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Linux is actually becoming easier to deal with than Windows in many cases. Microsoft has removed so many settings from the GUI that editing of the Registry has become required even for simple things. That's much less user friendly IMO than backing up and editing a text .conf file.

I've been trying to move to Linux for about 20 years, but gaming issues always sent me back to Windows.

I tried again after hearing about how proton and steamdeck have made it so much easier for most games and it's true. Been exclusively on Linux on my gaming rig since about September. The only one I couldn't get working was oddly a little simple indie game, it lagged badly while stuff like No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk ran fine.

Microsoft is pushing this at a very bad time, because you CAN game on Linux now.

This whole overbearing patronizing shit is what pushed me away completely from Windows, that and the privacy concerns. It just became too much of a hassle & chore to actually use and constantly "fix" shit that I never asked for, to the point where even the bits of Linux tinkering aren't as much of a problem in comparison. And thanks to Valve pretty much all games that I care for run without a hassle, or just very little tinkering. I haven't really found my favored distro yet after hopping for a while, but it's easy enough to switch anyway thanks to the Home folder containing pretty much the majority of what's important for backups.

There are plenty of unsupported CPUs that also support the AI requirements. Basically anything with an AMD Phenom or an Intel Core i5/7 first gen or newer supports these.

I really want to make the switch to Linux but all the talk about having to troubleshoot every minor thing makes me nervous. What’s the solution to malware and virus? All of the options and sub options for installing and managing things feels so daunting! Dual boots have the nightmare of windows killing the bootloader, so it’s scary to even try and dip a toe in.

They’ve never not acted like that

Weird Al Yankovich has recently published a manifesto about the optimal parameters of modern computers, which are informally referred to as “AI requirements”

You thought AI is going to help you?

No, you need to serve the AI, you need to sastify it's requirement.

Real Answer:

from the article:

"The coding included hardware requirements for the CPU with the required instructions and a minimum of 16GB of memory. "

• SSE 4.2
• POPCNT instruction specifically
• 16GB of RAM.

The first two are available on CPUs starting from AMD K10 (Phenom) and Intel's Penryn and Nehalem architectures (Core 2 and original Core i5/i7).

that image always bothers me not sure if its the weird chest situation or reaching one wing toward the cloaca while staring like that

Sorry to disappoint you but it won't get better this time

Why wait when Lindows 14 is already out? 😉

They have been for a while now.

Could you run fossilized and sandboxed in a VM? I run Tiny10 for a couple Windows applications that can't run on Wine, completely offline so that there's no need for updates. The system continues to work exactly how I want it to with no Microsoft Surprises.

One of the applications is for tax filing, so I finish the taxes, clone the VM, put the copy online and file. After it gets confirmation, I copy the database back to the fossilized version and wipe the copy. Been doing it for years now.

If Linux really, really isn’t an option, you should consider switching to Mac. It’s still really similar to Linux (given it’s unix based), and doesn’t try to screw you over constantly like MS & Windows does.

I’m in the middle of divesting myself of all Microsoft products, and I will never, ever go back to Windows after the near-weekly horror show that Windows 11 has been. I’m still on Team Linux, but Mac is by far the next runner up.