Glad you’ve enjoyed the switch. In late 2023 I saw the writing on the wall as well, what with Windows 10 ending support in late 2025, and I made the switch in early 2024. I thought for sure that 2026 would be the year of Linux as well, because why would anyone stick with Windows even when it was just forcing users to throw out computers without the right version of TPM, but also following with all the AI nonsense and recall and whatnot.

FYI, it’s April 1st in Australia already ;)

It’s “funny” I was just watching the Rorschach “do it!” clip earlier. That’s how I’m starting to feel.

I wasn’t trying to be specifically sympathetic to Israelis, I was trying to point out that there’s a loss of humanity living in a state of constant war and conflict. And yeah Israel is reaping what they’ve sown, but when conflicts last for so long it becomes a generational curse, (and this is a bit cliche but) in the “hurt people hurt people” kind of way. It’s fucked up. Shit’s on autopilot.

This is so sadly predictable, but also, that comment:

Speaking from inside a shelter as the sounds of missiles and explosions shook the city, Orly Hareuveny, a physiotherapist, told Middle East Eye that Israelis had become so accustomed to war that it was now a distinct characteristic of Israeli life - “the same as the weather is for people in England”.

Is so sad.

This is quite fun. I’m not quite sure why, but the bot I talked to assumed I could get a bath or something at the car wash:

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

He was, but then USA pressured Romania into releasing the Tate brothers and they escaped to USA. Although Romania denies they were ever pressured, the Tate brothers was accused of quite a bunch of crimes including human trafficking, so it is awfully convenient that the Romanian government just gave them up like that.

It’s a good point. And a quick search gave 60% or higher if one wanted to really sterilize. Apparently below that it depends on the strain of bacteria and how sensitive they are to alcohol.

True, but that’s straight Johnnie Walker’s red label whisky, 40% alcohol ought to kill any germs getting flushed down her gullet.

This is disturbing. I’m glad I’m on feddit.dk and I saw “my” admin (SorteKanin) in the comments of that “more information here” comment thread pointing out how that shouldn’t be hardcoded into the software.

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.

X-Mouse Button Control is goated. I probably used it on windows since Windows XP.
Now that I’m on Linux I use “Input Remapper”.