TheProtagonist

Hey Folks, we have “AI” for you and you will use it, whether you want it or not…

Which Distro would you recommend for a relative newcomer? My PC was once “high-end” but is already a bit older (2016/17?). Still quite powerful, I guess.

OK, thanks for the information, that sounds really interesting. I was playing Doom Eternal and Metro Exodus some time ago, but I made a bread and didn‘t pick it up anymore due to a lack of time. Many years ago I was also trying a bit of Linux on a Netbook (small notebook). By then it was really a different world than Windows.

However, I am not sure how easy that is to manage with getting the right Linux distribution, then Wine, then Proton and then getting all tricks and tweaks right… - I am not a tech expert, so leaving a system that works out of the box is a bit of a hurdle for me.

What would be the best Linux „Distro“ (I guess that‘s how it is called) to start with? I would prefer if I would not have to deal with command line stuff… ;-)

What is “Proton” in this context?

I have a custom built PC running on Windows 10, which has no TPM and therefore cannot update to Win11. I might consider Linux as an alternative on some regular laptop, but I’m afraid that my games might no longer be running if I switch the OS from Windows to Linux.

even a scathing rant about surveillance capitalism becomes fodder for the machine, as you can clearly see with the ads on this page.

Ads? I can see no ads…

Never been happier to see some cookies (I can delete or block).

Okay, Orangeman! Now it’s getting personal…

Heylogin looks pretty cool, thanks for the hint. I will definitely take a deeper look into that!

Count me in!

That was killed quickly.

Not a mod, and not using the default app either. So probably this won’t affect me too much.

Used it maybe a dozen times in the past 20 years.

WTF?! „… force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list.“

Today it’s some terrorist / pedophile / fraudulent site, tomorrow it could be some opposition, news or whatever could be disliked site on that list.

Well, uhm… - it’s been designed in California, you know?!

I guess they thought it’s one of those porn sites…

Any plans for an iOS version?