I’m hoping they make a desktop version but I’ve been testing Linux mint on all the games I can download and I’m pretty sure it’s running better than my win10 boot.

So the fact that the other distros are an option that’s relatively accessible makes me think there’s less value to valve releasing the desktop version any time soon.

Luckily it only took like 15 mins total.

Thanks though!

Came to Lemmy while my disk manager is processing my new partition.

If it goes well, I’m switching today.

So, probably some time early tomorrow morning. Because I’m not great with reading instructions.

Edit: it’s still processing. It feels like it shouldn’t take this long to partition…

They’re not going away, they’re just going to be more persistent with their cold calling, and more infuriating with their call answering.

Most privacy plugins (even the ones that work less because of chromium) have an option to “auto-decline all” standard cookie popups.

I use ghostery but I think uBlock origin has an opt-in one, and almost certainly there’s plugins that only do the declining (if you don’t want the adblockers for other reasons).

When the voice assistant came out I remember one of my coworkers showing it off to another.

To which the other coworker just said “hey Google, text Mom saying ‘you’re fat’”.

Because of that I’ve never had any voice tools connected to anything I own.

My point is that if my machine didn’t take 2-3 mins to restart (and all the usb slots were stable) then I probably wouldn’t have needed much more than the 30 mins.

Thinking about it, I probably did reboot about 30 times for various different things.

I installed Linux mint last night and honestly it was a lot easier than I thought. I work on Mac and game on windows usually.

It took a couple of hours (mainly rebooting my machine over and over because it’s so beat up) but the install and documentation held my hand most of the way, and a YouTube video covered the rest.

Now I get to see how smooth it is to use before I put it on my main machine.

A lot of people suggest a dual-boot (more technical, but it will run faster than virtualbox) as then you can just reboot the computer and use the windows “half” whenever you need to do something Linux can’t handle.

Just be aware that clicking the wrong button may write over the windows part of your machine. There was a lot of “are you SURE?” confirms first though. If that makes you too nervous, then maybe try virtualbox instead first (as the others suggest).

When I dual booted Ubuntu about a decade ago it took an afternoon and needed a lot of extra command line stuff to do anything.

Last night I installed Linux mint and it took about two hours. Most of the time was me rebooting my ancient laptop though.

On a newer (less worn out) machine I could probably do it notably faster.

Looking at the comments, it occurs to me that we’re not a representative section of the online community.

Were literally people who went out of their way to not use a conventional/commercial tech product.

I wonder what the % of people on here is who have built a pc, used a raspberry pi or installed Linux compared to the outside world.

If you just get the free tier it’s like 100 searches a month.

Give it a try and compare the results to what you’d get from google. I like it a lot. I think I’ve had it (at unlimited tier) for a year.

Gentrification came for flavortown.

Rent is now $4000/mth. No loitering.

Oh no!

I’m still on Lemmy!

/s

Fox news will call them the calculus mafia in no time.

A lot of contracts have an exclusivity clause. So in that case they’d be vulnerable to breach of contract lawsuit.

I like the look of the stencil/shape left behind by a removed logo.

Feels rebellious.

“Shagger Mike’s Stag-do '14” above a penis with a top hat.

HR: “This guy’s exec material”

He doesn’t post on twitter any more I think. Just his own site.

I think it’s going to be only accurate on specific types of behaviour, and will fall away exponentially as the kids age.

I’m not saying it always goes to zero but seeing my parents with their parents makes me think it’s possible to actually go negative.

Depends if someone has had a firm word with the judge about what is going to happen.