Steam has some good options. And, if you can play it on the Steamdeck, it will probably work on a Linux desktop.

But, if you have specific gaming needs, please check those first. Some games just don’t work, and I wouldn’t want your to trade OSes (which all have their own frustrations) and then find yourself unable to game.

Preferably find someone local that already uses Linux and is willing to help you out some. LUGs (Linux User Groups) used to be a thing; maybe there’s one near you. A lot of Linux users like gaming these days, though plenty of them still dual-boot.

I seed, but I’m behind a NAT I don’t control without port forwarding, so I’m not a good seed.

Maybe I will do the seedbox VPS thing… after I get employed again.

For scrapers that not just implementing HTTP, but are trying to extract zip files, you can possibly drive them insane with zip quines: https://github.com/ruvmello/zip-quine-generator or otherwise compressed files that contain themselves at some level of nesting, possibly with other data so that they recursively expand to an unbounded (“infinite”) size.

There was an update today.

I didn’t get an update today. That said, I believe you, but I can’t speak to the stability guarantees of your software provider unless you name (and shame!) them.

I doubt this would be considered a release-critical bug in Debian, so it is certainly possible for breakage like this to occur between releases. If it was a security issue, then … I hope you are assuaged that your old way was a vulnerability that needed to be disabled for your safety. While distributions and developers try to avoid such breakage, sometimes it is inevitable or just the result to trying to minimize the vulnerability window, chronologically speaking.

I do think that MS Windows users got surprised when their Notepad experience changed unexpectedly recently. Maybe you don’t consider that equivalent, but it is instability.

Anyway, my experience is that Debian Stable is more stable than the MS Win 10 laptop issued by my previous employer. And, I don’t know of any rigorous studies comparing the Linux stability with MS Win stability, so I’ll tend to prefer to be guided by my experience. (And, I don’t expect you to abandon your experience in favor of my anecdotes.)

(Honestly, I’d probably still be using Free Software even if it was less stable that Proprietary Software, but I am glad Debian Stable does focus on stability and I do support most of the policies they use to implement it.)

Do you get a window? If so, you can xkill (or the Wayland equivalent, if you compositor provides one).

Failing that, yeah, it can be quite difficult to identify the right proc to kill. Sometimes showing the process “tree” and the full “command line” can help.

Beat of luck!

That’s not the definition of stable.

My Linux desktop required about a reboot a week, but I think that’s because I was using a kernel and syatemd from Debian Unstable. When I’m getting both of those from Debian Stable, I only reboot when there’s a security fix in one of those.

I do have a couple of issues I work around on a daily basis, but they aren’t even bad enough for me to open a Debian bug, so I don’t expect them to change/get fixed.

Also, I refuse to blame Linux or Debian when I acquire and use software outside of the Debian repositories.

Stable means unchanging. Stable does not mean free of faults.

I don’t know anything about MS Windows anymore, but I tend to doubt it’s as stable as Debian Stable, since we are constantly getting accused of being “too old” because of our stability policies.

I am a programmer, and I can barely put together a latch in redstone. Anyone that programs redstone is a “tech guy” to me (whether they can build a PC or not).

No, I think more MS users = MS shady shit. So, to discourage MS shady shit, I encourage people to not use MS software. I also think that people who are worried about abuse by priests should not tithe or otherwise donate to Catholic churches (belief matters less than action here; and it’s less reasonable to swap out belief system, I guess.)

That’s why your analogy seems backwards to me.

Doesn’t matter anyway. I guess I just don’t get it. Have a nice day.

The VM protects somewhat from network attacks and spread. But, I do imagine most vulnerabilities of Win10 would still be exploitable, and you would be sacrificing some performance, yes.

I didn’t like the name, but it was a nice option for Nvidia laptops esp. from System76.

I ended up replacing it with Ubuntu; but I can’t remember exactly why. I normally use Debian.

I’m not sure I get the analogy here… Do you think there will be less abuse by priests if there are more Catholics?

I’m been using Linux full time since 2004, and while I think it is good to let people know it is there, I don’t recommend it to people I’m not willing to personally support. But, I also let them know I just can’t help with Windows problems either, and they should address their complaints to their OS vendor.

I file Debian bugs if I have a problem with my OS, and have received fixes that way. This is better support that I ever received from MS during my first 2 decades of using MS OSes.

Would you like to exchange data?

Contradiction isn’t argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc&t=110

(It’s not discussion either, but that might be too much to expect.)

Human behavior can be modeled. It is often modeled quite well with game theory.

We do have to be cautious tho. Models can let you derive a lot of results, but some or all of those results may not apply to reality depending on how much your model differs from it.

We know the iterated game theory model is largely valid because it is derived in the absence of historical examples and but history shows it in action repeatedly, albeit imperfectly.

So, while I agree on principle, I don’t agree that it is the “dunk” / refutation of all game theory that you think it implies.

That’s just not true. There’s a lot of change that is incremental and comes from within.

That said, if you have enough fighting the system to do that you absolutely can’t find time to cast a vote, please do that.

And, I also agree that the system is going to be trying to change you instead, but it’s going to be trying to do that whether you “comply” or participate or not. It is possible to vote without being instantly and irrecoverably corrupted.

If you mean a more favorable outcome in Palestine, I… don’t think so. I mean I voted for Harris, and a mostly democratic ballot from top to bottom, but I really don’t think she would have changed the behavior of Israel in Palestine or even significantly change U.S.A. actions that support that behavior.

But, she wouldn’t have trashed our relationship with every trading partner, ruined the NIH and FDA, published military plans in the newspaper. She might have been better on trans rights, but maybe not. So, yeah a more favorable outcome overall, at least IMO.

Because they understand iterated game theory. (Watch the first video at https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/ and you might understand it, too.) FPtP means you vote for the a candidate that has a chance to win. Among those candidates you pick your most preferred / least bad option.

(Other videos at that link provide alternatives to FPtP that would better represent that preferences of the populace, and some areas in the U.S. do use non-FPtP for some parts of the election process.)

Yeah, we’d have to shift tactics. But, without IP law protections, the hacker community would double down on reverse engineering and binary patching. Debian etc. would still be available, but you’d also see spins on Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Google software based on decompiling, patching, and rebuilding, or just game genie / PC game cracks binary patching based on offset and signature.

The DMCA would dissolve and encrypted data that was expected to be decrypted on the fly (“streaming only”) would just be published fully decrypted.

It would be a revolutionary shift, but I’m not convinced it would be worse.

What would be worse is keeping IP law, but only having it enforced by million dollar yearly budget teams of lawyers and not protecting creators from having their works fed to “AI” and regurgitated as slop.

Ah, yeah, my father only threatened to fight me once, and he never did. (I think he felt I was directly questioning his authority when non-family members were present, but the memory is hazy at best now.)

It does sound like your experience is abnormal. (But, I’m not really informed; just working from my experience, and hearsay.)