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- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
Understood, thanks!
I think most games I play have Linux compatibility so this shouldn’t be an issue, but is there any other filesystem I could use for a shared drive where I install Steam games and access them from both OS or is it generally a bad idea and I should stick to one?
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
Thanks for the answers (and additional info)! There’s a lot of stuff I didn’t fully understand but I’ll reread through the comments when I have more questions after installing so it’ll definitely be helpful!
A couple more questions just in case:
If you go for Fedora, make sure to enable “third-party repositories” or “proprietary repositories” when installing the distro, as it is needed to install Nvidia drivers, Steam, and a few other things
I’m assuming you said Fedora as an example but it’s something I should do on any distro which asks that on installation, correct? And is there any downside of doing this besides maybe taking up more space?
Also being a “recent convert” and maybe having it more fresh in your memory compared to other commenters, do you have any recommendations on sites/documents/videos/guides I could use to get a better understanding of how to use Linux in general (or even specifically Mint/similar distros)? I read a few pages of TLDP’s guide but I realized it was very outdated and I might’ve ended reading hundreds of pages only to find out most of it worked differently nowadays.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
Thanks for the answers!
Also, when running Windows software through Wine, you do have to be careful of malware. Generally, Linux is extremely resistant to malware, even in this case, but if the Windows program you’re trying to run includes malware, there is a chance that it could end up doing undesirable things to your Linux system, or at least that it could infect or mess up your Wine installation.
The most likely way this could happen is if you download an infected file in Linux, then boot into Windows and open the infected file.
In both of these cases though, I would have to consciously run a program/open a new file though, correct? Is running it through Bitdefender first good enough to ensure it’s safe?
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
OHH dammit it wasn’t that hard, I really didn’t make the connection sorry lol
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
Understood, thanks for the clarifications (…though sorry but I still didn’t understand the “exfat is widely supported b6 “everything”” part lol)
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
not sure exactly what metadata you mean, i don’t really know well about NTFS’s advanced features. i just tend to have some version of windows installed in another partition or a drive and ocasionally copy files from and to it, never had any issues.
Mostly the common user-facing properties stuff like date created/modified/taken, did everything get saved/transferred correctly or is it just something you didn’t personally care about?
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
Start up virtualbox or any virtual machine on your windows machine and test drive a few different distributions until you find one you like.
Spin up virtual box again and restore your machine into it. You may have license activation issues but you’ll have access your data. Move your data out of the VM and onto your home folder.
My plan was to, respectively, try distros from live versions and transferring files by copy-pasting everything onto a different drive and back, are there benefits in doing them the ways you suggested instead?
Also note that win11 isn’t nearly as bad as people here say.
Ehh… I tried booting that other “test” PC that I have with W11 and I got a ton of random popups, plus I really don’t like the interface and all the stuff baked in like CoPilot and Recall. I know you can disable them in some way, but if I have to go through the hassle of doing that (plus circumventing the hardware requirements), I might as well use that time to try and understand Linux a bit.
Linux has malware. It’s just different.
First time I hear this, what do you mean? Other commenters said that the permission structure prevents them, are there malware who circumvent that or do you mean like phishing/baiting you into giving permissions to a trojan?
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
Thanks for the answers!
I’m pretty sure there’s no problem with NTFS on Linux now, but I don’t guarantee though…
I heard I might have some metadata issues due to it being a reverse-enginereed version, I assume in your experience that didn’t happen?
It surely can corrupt a file e.g. you run a document editor in WINE and the program crashes while the file is open.
So I assume I should still check for compatibility before running something that opens other files, I guess?
What you’re looking for is “Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 21H2”.
Understood, 21H2 and 2021 are two names for the same thing, correct?
But anyway, I don’t recommend regular Win10, just switch to IoT LTSC :)
Yeah, the options are in order of preference so of course regular W10 would be the worst option, I asked just in case I didn’t manage to activate it in time (are there any downsides to activating it with massgrave and the others compared to buying a key from… certain sites? It’s relatively cheap so I wouldn’t mind but if it’s exactly the same I might as well save some bucks)
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
1c: Firefox profiles are fully portable to any other Firefox install.
I knew they had an export/sync feature, but does it include stuff like browser history as well?
1e: Nothing. It doesn’t touch any of your filesystems unless YOU touch them. Don’t delete anything, and you’re fine. It should even automount your existing identified partitions for you to browse through.
I was mostly afraid of deleting something by mistake since I don’t know much about how the commands work, but by your reply I assume it’s not something easy to do unintentionally (?)
2-3: I wouldn’t even bother trying to figure any of this out, because Microsoft constantly changes their mind about this, and they’ll soon just force you into this abomination of Windows 12 they’ve been talking about recently.
Yeah, I’d avoid doing that too, but I have a lot of hoarded stuff and might still need a windows partition in case some of my friends really want to play something with anti-cheat. Of course, even if I do end up going the LTSC way for the main pc, I’m still gonna try and learn Linux at the same time on the secondary one, I know it’s just delaying the inevitable.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
Thanks for the answers!
exfat is widely supported b6 “everything”
Sorry, could you ELI5 this part? (and I heard exFAT doesn’t have journaling so a power outage could result in data loss, did they add it or should I get an UPS just in case?)
So in other words, if you boot from a live USB, you have to actually try to ruin anything on your disk - I’m having a hard time imagining how one would do this by accident.
So my persistent storage isn’t mounted by default when I boot from a live version, correct? And if I do mount something, it should still be ok unless I do some weird specific thing with the CLI?
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 week ago:
I posted it here because it had some non-Linux related questions, but where would you suggest posting it otherwise? Simply on !linux@programming.dev?
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- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 4 months ago:
I think they’re planning to take legal action, not sure through which means though
The union remains unbowed and is fighting to win the reinstatement of every dismissed member of staff at Rockstar through legal means and campaigning.
This fight is critical, if Rockstar can get away with this, they will keep treating their workers with disdain, disrespect, and subjecting them to continued illegal treatment.
Thanks for your time, and I hope this is some truth that helps you all understand what’s going on here at the moment.
I you would be so kind, you can contribute to the fundraiser to support those fighting their dismissal here: actionnetwork.org/…/support-rockstar-workers-figh…
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 4 months ago:
As for Ishii: “Social media was being social media” sums up how much you care on that front.
I didn’t minimize what happened. I just asked if Sucker Punch had any role in that since I wouldn’t boycott a game just because there’s assholes in its fanbase.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 4 months ago:
Sucker Punch fired one of their senior devs for a mario and luigi joke when kirk got got. EVERYONE was angry, the studio heads came out to say they stand by their decision, and plenty of people were keyed in to the hell that Erika Ishii has had to put up with on social media for daring to portray a female character in a video game.
(I didn’t know about any of this before this comment so apologize if I’m misinterpreting)
From what I read though, there were A LOT of angry people even because of the joke, weren’t there? I’m guessing they had to take a stance and went with the “killing is bad” to not get too politically involved. Which is still a coward move, but personally not something I’d boycott a game over.
What happened with Erika Ishii? Social media was being social media and I know that, but did Sucker Punch themselves do anything to contribute to that?
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 4 months ago:
Was this meant to be a reply to a comment?
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 4 months ago:
Different people, probably. And a complete can change a lot in 7 years (in recent times, usually not for the better).
- Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Bustinggamingbolt.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 49 comments
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 8 months ago:
I mean, they’ve just filed a lawsuit against Krafton, to me that says they’re pretty confident about being right.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 8 months ago:
I doni know if there’s any other freak sorting their Lemmy homepage to Top Monthly who just found this post, but I’d advise to edit it to let people know that even if the site lists more than 1M signatures the actually valid ones might be less, so signing even now is still a good idea.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 8 months ago:
purchasers have legitimate moral and legal grounds to demand that they be informed that they are buying a license, or renting, the game; they are not owning a functional copy of the game outright.
I’m pretty sure that’s already the case, if you read the ToS of most games.
Not that it makes this any better.
- Submitted 1 year ago to games@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Whoops, fixed. My keyboard somehow gave the blame to non-eligible voters too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Elon is supposedly on the spectrum, so he could have done it to show his excitement, without realizing the true meanings and implications.
And considering he’s on social media 24/7, he should’ve realized what people interpreted it as by now and posted an apology repudiating fascism.
But he didn’t, did he?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Reminder that ~270 million Americans allowed this to happen.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Holy hell what even is this? Are they really comparing those photos of Biden and Harris to what Elon did?
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 1 year ago:
Hey man, people can drive what they want, saying their car is ridiculous is not cool
- Comment on Never believe the hype. 1 year ago:
The person claiming this is @TheBestFigen. And who is that? Why are they reporting this? You don’t trust random sources on twitter for news.
Idk but they have more than a million followers. If someone with that reach posts misleading information it’s good to correct it.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 year ago:
I’ve heard of a club in my country where you put on a colored bracelet based on whether or not are you looking for a partner. Seemed like a cool idea but I think it didn’t catch on.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 year ago:
It does kind of have “We would have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids!” energy to me.
There’s no way they thought the PSN thing would’ve been a well-received update.