oh great thanks for mentioning it, I’m behind a router so I thought I was pretty safe. Though I do share a place with 10 other people so who knows what’s inside this house.

I find that reinstalling and setting up Linux again is a lot quicker than Windows. I put Windows 10 on a spare drive fairly recently, and the amount of restarts it needs to get all the updates is flippin’ nuts. Windows nearly crashes for the first few hours, until I get all the updates installed and drivers set up. Too much background crap. In linux I can be ready in about 20 minutes.

All my equipment is 8 years old and I can’t afford a new system - not even a basic one. I’m permanently unemployed (until the economy fixes itself) but at least it’s put the brakes on wasted money. Now it’s just food + rent + transport.

If I want games then there’s Xbox and other systems for that, so gaming is not going to entice me back to Windows. Sure there are some games on Steam that aren’t on Xbox but I’m still finding dozens of games to play or replay on Xbox.

If I bought a new system in the future I’d put Linux on it again. There may be some occasional issues but it’s a lot better than Windows which I see as too commercialised. Microsoft wants me to use their browser and search engine, and any “free” application that I install will have ads and nag me to pay a subscription. On Linux I don’t have this problem with my apps and there aren’t any pop-ups except tips upon start-up. I really can’t go back because it’s not for me. I’m not a wealthy person looking to spend $2 a month on cloud storage or buy hundreds of games in 90% sales only to never play them. It isn’t my mindset.

Search engines need to stop promoting Reddit links on the front page. But they won’t, so I guess I’ll try to use Brave Search more often, maybe they will listen if it becomes a big problem.

It’s a pain in the ass when you want to run a web server on your PC. You have to disable SELINUX else the damn thing won’t let me modify html pages and show the updates. Everything is just frozen from making any changes. That said, it’s probably easier to do web development another way, my method is nearly two decades obsolete. SELINUX really pissed me off though. I wanted to test forum software on my PC once, and SELINUX was blocking me and I couldn’t figure it out for ages.

Debian, not a bad idea but where I live I have shared wireless only, so I’d have to install the wireless drivers manually using my phone to search for advice. Not even sure how that’d go. Easier if I had ethernet.

I like the idea of fewer updates and fewer bugs.

Crush microsoft. Smear their name. Worst software in history and it keeps getting worse!

Can’t you look in the mod log for this?

Play Anywhere means you can play some xbox titles on the handheld system, but for most of us this isn’t worth it. Very little support at the moment.

Maybe they’ll do that but here in New Zealand I’m not going to be streaming on my shared 100mbps connection. There are 10 people sharing the line it’s not going to work for cloud gaming.

See you in 2028 when the economy recovers and we all have jobs again.

What did the pandemic do to your brain and your sense of time 😆

I’ve been using Linux since high school (I dropped out in December 2006)

I recently got an old PC from a friend, it’s a 2018 PC and the hard drive is NVME. It’s at least 4 times faster than my “adata” brand SSD from my 2018 PC. I barely tinkered with Windows and gaming capabilities and pretty much installed Ubuntu within 24 hours of trying this PC. It can’t run Windows 11 and there’s no point in using Windows 10.

If you have $12 to spend then I can recommend a tutorial series for you which you can buy on itch io. It’s in ‘c’ but you can easily transfer the skills to Python and everything is much nicer. I only recommend c for foundation skills. I respect the old skool methods - it may open your mind.

If you’re still young then I want to convince you that it’s worth your time. You don’t need to be very smart to make simple programs but you can save yourself time and frustration by avoiding stupid mistakes. I know a guy in Australia who can motivate you on this, I sometimes voice call him on Signal.

I no longer prioritise software any more because I’m focused on simply surviving. I’m too old to care any more lol. That said, I do have plans to film interviews with people who work in this field. I’m thinking about doing code review videos and discussions about how to be a good programmer, but not from a heavily commercial pperspective (I hate those endlessly positive videos on youtube who want you to think that anyone can succeed in the industry and become wealthy). I don’t know how viable the industry is any more and I just want to make hobby videos and encourage people to find a path that works for them. I think gamedev is one of the best paths for learning software, unless you want to make web apps instead.