CuriousGoo

Any particular resources that you trust to share proper information?

To get governments interested in it… for tracking it’s own netizens… because just about everyone is dealing with CSAM!

User action is what will be the launcher.

I click on AC Origins in my Steam install should launch the game, not another launcher which has to then go and invoke the game.

Oh, KDE on Wayland seemed to have messed with something about display for my i5 6400 + RX 6600, because when I switched to GNOME on Xorg the problems went away.

Then I only needed to figure out how to get Ubisoft Launcher/Connect installed in the same prefix folder as Assassin’s Creed Origins. I despise whoever came up with the idea of launcher-launching-launcher, and for what ? Validating key ?

No problem mate !

Once you’re on Mint’s page, just have a look over the other desktop environments (DE) offered. Screenshots will not tell you the entire picture, but at least you can have a look at what you don’t find appealing.

But remember not to really worry about the DE, you can always install another one and remove the one you don’t like.

Mainly from a security standpoint PPAs are something I would want to avoid.

I’ve not used Snap since I tried it out a couple of years ago, it wasn’t as good as Flatpak in terms of performance, and there were concerns which got highlighted like it’s entirely proprietary and hosted by Canonical only, I heard Snap was being forced even when you would want through system packages, and something about forced updates.

I get why Flatpak is better in terms of sandboxing each application, but I personally prefer to use system packages wherever I can.

I just moved from Windows to Linux (currently, PopOS) this year around.

You can try out beginner friendly distributions like PopOS, Linux Mint, ZorinOS which are Ubuntu-Debian based or Fedora. Like others have mentioned, applications made on Linux are expected to be cross-compatible with all distributions so your choice will mainly come down to what desktop environment you like as there are many with different feel to the user experience.

To know what works for you try these out in a VM if possible before biting the bullet so you know what all packages are present in Linux, and what all of your usecase will need to be managed through WINE/Proton compatibility layers.

You would want to avoid Ubuntu, and installing anything through Snap or PPA repositories if it ever comes up in your searches.

Other people have given you recommendations, I want to give you my commendation on the first time I have heard someone describe easy to play games in this manner.

I reckon you would have aced my school’s internal exams back in the day where they were more concerned with the size of the content.

I like the phrase “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

KOSA is not the only thing one should be worried about, illiterates from UK are bringing in an Online Safety Bill which needs all services with encryption to provide a backdoor for the UK government under the reasoning of “monitoring for CSAM content”.

This doesn’t just impact UK citizens, but will do for the world.

If I recall correctly, Australia did something similar.

Interesting to see how the 5-eyes try to push similar dumb ideas together.

I just use DDG, and I was told in a different post that it fetches results through Bing.

Much like what you said, Google is better than other engines with regional results being a non-US person.

I see, but how is this different in a phone app? Wouldn’t the request still be made to a backend?

Uhh… not clear on what you’re claiming here… you can validate the traffic is going to the expected instance using a web app, without requiring any special software by running Developer tools and heading to the network tab.

Keeping the discussion of running Windows applications through Wine/Proton aside; there are a lot of little things which happen to annoy me while I am using my PopOS install for example the most recent one is my headphones don’t play any sound from the left year, it works properly on my other devices…

I’m willing to make it work, but most general users wouldn’t be. This statement continues to be true even after the huge amounts of progress Linux community has made to make a better experience.

Looks like someone has come from r/puns

Probably because of MS’s stranglehold on so many customers with their O365 and standalone Office suite ?

Over here we consider Broadcom is where things go to die a slow death. There should be some form of rule if a company is not actively working on their products / retiring them then they need to make it freely accessible to the public.

Probably as a result of this: https://youtu.be/B5d_MPw1nQs ?

Regarding the undemocratic part, let’s not forget it was a part of the Axis. Ideologies of leadership don’t change so easily…

My company is going to probably take forever to update our systems.