This, but these days I’d give you guys a better and more modern advice: find a spare device to play with Linux. Get that cheap or even free laptop from someone who cannot use it, because it’s too slow and unusable. Swap the HDD with SSD, if that’s the case (modern laptops have SSDs already, usually). Install Linux there, explore. Test all your workflows. Then don’t play with dual boot thing, don’t waste your time. Just forget Windows, you’ll be surprised anyone uses it, it’ll take you a year at best, if you can do all your tasks on Linux. Not all tasks can be done with Linux, but most of them, and more coming. The more of us use the platform, the more valuable it becomes for other developers to target.

As if the sugar water inside teleports there through a mere downloading deployment via Ansible.

Why not just do a sticker there? What an inefficient approach!

C’mon, installing Arch Linux was the easiest install in my entire life, and I tried all the major distros. The difficult thing is to set it up to your needs after you installed it, as it’s just very barebones.

‘You can attack the aggressor, but only target things that wouldn’t harm them. You see, they’re killing civilians and nobody’s affected! Why do you create problems for everyone with your fighting back? It’s unacceptable!’

I see it like that.

A tank can do nothing to a drone, lol. If you brought a tank to my place, it would hold its ground till the first drone visits it.

In my civilian perception, tank is mostly useless. Especially given the price.

Haha, I was quite pleasantly surprised too, expecting at least someone hopping in for RHEL shitpost!

Or Gentoo! Or LFS! Or Slackware. Or Alpine. Or NixOS. I use Arch, by the way.

They would dismantle that and would do Hatred From Scratch.

I’m running Arch Linux on my MacBook Pro 2014, and it’s so snappy with SwayWM, I don’t see any need for any newer hardware.

Thanks for explaining that! I was rather commenting on how it is for some of my old friends who game. I’m happy to learn that even piracy is better on Linux :) I may convert those to Linux then!

I mean, those people I know, they are not computer people. So, for them, having a computer is to play games. If they are pressed with money, they’d rather buy a better GPU than games. It’s not like these people are having multiple computers, keeping one to just play games.

Sure, I agree, when the money isn’t an issue, why won’t you just buy the game?

The pirates I know personally all have dedicated PCs to gaming. So none of them care about any files being stolen, or things like that. That’s not many people, so I cannot say it’s some good statistics. But I believe it’s true for many. If I’d pirate games (I’m not a gamer, and I see no point in not buying, if I’m going to play just one game casually), I’d do the same. Since my work PC is plenty powerful, I’d rather use it, but switch disks to not allow Windows to see it. (However, they are encrypted anyway.)

On the other hand, if the games would work on Linux, I’d rather go this isolation way. Sounds just many times easier to me.

Micro is somewhere there too.

Sorry, I fed the troll, but I expect others might find the discussion valuable then.

I’ve got a cheap old ten years old low-end laptop and didn’t know what to do about it. I installed Steam and played Half-Life 2 and Dota 2 (both aren’t very new, I know). They were very snappy. Also, I tried WarCraft 3 via Wine, and it was very good also. I didn’t know what else to test, but for the record Windows itself wasn’t very snappy with it.

If you’re not trolling and actually expecting some serious reply: no, it’s not a meme. It’s quite fast and playable. All the games that I tried were very playable.