NutWrench

You should be using Lemmy instead of Reddit. It’s defederated, and it’s spread out over 600 Instances in many different countries. This way, one rich egomaniac can’t ruin it for everyone else.

Add Steam to “Windows gaming for Linux.” Every game I bought on Windows runs great in Linux Mint. Steam has a native Linux client and ot uses a Wine layer called Proton that has all the settings for each game.

If Valve just keeps supporting Proton, it will capture 95% of all the Windows users migrating to Linux.

Windows 10 support ends this year. Nobody wants to use 11, especially with its built-in mandatory spyware like Co-Pilot and Recall.

Because they keep making stuff that nobody wants, insult the fans constantly and never learn from their mistakes.

Uhhh, none. You idiot. Disney doesn’t actually care about DEI.

So Disney hasn’t learned a damn thing. Got it.

They just want to data-mine and Spam you.

I also like that Mint comes with an Office suite and Timeshift pre-installed.

Will wine ever be able to run antiCheat.

I hope not. I switched to Linux to get away from malware and spyware.

When Star Wars (1976) came out, it cost 12 million to make and had almost no advertising. The “advertising” was word-of-mouth.

Modern games and movies wouldn’t need to set aside 100 million dollar advertising budgets (on TOP of the cost of their product) if they would simply stop writing shit.

This. If updates are SO important, then Windows can do it while it’s shutting down.

“But we acquired a successful franchise! All we have to do is attach a handle to it and crank it and the money will come flying out!”

This. You don’t “negotiate” with the Patent Office. The courts decide whether patent infringement has occurred. You “negotiate” with THEM.

I also recommend StreetComplete (fdroid), an app that lets you contribute to the OpenStreetMaps database. It shows you a local map and asks questions like, how wide is this road? What kind of road is it? Is there a pedestrian crossing here? What kind of parking is here? How do power lines attach to this pole? etc.

Finally uninstalled Google Maps. Installed Organic Maps, instead. (f-droid).

You just couldn’t resist sucking up to Trump, could you Google? Remember when your company motto was, “don’t be evil?” That was 20 years ago.

You’ll probably be installing programs and changing a lot of settings over the next few weeks. Make sure you use TimeShift (pre-installed on Mint) to make system snapshots. (It works like System Restore on Windows. You can even run it from your Linux Live flash drive if you mess up something so badly that you can’t boot from the hard drive).

LibreOffice comes pre-installed and you can use Thunderbird for email. And if you used Steam to play games on Windows, you’re in for a nice surprise. Steam has a native Linux client and it uses Proton / Wine to let you play your Windows games on Linux. It’s handled everything I’ve thrown at except for a couple of older games.

What was it last week? China had invented Internet hardware that was 5,000 times faster than any current hardware? And a few weeks earlier, they had built a new particle accelerator more powerful than the one at CERN? If you’re going to make shit up, at least make it believable.

I suppose next week, China is going to invent Cold Fusion. And the week after that, they’ll put the first man on Mars!

Yup. This nonsense (pcie-5 burnout) should have been detected immediately during quality control.

The “1 trillion” never existed in the first place. It was all hype by a bunch of Tech-Bros, huffing each other’s farts.

Dear News Media. Your job is speaking truth to power, which means you’re going to make a lot of enemies. So unlike other big companies, the point of your legal department is to get you OUT of trouble, not to keep you from ever getting into it. Having principles in the business world isn’t cheap or easy. Nothing worthwhile ever is.