Rekorse @ Rekorse @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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You keep making posts that made sense or were accurate 5-15 years ago, thats why you keep getting downvoted.

Pretend you know nothing about linux, and go and try something like Mint, and youll likely have an experience that mirrors the people downvoting you.

I dont hate your original post, its just somewhat confusing and disjointed.

Could you expand on your first paragraph? I feel like I'm missing context there especially to connect the first and second sentence.

Also, what is your overall point?

Why can't anyone spot a grift anymore? The IA is hugely profitable, and is very clearly crafting PR statements designed to increase donations. Has noone had their trust abused before? If they were trying to make change around this subject they wouldnt be so dishonest in their messaging.

IA are not Robin Hood.

Its not impossible to avoid shitty companies and software you know.

Thats not obscure! Its on my plex server right now!

I dont consider something free if I am paying for it with my data.

Skip bottles, havent found a use case for it that lutris didnt handle. Not saying you might not use it for some specific situation, its just never happened to me.

Lutris is a GUI and front end that runs emulators and calls them runners.

Wine is a runner for windows, proton is steams version of it. You can add you local games to steam and then use the compatibility menu in game properties to enable the proton emulator.

Some distros come with all this preinstalled, makes it very easy. Some of them you have to install each piece individually. I dont know which mint is, but I'd look into that first so you know what to expect.

For example popos came with it all preinstalled while endeavouros did not.

I really can't recommend popos enough for those that have a wider use case (work, browsing, gaming) that want a reliable and out-of-the-box experience with little hastle. Its created by a company that ships their hardware with the OS so you get to piggy back on the support there, and Ubuntu is, IMO, extremely forgiving and intuitive to learn as opposed to arch

Its the same as windows but the amount of OS specific help youll find is lower since less people use it. It helps to figure out which version of linux your distro is based on and look for help with that instead to broaden the results.

For example on my popos station I usually search for Ubuntu help, and on my endeavouros system I would search arch help.

The good thing about linux though is its all the same ideas just packages slightly different, kinda like learning slang.

Start with the terminal, how to open it and where it is, then how to move around the directory (usually CD, with a few modifiers for moving up or down), list directory contents so you can "see" them, and manage it with removing or touching (creating) objects or folders.

Then figure out how to install packages, this should have a mint specific page for it though. Every dostro has a few things they explicitly explain and package mangement is almost always one of them.

They will likely list a few different methods, test each of them out with some apps you planned on installing already, or just find safe test ones to add and remove.

If you have time though you can figure this stuff out as each hurdle appears, rather than speed running them, but this is how I would approach a new linux distro at first.

Also dont be afraid to scrap it and try something else if you decide its not working for you. I ran bazzite for a week before changing to endeavouros and I'm very happy I did.

Edit to add: for crack specific stuff, honestly there doesnt seem to be any sort of segregating the legal and non-legal communities when it comes to linux. Feel free to look or ask in the same places you would ask for legitimate support, but do be careful you dont get into the habit of blindly trusting any script posted in a YouTube video.

Lutris handles it very well, simply has an add button in the top corner with a few options:

1. Install with windows executable: games that need an installer first
2. Preinstalled game: if you have a game or drive that doesnt need to be installed, you can just tell it where the .exe is and what runner to use.
3. Search lutris: great for software or things that are free to download from the browser. Basically preconfigured install packages. For example I installed PlayStation plus via their installer.

Lutris uses runners to emulate systems, wine is the windows emulator, it also has retro game emulators and such. There's a runners section in the preferences in lutris.

The prefix is confusing at first, but the default selection usually works. The prefix is just the folder the emulator files are installed in. Each folder with a wine game gets a c drive and program files and all that, and I usually install the games themselves in the "c" drive. You can make a new one for each game or share them between games. Sorta like docker containers for games.

Super easy stuff, not everything works but protondb.com is a place people post if it works on linux or not and what fixes might be needed.

If you DM I can send you some specific walkthroughs or videos so you can walk through it a step at a time.

If you can bring a drive with preinstalled games from your windows installation, that will give you a huge head start. Most will be add to lutris and play. Thats it!

P.S. anything you have in steam is even easier, steam loves linux

I just learned about it from this post. Your perspective isnt the only one, not sure why shut down the conversation.

Dont have to play it? You didnt have to reply to their post either.

Is it your opinion that free things can't be criticized? I dont understand the position, especially these days when free often comes with conditions. Not sure if true free exists.

Its no different than them declining to answer if asked what their secrets are.

Do you really think that if someone manages to ask a question in a very specific wording that they would be forced to give a straight answer?

Isn't equality accepting that some LGBTQ people are assholes, just like the rest of us?

Windows hasnt quite felt as risky as it does now, that I can remember at least.

Luckily my company outsourced the IT security department to India and have since had a handful of breaches and zero remediation efforts. I'm sure this windows stuff is firmly in the "care later" bin.

Do you use windows by choice or for work?

Appreciate the tip!

They made money off upselling people who thought it would be free. Or another way was to wait to tell them about the charges until you've spent a couple hours on the application. ...or the way they would sell you last years tax information back to you to save you a few hours filling out forms.

United states of monetization.

To your point about causing Republicans not to vote at all, I did see a post recently positing that this election might be different than in the past where voter suppression benefited the Republicans.

I dont have the source on that at the moment but I thought it was an interesting idea.

Regardless of who's in charge of Gaza, the Palestinian people need somewhere to live.

Would you say the best option is to allow israel to clear out all of Gaza and the give it back to the Palestinian people? What about expanding the West Bank to accommodate the displaced people?

To me it sounds like the "genocide" option, or however you want to call it, is just the easy option. It requires the least amount of effort, as a huge amount of people no longer need to be respected, considered, or protected. The right thing to do would require compromise between the two nations, which can't happen when one nation won't admit the other exists.

Not to mention that Israel "moved in" to their current country not that long ago, you'd think they'd have compassion for a people who is oppressed greatly and hsd no safe place to call their own.

The one true thing about all people is how resilient and adaptable we are. It takes energy and effort to continue living a certain perspective, and if we put that energy into a different perspective as individuals and as a community (perspectives are infectious), it just takes time to change.

If you really think people can't change then I could see why you would think what's happening now is an alright solution.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted the "SHAM trial" on X. "You don't see this level of corruption in a banana republic", she wrote, directing people to a Trump fundraiser.

I don't know I've seen such a direct example of, " I'm saying this so that you will give us money", as this in a while.

Why are people so happy to be part of a scam? What do they expect their money will do? Is it a metric republicans use to compare to each other? 🤷