https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JA7PH_eUts - This video discusses the idea of tax resistance.

He has no official ties with the European Citizen’s Initiative (besides “hype-man” as I recall he described it) but he is the founder of the Stop Killing Games movement, encompassing the original research effort in terms of what people could do to stop games being lost or intentionally destroyed.

In one sense yes they are a monopoly. But there are alternative game stores. However Valve has earned their cut of money by actually trying to make a platform that works for game developers, game players and themselves.

Don’t get me wrong, they have a high risk of turning bad and extorting the market they have captured. But the truth is that every equally or greater sized competitor (Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA, Epic) has already skipped to the extortion part of the cycle and Valve simply hasn’t, and hasn’t really expressed any intention to do that. Being a privately owned company, Valve is allowed to sit back, enjoy the money they do make and not have to constantly ask for more, and develop what the staff feel like making without strict deadlines.

The smaller competitors are still great even if not as feature filled (GOG, itch) and you should support them too. So while I reject that Valve is the big bad, I also reject that Valve could never enshittify. My position is that Valve has earned a trust no one else has (even itch had to cave to Credit Card companies), and that trust is Valve’s to break.

Idk, it sounds better to just pay out of pocket to visit the doctor regularly, save the health insurance money in a separate account. Then if you need surgery, book a vacation to Spain. If you get cancer, a debilitating disease or an emergency hospital visit, just move to Spain with the funds you saved up, and never look back.

A universal healthcare option would be a far better alternative, of course.

I think your average Linux user does want to give game creators their fair share. But they would like to withhold from those that take away from others.

I more or less stopped pirating games after moving my PC to Linux full time.

Since this is uplifting news, I’ll skip past everything I would have said on other subs to get to the silver lining:

I hope this gets Americans to actually start caring for themselves, and further to realize that feeding a lot of people at once costs less than trying to figure out how to feed one family at a time. And lastly that it is billionaires causing hunger, not immigrants.

I knew that this game was overhyped and its life would be limited, but now is the time to try to preserve this game as much as possible ahead of shutdown date.

Sounds like a Personal Computer of Theseus. Nobara is great, it’s a one person project dedicated towards making gaming and streaming easy.

Hey the Steam deck counts. That’s one more Linux device for prospective game developers to target.

CAD is still one area needing development, for sure.

Haven’t tested these myself, but after a brief search, timekpr and little-brother are packages I found you could try, related to session time management.

Glad to hear from someone on the receiving side of recommendations to switch, and that it is going well for you.

Impressive that you were able to pull off the migration for a corporate usecase.

Thanks for this writeup. CAD is one of the several professional workflows that I really wish could work better on Linux, but it is hard to compete against software that costs thousands per year per license.

Although, is antivirus a thing on Linux?

So generally Linux has relied on having open and auditable code to avoid exploitation of bugs and ones found can be easily discovered, reported and mitigated. The variety of configurations makes it much less appealing for hackers as an attack surface. So for the average user the biggest danger to breaking your device is yourself (but very occasionally the package manager messes something up too). ClamAV is one antivirus application Linux has…

But depending on what threats you want to mitigate here is what else you can look into:

• Protection against random unwanted internet connections to your computer: UFW (firewall)
• Protection against anyone besides you remotely SSH-ing to your machine (SSH is often disabled by default): fail2ban, strongly encrypted keys
• Protection against physical access of your disk, and data and OS: LUKS (disk encryption)
• Protection against other computer users (or yourself by accident) messing with important parts of the system: SELinux (trusted environment). Most users don’t need this for their personal PC.
• Protection against code you got off github from nuking your computer: flatpak (containerized app), docker (containerized environment), firejail (sandbox environment).

I think GNOME 3 was intended to be nicer for touchscreens but it’s not my favourite either.

My daily driver is MATE - the spiritual continuation of GNOME 2.

Thanks. I figured Microsoft trying to force people off Windows 10 might be a bigger reason than ever to get people to switch than philosophical ones. I wanted to see if that was true for people on Lemmy or if there were other reasons, hence I made this post.

I think the hardest to get on Linux is those in the middle with a very specific piece of hardware or software that needs to work in a certain way. Kind of like the bell curve meme, total computer beginners and total computer experts can embrace linux the easiest.

For like a good chunk of people, all you need from a computer the news, online videos, one social media, email, banking, simple writing and printing. Linux does fine and some distros actually do better than Windows at the basics.

With the power of Free and Open Source, I grant thee eternal computing liberation!

Glad it has worked out. Over the years I’ve been free tech support for my close friends and family whom I’ve installed Linux for (I’m fine with it because it had been my hobby, passion, and suggestion for them). I hope you’ve not been inundated with support requests.

I think it says something about Linux adoption rate amongst gaming users, that popular modding tools like r2modman have native Linux versions. And it’s great for me to hear “It just works” from new users since my bar is set at a weird spot, having seen things progress over 9 years.

If you know the games she plays, you could test installing them separately ahead of time, so that there would be minimal difference when that switchover happens.