Yep, you are đŻ correct that this is what they did. Regardless of industry, is why unions are so very important. âAt Willâ employment is too easily abused, and even if this could somehow be considered a wrongful termination (ANAL, but protesting a companyâs social-political viewpoints is not protected like gender, age, race, etc are) it can be costly and time-consuming to fight it in courts by yourself.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world
on 09 Apr 17:27
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I feel good about cancelling my 365 subscription, and I will continue to feel good about switching to Linux when windows 10 hits end of life. Not giving this company another dime.
I recommend you to do the switch now. Linux is more accessible than ever and there is no reason to give them any more of your data. Also it helps you to transition step by step where it might take a bit longer to get used to a different way of doing things.
Does steam os have a regular desktop mode? I saw ETA prime install steamos on a mini gaming pc yesterday, but never mentioned using it with a mouse and keyboard.
Any regular desktop distribution is fine (fedora, mint...), if you have new hardware you'll want a recent kernel. Nvidia gpus can be problematic. You can always try the distro before installing.
ngl, sometimes it is. it depends on the game. usually the problem is anti-cheat, but Valve has been working on improving that with many games working out of the box today. iâd say if youâre playing single player games, once you get Proton installed itâs virtually the same experience.
honestly, most of the games i wanna play are totally fine and might run even better on linux. what is something to keep in mind is anti linux anti cheat: areweanticheatyet.com
besides, you can check www.protondb.com to get a rough overview of what you can play. out of all the games iâm playing only one isnât working rn, cuz the screen ratio is messed up (itâs a small rather unknown game) but really many games are fine. i use steam and heroic games launcher, and theyâre great. f nvidia tho. they can be a true pain in the butt (on windows too thoughâŠ)
Depends on the game really but sometimes you have to spend a lot of time & research on things to figure it out. Great that it is open source but companies like Microsoft also work to sabotage efforts at times. If it has multiplayer with anticheat, youâll prob find a lot more instances where things donât work or require more effort.
It depends on the game, although the overall situation has improved recently. Multiplayer games tend to have more issues due to their anti cheat software, which often doesnât support Linux.
I recommend you check these pages for compatibility in your preferred games in case you want to try:
protondb.com
areweanticheatyet.com
taladar@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Apr 22:08
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Most Indie games work fine. It is just the AAA crap that somehow canât be bothered to make their stuff work on anything but Windows.
I actually do have Linux installed on a spare drive. I havenât booted it up for a bit, but Iâve started getting used to how stuff works. I should boot it up again.
For sure. Linux has a lot of great apps but there are times where itâll become incredibly frustrating. For example, file explorers can be basic & frustrating⊠The best youâll prob get is Dolphin.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Apr 19:01
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Linux has the best file manager Iâve found on any platform: Krusader. It has twin panels, and a lot of the functionality is bound to FKeys: F2 Rename, F3 View, F4 Edit, F5 Copy, etc. F9 will open a terminal in the current directory. You can edit text files and uncompress zipped files from within Krusader. Iâve even done it on a remote filesystem over SSH.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one
on 09 Apr 20:58
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I tried this, itâs nice indeed. The layout will require some getting used to for me, but I like how it lets me add my remote server as sftp bookmark and open files from there pretty seamlessly, even videos.
Sidebar defaults are bad. Thereâs no home directory. How do you get to your home directory? Cmd+shift+H, but can you get there without that special shortcut? You canât see the file systemâs structure in Finder. The GUI doesnât have a way to go âupâ in the directory structure. I donât think you can do it in the GUI alone.
It wonât let you see stuff in like \tmp\ without a fight, too. I donât know how to open stuff in places like that without cdâing to the location in the terminal, and doing open . in the desired directory.
The list view is the least bad, but it gets unwieldy if your directories are deeply nested. Itâs also bad if you started in the middle of the tree and want to go up. Gallery and column view are really bad for anything non trivial.
I often want to see the entire file path, and it really doesnât want to cooperate. If I do find the file Iâm looking for, and want the full path, it doesnât want to give it. I donât even know if there is a way to get it. Other than like cmd+clicking -> ânew iterm2 tab hereâ -> pwd, which is not really that helpful of Finder.
Contrast with windowsâ default explorer. Itâs not perfect and I think windows11 made it worse, but still. Open it up, thereâs the âmy pcâ, click through to my user directory, music, some album, then i can click the top thing and get the path. I can also see the whole tree on the left.
Whatever I was using in Mint was similar to windowsâ Explorer. Had no complaints about it.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world
on 10 Apr 14:54
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I used treesize once to clean up my computer. Thatâs what a file system should be like.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip
on 10 Apr 16:58
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Isnât Windows File Explorer considered basic? It only just got tabs in 11 right? That and clicking on a disconnected network share would cause it to hang for a good few minutes.
It isnât perfect by any means, but compared to Nautilus & many others, it still has a lot of benefits that make things quicker overall.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com
on 10 Apr 22:02
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Iâve only used Nemo in Linux, but I canât think of anything Windows file explorer can do that it canât.
thefartographer@lemm.ee
on 09 Apr 18:32
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Iâve been on Linux as my primary OS for around a year now. Iâm still looking for a replacement for Lightroom and camera raw that doesnât absolutely crush any image Iâm working on.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
on 09 Apr 19:26
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msage@programming.dev
on 10 Apr 07:59
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Iâve seen people on the internet suggesting Darktable as a solid Lightroom replacement⊠I donât know anything about photo editing, but am curious - how bad is it?
No. Other than both being raw editors with DAM features, and looking somewhat similar, they have very little in common. Darktable is a powerful and flexible raw processing toolbox, that leaves the user in charge of their workflow and provides a level of power and control that few others can match. This also means that the initial learning curve can be steep, since very little workflow and tool knowledge can be transferred from other programs.
In my personal experience itâs pretty good, but Iâve never used lightroom nor do I have nearly any idea what Iâm doing with RAW processing, or photography in general, but Iâve been happy with the few photos Iâve put through it!
Yeah, so hereâs my general process batch-editing photos in Adobe Camera Raw:
Drop the contrast
Drop the highlights
Punch up the shadows
Boost whites and blacks
Adjust white balance
Adjust exposure
When Iâm done, I have a stark, professional looking photo to export. In darktable, trying this leaves me with a grey mess. Iâve also tried rawtherapee, but with even worse results. Iâm 96% sure that the problem is me, though.
It sounds like it might be closer to a 1:1 replacement for Lightroom than Raw therapee. (I havenât installed it, Iâm just reading the description. art.pixls.us)
swelter_spark@reddthat.com
on 11 Apr 03:56
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I havenât used Lightroom, so I canât comment on how similar they are either. But there are enough good options that hopefully anyone switching can find one that meets their needs. :)
I have, but with terrible results. Can you recommend some tutorials? The behavior of various tools always surprises me, coming from Adobe raw and Lightroom.
For example, reducing contrast in Adobe tones down highlights and shadows while doing that in dark table and rawtherapee turns everything washed out and grey.
Hmm, unfortunately I donât have any good recommendations. Iâve just tinkered with it until stuff I like happens, and itâs been so long since I used Lightroom I canât speak to specific differences.
With the contrast example it sounds like maybe the RT/DT tools are more literal, and Lightroom is more âsmartâ perhaps? I usually use the curves panel for this sort of thing, like if I want to bring down some highlights, Iâll find whereabouts they are on the histogram and target that area specifically. If I want a lower-contrast image in general I may compensate for some dullness with the local contrast and saturation tools, or if itâs the common scenario of a washed out sky, Iâll probably use a graduated filter to darken the sky without messing with the foreground.
Iâm just guessing though, so I donât know if this is helpful at all.
Iâm just guessing though, so I donât know if this is helpful at all.
Any information is helpful and I truly appreciate you taking the time to summarize your workflow. Iâve actually never monitored the histogram outside of snapping the photo, so that alone is a great suggestion. I generally edit by eye and kinda feel my way through, but using a metric sounds like a great idea! It also makes a lot more sense if youâre right about RT/DT being more âliteral.â
I know I havenât given enough time to either piece of software, but Iâve been so shocked by how little of my process carried over, that I kinda ran away in fear almost immediately.
The histogram is neat, I used to just look for âlump in the middle = good exposureâ but there are so many other way to make use of it.
Thereâs a panel that I think is present by default in RawTherapee, in the upper left corner, that shows a histogram, and when you hover your mouse over your photo, it has a sort of gauge across the bottom that marks where the pixel under your mouse is at. This can be helpful with determining which bit you want to target with adjustments.
Thereâs also a neat way Iâve found to get the most out of some imagesâŠin the curves panel, starting from the bottom/left/black, make the curve climb steeply where the histogram spikes, and then level off a bit (not totally level, but less steep) where the histogram dips. This seems to give more apparent contrast, without pushing the highlights or shadows too far apart. I hope that makes sense. Itâll take some trial and error but might give you something like what you were getting in Lightroom, with shadows and highlights both near âcorrectâ exposure, but avoiding washed out and dull.
The only hurdle here is design software. I use Affinity mostly and itâs great, but they donât have Linux apps. I did manage to get Affinity Designer running with Wine at one point, but it wasnât particularly stable.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world
on 09 Apr 18:00
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While I wholeheartedly agree with her message, the reality is that any employee that interrupts a company event to criticize the company until they are escorted out of the room is gonna be fired regardless of the accuracy of their statements. We should be appalled at Microsoftâs complicity in Gaza, not that they fired an employee.
I applaud her for her stand, but she and everyone knew this would result in her termination.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 09 Apr 21:02
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And we can be hopeful for companies to have solid principles where if they are accused of genocide that they reflect on their actions instead of firing, and hope for a future where thatâs the expectation instead of apathy.
Donât anthropomorphize companies. They donât have principles. Companies are essentially nothing but incentive structures designed to maximize profits. You wouldnât expect an algorithm or a machine to have principles so why would you expect that of a company?
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
on 09 Apr 23:45
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dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 10 Apr 07:27
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Coops are companies that are worth championing in a capitalist setting, no? While money and capitalism is ever prevalent and seemingly necessary to interact with for survival, itâs good to have an option like a coop. Or actually an open source based coop.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world
on 10 Apr 14:52
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Companies arenât inanimate objects. Theyâre groups of people. They absolutely do have principles, itâs just for corporations those principles are usually âfuck everything besides moneyâ.
wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org
on 09 Apr 21:03
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Not wrong there, though I find it humorous they expected her to apologize in the dismissal letter
I donât see the humor in it anymore. Whenever it comes to even admitting the crimes happening to/in Palestine, itâs always decent people getting the entire book thrown at them, while others who actually do something evil get off scott free.
You canât just ask for accountability for crimes. You have to kiss the ring and you have to be made an example of. What we are seeing with the response to student action is actually unprecedented and itâs genuinely unhinged. And itâs not just the US, itâs most of Europe too.
Itâs not enough that our brothers and sisters in Palestine are getting rounded up and massacred. You have to support it with every fiber of your being or youâre a terrorist. After planing my whole life to move to the West Iâm now genuinely scared Iâll be jailed for thought crime if it keeps getting crazier.
msage@programming.dev
on 10 Apr 08:03
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I know thatâs not the intention, but saying it like that slides into apology territory.
We should be absolutely appalled at the firing, maybe to a lesser extent, but there is no better time to point out this than during a big event.
Itâs kinda like saying âprotestors should not disrupt public spacesâ, like they have done everything else, what else do people need to wake up and draw the line?
No. Absolutely fuck everything about your argument against the fired employee. We should be appalled at her termination as well as Microsoftâs atrocities.
Did you mean to say we shouldnât be surprised that she got fired, or do you truly believe nobody should be appalled at Microsoftâs decision to fire her?
No. It may involve the expectation of consequences, for the sake of planning for retaliation, but anybody who condemns atrocities should also oppose retaliation against the condemnation.
Maybe some folks commit civil disobedience with the intention of voluntarily facing the consequences, but thatâs entirely up to those individuals. Even in that case, they then depend on the broader society supporting their disobedience and demanding their retaliators back down.
Absolutely fuck everything about this âwell they had it comingâ apologia mindset.
Name a job where interrupting a CEOâs presentation in public wouldnât be a terminable offense. What employee handbook says âIf youâve exhausted all other internal channels and are unhappy with the companyâs direction, just call out the boss in front of thousands of people and there wonât be consequences.â
If your company is that evil and unsettling to change, you call them out and resign. Calling them out but still wanting to be paid is saying youâre okay with taking blood money as long as youâre saying itâs bad.
I donât give a tenth of a ratâs shit. People gotta have a place to live, food to eat, and healthcare, and all of those require employment. Unless you can show me another employer in her field who isnât committing or aiding atrocities, which Iâm confident you cannot.
" It is also concerning that you have not apologized to the company, and in fact you have shown no remorse for the effect that your actions have had and will have."
SAY YOUâRE SORRY OR THE COMPANY WILL BE SAD
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
on 09 Apr 18:39
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remorse for the effect that your actions have had
I think they were expressing remorse. Just, you know, remorse about the killing. Not the loss of face to the C-levels.
Look it isnât that I wonât consider not supporting genocide, it is that your tone and the manner that you bring up the fact that I support the genocide makes me feel bad so out of spite I will continue to support the genocide, and now how do you feel?
This is all your fault.
/s
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
on 09 Apr 20:44
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yelling and finger-pointing at the CEO before a live audience of thousands of attendees
oh nooo not finger pointing, thats so outrageous, unlike killing thousands of children
and making hostile, unprovoked, and highly inappropriate accusations against the CEO, the Company and Microsoft generally
the truth cant be hostile or inappropriate and the accusations were certainly not unprovoked
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 10 Apr 11:54
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Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 10 Apr 17:07
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No, sorry thereâs a meme going around online where the English term âsoyâ (as in soybeans; this term was likely derived from veganism where many vegans drink soy milk instead of cow milk) is being prefixed to nouns or people to denote weakness or just to snark at people, kinda like how people would use snowflake in the past.
Do you know the origins of that meme? Are you sure youâre okay with repeating it yourself, even if itâs just meant as a joke?
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 10 Apr 23:45
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Do you know the origins of that meme?
I thought I had already explained my idea of its origination, but according to Know Your Meme, the âsoyâ reference started around 2017 when information was hitting the mainstream about how soy contains phytoestrogens (isoflavones) [likely due to the rise in veganism at the time and people pushing for soy-based milk alternatives to cow milk and protein alternatives to meat] and people started to speculate (ignorantly) that consuming more soy makes people more feminine (but particularly less masculine). This may be true, but current itâs plausible due to a lack of sufficient evidence.
Know Your Meme then go on to explain how the term âsoyâ gets ascribed to a meme, âSoyjackâ, and how his effeminate male persona gets compared to the ultimate masculine male persona âChadâ.
I take this meme to mostly refer to how some people in the world are changing their worldviews and behaviors to disform with the traditional patriarchy and order. People are upgrading their morality, whether that means abstaining or advocating for not consuming animals for food, or championing equity and minority rights like womenâs, or touting the reality of the climate crisis and how we need to abandon fossil fuels in favor of clean energy.
This is in comparison to an older, narrower point of view that aims to regress worldviews and behaviors to a time when humanity dominated all other species on Earth (since weâre obviously better), neither women nor minorities had societal or individual powers or rights, or coal, natural gas, and oil are the best forms of energy because of how much theyâve contributed to humanityâs advancement.
People who subscribe to a worldview like the latter routinely would call people with the former worldview âsoyâ.
Are you sure youâre okay with repeating it yourself, even if itâs just meant as a joke?
I am fine using that term myself only towards regressives that abandon their worldviews or fail to practice their beliefs out of cowardice or a lack of conviction specifically because those people claim superiority over progressives. Iâd use the term on people who would call others out for being more feminine (i.e. showing compassion, talking things out before forcing people to do things, etc.) but then show those same characteristics themselves, often without them recognizing their hypocrisy.
So, I called Microsoft soy in this case not because they enjoyed relatively progressive policies on human rights for example, but because they regressed on those beliefs by foresaking them and firing one of their employees who acted fully within the policy framework Microsoft themselves had created.
We should not settle with only one side of the societal spectrum name-calling and bullying the other for how they live. All ways of life are acceptable, so long as they donât impede otherâs. Tolerance is not a paradox. It is earned, in trust, as a social contract. If people prove to (routinely) breach that contract, then they deserve no respect in my eyes.
I have no issue with calling people or groups or companies or countries soy in that way.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world
on 10 Apr 14:50
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They want him to apologize for calling out Microsoft helping Israel murder children.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
on 09 Apr 19:05
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Every mega corpo is infiltrated by the Israelis
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
on 09 Apr 19:19
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Do evil.
commander@lemmy.world
on 09 Apr 21:13
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Switch to Linux. Donât use Microsoft email. If possible donât use MS Office and if you currently need it, encourage Libreoffice, OnlyOffice, etc
JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 09 Apr 21:18
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Regardless of current politics, this is great advice anyways for a lot of people. These alternatives are very user friendly now a days, including many Linux distros. They will do almost if not all what a user needs. Few exceptions.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
on 09 Apr 21:54
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For Europeans the illusion American reliability is rapidly fading as well. If BDS is not a good angle consider cybersecurity as well.
In the past when Iâve had to migrate emails Iâll set up automatic forwarding for anything important like that. Then switch the services you can. Idk if something like that could work for you and it is admittedly a bit of a pain to keep track of. Could limit MS influence on your stuff though
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
on 09 Apr 21:27
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I guess most everyone else that works at microsoft is cool with this.
I cannot recommend switching to Linux enough! Linux mint is a solid, stable OS with a thriving community and ample support for newcomers.
There are alternatives to nearly everything, yes YOU CAN absolutely live without microsoft or google tracking your every move, stealing your data, selling it and using that profit to fund unethical bullshit. Take back control, you will never regret it.
Someone broke into my house on Tuesday and installed Linux Mint on my previously windows ThinkPad so Iâm setting that up with all my productivity software today.
Fun fact I thought that my sound card was just gradually dying because I lost onboard speaker output 5 years ago, and lost any BT audio output last week, but it all came back after Mint was installed so I guess it was just windows being windows this whole time. I honestly just accepted that she would never speak again from her onboard speakers.
EySkibidiBabBab@feddit.dk
on 10 Apr 06:41
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I used to be an avid Linux user a couple of years back â but had to move to macos due to work. I however soon have the freedom to move back soon. Just out of cursiosity, do you know why people are recommending Mint over Ubuntu now?
I have no horse in the race, iâm just curious what changed as when i used Linux last time you would be recommended Ubuntu 95% of the time.
Ubuntu is run by Canonical and people have mixed opinions about them. It mostly stems from their insistence on using snaps to run apps when other versions are supposedly faster (flatpack).
I think thatâs the biggest issue otherwise Ubuntu is fine and I use it on all my VMs.
EySkibidiBabBab@feddit.dk
on 10 Apr 07:15
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Thereâs more. When you get away from Windows, you want to get away from ads. But Ubuntu is a commercial package that will remind you gently on occasion of this and include an ad for its own paid plan.
Mint is Ubuntu with the icky proprietary Canonical stuff removed and with an extra layer of polish.
Mint Cinnamon even has a windows-like desktop/taskbar-like setup out of the box. I donât know of any reason I might recommend somebody replace windows with Ubuntu rather than Mint.
Ventoy is entirely unrelated to preserving user data. Itâs just a tool that lets you drag-and-drop multiple ISOs onto a flash drive without having to image it every time.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website
on 11 Apr 03:34
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Sue the company and bring the details in to a the court of law.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
on 10 Apr 18:05
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Washington is an at-will employment state. Businesses may fire any employee at any time, for any or no reason, as long as they are not violating any employee protection laws. Speech is not protected.
Retaliatory firing can still be sued, problem is proving it of course.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
on 11 Apr 02:29
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According to the state of WA dept of labor and industries these constitute retaliation:
Retaliation
An employer cannot take adverse actions against an employee who exercises a protected right, files or intends to file a complaint, or who has discussed potential violations of their rights. Prohibited adverse actions may include:
Terminating, suspending, demoting, or denying a promotion.
Reducing hours or altering the employeeâs work schedule.
Reducing the employeeâs rate of pay.
Threatening to take, or taking action, based upon the immigration status of an employee or an employeeâs family member.
Subjecting the employee to discipline, including write-ups, verbal warnings, points, etc.
SulaymanF@lemmy.world
on 10 Apr 20:43
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IBM had a role in the holocaust. Those numbers tattooed on everyone in the concentration camp? Those were IBM ID numbers for the punch cards.
If IBM staff protested about their role, itâs been lost to history. But itâs repeating today with Gaza and the staff who speak out are being demonized. Israelâs Lavender AI is being used to kill civilians. History will prove this woman and the other employees right in the end.
Ironic because Thinkpad T- and P-series laptops are some of the most robust machines you can get for a reasonable price these days.
Of course, the IBM that launched the Thinkpad line is a completely different company than the IBM that helped commit WWII atrocities⊠But it doesnât matter anyway because they sold the entire PC division to Lenovo 20 years ago.
Microsoft will feel the wrat of Europe. Many people are switching to Linux. Even (local) governments with thousants of employees. This all together will have hudge implications in the next few years.
I mean no offense here. But Microsoft isnât an OS company anymore they are an AI company. They have moved a lot of things to the web and they deal with orgs rather than end users.
PS. I want your statement to be true.
vegantomato@lemmy.world
on 10 Apr 21:02
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Hopefully they will find better jobs with better employers.
For everyone who uses Windows, try Linux. Donât be scared to try something new, most things that are worthwhile come with some sacrifice. Sometimes, if we donât leave our comfort zone, we miss out.
I will provide a small guide, but there are tons of resources on the internet.
See the ranking on the right hand side here: distrowatch.com You can pick something from there on the top of the list.
Watch YouTube to learn more about each Linux distro that you find interesting.
I personally would recommend Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distros, as they have the widest support.
You donât have to wipe your Windows-installation completely, instead you can dual-boot. This allows you to pick Windows or Linux when you start your computer. If you feel comfortable switching entirely, you can wipe out Windows and keep Linux exclusively.
Just be careful when you partition your drive, donât accidentally overwrite your Windows installation (if thatâs not what you want to do). Make a backup copy of your most important files on a separate external drive before the installation.
MetalMachine@feddit.nl
on 11 Apr 05:52
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Linux being better than ever couldnât have come at a better time.
Yeah Iâm almost exclusively buying indie now. The enshittification of a lot of the games released by the big studios has also gone a long way in helping me not want them!
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We have reviewed our internal policies and found our employees do not share the same values as us.
Yep, you are đŻ correct that this is what they did. Regardless of industry, is why unions are so very important. âAt Willâ employment is too easily abused, and even if this could somehow be considered a wrongful termination (ANAL, but protesting a companyâs social-political viewpoints is not protected like gender, age, race, etc are) it can be costly and time-consuming to fight it in courts by yourself.
Unions, unions, unions⊠In Steve Ballmerâs voice.
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I feel good about cancelling my 365 subscription, and I will continue to feel good about switching to Linux when windows 10 hits end of life. Not giving this company another dime.
I recommend you to do the switch now. Linux is more accessible than ever and there is no reason to give them any more of your data. Also it helps you to transition step by step where it might take a bit longer to get used to a different way of doing things.
Iâve been considering Linux for a while now, but I play games between 4 and 8 hours pr day. Is Linux and gaming still a problem or?
Use SteamOS. Your use case requires it.
Does steam os have a regular desktop mode? I saw ETA prime install steamos on a mini gaming pc yesterday, but never mentioned using it with a mouse and keyboard.
Do not get steamos lol.
Any regular desktop distribution is fine (fedora, mint...), if you have new hardware you'll want a recent kernel. Nvidia gpus can be problematic. You can always try the distro before installing.
ngl, sometimes it is. it depends on the game. usually the problem is anti-cheat, but Valve has been working on improving that with many games working out of the box today. iâd say if youâre playing single player games, once you get Proton installed itâs virtually the same experience.
check out www.protondb.com
if your games are gold or above on there, iâd go ahead and pull the trigger.
Depends on the game and your hardware. Most games runs just fine under proton. Valve have done a great job there.
Hardware has never been an issue for me but I read here somewhere that they had 10-15% less performance on Linux. ymmw.
honestly, most of the games i wanna play are totally fine and might run even better on linux. what is something to keep in mind is anti linux anti cheat: areweanticheatyet.com besides, you can check www.protondb.com to get a rough overview of what you can play. out of all the games iâm playing only one isnât working rn, cuz the screen ratio is messed up (itâs a small rather unknown game) but really many games are fine. i use steam and heroic games launcher, and theyâre great. f nvidia tho. they can be a true pain in the butt (on windows too thoughâŠ)
Depends on the game really but sometimes you have to spend a lot of time & research on things to figure it out. Great that it is open source but companies like Microsoft also work to sabotage efforts at times. If it has multiplayer with anticheat, youâll prob find a lot more instances where things donât work or require more effort.
It depends on the game, although the overall situation has improved recently. Multiplayer games tend to have more issues due to their anti cheat software, which often doesnât support Linux.
I recommend you check these pages for compatibility in your preferred games in case you want to try:
Most Indie games work fine. It is just the AAA crap that somehow canât be bothered to make their stuff work on anything but Windows.
Nope, look into Bazzite for an easy Linux distro to set up
I actually do have Linux installed on a spare drive. I havenât booted it up for a bit, but Iâve started getting used to how stuff works. I should boot it up again.
I know this is unsolicited advice, so feel free to ignore me, but I am an expert on these things so hereâs my take:
Before you switch to Linux, start switching your apps to ones that you know will work on Linux. Itâll make the process much easier for ya! :-)
For sure. Linux has a lot of great apps but there are times where itâll become incredibly frustrating. For example, file explorers can be basic & frustrating⊠The best youâll prob get is Dolphin.
Linux has the best file manager Iâve found on any platform: Krusader. It has twin panels, and a lot of the functionality is bound to FKeys: F2 Rename, F3 View, F4 Edit, F5 Copy, etc. F9 will open a terminal in the current directory. You can edit text files and uncompress zipped files from within Krusader. Iâve even done it on a remote filesystem over SSH.
Iâm have to give this a look!
I tried this, itâs nice indeed. The layout will require some getting used to for me, but I like how it lets me add my remote server as sftp bookmark and open files from there pretty seamlessly, even videos.
I still contend that the best file browser ever made is the macOS Finder. When someone makes something that good for Linux, Iâll be very happy
What. What?? Finder is the fucking worst. It doesnât have a sensible tree view, does it?
seems sensible to me? its not amazing but i dont mind it ⊠what doesnt work for you?
Sidebar defaults are bad. Thereâs no home directory. How do you get to your home directory? Cmd+shift+H, but can you get there without that special shortcut? You canât see the file systemâs structure in Finder. The GUI doesnât have a way to go âupâ in the directory structure. I donât think you can do it in the GUI alone.
It wonât let you see stuff in like \tmp\ without a fight, too. I donât know how to open stuff in places like that without
cdâing to the location in the terminal, and doingopen .in the desired directory.The list view is the least bad, but it gets unwieldy if your directories are deeply nested. Itâs also bad if you started in the middle of the tree and want to go up. Gallery and column view are really bad for anything non trivial.
I often want to see the entire file path, and it really doesnât want to cooperate. If I do find the file Iâm looking for, and want the full path, it doesnât want to give it. I donât even know if there is a way to get it. Other than like cmd+clicking -> ânew iterm2 tab hereâ ->
pwd, which is not really that helpful of Finder.Contrast with windowsâ default explorer. Itâs not perfect and I think windows11 made it worse, but still. Open it up, thereâs the âmy pcâ, click through to my user directory, music, some album, then i can click the top thing and get the path. I can also see the whole tree on the left.
Whatever I was using in Mint was similar to windowsâ Explorer. Had no complaints about it.
You really donât know how to use macOS, lol
Please. Elaborate.
Genuine question, is this trolling or do you seriously believe this?
Is it that outlandish that someone can appreciate a piece of closed-source software?
Appreciate isnât the claim tho
I used treesize once to clean up my computer. Thatâs what a file system should be like.
Isnât Windows File Explorer considered basic? It only just got tabs in 11 right? That and clicking on a disconnected network share would cause it to hang for a good few minutes.
It isnât perfect by any means, but compared to Nautilus & many others, it still has a lot of benefits that make things quicker overall.
Iâve only used Nemo in Linux, but I canât think of anything Windows file explorer can do that it canât.
Iâve been on Linux as my primary OS for around a year now. Iâm still looking for a replacement for Lightroom and camera raw that doesnât absolutely crush any image Iâm working on.
Since 2003 here.
Best of luck in that case!
Iâve seen people on the internet suggesting Darktable as a solid Lightroom replacement⊠I donât know anything about photo editing, but am curious - how bad is it?
From darktableâs FAQ:
www.darktable.org/about/faq/
In my personal experience itâs pretty good, but Iâve never used lightroom nor do I have nearly any idea what Iâm doing with RAW processing, or photography in general, but Iâve been happy with the few photos Iâve put through it!
Yeah, so hereâs my general process batch-editing photos in Adobe Camera Raw:
When Iâm done, I have a stark, professional looking photo to export. In darktable, trying this leaves me with a grey mess. Iâve also tried rawtherapee, but with even worse results. Iâm 96% sure that the problem is me, though.
Have you tried raw therapee? At least for what I do I find it to be an excellent Lightroom replacement.
ART, a fork of RawTherapee, is also very good.
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It sounds like it might be closer to a 1:1 replacement for Lightroom than Raw therapee. (I havenât installed it, Iâm just reading the description. art.pixls.us)
I havenât used Lightroom, so I canât comment on how similar they are either. But there are enough good options that hopefully anyone switching can find one that meets their needs. :)
I have, but with terrible results. Can you recommend some tutorials? The behavior of various tools always surprises me, coming from Adobe raw and Lightroom.
For example, reducing contrast in Adobe tones down highlights and shadows while doing that in dark table and rawtherapee turns everything washed out and grey.
Hmm, unfortunately I donât have any good recommendations. Iâve just tinkered with it until stuff I like happens, and itâs been so long since I used Lightroom I canât speak to specific differences.
With the contrast example it sounds like maybe the RT/DT tools are more literal, and Lightroom is more âsmartâ perhaps? I usually use the curves panel for this sort of thing, like if I want to bring down some highlights, Iâll find whereabouts they are on the histogram and target that area specifically. If I want a lower-contrast image in general I may compensate for some dullness with the local contrast and saturation tools, or if itâs the common scenario of a washed out sky, Iâll probably use a graduated filter to darken the sky without messing with the foreground.
Iâm just guessing though, so I donât know if this is helpful at all.
Any information is helpful and I truly appreciate you taking the time to summarize your workflow. Iâve actually never monitored the histogram outside of snapping the photo, so that alone is a great suggestion. I generally edit by eye and kinda feel my way through, but using a metric sounds like a great idea! It also makes a lot more sense if youâre right about RT/DT being more âliteral.â
I know I havenât given enough time to either piece of software, but Iâve been so shocked by how little of my process carried over, that I kinda ran away in fear almost immediately.
Well Iâm glad that helps! I enjoy this stuff.
The histogram is neat, I used to just look for âlump in the middle = good exposureâ but there are so many other way to make use of it.
Thereâs a panel that I think is present by default in RawTherapee, in the upper left corner, that shows a histogram, and when you hover your mouse over your photo, it has a sort of gauge across the bottom that marks where the pixel under your mouse is at. This can be helpful with determining which bit you want to target with adjustments.
Thereâs also a neat way Iâve found to get the most out of some imagesâŠin the curves panel, starting from the bottom/left/black, make the curve climb steeply where the histogram spikes, and then level off a bit (not totally level, but less steep) where the histogram dips. This seems to give more apparent contrast, without pushing the highlights or shadows too far apart. I hope that makes sense. Itâll take some trial and error but might give you something like what you were getting in Lightroom, with shadows and highlights both near âcorrectâ exposure, but avoiding washed out and dull.
The only hurdle here is design software. I use Affinity mostly and itâs great, but they donât have Linux apps. I did manage to get Affinity Designer running with Wine at one point, but it wasnât particularly stable.
While I wholeheartedly agree with her message, the reality is that any employee that interrupts a company event to criticize the company until they are escorted out of the room is gonna be fired regardless of the accuracy of their statements. We should be appalled at Microsoftâs complicity in Gaza, not that they fired an employee.
I applaud her for her stand, but she and everyone knew this would result in her termination.
And we can be hopeful for companies to have solid principles where if they are accused of genocide that they reflect on their actions instead of firing, and hope for a future where thatâs the expectation instead of apathy.
Donât anthropomorphize companies. They donât have principles. Companies are essentially nothing but incentive structures designed to maximize profits. You wouldnât expect an algorithm or a machine to have principles so why would you expect that of a company?
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Coops are companies that are worth championing in a capitalist setting, no? While money and capitalism is ever prevalent and seemingly necessary to interact with for survival, itâs good to have an option like a coop. Or actually an open source based coop.
Companies arenât inanimate objects. Theyâre groups of people. They absolutely do have principles, itâs just for corporations those principles are usually âfuck everything besides moneyâ.
Not wrong there, though I find it humorous they expected her to apologize in the dismissal letter
I donât see the humor in it anymore. Whenever it comes to even admitting the crimes happening to/in Palestine, itâs always decent people getting the entire book thrown at them, while others who actually do something evil get off scott free.
You canât just ask for accountability for crimes. You have to kiss the ring and you have to be made an example of. What we are seeing with the response to student action is actually unprecedented and itâs genuinely unhinged. And itâs not just the US, itâs most of Europe too.
Itâs not enough that our brothers and sisters in Palestine are getting rounded up and massacred. You have to support it with every fiber of your being or youâre a terrorist. After planing my whole life to move to the West Iâm now genuinely scared Iâll be jailed for thought crime if it keeps getting crazier.
I know thatâs not the intention, but saying it like that slides into apology territory.
We should be absolutely appalled at the firing, maybe to a lesser extent, but there is no better time to point out this than during a big event.
Itâs kinda like saying âprotestors should not disrupt public spacesâ, like they have done everything else, what else do people need to wake up and draw the line?
No. Absolutely fuck everything about your argument against the fired employee. We should be appalled at her termination as well as Microsoftâs atrocities.
Did you mean to say we shouldnât be surprised that she got fired, or do you truly believe nobody should be appalled at Microsoftâs decision to fire her?
Civil disobedience involves the acceptance of consequences.
No. It may involve the expectation of consequences, for the sake of planning for retaliation, but anybody who condemns atrocities should also oppose retaliation against the condemnation.
Maybe some folks commit civil disobedience with the intention of voluntarily facing the consequences, but thatâs entirely up to those individuals. Even in that case, they then depend on the broader society supporting their disobedience and demanding their retaliators back down.
Absolutely fuck everything about this âwell they had it comingâ apologia mindset.
Name a job where interrupting a CEOâs presentation in public wouldnât be a terminable offense. What employee handbook says âIf youâve exhausted all other internal channels and are unhappy with the companyâs direction, just call out the boss in front of thousands of people and there wonât be consequences.â
If your company is that evil and unsettling to change, you call them out and resign. Calling them out but still wanting to be paid is saying youâre okay with taking blood money as long as youâre saying itâs bad.
I donât give a tenth of a ratâs shit. People gotta have a place to live, food to eat, and healthcare, and all of those require employment. Unless you can show me another employer in her field who isnât committing or aiding atrocities, which Iâm confident you cannot.
Yes, there is nothing surprising about this.
theverge.com/âŠ/microsoft-fires-employee-protestorâŠ
SAY YOUâRE SORRY OR THE COMPANY WILL BE SAD
I think they were expressing remorse. Just, you know, remorse about the killing. Not the loss of face to the C-levels.
That is the real crime here âŠ
Embarassing rich people or losing profits. Their lives are what really matter, wouldnât want them to be inconvenienced in any way.
Itâs comically ironic that the author of that note thought the whistle-blower should apologize to the dirtbag for saying something.
If you donât want people to be upset about your supporting genocide, then please consider not supporting genocide
Itâs fucking wild how many people simply wonât consider not supporting genocide.
Look it isnât that I wonât consider not supporting genocide, it is that your tone and the manner that you bring up the fact that I support the genocide makes me feel bad so out of spite I will continue to support the genocide, and now how do you feel?
This is all your fault.
/s
oh nooo not finger pointing, thats so outrageous, unlike killing thousands of children
the truth cant be hostile or inappropriate and the accusations were certainly not unprovoked
Soy Microsoft, tbh
you are Microsoft?
No, sorry thereâs a meme going around online where the English term âsoyâ (as in soybeans; this term was likely derived from veganism where many vegans drink soy milk instead of cow milk) is being prefixed to nouns or people to denote weakness or just to snark at people, kinda like how people would use snowflake in the past.
I was calling Microsoft âsoyâ in this way
Do you know the origins of that meme? Are you sure youâre okay with repeating it yourself, even if itâs just meant as a joke?
I thought I had already explained my idea of its origination, but according to Know Your Meme, the âsoyâ reference started around 2017 when information was hitting the mainstream about how soy contains phytoestrogens (isoflavones) [likely due to the rise in veganism at the time and people pushing for soy-based milk alternatives to cow milk and protein alternatives to meat] and people started to speculate (ignorantly) that consuming more soy makes people more feminine (but particularly less masculine). This may be true, but current itâs plausible due to a lack of sufficient evidence.
Know Your Meme then go on to explain how the term âsoyâ gets ascribed to a meme, âSoyjackâ, and how his effeminate male persona gets compared to the ultimate masculine male persona âChadâ.
I take this meme to mostly refer to how some people in the world are changing their worldviews and behaviors to disform with the traditional patriarchy and order. People are upgrading their morality, whether that means abstaining or advocating for not consuming animals for food, or championing equity and minority rights like womenâs, or touting the reality of the climate crisis and how we need to abandon fossil fuels in favor of clean energy.
This is in comparison to an older, narrower point of view that aims to regress worldviews and behaviors to a time when humanity dominated all other species on Earth (since weâre obviously better), neither women nor minorities had societal or individual powers or rights, or coal, natural gas, and oil are the best forms of energy because of how much theyâve contributed to humanityâs advancement.
People who subscribe to a worldview like the latter routinely would call people with the former worldview âsoyâ.
I am fine using that term myself only towards regressives that abandon their worldviews or fail to practice their beliefs out of cowardice or a lack of conviction specifically because those people claim superiority over progressives. Iâd use the term on people who would call others out for being more feminine (i.e. showing compassion, talking things out before forcing people to do things, etc.) but then show those same characteristics themselves, often without them recognizing their hypocrisy.
So, I called Microsoft soy in this case not because they enjoyed relatively progressive policies on human rights for example, but because they regressed on those beliefs by foresaking them and firing one of their employees who acted fully within the policy framework Microsoft themselves had created.
We should not settle with only one side of the societal spectrum name-calling and bullying the other for how they live. All ways of life are acceptable, so long as they donât impede otherâs. Tolerance is not a paradox. It is earned, in trust, as a social contract. If people prove to (routinely) breach that contract, then they deserve no respect in my eyes.
I have no issue with calling people or groups or companies or countries soy in that way.
They want him to apologize for calling out Microsoft helping Israel murder children.
Have they said thank you once?
Was going to ship an innovative Windows application, will now stop working on it to focus on other apps.
Ship it to Linux if possible lol
Every mega corpo is infiltrated by the Israelis
Do evil.
Switch to Linux. Donât use Microsoft email. If possible donât use MS Office and if you currently need it, encourage Libreoffice, OnlyOffice, etc
Regardless of current politics, this is great advice anyways for a lot of people. These alternatives are very user friendly now a days, including many Linux distros. They will do almost if not all what a user needs. Few exceptions.
For Europeans the illusion American reliability is rapidly fading as well. If BDS is not a good angle consider cybersecurity as well.
One small problem: some services wonât let me change my e-mail for dumb reasons, thus Iâm struck with MS for now.
In the past when Iâve had to migrate emails Iâll set up automatic forwarding for anything important like that. Then switch the services you can. Idk if something like that could work for you and it is admittedly a bit of a pain to keep track of. Could limit MS influence on your stuff though
I guess most everyone else that works at microsoft is cool with this.
Saint Luigi guide us.
I mean this person apparently was cool with it for years up until this point soâŠ
I cannot recommend switching to Linux enough! Linux mint is a solid, stable OS with a thriving community and ample support for newcomers.
There are alternatives to nearly everything, yes YOU CAN absolutely live without microsoft or google tracking your every move, stealing your data, selling it and using that profit to fund unethical bullshit. Take back control, you will never regret it.
Someone broke into my house on Tuesday and installed Linux Mint on my previously windows ThinkPad so Iâm setting that up with all my productivity software today.
Fun fact I thought that my sound card was just gradually dying because I lost onboard speaker output 5 years ago, and lost any BT audio output last week, but it all came back after Mint was installed so I guess it was just windows being windows this whole time. I honestly just accepted that she would never speak again from her onboard speakers.
Now thatâs my kind of mischief.
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I used to be an avid Linux user a couple of years back â but had to move to macos due to work. I however soon have the freedom to move back soon. Just out of cursiosity, do you know why people are recommending Mint over Ubuntu now?
I have no horse in the race, iâm just curious what changed as when i used Linux last time you would be recommended Ubuntu 95% of the time.
Ubuntu is run by Canonical and people have mixed opinions about them. It mostly stems from their insistence on using snaps to run apps when other versions are supposedly faster (flatpack).
I think thatâs the biggest issue otherwise Ubuntu is fine and I use it on all my VMs.
Ah okay, thanks for the answer.
Thereâs more. When you get away from Windows, you want to get away from ads. But Ubuntu is a commercial package that will remind you gently on occasion of this and include an ad for its own paid plan.
Mint is Ubuntu with the icky proprietary Canonical stuff removed and with an extra layer of polish.
Mint Cinnamon even has a windows-like desktop/taskbar-like setup out of the box. I donât know of any reason I might recommend somebody replace windows with Ubuntu rather than Mint.
I installed pop os yesterday after repeatedly saying I hate Microsoft all week. Bye windows 11!
How hard is it to distro hop on your daily driver without losing your userdata/homefolder
Put it on a separate partition and you can easily keep it for each new install. I did that for quite a while.
Ventoy.net
Ventoy is entirely unrelated to preserving user data. Itâs just a tool that lets you drag-and-drop multiple ISOs onto a flash drive without having to image it every time.
syncthing is pretty great
Mint for general use.
Nobara or PopOS for gaming.
Edit - you know whatâs dumb about silent down votes? If you have an opinion, share it.
AutoHotKey on Wayland is my entry barrier. Not a fan of X11
Youâre a war profiteer Mustafa!
what else do you expect :D itâs always about the money, if not helping jews would be more profitable they would do that.
Textbook retaliatory, I hope they have a nice retirement
Sue the company and bring the details in to a the court of law.
Washington is an at-will employment state. Businesses may fire any employee at any time, for any or no reason, as long as they are not violating any employee protection laws. Speech is not protected.
Retaliatory firing can still be sued, problem is proving it of course.
According to the state of WA dept of labor and industries these constitute retaliation:
Retaliation An employer cannot take adverse actions against an employee who exercises a protected right, files or intends to file a complaint, or who has discussed potential violations of their rights. Prohibited adverse actions may include:
Linux time, nerds, who arenât already using it.
IBM had a role in the holocaust. Those numbers tattooed on everyone in the concentration camp? Those were IBM ID numbers for the punch cards.
If IBM staff protested about their role, itâs been lost to history. But itâs repeating today with Gaza and the staff who speak out are being demonized. Israelâs Lavender AI is being used to kill civilians. History will prove this woman and the other employees right in the end.
History will, but these people have made a stand, achieved nothing, lost their jobs and wonât be remembered.
Ironic because Thinkpad T- and P-series laptops are some of the most robust machines you can get for a reasonable price these days.
Of course, the IBM that launched the Thinkpad line is a completely different company than the IBM that helped commit WWII atrocities⊠But it doesnât matter anyway because they sold the entire PC division to Lenovo 20 years ago.
Is it though?
IDK, we should ask Alanis Morisette
No
Microsoft will feel the wrat of Europe. Many people are switching to Linux. Even (local) governments with thousants of employees. This all together will have hudge implications in the next few years.
I mean no offense here. But Microsoft isnât an OS company anymore they are an AI company. They have moved a lot of things to the web and they deal with orgs rather than end users.
PS. I want your statement to be true.
Hopefully they will find better jobs with better employers.
For everyone who uses Windows, try Linux. Donât be scared to try something new, most things that are worthwhile come with some sacrifice. Sometimes, if we donât leave our comfort zone, we miss out.
I will provide a small guide, but there are tons of resources on the internet.
See the ranking on the right hand side here: distrowatch.com You can pick something from there on the top of the list.
Watch YouTube to learn more about each Linux distro that you find interesting.
I personally would recommend Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distros, as they have the widest support.
You donât have to wipe your Windows-installation completely, instead you can dual-boot. This allows you to pick Windows or Linux when you start your computer. If you feel comfortable switching entirely, you can wipe out Windows and keep Linux exclusively.
Just be careful when you partition your drive, donât accidentally overwrite your Windows installation (if thatâs not what you want to do). Make a backup copy of your most important files on a separate external drive before the installation.
Linux being better than ever couldnât have come at a better time.
Everyone needs to learn about Open-Source, Community-Made stuff, & more useful terms to know
Apalling.
Nice
Suggestion if youâre still stuck on Windows (or use Steam on Linux).
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Ooooh I didnât know this is possible. Need to do it with EA as well
EA, Ubisoft, BlizzardâŠ
Yeah Iâm almost exclusively buying indie now. The enshittification of a lot of the games released by the big studios has also gone a long way in helping me not want them!
Same, same.