I've never used Affinity, but I used Photoshop plenty back in the day.

What features am I missing out on exactly?

I don't think you have used Affinity of Photoshop much.

Cool and gross, dam capitalism, allowing Canva to buy the only competitive Adobe alternative and kill it.

Yoooo, how you finding it? Freeing?

You look proprietary.

I installed Mint on another partition alongside Windows 10, and I’m giving myself until the end of the extended security update period to fully migrate.

I've successfully installed and used Ubuntu for well over a year before. You don't need to be condescending. But if it keeps me from encountering people like you, I just might.

Gaming...straight to Bazzite, you'll likely be playing in an hour. Why wait, just point the installer at an external drive and see what it's like.

The latter, it originates from the British parliament, as in I hear you and agree.

Here here

Edit: Hear hear?

It’s the robust and verifiable logging I can’t give up. It’s an addiction.

Agreed. For a server, Debian is awesome.

Debian is nice

My VPN expires tomorrow. After that, my media center laptop goes offline forever, until the penguin gets its filthy flippers on it.

What's the best distro for a shitty 10 year old Lenovo Yoga? I'll be using it to acquire (through purely legal means) torrents including Wikipedia backups and Linux isos

Yes! It really was a second job! When it's good, it's REALLY good but it gets to the point where you're playing because you feel you have to, not because you want to. You're constantly grinding mindless crap so you'll be ready for that next content drop that hits as hard as the last thing you actually enjoyed over a year ago (spoiler alert: it won't).

I was lucky. I came to that realization at 1.1k hrs and it still took another 100 to quit. Afterwards, and I am dead serious about this, it took a bit more time before I could enjoy single player games I used to love again.

D2 is a pit that can and will suck you in. It's digital crack.

Yeah, it obviously is dependent on the AC itself. With that said, there's plenty of games that don't have many cheaters without kernel level AC. I've also heard that Valorant, at least in the past, had some significant issues with cheaters. Maybe that died down, but probably more because Valorant lost some popularity than the cheating issue was solved.

With that said, if you write your own AC on your own engine, it's always going to be better than using off-the-shelf AC on a publicly available engine. A big part of creating cheats is finding vulnerabilities. If it's a well known AC/engine, those are easier to find or already known and documented. Essentially every UE game for many years has hackers at launch, because the same ones work across multiple games, unless you take action to protect against them.

It isn't that Battleye or EAC are bad. They're just ubiquitous. Meanwhile Riot's AC are only in Valorant and LoL, which is a proprietary engine IIRC. That's why it'll have fewer cheaters, not because kernel-level AC is significantly better.

Just install Mint if you’re already planning on ubuntu. It’s basically the same thing under the hood, but with more polish and shine and without Canonical’s junk.

I liked the little demon with sneakers better.

4k hours in and I finally realized it had become a second job. Stay strong out there, recovery is possible!

Now I'm playing a bunch of fun single player games that I missed out on because I was so sucked in.

Linux can rip FLACs, did you have any issues?

Yes, because of all the daemons.

You have a domain credential. You need to strip domain rights out of the system. The best way forward is to either wipe and start fresh or create a local user account to use as your new primary. You can likely pull the app data folders over into the new user as well as the documents and desktop folders. If you move the data you need, you can then delete the user folder for the old account. Most registry changes for domain users are Current_User entries which means you will have a clean registry as well.

From my limited understanding, it seems like it's dependent on the anti-cheat itself. Riot Vanguard is pretty much the gold standard and it does deter cheating significantly more than others I've seen. Like I think I've seen 2 or 3 cheaters total in 200ish hours of Valorant. Compare that with BattleEye or EAC (Siege and Apex respectively) and you see enough cheaters that it feels like they're cheating every time you lose a fight. These are all kernel-level so it seems that kernel access is required but it also matters how good the actual anti-cheat is.

Edit: It's a bit weird with Apex thkugh because it could just as easily be the broken controller aim assist

Omg they made the grumpy pufferfish from c/unixsurrealism into a real thing!