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.

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

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.

Oh cool then piracy isn’t theft.

XY problem: you’d spend more efforts and resources sourcing and installing this thing (that I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist) rather than fix the existing sensor that’s already in the mouse. Fix the existing sensor that’s in the mouse.

I feel i’m kinda vaccinated against the junior feeling because week 2 of my first job out of college, I crashed both sides of a cluster, leaving the client’s factory responsible for half of their European production dead for 3 days.

I panicked for a few days then they asked me to do an incident report and I thought I was cooked and then literally nothing happened to me. Nowadays if shit hits the fan at 16h59 then I’m gone at 17h00 anyway and so should everybody that’s bothered by the smell.

Si tu veux te barrer, dm ton CV. Je te présenterais bien l’entreprise mais au point où t’en es je sais que tu t’en fous donc c’est toi qui voit

Yeah, I know. Why would anyone ever use them if creating one required a certificate? If the certificate was so cheap as to not be an obstacle then it wouldn’t be a deterrent to malicious replacement of codes either.

Very cool. Why would anyone use qr codes then? When you can just write a url and that’s free

The third law has a nice ring to it, but it has extremely deep implications when you’re writing science fiction, or fantasy that has magic. Thinking about the law is very useful to keep your technology technology (and not basically magic that happens to run on electricity) and magic magic (and not technilogy that happens to run on plot holes).

Okay and what happens when I overwrite that qr code with one that points to downloadvirus.com? How is a client supposed to know that the qr code isn’t supposed to be here?

Submarines also famously don’t have windows

Yeah it does

Doesn’t this mean that the system is never up to date? If so, please don’t.

Bah tiens il viennent d’annoncer une feature pour les utilisateurs payants, qui fait que si t’as l’extension, non seulement tu n’a plus besoin du cookie, mais ça garantit cryptographiquement qu’ils ne peuvent pas associer ta recherche a ton compte

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

Je sais que je prêche un inconvertible mais tu admettras que la coïncidence est cocasse

On dirait que c’est juste pas pour toi, mais il se trouve qu’il y a une parade a ce problème en particulier!

Dans les paramètres, tu peux copier une url qui contient un token de connexion, et donc l’utiliser dans les paramètres de recherche de ton navigateur. Comme ça, même si tu n’as plus de cookies la recherche fonctionne (oui, fondamentalement on vient de réinventer les cookies…).

Sorry, only spyware laden with ads is available currently at that price.

Je trouve le point sur kagi pas incroyable. Yandex est aussi utilisé dans d’autres (notamment DDG), je pense parce que leurs services d’indexage sont peu chers. Je trouve que le point de contention majeur de kagi c’est surtout que ça coûte 100 balles par an.