Hey folks, I just got Bazzite OS KDE up and running on my PC. Being a Linux newbie, I'd love some tips, tricks, and app suggestions if you have any. 😅 Switching from Windows has been a bit of a maze with all the distros out there, so any pointers would be awesome!...
Bazzite is great but gaming is also great on any distro.
Alternatively there are lots of gaming focused distros. Garuda, Chimera, Nobara, etc.
The difference between them will mostly be the "out of box experience", what software comes pre-installed, and what package manager is used.
I recommended Debian or Ubuntu based distros if you plan to use anything else, as if the dev releases software outside of Flatpak, it's usually a .deb file.
Short version of this interview is that nothing is changing, other than they're going to be asking a flat fee "$5-20" for the app, rather than relying on donations. All donation platforms have been closed. However, if you choose not to, as Louis says "that's between you and your God"....
Yeah I dunno. I sent them $50 as soon as I came across this amazing software.
I think FUTO is trying to make FOSS sustainable by unmistakably asking for money. I'm not sure how much more effective that will be than just asking for donations externally...
Will they still accept code from pull requests from outside their organisation?
That's answered in the video. Nothing is changing. Yes, they still accept contributions.
Will any devs who spend a lot of time contributing get anything for their work? E.g. if I was providing time and code for a product then had to pay to use it that might seem a bit mean.
By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
I mean, there are better options, but you can also use Proton anonymously. Just have to use it appropriately. If you use it to send your name to the FBI, there ain't nothin Proton can do about that. Same if you link a recovery email linked to a personal account.
Have a win 7 mouseless laptop I'd like to put a game on and play for funs. Typically my go to game for olden computers is Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or maybe Civ 4. Any recommendations?...
How would you play anything on it? Steam is no longer supported. The OS itself I don't think is any longer supported? Are you planning to pirate them all?
I'm just gonna be another Lemmite and suggest replacing W7 with Linux 🤷
That's exactly why OP is asking for cool games from that era.
Except they didn't ask for "games of that era", they asked for a bunch of games I've never heard of, so once again, I ask you to excuse my ignorance on the matter. I'm not being contrarian, I'm literally just asking questions.
Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....
The Steam Deck works so well because it's dedicated hardware.
Lots of other hardware would not work quite so smoothly, without direct support from Valve. It's why there are manufacturers that make money selling Linux laptops. They have to choose specific components that are well supported on Linux. Lots of people experience problems with WiFi, BT, Ethernet, audio, fingerprint readers, etc. etc. on Linux.
Not to mention developers specifically targeting the hardware, some even going so far as to have dedicated presets for Steam Deck.
And not to mention Valve's marketing presence.
And not to mention the lack of any official release of SteamOS.
As far as I can tell there is no good Linux client for HTPC.
Closest thing is probably SteamOS only you fill the game slots with streaming services with Heroic Games Launcher. But then you're going to be limited to 720p on most services, which blows.
I'm dual booting Pop_OS and Windows 11 for now while l try things out. I went with Pop_OS for the NVIDIA drivers, since I have a NVIDIA card. Installation went smoothly, but setup is where things started to get a little weird....
you can buy a prepaid SIM card from Best Buy with cash and a used phone from craigslist.
It's a good idea, but be sure not to share your phone number with anyone. You can't trust anyone not to add it to their phone, attach your name, email, and other personal identifiers to it and upload it to Google or whoever, to be subpoenaed later.
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I use Proton. But I continue to run into more and more websites and services that detect my VPN and refuse my connection, or just run literally 40 captchas in a row until I just give up....
A cloud VM running self hosted VPN protects you exactly as much as a commercial VPN with regard to the website you’re connecting to.
No. You're wrong once again. If you fire up a VPS and you're assigned an IP, that's still your IP, even if it's running on a remote server. It belongs to you and only you. It is a personal identifier.
Whenever you connect to a VPN, you use the same IP address the whole session. You have to reconnect to a different node whenever you want a new IP.
When you connect to a Proton or Mullvad server, you're sharing that IP with thousands of other people. We've already been over this. It's privacy through obscurity.
Your objections aren’t rooted in any sort of actual concern over privacy
Okay so it sounds like you don't understand how VPNs work and aren't willing to learn, and because of that you aren't capable of engaging in good faith, so I'll let you be on your way.
Tips/tricks for beginners
Hey folks, I just got Bazzite OS KDE up and running on my PC. Being a Linux newbie, I'd love some tips, tricks, and app suggestions if you have any. 😅 Switching from Windows has been a bit of a maze with all the distros out there, so any pointers would be awesome!...
Does self-hosted VPN make sense?
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Short version of this interview is that nothing is changing, other than they're going to be asking a flat fee "$5-20" for the app, rather than relying on donations. All donation platforms have been closed. However, if you choose not to, as Louis says "that's between you and your God"....
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By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
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What VPN are you using?
I use Proton. But I continue to run into more and more websites and services that detect my VPN and refuse my connection, or just run literally 40 captchas in a row until I just give up....