox game pass). Most of them are available on steam, but that requires buying them again.

Most of the other stuff works, generally. Valve’s Proton supports a very large part of most games today, and unless the game you want to launch is very old or specifically doesn’t want you to use Linux, chances are the game will work first try, especially indies. Protondb is a great help to see what parameters one needs to use to make it work if it doesn’t first try. Make sure to “enable proton compatibility for all games” in steam’s main options, otherwise it won’t let you download game.

For tools that aren’t on steam but target steam games (for example mod managers), you should use protontricks (it’s most likely in your distro’s package manager, you don’t need to download it from GitHub) to launch the tool’s exe inside of the proton context of that game (steam maintains a separate pseudo-windows install (a “wine prefix”) for each game that uses proton). From there, the tool will behave as if you launched it on windows.

For tools that stand alone, you can add them to steam as a non-steam game and in it’s properties, force it to use proton, which allows you to launch e.g. cracked games. I also recommend using Bottles to manage your third-party launchers.

3. most likely you’ll be fine. You’re unlikely to encounter any issues that haven’t been encountered by anyone before, so don’t hesitate to Google and to ask for help on various forums. You don’t need to know how to program to use Linux, though it does unlock some pretty nice things (it also does on windows for that matter)

4. windows 10 LTSC will continue being available for a few years. If you need a windows partition (imo you only do need it if you want to play games that have restrictive anticheat), I suggest installing it on a separate disk altogether, because windows tends to not play nice with other partitions on the same disk, and will create headaches you could have avoided.

5. welcome! I hope you’ll enjoy your time away from ads in the start menu.

The error is that postscript is an abortion of a language and that we should have nuked adobe from orbit in 1995.

He better remember VOIP is considerably easier now than in 2012, and that people ditched Skype real fast back then.

Also, if someone claims asylum, international law explicitly forbids sending them back to their country (not that international law has any bearing whatsoever on this but y’know, add a layer on top)

I’d actually like to chill there for some reason

Ceo of company is a capitalist pig who doesn’t mind associating with fascists, womp womp

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

I mean, signing a change.org petition has resulted in absolutely nothing, ever, so it’s not like your vote is exactly vital here

The courts can’t help you, even if they wanted (they don’t)

The very same prison that magically doubled in capacity to recieve these victims. Strange how that works.

Jokes on you I realized I was like my dad when it was clear I was emotionally unavailable

On est d’accord que fondamentalement on retombe exactement dans le meme piège que quand c’est BP qui a inventé l’empreinte carbone dans le but exclusif de rejeter la faute sur le consommateur pour pas se remettre en question?

Who fucking cares what the reddit mod of /r/macos thinks man…

I couldn’t possibly care less about what a megacorp tries telling me what I may or may not do with information that can be copied perfectly and infinitely at 0 cost.