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My guess is that even if she did, those friends wouldn’t want their intimate relationships sold for capital.

Yeah I mean, rule 1 is that it needs to run Linux, so I don’t think a microcontroller like an ESP or Arduino is going to qualify…

Because lots of people don’t have an insert key?

If you wanna hard link a directory btw, use cp -lR <src-dir> <dest-dir> to do it. You can’t actually hard link the directory itself, only its contents, so this command will create the directory structure and hard link the files within them.

I think it’s still against the etiquette of torrenting as well. If you only download a few episodes from a season pack then partial seeding is fine, but leaving a game unplayable if you’re the only seed is wrong in my opinion.

That said, in terms of solutions OP, if you’re conscious of disk space:

1. You could hard link the files that don’t change to a new folder, then copy the ones that do change. Don’t need to change filesystems like the other person’s solution. Soft link will also work but then when you wanna delete the torrent files you’ll have to go manually copy the rest over to your install folder.
2. You could always try “force recheck” in the torrent application once you finish playing. It’s likely that whatever changes are happening to those files only occurs while the game is open, potentially even just locking them to read-only, and the torrent application won’t really recheck them once that happens without manual intervention.

Edit: tagging so you see this OP: @Ghost999@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I think that’s not quite right, otherwise you could say that Rufus is the same. Ventoy is a Live USB tool that allows you to drag and drop ISOs onto a storage device and boot them without needing to image the device at all. It has its own interface that it boots into, that lets you select which ISO to then boot up.

I think it’s a lot of things honestly. For example, it’s not surprising that education continues to be attacked so much in the US, as it reduces the prevalence of right wing opinions based off all polling. I think it’s a big cause of the shift to the right among Gen Z, and I think the only thing that’s going to fix it critical media literacy, which it might be too late for a bunch of that generation, and even some of Gen Alpha.

What I will say is that over the last ~15yrs, globally, we’ve seen a hard shift towards the right wing of politics. But a lot of that has happened on the internet in specific spaces where folks have been radicalised, and if you get into niche enough communities then you just don’t see it really at all.

Lots of good answers to your other Qs here so I’m gonna focus on your last one. If you lack in-depth computer skills as much as I’m imagining, than I think the best distro for you would be Bazzite.

Firstly, I’m going to call out the users here suggesting Mint. Mint is only a good beginner distro for people that are already “early adopters” or tech-savvy to switch to Linux for the first time. When I first switched from Windows 10 on my desktop last year, I tried Mint. Keep in mind, I have extensive knowledge of the commandline and headless Debian from several years of running a homelab. I found it completely intolerable how much wasn’t intuitive, how difficult cinnamon was, how much set up was involved in getting graphics drivers working, and gaming going. It wasn’t that I’m incapable, it’s that I don’t want my gaming desktop to require that much tinkering just to play games. Let alone that I can’t imagine how steep that learning curve would be for a casual gamer with minimal tech skills.

That brings me to Bazzite. I switched back fully to Windows 10 for several months because of how disillusioned I was before learning about it. Bazzite is one of a handful of distros that have taken the SteamOS experience from the Steam Deck and tried to build on/improve it. It uses the KDE desktop environment, which is super similar to Windows 10 in look and feel. It includes everything you need for gaming right out of the box, including graphics drivers already installed, Steam as well, all of the frameworks and compatibility tools you need already configured. It’s immutable too, which means the system directories are locked down so you can’t accidentally break things. There’s a unified system updater that cover everything. The system, your applications, compatibility tools, all of it updated with just one click.

As well, games just work without needing special configuration. It’s truly the easiest to use distro for people switching from Win10 that just want to play games with their computer, maybe some internet browsing and email alongside that. You also don’t have to worry about stupid codec issues if you wanna watch youtube or streaming sites in the browser.

Seriously people, stop recommending Mint. All the folks who would be okay with the amount of tinkering it requires have already made the switch. If we want the less tech-savy gaming folks to be able to make the switch, we need to be recommending something that will just work out of the gates for them. Pushing them to distro-hop is just going to push them to Win11. Plus, the more that make that leap, the more likely game devs will have to target WINE, the less games will be borked. It’s already pretty minimal though, especially if it doesn’t use anti-cheat.

Not that I disagree with the spirit of what you’re saying, but bluesky is not even close to a “massive” corporation. According to this they have a net worth of $7.23m, going as low as $600k in October last year. I know of plenty of local restaurants and other small businesses with a higher net worth than that.

DDR5 ECC isn’t as powerful as real ECC. It only requires 8 extra bits for every 64 bits of data, real ECC requires 16 bits: https://www.faceofit.com/ddr5-ecc-vs-regular-ecc-ram/

Because most people installing an OS on a device are doing it for themselves? I do think they should label the OEM edition as “Install for Family & Friends” as well though.

No, they’re included with, and updated by, the OS. But they are the proprietary ones that are available on Nvidia’s website.

I’m running Bazzite on KDE Wayland with the proprietary Nvidia drivers just fine. I think you’ve got another issue causing this.

Sure, and they’ll be pirating it, a net benefit if it reduces Microsoft’s monopoly.

MacOS actually does now support DX12: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-built-a-directx-12-translation-layer-for-apple-silicon.2391876/

Huh, thanks. That works from iOS to my Bazzite desktop flawlessly.

I saw one on another article here that was just a stock image of some penguins, I rather liked that.

I would potentially give Ventoy a shot. Since it’s bootstrapping the iso after it’s already booted, you might have better luck. Even if you don’t want to install it that way for a secure system, it might help you with troubleshooting, because if it boots like that you can figure out what the difference is.

It also just flies in the face of open-source, to use what was likely a closed-source image genAI to produce the image.