I could see that. His body is peak male performance, and his voice has somehow not changed one bit even though he’s in his 70s now.

Why don’t you like him?

This fills me with optimism for the future of GOG. While I do love GOG it does seem like they’ve been running on autopilot for quite a while, but hopefully with new management they’ll get to improve things for us Linux gamers. A native version of GOG Galaxy would be nice, or they could improve the API and development of projects like Comet that makes GOG achievements detectable ingame.

There are a few launchers that makes it easy to play GOG and Epic Games Store games like “Heroic Games Launcher”. It has experimental “Comet” support which means it records achievements and leaderboard statistics for certain games.

And it supports cloud game saves.

GOG falls short on the social features though, but it also doesn’t have “Steam Workshop”. So I definitely think of those aspects when selecting games to buy on each platform. But it’s not like all multiplayer games are unplayable if you’re not on Steam, although games that are built around Steamworks and rely on it most likely aren’t compatible with other platforms - one could call it anti-competitive behaviour by Steam to “trick” developers to only support multiplayer via their platform, but oh well.
And as for a lot of “friendslop” games, a lot of them have been made in Unity and are quite easy to mod with R2Modman or Gale which rely on the Thunderstore.

_{Sorry for the ramble.}

I knew I wanted to switch at one point before Microsoft ended support for Windows 10, so I began experimenting January 2024, but I quickly realized I could make do with what I had in my MX Linux install. Granted, X11 and more than one monitor with 2 different refresh rates wasn’t great, but by February of 2025 Nvidia fixed some variable refresh rate bugs that made Wayland primetime ready, and I’ve been on Nobara ever since. And it’s been incredibly stable. And there’s so much fun stuff to do.

In case there are people who haven’t played the over 15 year old game that is Fallout: New Vegas, that fella in the meme with the black vest and bandages is Joshua Graham, a character from that game.
He’s pretty badass.

I just use Virtual Machine Manager, the thing is that once you add the controller to the list of passthrough devices into the Windows VM, it’ll change (spoof? create a virtual device?) into another device ID meaning you then have to add that device afterwards and then you’ll be able to use the software to change stuff. Bit finicky, and it means it’ll have to be done each time one wants to boot up said VM and change stuff. But it works.

I have an 8bitdo controller, and the software for customizing macros and updating firmware only runs on windows, and I just use a virtual machine with USB passthrough set up and it works amazingly.

Ok yeah, that’s awfully convenient, but also, you’d think a judge was smarter than to ride a donor- motorcycle.

The history of insulin is exactly that. Although it’s not attributed to a single person but a few.

6 years ago when Outer Worlds released, I paid for one month of Game Pass, then cancelled it after 2 or 3 weeks or so when I had finished the game and got my money back. It was just a trial, like $2 or so, and it wasn’t like I was buying the game, it just so happened that when I clicked cancel it asked me why I was cancelling, and when I clicked “financial reasons” they gave me the option to refund. So I don’t feel like it was abusing the service, I genuinely only wanted to pay for that one month anyway.

But abusing GOG? That’s where I draw the line.
In theory, if you pay for the game there, you can download the installed which is DRM free, and without playing it you could refund it, and GOG Galaxy wouldn’t count any played hours. Although you’d need a pretty good internet connection to download that beefy installer, it’s not a small game.

Sure: https://i.redd.it/4vwc2telggr21.gif

I downloaded it. It’s a 39 MB real GIF, 60 by 60 pixels at 10 fps. When I open it in MPV it’s pretty much exactly 1 hour and 30 minutes long, and I can skip around to different parts including to the end credits. Looks legit to me.

I think all people have a search for novelty, but with ADHD it’s probably worse. I often don’t want to initiate an activity because the novelty has worn off, or rather, I think I know what the activity will be like, and calculating the dopamine hit often makes me think it’s not worth it. Anywho, I’ve enjoyed doing “grownup” activities more recently, like just peeling potatoes and vacuuming and stuff like that, because I realize my “novelty meter” is broken.

I guess in theory you’re right. If you’re executing code, you’re executing code. But usually when executing EXE files it tends to target Windows machines, but yeah, there’s no way of telling if it’ll recognize it’s in a linux environment and do it’s thing there as well.
Especially because OP mentioned he just clicked “Yes”/“Allow” to all the super user prompts.

Now personally I don’t run an Arch system and only install software from my distro + flatpak; So I feel pretty secure for now. But I can see that trend buckling as the AUR is already under attack.

Lest we forget about the Xubuntu malware thing that just happened recently. It only targeted windows users though.

You’re probably not wrong. The AUR has become an increasingly more popular target for malware.

I literally just watched this video yesterday which, as you mention yourself, talks about how modern malware will add itself to the exclusion list aka whitelist.

_{Anyway this is a good reason to try linux…}

For romantic reason I think I lean more towards the community building side. There used to be a Hospitaller monastery in the city I live in, was built about around 1170 CE, was initially deserted around 1536 because of the reformation from Catholicism to Protestantism, which kicked out the monks (whom were most likely the reason Denmark got its flag, Dannebrog, as it’s practically the same as the Knights Hospitaller), then converted into barracks for the light infantry, then into a castle, and finally around 1800 it was abandoned, and nearby farmers used the bricks from the ruin to build their own farmsteads.
And in the 1800s I’m pretty sure that stealing bricks wasn’t just a minor offense. Of course, said farms probably perpetuated the exploitation of cheap working class labor for their own benefir, so not sure how great of a community those bricks built. So maybe I do lean more towards the side of throwing them…