Same goes if you’re running Firefox.

I once had Hotmail take forever to get past the loading screen, then actually navigating my mail was hellishly slow. Switched my user agent to Edge and “magically” it loaded instantly and everything was snappy…

Had a few other sites do similar slowdowns but that and Youtube were the most unashamedly blatant.

If you ever talk to someone who’s worked in a place offering data recovery. They’ve probably met a lot of people who’ve gone through exactly that.

A surprising amount of people have put up this mental wall separating “SteamOS” from Linux.

I’ve had this conversation with multiple people and it’s being brought up again because of the Steam Machine announcement.

Some (very few) legitimately didn’t know SteamOS was a Linux distro, Or they knew it was based on Linux but thought it used a whole different user ecosystem. Like how Android is technically Linux but using it is nothing like using desktop Linux. These people I’ve found are more willing to actually look into Linux after someone’s explained to them that SteamOS is just Linux. And that there’s even SteamOS-like Linux distros you can use right now!

Then you have those who are hard-line about having Official SteamOS. And most of the time they have some misguided believe along the line of, SteamOS is Linux but Valve has fixed all the “Linux issues”. And for a lot of them you’re probably not going to get far convincing them that mainline Linux isn’t just endless command lines these days.

not wanting to go through the process of backing up files

This was a big thing when I was helping some people with Windows 10s EOL, A lot of folks just don’t have a 2nd drive to back stuff up onto.

As a compulsive data-hoarder the idea of having everything on a single drive with no backup plan, local or “cloud” based… Terrifying! You could write a horror movie about it.

As if half the games on the Steam store weren’t repacks of mobile shovelware anyway.

I’m seeing double here, four Linus’s!

From the devs Github

KMS38 has now been removed from the MAS script. Users are advised to use HWID or TSforge activation instead.

So you can still activate Windows through the other means in the script already. I dunno the ins m’ outs, of what makes one method better than another. When I checked it seemed HWID was the first option and the one most people use anyway sooooo…

I ain’t really knowledgeable in network stuff. I’m already a Mullvad VPN customer so I use their DNS but I’m not hosting anything public.

Sadly it’s kinda hard to avoid all fash software at the moment. It’s why I don’t want even more gaining prominence.

I’m sure there’s people working on better alternatives out there. Hoping we’ll see them pop up in time.

And Battlefield 1

At least EA let us keep 4…for now.

Because we need a lot less fascists and their software in the tech space.

Nitter Link & Bigger writeup on it

From personal experience…

It’s the last good browser base but all the good browsers nowadays are forks of that base.

Hopefully something other than Ladybird comes to take it’s place so we aren’t so reliant on Mozilla in the future…

I mainly got used games as a kid so I saw this screen far too much…

Also probably why I ran into a bunch of glitches, my earliest memories of playing racing games involved a lot of driving “off the map” before a new area loaded in. which sometimes it wouldn’t and just crash after a while. >.>

I don’t think the Windows 11 people are ever going to be converted short of some catastrophically poor management at Microsoft.

You’ll still only get a very small subset of people willing to even attempt to switch over to Linux in those events.

It isn’t even about disliking change or ‘using what you’re used to’ at this point, since Windows is drastically changing all the time (for the worse) but most people just get used to it as the “new normal” and we’re the weird ones for trying to actually take control of the situation, and look for better alternatives.

Kate & Micro >:3

It depends entirely on the game and yes some games work with EAC on Steamdeck but not on Linux desktop…for some reason.

Ironsight on Steam (before it shut down) didn’t work on Linux for the longest time, The devs eventually enabled EAC through proton for about a year before making it Steamdeck only during the final months the servers were online.

And even using Steamdeck=1 in the launch commands didn’t fix that game for me. >.>

Should note EndeavourOS is just Arch with an easier installer and slightly pre-configured with common dependencies installed out the box.

EndeavourOS + KDE is what got me daily driving Linux and even after using vanilla Arch for 2 months at one point, I went back to EndeavourOS because it was just less hassle.

I do it the other way around, If you can install Linux yourself I can probably help you without ripping both our hair out.

The other side of that ignorance is if you can do simple tasks they also assume you have the skills to be the next big-tech genius.

The amount of times I’ve been asked to make someone a website or app…

Being “good with computers” is always relative, and to most people computers are basically black magic.

Here’s some stuff I’ve seen other people do.

Had a coworker buy a whole new laptop because their Google account had signed out and they couldn’t remember the password. (obviously buying a new laptop didn’t help)

My mother couldn’t figure out how to hang up a MS Teams call so she just closed the lid on her laptop, which she still assumes turns the whole PC off even after explaining to her multiple times it doesn’t…

My former boss call me into work on a day off to “recover” the main software we used since it had disappeared from the computer. It was still there, an update had just changed the desktop icon.

And most recently a buddy installed multiple viruses on their computer after I told them to ‘backup their files’ before doing a clean Windows install. I had forgot to mention that backing up their files just meant coping them to another drive…they immediately started searching up shady “file backup” programs from random sites on the internet.