I say use a live USB and boot into it and see how it goes. Note that it will be slower than if you were to use a drive BUT you can sort out your worries about wine performance and such right away.

Mount windows drive, use steam to locate your games. Run them to test.

Note that this is not a long term strategy, you do not want to use NTFS (windows) drive to play games. But it shouldn’t cause any issues in short term testing.

If you think you are techy or you think you’re as smart as the average person (or smarter) just use cachyOS.

You will probably run into some issues but as long as you follow these rules you could be doing very well:

1. OS drive has OS stuff and packages
2. Media drive has games and stuff you care about

The two shall never meet.

Have an issue ? Wipe OS drive, in 2 minutes you’ll be back in.

Worried about configurations? Linux is all about using files for config, this pattern allows you to save files and reconfigure systems fast on the fly.

Worried about something else? Ask me.

There’s nothing wrong with using another distro.

What’s stopping you from using Linux today? You could be on Linux in less than 10 minutes and most of that is going to be downloading the iso and flashing it on an USB stick.

Predicting a classic tale of comparing apple flagships to $150 android phones.

So this is why my friends take forever to leave? goddamn it neurotypicals.

I get your angle but it’s not a priority for me and it doesn’t affect my mental health despite what you’d logically think from reading my original post.

I just don’t like me. Period.

I get like 20 emails every day from GitHub. 90% are completely useless but somewhere in there is a specific pull request that needs to meet a deadline and that needs a quick review and yet I will not notice it.

I think everyone’s psychology is so different that people out there wonder “how could you not like yourself, it’s you” and meanwhile me I can never see that happening, ever.

What’s the self hosted guide to security when opening up ports to the public ?

The oughta write a song about it

Every morning on my way to work I see people juggling in all sorts of ways. Personally the most weird and socially acceptable way is to jog downtown. Downtown is terrible for jogging, dangerous drug addicts (no offense, just not the safest people to be around), dangerous drivers. an entire landscape built around cars, anxious and pissed of drivers trying to find their way out of the traffic hell hole the city created.

A park is fine.

My dad thinks caricatures are funny, I get it. But he had one done for my 8yo~ sister (at the time) and it’s probably one of her worst memories and maybe the cause of insecurities.

I use reaper on Linux to monitor my guitar coming in from Axe Fx 3’s spdif output with very low latency. What exactly was giving you issues with latency ?

YouTube specifically? Or does it work as long as any audio is running? I usually leave games on and switch back in and the audio’s borked.

Fine, I’ll give this strategy a shot too: Linux is crap because when I switch USB audio interface with a switcher the audio becomes extremely borked likely because of buffer settings somehow changing, to me it feels like the buffer is too small and then all these audio crackling issues start propping up.

Windows doesn’t have this issue whatsoever, it’s only when I switch back to Linux in the switcher that the audio is borked.

Pipewire/Pipewire-pulse

I totally get it and agree, but does this mean you use an USB cable at all times to print things ?

I don’t follow American politics too much but didn’t this guy claim Trump would pardon him? Not that he would, but the belief I think was being held by him that he would.

The situation is really weighing on them

Arch in like 2019 maybe.

I still like Arch, I tried all sorts of distros in VMs, most feel clunky to me.

Tiling manager, GUI file explorer, minimal status bar and I’m set.

For my laptop this is swaywm, swaybar, nautilus.

I also use drun-like programs

Reddit Linux are just a bunch of gaming chuds. and I say that as a gamer.

They’ll take time to understand the landscape and there’s nothing wrong with that, yes reddit is dogshit but you won’t convince anyone by just telling them. They just have to look around for themselves.