For testing try the live USB sticks
Just flash them to an empty stick with programs like etcher, then power dowb and select the stick in your bios (usually reachable by hammering f1, f2 or Del while starting
(Remember that performance will be much better when installing it for real compared tusing running it from a stick though)
Dual boot will work and is not that hard to setup, but you should back up all your data before trying it.
Also when dual booting to avoid duplicates etc I have all my documents and stuff on a USB stick, so I don't have a version in my win and a version iny linux. Cloud works as well
Yes, ez one (if you have installed operating systems before and know how to paste an error passage into google )
-4hours and your done start to finish. (Given you have standard hardware and don't want to set up something crazy like dual boot with raid and nas)
Moderate complexity if you have never done anything like that, plan 2-6 evenings to get it fully working with everything you need
Also: consider your scopes. For most cases Linux will just work, you just have to get used to some different interfaces.
BUT: some things will not run under linux no matter how hard you try --> google if stuff you can't live without will work
(for me I still have a dual boot windows for playing league of legends and running my vive wireless adapter, as those will not run under Linux.
For games use protonDB
I may be oldschool, but for people not comfortable around terminals I would suggest Debian KDE as it never breaks and the transition from windows is easy. You can do everything from GUI (clicky button interfaces)
For the installation of steam you might need a terminal, but there are good guides online (and you really dont need to be a wizard for that) from where you can just copy paste (when searching just add your distro e.g. "install steam Debian", and once you've got that running you can just run every game from within steam.
Since Steam has done a lot of work with proton, most games just run under Linux. In steam: Install-->play
For nearly all games not directly running, you can just force them to run with proton. It will say:
"Game not compatible" in steam, you just click the gear icon on the right to open settings, go to "compatibilty" and tick "force use of compatibility layer" and select the newest proton from the drop down
The button where steam previously said "not compatible" magically turns into the blue "install" button we all know and love. And nearly all games run with only minor inconveniences (like showing keyboard hotkeys even when playing with a gamepad) or no issues at all.
You need to be aware that some games using kernel level anticheat (e.g. league of legends, valorant) can not and will never run on Linux, if the developers of the games don't add the possibility.
EDIT: for programs not related to gaming its often easier to use an alternative, if the program is not available for Linux. Most times its also more privacy foccused, open source and free
OP ist wondering if the/a meme is just poorly edited OR AI generated because this matters for whether he should get angry or not...
Pretty straight forward in my mind
(Or used as in "is A true OR is B true?" - "if A is true --> don't get angry ; if B is true --> get angry)
Its used like: "are you taller than 150cm or smaller than 150cm? Its an important question because it determines if you are allowed to ride this rolercoster OR not"
Spoken language "or" is different from programming "or", where in the latter it could mean if either a or b is true, --> get angry AND not get angry. This is not how it is used here though.
I don't understand. What is this comment saying? Sure one gets angry AFTER on has a reason to be. The meme points to the fact, that it is often times hard to check, if the image is ai OR if it is just poorly edited.
What is there not to understand?
How about being against Imperialists as well as fascists but not calling an attempt to divide the working class by skin color in some f*ed up version of positive racism "based"?
Ever heard of the concept of international solidarity?
Isnt that obvious? Get rid of (massive) inequality.
Like sure, if you work more or harder than someone else (regarding to your possibilities) or had to put in years of unpaid training/studying to get to that point you should maybe get a little more, and if you choose more free time even when you could do more you should maybe earn a little less, but people owning more than a whole town could earn in their lifetime? People hardly working at all and just profiting of other people working because they inherited a company or stocks from their grandfather being richer then a hard working normal person? That's just ridiculous! Its unfair, it fosters fascism, monopolies and poverty for the society. We have the Democratic state literally to make rules which foster a society which is best for the people. We should start using its power and simply make rules to prevent this.
There are enough resources for everyone in the world to live a life in honor and welfare, the problem is just how we distribute those recources
While the US is certanly going the Propaganda and facism Route, I dont think free speevh is too blame.
In a system where everyone is rather equal, and each voice gets heard an equal amount, free speech leads to better outcomes, as most people are good willing if not mislead, and less people trying to mislead, than trying to foster truth.
The problem is, that you have one man who dictates twitter, amazon, google, etc. Pp.and can decide what gets hear, what information rises to the top etc because they inherited a lot of money from their colonialist fathers or just were lucky.
Such few people with so few interest who have free speech and control which arguments are heard and which not for everyone else are the problem.
Its not free speech which isn't working, its the huge inequality which dooms all chancen on fair discourse.
Is everyone stupid and doesnt read the meme or am I stupid and "ignoring your squirrel trades" and "copying expressions of beavers" are somehow related to mental health in English?
I was talking more in general about turning to the American playbook, deporting Gaza protesters who are often are from precarious countries not strictly theese concrete 4.
But deporting a trans person to proto-facist america is also not that nice. We also just deported a left protester to right extremist/ proto-facist Hungary and although a court literally ruled she can not be deported because she will face inhumane prison conditions and psychological torture, the Ausländerbehörde pulled through with it before the court could reached this decision.
Most smart home devices are actually not that smart. They are simply a switch with wifi, which logs in to your local wifi and shouts "HERE I AM, I HAVE TWO MODES, YOU CANSWITCH BETWEEN THOSE" into the ether.
Reasons to have a hub are:
Not having to open the website of every single device or send a command from the command line if you want to use it, but rather have one place which registerss all devices and bundles them up to serve you in a nice web interface or app.
Have more advanced/intercinnected functions (not only: send "up" to the blinds device but send "up" to the blinds device, if the time device says its later then 8:00 and the daylight sensor device senses dalight.
Some hubs have security features, like claiming the device and establishing a password, so not everyone in you WiFi can do everything.
Good ones act like a protective layer from you to the outside internet (esps and most smart home devices are simple devices, which are rather unsecure and where you don't know which code is running (your Chinese security camera might not only send pictures to you but also to China, and you would not knowbif its connected to the internet directly). So you can only allow connections to the hub, and if you have an open source hub like HomeAssistant, you could be rather certain stuff like this will not happen as easily.
Do all the heavy lifting with more CPU power (user and password login, updates, scripts, voice recognition if you want stuff like this, keeping date and time recently updated, merge (in the case of HomeAssitant) different protocols (like iqtt, phillipsHUE, ZigBee, etc. Pp.) Into one coherent system.
Some other things also, and that being said: it is literally the device controlling your entire house and privacy, so get one you trust, preferable an open source one where you don't have to accept agbs to give up all rights to Samsung or so.
In german its easier
"schreibschrift" (writefont) = handwritten joined letter where you seldom lift the pen
"Druckschrift" (printfont) = singular letters (handwritten and printed)
"Kallgrafie" (calligraphy)= particularly nice font (mostly reffering to handwritten joined letters
"Kursiv" (cursive) = angled petters like this (engl. Italic)