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  • How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a "Linux Update" program like what Windows has?

    This is known as a package manager. The package manager (along with some default settings and preinstalled packages) is what makes each Linux distro different. For instance, Debian uses apt, Arch uses pacman, Gentoo uses emerge.

    Each package manager uses a different way to upgrade software. For instance apt update refreshes the global list of available software and versions and apt upgrade finds differences between that list and what you have installed, and upgrades as needed.

    There also snaps and flatpacks, but I don't support the use of those.

    How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?

    Yes and no. Open source allows attackers to find vulnerability in code, but also means more eyes are on that same code and able to fix those vulnerabilities.

    Although permissions can largely be ignored on Windows, its critical to Linux. Its a little much to explain here, but a standard install is fairly secure because of permissions. The important thing to remember is to harden the root account (no remote login) and be very careful what you execute with the sudo command.

    Many people [incorrectly] don't use AV because historically Linux hasn't been much of a target due to low adoption. The trifecta of software I use are ufw as a system-level firewall, fail2ban to block an attacker who tries to bruteforce entry and repeatedly fails, and ClamAV for AV.

    Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?

    Yup

    And also, what distro might be best for me?

    I think Mint is currently the recommended distro for new users. It used to be Ubuntu, but canonical has been doing some very anti-community things lately.

  • My main issue with the game was actually just the grappling hook. For a parkour game. It felt cheap having to use one, and dumb that you could only use it in specific poibts rather than anywhere.

    Otherwise, being open world makes it at least worth a play.

  • Completely agree about the Strategy Guide nature of those crash games. Some of the levels you'd have to go all the way to the end, just to run all the way back to the beginning.

    In a linear game like crash, often with one way ledges, I wouldn't have even considered going backwards most times.

    Nonetheless, Naughty Dog always puts out hits

  • I'm looking into a game manager and the other project I've seen that looks this polished is RomM. What are the differences between this and RomM?

    Edit: GameVault is a Windows/MS Store app...... Guess that makes the choice easy for me

  • I've started reading the guide on the subject. So now my problem is that I have different zfs datasets separating my library, and I suspect hardlinks won't work across them. So I'll have to rethink how I organize my filesystem.

  • I would really like to automate my workflow and organize my library, but I like to seed things forever. How do you automatically retrieve metadata to reorganize folders and filenames, while still being able to seed? Is creating a second copy of the files the only way, or is there something I'm missing?

  • The normal phrase is "Uncle Tom" based on the character from Uncle Tom's Cabin. It's used to describe a black person who sells out other black people. Both Uncle Ruckus and Tom from the Boondocks are based on this idea.

    But this is a double burn referencing Clarence Thomas, the supreme court judge who is probably the most famous example of an Uncle Tom.