If you decide to completely switch to Linux, have a drive ready with Windows in case something goes wrong. Otherwise, if you install Linux and discover your networking doesn't work you could be screwed until you can get to another computer.
Dual-booting is easiest if you can use a second drive for Linux. If you decide to use one drive, make sure to back up your data. Repartitioning a drive is one of the most dangerous operations you can perform on a computer, it does go wrong.
VirtualBox/VMware is your best friend when choosing a distro. Make sure you like the experience before installing it on real hardware. Just remember that things like games that require a GPU aren't going to perform like they would natively.
Arch-based distros like Manjaro are not ideal for beginners. Arch has fantastic documentation and a great community, but it comes with the expectation that you have an idea of what you're doing.
If you're intimidated by the terminal, you're going to be very intimidated by Arch.
If you want something with more documentation, Kubuntu is just Ubuntu with KDE (a more Windows-like GUI, it's what Bazzite ships with), and you can follow pretty much any guide meant for Ubuntu.
Bazzite takes the best ideas from SteamOS and puts them in a distro appropriate for the desktop. Updates are delivered in a similar way, critical system files can't be messed with, and it ships with everything you need to play games both on and off Steam.
I've been running Bazzite for a few months because everyone has been recommending it for gamers, and I wanted a distro to recommend to my non-technical friends. I'd highly recommend it as a starting point.
Some advice if you're interested, if this is all too overwhelming feel free to just give me an mention with any specific questions, I live for this stuff.
FWIW, most of those issues aren't a problem these days as long as you pick the right distro and are fine with closed source drivers.
It's definitely not ideal, but I've never run into a problem where the solution was "switch to AMD."
This is a horrible infographic, but I like how one is just labeled "Dad"
Is that everyone's dad, collectively, or Nate Silver's dad specifically?
If it's everyone's dad collectively it brings me to my next question: why are a bunch of Republicans blue or gray?
Or just watch it for free on NASA's website, your tax dollars did pay for this: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...
Agreed. The PlayStation Legacy or some shit would be a huge hit in a lot of markets. I think the PS5's price increase is bad, but I can't imagine paying for it in places where it might cost more than a month's rent.
I feel like a "parody" account that only posts ads for Moob is exactly the kind of marketing that Moob, the social network named after man boobs, would use.
This was less than a year ago. Why should we trust any of these companies to moderate their models? www.reuters.com/investigates...
These bots have no way of discerning truth from fiction, and they will teach our the next generation some very fucked up lessons about consent some day if we let them.
It's already fucking happening.
Have you SEEN Meta's AI roleplaying as The Rock getting arrested for seducing a child?
They don't know how to moderate these things. Gemini just casually drops tips for dissolving a body when I'm asking about Fight Club.
The way Claude works at the very least I wouldn't let my kid use it. It would be with any other website meant for erotic roleplaying on the web filter.
Remember when everyone was having mental breakdowns based on SCP lore?
We already have a mental health crisis.
We don't need kids using the horny affirmation machine.
The best case scenario is someone breaks something important on a school computer with an AI agent.
I can only imagine these kids asking questions about sexual health. These things are trained on fucking erotic fan fiction.
When I'm asking Claude a question I'm relying on years of skills that these kids haven't developed yet. Think about all the college kids that don't know what a directory is until they take their first programming class. Now imagine them vibe coding.
They're not gonna be the thing that helps you get ahead in your job. Everyone and their grandpa can use a chatbot. My dad can barely type anymore and doesn't know what a Google Doc is but he can use Gemini.
The thing that separates me and him is I don't trust its output blindly.
This is a bad idea.
There's a ton of stuff that AI can do. It can do a decent job on some of it, and a bad job on the rest. We need to be teaching kids that these tools aren't a magic wand. They're not a crutch. They're a sledgehammer.
Happy Easter, everyone
Hosting providers have a vested interest in providing high quality documentation, it's great advertising and keeps people using their services.
Please don't advertise on my posts.
DigitalOcean has lots of free resources, that's how I learned: www.digitalocean.com/community/tu...
A pink smiley face with Xs for eyes. NOPE is followed by Japanese writing and 99 is visible on the label.
I got myself addicted to Suntory Nope in Japan. It tastes like if you replaced all of Dr. Pepper's spices with weird sweeteners. I think this is what happens if you pour every store brand of coca cola into a big vat and then add the flavoring from a half dozen fruit sodas.
Actually they mentioned that KDE Connect had better "vibes" than Phone Link, so they're aware that the article is shit.
If I wanted product recommendations based on vibes I'd ask Claude. At least it would hallucinate some good reasons.
OneDrive is so awful that my family has an Office 365 subscription and they still can't get me to use it to spite asking me almost every time I boot into Windows.
No. I refuse. It breaks games. The one thing Windows is supposed to be good at. I'll just use Syncthing, thank you.
We need to be talking about real problems with Windows, like the AI stuff, privacy concerns, and forcing products on you that you'll never use because they suck so hard.
Windows 11 also ships with SSH out of the box, and a sudo implementation that you can enable in the Settings app.
I hate Windows with a passion (ads in my OS, no thank you) but as a gamer who likes a game to just work, no matter where I bought it from; Windows is unfortunately still king.