Moreover: even if they were disabled: does that somehow forbid them from buying things at the mall? Would it be different if they had different footwear? Are disability payments even enough for them to be able to afford to spend on frivolous things? Even if they are, is being disabled a good reason to forbid someone from buying frivolous things? If they're buying necessities, isn't it nicer for everyone else if the people who have the time to do their groceries outside rush hours do so then so the registers are less crowded?
It prevents you from jobs like airline pilots, the rationale being that placing someone potentially suicidal in control of a plane full of people isn't a good idea. The rationale doesn't really make total sense but you can see why they'd think that way.
The nightmare in question is windows. My point was that since their client isn't distributed by a mechanism with automatic updates, they could at least have made it work, but no.
I have checked on every new update because their fuckass client apparently can't update itself in big 2025 and instead just opens your browser to the download url because that'll convince people that Linux is great.
yes you do. A good distro I recommend newbies is Linux Mint, because it's visually similar to windows. Another great option for beginners is Pop!OS, because the developers take more care to automate things that you might encounter when first starting to use Linux. Overall, it doesn't really matter that much what distribution you choose in terms of what software is available, it all comes down to design choices that change how hard things are to do (but reward you with more customization, of course)
you will not be able to play some games that have an anticheat that forbids linux. The main culprit is EasyAntiCheat (while it does support linux, enabling that support is a choice by the game's developer). The main games I have noticed can't work are Fortnite (EAC), Hunt: showdown (EAC), league of legends & Valorant (Vanguard), R6 Siege (EAC) and PUBG (EAC). You can use protondb to learn what games in your steam library are known to simply not work.
Don't expect games that you own on the windows store to work at all (this includes Xbox game pass). Most of them are available on steam, but that requires buying them again.
Most of the other stuff works, generally. Valve's Proton supports a very large part of most games today, and unless the game you want to launch is very old or specifically doesn't want you to use Linux, chances are the game will work first try, especially indies. Protondb is a great help to see what parameters one needs to use to make it work if it doesn't first try. Make sure to "enable proton compatibility for all games" in steam's main options, otherwise it won't let you download game.
For tools that aren't on steam but target steam games (for example mod managers), you should use protontricks (it's most likely in your distro's package manager, you don't need to download it from GitHub) to launch the tool's exe inside of the proton context of that game (steam maintains a separate pseudo-windows install (a "wine prefix") for each game that uses proton). From there, the tool will behave as if you launched it on windows.
For tools that stand alone, you can add them to steam as a non-steam game and in it's properties, force it to use proton, which allows you to launch e.g. cracked games. I also recommend using Bottles to manage your third-party launchers.
most likely you'll be fine. You're unlikely to encounter any issues that haven't been encountered by anyone before, so don't hesitate to Google and to ask for help on various forums. You don't need to know how to program to use Linux, though it does unlock some pretty nice things (it also does on windows for that matter)
windows 10 LTSC will continue being available for a few years. If you need a windows partition (imo you only do need it if you want to play games that have restrictive anticheat), I suggest installing it on a separate disk altogether, because windows tends to not play nice with other partitions on the same disk, and will create headaches you could have avoided.
welcome! I hope you'll enjoy your time away from ads in the start menu.
I couldn't possibly care less about what a megacorp tries telling me what I may or may not do with information that can be copied perfectly and infinitely at 0 cost.
My latest project runs on a VM I use vscode's ssh editing feature on. I edit the only copy of the file in existence (I have made no backup and there is no version control) and then I restart the systems service.
So what if I mess it up? Big deal. The discord bot goes down for a few minutes and I fix it.
Same goes for the machine configs. Ideally the machines are stable, the critical ones get backups, and if they aren't stable then I suppose the best way to fix it would be in prod ( my VMs run debian, they're stable).
Literally all of these are anecdotal evidence. Youth crime is down massively since the 90's, and beyond the very real gun violence (for which y'all have tried nothing and are all out of ideas) none of the stories you linked demonstrate or try to demonstrate a systemic problem except the systemic problem of news organisations optimizing for clicks rather than information.
Moreover: even if they were disabled: does that somehow forbid them from buying things at the mall? Would it be different if they had different footwear? Are disability payments even enough for them to be able to afford to spend on frivolous things? Even if they are, is being disabled a good reason to forbid someone from buying frivolous things? If they're buying necessities, isn't it nicer for everyone else if the people who have the time to do their groceries outside rush hours do so then so the registers are less crowded?