…and this is the reason I added this to my root .bashrc:
export PS1="\h:\$(realpath .)\$ "
no more following symlinks on a remote mount and forgetting about it.

There have been some efforts to mitigate this by adding warnings where appropriate. But that doesn’t stop certain people from ignoring those warnings and typing “Yes, do as I say!” and bricking their install anyway.

Are you going to notice a decent performance improvement? Probably not unless your card or drivers are currently not working properly.

Will driver updates and configuration be a lot less of a hassle? Most likely yes!

If your controller works in steam you can install RetroArch in steam and it should work there too.

Great response, which also helps to answer one of the first questions from non-tech users: which anti-virus do I download for Linux?

I use Quassel, it’s been a few years since any major updates but it still works great. I like that it has a server+client model that functions like a bouncer so you can move between machines without reconnecting to networks. It also allows all the configuration from the client’s GUI so you don’t have to remember commands to change anything.

Sure, I’ve got some ancient machines myself but I don’t try to run the latest the software on them. Only reason for that is if you need to use them on the internet in which case for security and compatibility it’s better to use newer hardware.

um, isn’t it easier to just:
sudo apt install yt-dlp
yt-dlp -U

Just stick with bookworm? It’ll have LTS support until 2033. Though you really should consider replacing hardware that old.

yeah, back when I used nvidia I had to run their driver installer or nothing would work right, and of course any little system update would bork everything until I ran the installer again. Thankfully everything with AMD just works now.

Debian. It wont win any awards for fastest release cycles but it’s rock stable with great support for my Ryzen 2700 and 6700xt.

But what are the odds of having these issues? It’s a bit disingenuous to tell a large audience that this is what they can expect if the reality is the problems may only effect one in a thousand.

To clarify there are several very popular online games with anti-cheat that will never work BUT there are also a ton of other multiplayer games that do work great. You aren’t going to be stuck in single-player only moving to Linux, you’ll just miss out on a handful of popular competitive games.

Ocenaudio for audio editing. It’s not FOSS but it’s native, simple to use, and doesn’t have backend library issues I kept having with audacity.

Ah you’re right, you can rebind camera movement but still have to click to move. At least it’s not a game where fast action is needed, but hopefully they do add movement binds in the full game.

it’s click to move to target. you can set WASD in control settings though I think

I only got infected once that I know of. I had trouble reading from a floppy disk and so I set scandisk running on it and went to get some lunch. When I came back there had been a short power out and when it came back on my machine had rebooted with the disk in it which ran on startup and infected the machine. Thankfully it was non-destructive and I was able to clean it out with tools I had on another machine.

Same here, it’s less about the month to month technical changes and waaay more about general policy and major development decisions.

I’m not a musician but I recently stumbled across https://linuxmusicians.com/ which seems like a decent forum for people that are determined to make it work.

Have you tried Deadlock? Coming from Dota2 I found it pretty easy to get into even though it is FPS.