Monkey Island Fan - IT Specialist, Developer, Nurse, Sports fan, Gamer, Indie Developer and Board Game Enthusiast.

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  • You’re right - but I’d say things on newer windows versions are pretty much out of the box. It may ask for driver installs, but that’s often just pressing a confirmation box.

    It’s not that I’m afraid of the technical stuff - I am a windows sys admin and software developer. I just have bad memories of hours of getting drivers to work on Linux. I’m sure, that if I make the change and are happy, eventually I’ll take a deeper dive. But it takes a good first time impression to get there.




  • I really want to switch to Linux, but I’ve been told this before and then ended up spending hours trying to get everything to work, and usually give up … but it’s been a couple of years since I tried the last time, so is this the right time?

    I have zero interest in the technical parts of Linux or setting things up. I want things to work out if the box. I may have to dual boot because of WoW and MS Flight Sim, but if everything else works it may be worth it.

    Edit: wow thanks for the answers. You may have convinced me to try again.



  • Most programming languages uses = to copy a value into whatever whatever you put on the left side. You did it with TooClose, which you set to true.

    But when you compare values as you do with the if statement, you need another operator, otherwise CanReadThis will be set to true and the if statement will always run (or syntax error), making it unnecessary.

    Compare operators are typically == and/or === and some languages uses their own like ‘eq’ or other exciting ways.

    Languages and compilers works in different ways, but your program could look like this. (When comparing a Boolean you don’t need the operator, you can just write the variable since it’s either true or false)

    If (CanReadThis) { TooClose = true; }