There are families with 4 children with a full time job that need to also maintain cars, a house, do taxes, estates, bikes, computers laptops iPads tvs, routers, electrical wiring, heating, water, aircon and cel phones among all the other equipment in the house for every day living like coffee machines, fridges, dishwashers, washer dryer, ovens and stove tops sinks and toilets … I can understand and respect that they don’t have the time to know how to build or troubleshoot all these things from the ground up and commit all their time to doing all of it just cuz they bought a slice of convenience. Cuz any one of these things they use daily could be used against them for not knowing how to do the basics of.

And any parent with stretched time I would not call that helpless. Parenting seems pretty hard. The feeding alone. And they don’t go out to hunt or gather like in the old days. If they picked only one thing out of that to commit their time and it’s to their family I’d say their priorities are correct.

It’s a computer. It’s a tool for some and for others: it’s a hobby. Your decision. you do you and whatever blows your hair back.

If you’re that eager to be crunchy and ‘purist’ about doing all the legwork of everyday existence go back to pissing in an outhouse, maintaining that just for ‘simplicity’ and take your own garbage to the dump, i think there are even communes you could join to experience that raw life but i still don’t understand this fear of progression.

Anyways point is: Gatekeeping is so cringe. And I’m saying this to you as a fellow Linux user.

We can be better than this. Be better than this.

Yeah I realised the only games I cant play on linux are the ones that really don’t respect my privacy/time/wallet so it ended up a net benefit

The fact that the extended coverage is locked behind the windows account paywall is known for a pretty good time already...

I had my first issue since switching just yesterday (I've been switched for a couple of months).

I wanted to run some mod installers for the old Kotor games but they're .exe files.

Only stuff I could get working was manual file-replacements and steam workshop mods.

Oh, Sims 4 fit girl pack Ive gotten to run consistently on Cinnamon. Feel free to ping me sometime if you try it and run into an issue, I may be able to get lucky with a pointer.

It's got a shit ton of expansions in it.

Edit:
(Believe the last couple of times I did the installs through Lutris. I just picked the .exe and used the standard wine defaults for the install, then once it's done I believe it worked fine by adding a game and pointing it to the .exe for the play file. Then if you feel like it you can switch to proton to see if you get better performance, but a Mint install with a Pentium Processor with 4gb of ram (HP touchsmart) was able to run it, so most anything should be able to use the standard wine setup just fine.)

I receive this error while running the setup.exe through lutris.

I also tried installing the version you can download through lutris which seems to only be a simsync app that never connects to anything.

Edit to add:

Drop down, change Z to X and I usually pick program files
(That should hopefully fix the permissions / "not enough space" errors)

Let me know what it says if it doesn't work

There was no option for X:, and there was no program files in Z:, however C:\program files appears to be installing, 45 minutes to completion.

Who's gatekeeping? You're putting an awful lot of words in my mouth. I'm pointing out that a lot of people are effectively gatekeeping themselves.

I think you rather missed the point.

Everyone has fantastic resources available to them through the internet that didn't exist in the early 1980s, or whenever. And yet, people with four kids and cars and mortgages and taxes managed back then. It's even easier now. The only obstacle to anyone is apathy.

i wanted to try out Nobara when switching having only experienced Debian before (not such a great desktop experience then). Now, since i'm already hooked on a Fedora-Spinoff, if the installation ever dies, i will go pure Fedora too, it's just a great experience

Now is the time to spread your wings and try linux as a replacement for windows!

Yup so far so good. Though there are one or two games I realized I have to say goodbye to but overall they weren’t going to be a big miss from my life.

Just a good excuse to start digging into some of the new games from steam sales that I never got around to.

You should be able to use those mod installers by running them with wine within the wine prefix Kotor is installed in surely?

Not sure about wine. Haven't used it since like 2016.

I'm running all my games in steam with proton. Not sure if that's connected at all.

I'm a Linux user since it was distributed in diskette images.

I use both Windows and Linux, mainly Linux, but I dual boot or use a VM sometimes because I need to use some programs which are not practical or just don't work with wine.

I don't see Linux as an alternative, I see Linux as different tool.

I mainly use cruciform (pozidrive if possible) screws and screwdrivers, but sometimes I have use flat.

No drama, no religious zealotery.

Installed Bazzite on my main gaming rig two weeks ago. Haven't booted win10 since, fantastic distro.

What's really wild is that not only are games good enough on Windows, but tests lately are showing a consistent trend where the two are often indistinguishable in performance, and where they're not, Windows isn't consistently winning.

If you're not into the genre of competitive multiplayer games that have kernel anticheat, Windows isn't really better for gaming anymore, outside of being more familiar for many people. Today we've reached the point where it's a few fps either way, and people should use whatever they want, but if Microsoft keeps bloating Windows, it might soon be that the "Windows tax" also refers to the performance penalty you pay for using the familiar OS instead of learning something new.

Totally agree. Which variant? KDE or GNOME?