Heads up, your first link is borked

Take a look at Geddit

There, that’s the one argument I’ve been missing in my explanations. Thank you, kind sir or ma’am.

If you end up taking the browser route, take a look at WebApps

Tldr: something something Microsoft bad

Not anymore. Not with Winget.

Imma add TrackerControl to those already mentioned in other comments.

Edit: cosmetic change

How do you combat this sort of thing? Besides periodically changing your phone number, of course

I remember it being blacklisted in Reddit’s r/piracy megathread, supposedly they used IGG’s cracks or something. I, however, never had any problems with them.

Tread with caution. Use steamrip.com or other safe sources if you can, and if you have to use this site, at least be wary, read comments and scan the fuck out of everything.

I’m fairly new to Linux as well, but have some experience. I’ll try to share my first steps.

My very first step was gathering information: what are Linux distros? What’s the difference between them? Which is easiest to learn? There are a bunch of articles and forum pages dedicated to these topics. I learned that you can dual boot (i.e. no need to wipe Windows drive), that installation happens with a bootable media, like USB, and that gaming is generally not a problem. My first distro was Pop!_OS, which I don’t regret: it’s based on Ubuntu, meaning old, stable foundation, uses Gnome by default (look up “desktop environments”) which is gorgeous and very extensible, and had Nvidia drivers pre-installed, which is apparently a big thing.

My personal method of learning is as-I-go: say, I just installed Linux, and now I want to install Firefox. How do I do that? I apparently can’t just run a .exe file like in Windows. So I googled it, and found out about package managers, and how to use them. My very first command wasn’t successful, but with time, I learned to use it without looking it up, simply from recurring use.

If you do decide to install Linux, you may want to look up something like “top 10 things to do after installing [your distro]”, sometimes these help deal with some annoying quirks out of the gate.

If jumping into the deep end isn’t for you, then the best resource to find all about Linux is the Arch Wiki. Don’t try to navigate it from the home page, it’s like a maze. Instead, whenever you look up information, try to find a page about whatever you’re looking up in the wiki.

Here’re a list of things to look up for your convenience, to cover your base:

• dual boot
• desktop environments
• Linux begginers friendly distros
• Linux gaming reddit

That’s just off the top of my head.

It’s gonna be tough. Stuff won’t work as you want it to, and sometimes you’ll end up scrounging the web for hours because you searched the wrong words. Linux isn’t plug-and-play like Windows is, it demands a lot of attention at first, and maintenance later on. But at the end of the day, you’ll have an operating system that works for you, not the other way around. You’ll have a gorgeous desktop that everyone who doesn’t use Linux will be jelaus of. And you’ll have a deeper understanding of technology, which today is priceless.

I hope this helps you, even a little. Oh, and don’t pay attention to the snobbish Linux users. If at the end of the day you find yourself struggling too much, not wanting to invest the needed amount of time and energy into it… there’s no shame in coming back to Windows. I admit, it’s very convenient and easy to use, and with enough know-how you can customize it too. Just don’t give up at the first sight of trouble.

Good luck :)

I actually remember some content from the books contradicting the games. Like when in some book someone was talking about how cancer was long cured, and in Andromeda… wait, that might be a spoiler. Well, they talked about how someone died from cancer.

A great read indeed. It gave me a new perspective not only on the ending, but on the trilogy as a whole. I won’t be able to unsee it in future playthroughs. Thank you for sharing! :)

Everything made sense but OpenSuse, what up with German made stuff?

Technology progresses pretty fast today, especially where there’s money. Who knows, maybe in a decade or so it’ll already be possible, especially if this goes mainstream.

We may win a battle or few, but not the war.

For me, it was the very first Assassin’s Creed. It was the first game I ever played, when I still had a crap pc with an AMD Radeon HD 5550, bless it’s soul. I remember playing that game for hours, and then replaying it over and over.

Lately, I tried to pick it up again, and was hugely disappointed. The game didn’t change, I did. My standards have gone up, I got used to other games with better gameplay and replay value or something. It just wasn’t as fun as before, and I put it down without finishing it. A shame, though memories are forever.