Now that’s just the “create casus belli” from the Crusader Kings playbook.

I’ve never finished Xcom 1. It’s the second part that much better that’s it’s worth trying it out still?

Fuckcars is going to love this.

Haha yes. I also love how polite Hoffman conveys the message that this is fucking dumb.

You tried Mint yourself. Wouldn’t you agree that setting up mint is exactly as difficult as windows? Only thing is that people aren’t accustomed to it, but it’s hardly more difficult. And those pc-illiteraze users don’t set up their PCs adter all I’d argue. It’s the pc vendor or nephew or whoever that sets up the rig.

Only thing is that it’s unfamiliar, not more difficult. But if that’s the problem, then it’s just ppl not wanting to adapt to anything for the sake of it.

Yes, I absolutely understand the challenge. It just sucks that corpos have that kind of leverage to keep people on windows. In an ideal world gamers would stop playing League after they go live with their stupid Vanguard BS, but in the end we get some rants on r*ddit and most people still continue playing.

Your niece sets her windows pc up herself then or how can I understand your example?

I think there is no general answer to “Is Linux mainstream ready to replace Windows?” because the use case is so important to consider.

If you just need a PC to browse the web and consume media then Linux is absolutely fine. This should more or less apply to a large group of users that don’t do anything else with their devices.

Are you a gamer? Then I’d say more or less perfectly fine but it really depends on the games you want to play. Everything with the new, invasive anti-cheat tools doesn’t work (e. g. League of Legends) but smaller, single player, or many multi player games do work at the moment.

Are you a professional or are using otherwise specific software? This is the biggest hurdle I see at the moment. CAD programs for engineering are a big problem for example.

And last but not least: Are you using periphery that needs specific drivers? Printers, audio interfaces, and whatnot. Then you might be out of luck as well if you can’t script.

The last two points are the only ones that would worry me when I won’t have at least one windows machine lying around.

This is more directed at desktop linux, but some solutions around the current kernel anti-cheat systems that lock out linux would be great!

So can we call them plasticles now?

Yeah well, I definitely spent the last two hours on that site.

That is the worst, most appalling name for that device.

Is it just me or are 60 million a ridiculously small price for that whole dataset?

What’s the difference between “fedipact” and “blocked”?