• TK420@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    As all the cool kids keep saying, now is a great time to try out Linux.

    No, I’m not recommending a distro for you, that is what DuckDuckGo is for.

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        8 hours ago

        Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

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            7 hours ago

            In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

            You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

            Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

            This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

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              6 hours ago

              Wait, they’re withholding security updates unless you pay? Hope they go bankrupt.

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              5 hours ago

              It’s free for personal use though. Canonical have turned ubuntu rather corporate, but let’s stick to the facts.

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                5 hours ago

                Fair point.

                Counterpoint: why should I be compelled to give Canonical literally anything besides using the package manager to say “I’m using your software and I want the update”? Why do we need this additional new corporate-authorized side channel? What benefit does this yield, outside the realm of profit?

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                  3 hours ago

                  I agree.

                  They’re a for-profit company, ubuntu pro is supposed to entice business customers. You and I get introduced, because canonical hope that we might use ubuntu profesionally and they gain a new customer. I don’t hate it personally, but I see why people don’t like it.

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            4 hours ago

            Can you only get hard by trolling? Or are you just really seriously lonely and depressed?

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                4 hours ago

                AIDS? So sexual frustration is definitely a key part of your pathology. Interesting.

                Tell me, how often do you think about close female relatives of yours? Are you mostly imagining hurting them, molesting them, or both?

                I’m betting it’s both.

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                    4 hours ago

                    I’m sensing genuine hostility here, so clearly I struck a nerve.

                    Tell you what, I think that’s enough introspection for today, I’ll let you get back to finding sexual release through trolling.

                    Honestly, I think that’s probably healthier than whatever you had planned for that female relative of yours. If this helps keep her safe from your instability and acting on fantasies of violence, sexual or otherwise, I think you should keep on trolling.

                    Godspeed my sick little buddy, godspeed.

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        8 hours ago

        Not sure I’d want to see that, tbh. It would only introduce more avenues for DDG to make questionable choices when they’re already on thin ice.

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      5 hours ago

      Can you run windows games on linux without it being resource intensive like using a vm or something?

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        4 hours ago

        Running software designed and compiled only for XYZ system is always going to incur overhead when translating or emulating to ABC system.

        Game authors and publishers who only build for Windows are giving users a big middle finger and essentially saying “You must suffer through Windows in order to enjoy our product hassle-free lol”.

        What worked for me (which may or may not work for others) was to wean myself away, at first with only playing games that were built natively for linux.

        Then moving the line in the sand to only DRM-free native linux builds.

        Then advancing to only open source games.

        These days, I just don’t even play games and I find that it really frees up what kinds of things I want to do on my computers, such as daily driving exotic CPU architectures (and also I have so much more free time for actual meaningful pursuits like learning new skills).