How do you even get an installer for mspaint?? Like, I’m honestly baffled and intrigued at this point that mspaint is the “killer app” keeping someone on Windows and how one would even try to install it under wine…

I did a bit of hunting online and most people report no problems with the windows xp version of paint under wine, but 7 and later requires some tinkering because of missing .dll files or won’t work at all.

And here I thought everything in this comic was just sweating profusely, including the words on the laptop screen.

mspaint…? Is. Is this a troll?

Most of it works fine if the devs aren’t actively making it impossible to work under Wine, either as a conscious effort (which is more often than you would think) or as a side-effect of other shady practices like constant communication with servers for DRM that is poorly or aggressively implemented.

Check out Bottles. It has been great for getting stuff to work outside of steam - tons of options for different versions of wine and does most of the work for you. Although, you can just add any windows program you want to use Proton as a “non-steam game” in steam, and let steam sort it out with Proton. The downside there is that Steam will always be trying to tell people that you are “currently playing” whatever it is… So I used that for WoW (technically Blizzard launcher), but didn’t want to use that for just programs.

If by “port over stuff” you mean play your games, then you generally are going to do the same thing you would on Windows - go to steam, click the game, and click install. 98% of my library that I have tried playing since switching to Linux worked just that easily. A couple of games that I bought in early access or as soon as they released, I went into the properties for the game (in steam) and changed the compatibility setting to use “Proton Experimental” instead of whatever the default version was and then they worked fine. Disclaimer I do not play games that require kernal anti-cheat and have not for several years on principle. Many of those do not work in Linux as an active decision to block by the developers.

Now, if by “port over stuff” you are meaning you want to move your save games and the like, they might be a little trickier as the file paths will be different on Linux than Windows (because you don’t have the same OS file structure). You can usually find where they need to go relatively easily, and if you have been using cloud saves in Steam those should come over just fine without doing anything.

Sorta same, but my problems expand beyond just Mint… I had a lot of problems with Ubuntu several years back, so I was convinced to switch to Manjaro. That was an absolutely unabashed fucking nightmare. I thought I was either cursed or just too stupid for Linux for a while. I still don’t know if I just got very unlucky or if I was/am too stupid for the distros that everyone shouts praises from the rooftops for… I stumbled into Garuda Linux and it has been a dream come true.

Jesus christ my eyes are bleeding. What the fuck is even that?

Logical next step, build all the nuclear reactors in space?

Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun.

Can people please just stop with these terrible generalizations? Lots of windows users consider themselves “computer people” and tinker with their computer and solve problems. Plenty of Linux users aren’t doing shit but using it as it comes. It feels like a terrible rip off of the old apple ads “I’m a Mac”, “and I’m a PC”. It’s crap.

That’s new and exciting territory then, unless you play games in such an unhinged way that it seems normal to you now… lol

I’m curious how much better it really performs over using the windows version and proton. I feel like it might be worth a shot to see if the game just hates you specifically or if there is something wrong (and worth reporting if you have the time and energy) with the Linux native build.

I’d be curious to know what happened before this screen shot was taken. The coords under the mini-map are nuts, and I’m curious if the character was 'flung" way out of bounds or if it teleported there. I know the windows version had some weird situations you could find yourself in (or force yourself into) that would “fling” the character a long way, but usually put you though a loading screen that would get rid of the “momentum” and drop you somewhere playable.

Guess what I’m getting at is it might not be specific to the linux build, and might have just been a 1 in a million situation you happened to find on the linux version. The game wasn’t perfect so either is possible really.

No it isn’t. At the right-most side of the graph “unknown” is higher than OSx, and “other” is above Linux and ChromeOS.

It is barely on the graph at all, and really only in 2012 - I’m assuming they released some product around then that is enough like a desktop computer that it made the list but ultimately fizzled out.

They try to do it all the time, but there is actually some push-back from the law - google recently lost an anti-trust case, the eu passed laws to protect “side-loading”, etc. This new legislation gives them a legal backing. “Oh no, I’m sorry you can’t get your app store working on Android. We aren’t stopping side-loading or other app markets, we are just complying with the legal age-verification requirements”.

They already know the age of their users… They bloody well know. They backed that bill because it gives them a legal leg to bully out smaller 3rd parties and solidify their respective monopolies.

The entirety of what little remains of independent media discovered the apparent undiscoverable over a month before our Tech-corp’s AI super-intelligence overlords. Amazing.

I do like the look of that form factor a lot… And I don’t see any major red flags in the specs that make me think it won’t work with Linux… Thanks!

It requires every Operating System and “App Store” to know the user’s age. It requires every piece of software installed to receive the age-range token. It could be catastrophically bad for the open source community - the bill does nothing to define how these tokens are communicated and received. The largest players in the industry can use their market share to exert control over how it happens and bully anyone that doesn’t get on board. For example, Google could tie it to the Play Integrity/Services and effectively kill 3rd party roms and possibly even open source app stores like fdroid, or all side-loading entirely if it was tied into the Play Store enough.

The bill isn’t specifically a privacy dystopian nightmare, but it is still a dystopian nightmare. We need the government and mega-corps to have less influence and control over our devices, this gives them more.

I’m pretty sure I watched some random youtuber’s video explaining how circular this shit is nearly a month ago… I guess it’s 2025, so human observations doesn’t matter, what matters is “what does the AI think”.