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What are they gonna do? Punish them with trillions more in debt?

I could see that. His body is peak male performance, and his voice has somehow not changed one bit even though he’s in his 70s now.

Why don’t you like him?

This fills me with optimism for the future of GOG. While I do love GOG it does seem like they’ve been running on autopilot for quite a while, but hopefully with new management they’ll get to improve things for us Linux gamers. A native version of GOG Galaxy would be nice, or they could improve the API and development of projects like Comet that makes GOG achievements detectable ingame.

There are a few launchers that makes it easy to play GOG and Epic Games Store games like “Heroic Games Launcher”. It has experimental “Comet” support which means it records achievements and leaderboard statistics for certain games.

And it supports cloud game saves.

GOG falls short on the social features though, but it also doesn’t have “Steam Workshop”. So I definitely think of those aspects when selecting games to buy on each platform. But it’s not like all multiplayer games are unplayable if you’re not on Steam, although games that are built around Steamworks and rely on it most likely aren’t compatible with other platforms - one could call it anti-competitive behaviour by Steam to “trick” developers to only support multiplayer via their platform, but oh well.
And as for a lot of “friendslop” games, a lot of them have been made in Unity and are quite easy to mod with R2Modman or Gale which rely on the Thunderstore.

_{Sorry for the ramble.}

I knew I wanted to switch at one point before Microsoft ended support for Windows 10, so I began experimenting January 2024, but I quickly realized I could make do with what I had in my MX Linux install. Granted, X11 and more than one monitor with 2 different refresh rates wasn’t great, but by February of 2025 Nvidia fixed some variable refresh rate bugs that made Wayland primetime ready, and I’ve been on Nobara ever since. And it’s been incredibly stable. And there’s so much fun stuff to do.

I just use Virtual Machine Manager, the thing is that once you add the controller to the list of passthrough devices into the Windows VM, it’ll change (spoof? create a virtual device?) into another device ID meaning you then have to add that device afterwards and then you’ll be able to use the software to change stuff. Bit finicky, and it means it’ll have to be done each time one wants to boot up said VM and change stuff. But it works.

I have an 8bitdo controller, and the software for customizing macros and updating firmware only runs on windows, and I just use a virtual machine with USB passthrough set up and it works amazingly.

I did see this headline yesterday and then downloaded the 60 minutes segment using Nicotine+ which is a Soulseek client. I did look at an alternative to Limewire for linux called “Frostwire” but apparently it’s now just a bittorrent client, where it used to support Gnutella in the past. And finally I did find that the internet archive of course had a torrent available which I also got for good measure.

Ahh, a ~/.local/opt folder makes so much sense. I’m currently just using a ~/.opt folder, same purpose.

Woah, that’s wild. If you run the browser in fullscreen mode (F11) it’s almost like you’re running it on your own machine. Pretty cool service.

I guess in theory you’re right. If you’re executing code, you’re executing code. But usually when executing EXE files it tends to target Windows machines, but yeah, there’s no way of telling if it’ll recognize it’s in a linux environment and do it’s thing there as well.
Especially because OP mentioned he just clicked “Yes”/“Allow” to all the super user prompts.

Now personally I don’t run an Arch system and only install software from my distro + flatpak; So I feel pretty secure for now. But I can see that trend buckling as the AUR is already under attack.

Lest we forget about the Xubuntu malware thing that just happened recently. It only targeted windows users though.

You’re probably not wrong. The AUR has become an increasingly more popular target for malware.

I literally just watched this video yesterday which, as you mention yourself, talks about how modern malware will add itself to the exclusion list aka whitelist.

_{Anyway this is a good reason to try linux…}

It won’t affect linux itself, you can restore the bootloader and get into linux when windows does that, it’s just that it’s a pain in the arse to restore. But yes, it has happened not too long ago that windows overwrote the linux bootloader. Microsoft obviously claimed it was an accident, but they obviously don’t care.
And no, on a separate drive windows won’t touch it at all.

EDIT: Maybe it’s not so hard to restore grub loader as I thought, could be as simple as these steps.

Yes. But like @18107@aussie.zone said, Windows has a bad tendency to overwrite the bootloader, and that can happen down the road during an update of theirs.
That’s why people recommend using a separate physical drive to install linux on if dualbooting with windows, because then you choose what you want to boot up on with the UEFI boot menu instead which Windows can’t overwrite (yet?).

Eh. There’s also a bunch of bozos there that’ll literally rip 128 kbps mp3s from youtube and store them as FLACs. I saw it with my own 2 beady eyes right after the release of “The end of you” by Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante. So there’s no way of knowing what source they’ve used.
EDIT: I do like Soulseek a lot tho!

Thanks for sharing your thought process going through this. Theming is important, perhaps more important than we think of regularly, it’s actually one of the main things I enjoy about linux. I believe it’s also a reason why people are leaving Windows as it has become way too corporate and soulless.