Cethin

Yeah, anything Adobe won’t work, but there are plenty of PDF viewers that do. Also, yes, Steam, VLC, and Firefox all work perfectly fine on Linux. You shouldn’t have any issues.

Very few programs require anything complicated to get them working. A lot of productivity programs don’t support Linux though, like anything from Adobe, but there are usually alternatives, and if not can often be run in a VM. This probably doesn’t matter for you though, since you don’t seem to be particularly technical (not an insult). You probably know what programs you need that may not work. If there’s nothing like that then you’ll be fine.

Well I’d say the distro is the model/manufacturer, Linux is the motor/engine/software, and the DE is the HUD/dashboard/wheel/pedels.

Yes, but not mouse movements. It’ll be things like then clicking on videos and page views. That can be automated easily.

Sure, but I don’t know how they’d get that data. Every tap likely isn’t stored. Still, I could write a script to fake it, and build a device to to it. It’s evidence, but it isn’t particularly strong.

Here’s what I think, though IANAL:

Your phone being somewhere unusual is pretty good evidence you were there, especially if a crime happened there. What are the odds you gave your phone to someone to go commit a crime with it on them?

However, if you’re planning on committing a crime, it wouldn’t be that difficult to have it play videos while you’re out doing said crime. It’s evidence that something happened, but it isn’t very strong evidence that you didn’t commit the crime.

However, a criminal trial requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt. You don’t need to prove that you’re innocent. You just need to create enough doubt that you’re guilty. It’s the prosecution that has to prove that you’re guilty.

I somewhat get it. I used Mint ages ago on a laptop I had. It was fine. Two years ago I decided to see if I could use Linux full time in my desktop, and I installed Ubuntu. It was fine. Windows decided to fuck things up and I never fully recovered the system, and decided to cut Windows out and start fresh, and I installed Fedora, and it was fine. I fucked that up somewhat while messing around and learning and heard about Garuda and tried that. I love it!

I could have lived with any of the previous distros I tried. They did the job fine, and I didn’t think much of it. Garuda seems perfect for me though. Being Arch based is great, but it started with most of what I needed so it wasn’t the typical Arch install process (though I hear that’s better now than is memed). For someone comfortable with their computer skills, I think it’s the perfect option for gamers coming to Linux. I probably wouldn’t recommend it for someone coming from Windows who never learned computer skills, but anyone who edited registries should be able to handle it just fine.

Yeah, it’s like all the good parts of the Windows UI (whichever version you like best) without the bad parts, and also customizable so you can make it work best for you, and not what some corporation decides is best this year.

I’m curious why you chose Bazzite then? I’m not saying it’s the wrong choice, but it does seem like a strange choice if you’re comfortable, well unless this is for a console-like computer, not a desktop.

If you do then you already know that. The recommendation is still good, and I’m hoping you agree, but sometimes it doesn’t work. Cool. We don’t need to hear that every time. We know.

Yep, and the more people do this then the more likely it will be that games support Linux (or are at least tested to work with WINE/Proton.

Heroic I find is great for offline installers. I actually prefer it to Lutris I think. You set up your application and it creates a prefix. Before selecting the executable you press the “run installer first” button and it runs the installer on the prefix. Once it’s done you select the executable and it’s set up and good to go.

The Lutris method, IIRC, is you create the prefix, select the installer to run, then you modify that to target the new executable after. It’s not difficult, but the Heroic experience is slightly more streamlined I think.

I have a personal conspiracy theory that part of the AI hype is pushed by dirty energy companies. Most American politicians say we can’t remove dirty energy plants until we have enough clean energy to replace them. AI (and some other technologies) increase energy demand in a way that counters any clean energy production being built, such that the dirty energy production will always be needed unless we’re willing to shut some things down.

Politicians say we can’t scale down production below demand, so dirty energy companies benefit most from inflating demand instead of shutting down and being replaced with clean alternatives.

Not really a lie, just needs to come with a history lesson. The America First Committee was a fascist political group. Once you know that then it makes a lot more sense.

Grifters, who don’t care but act like they do for money.

Astrofurfing, who are being paid to say things.

Bots, who aren’t people so can’t attend.

I’ve been here 1y 11m and I’m just now realizing how new this instance was when I joined! I appreciate the work you’ve done here! It’s been great, with only a few memorable issue, which I’m sure we all remember.

I feel like you’re biased in favor of Nintendo. “They make durable products” while also being infamous for the joysticks drifting. Those don’t seem to gel together. Maybe they’re hard to totally break, but they seem to be fine with selling products that degrade pretty quickly.

That’s not even the biggest issue for me. The $80 games that never get discounted will cost a lot more than that pretty quickly. Plus I know they push their subscription service too.

As a PC gamer, fuck that. I’ll play cheap better games on my free operating system that I actually control on my hardware that I can repair and replace easily. Nintendo games interest me, but not nearly at the price they’re asking for with what they’re offering.

As of yesterday YouTube is blocking videos for me. Until that’s solved, I’m just not watching YouTube. Not a big loss.

There’s other methods of preventing scraping rather than requiring us to give up our data to view the content. Maybe they’re perfect and it doesn’t get sold or abused, but how can we know that for every single site? Also, how to we know it’s secure forever, even when they enahitify in the future?