This is good to know. I'm gonna pretend it's true anyways as personal fuel to guarantee I move off of Windows on my next machine. Nothing makes my brain revolt faster than forced subscriptions.

Whocaresfully? It's a new word I invented to describe how I feel about anything a dying company does in the background where it doesn't affect me at all. Do whatever you want, I will never buy anything from Microsoft.

Corporate environments and people with two commas in their paychecks telling us to use AI for everything.

I use it at work and keep it on one home machine for music software I've sunk money into (Ableton Live and various software synths and effects). Everything else has been Linux now for some years.

People who are into a digital dominatrix that makes you do dumb stuff for no benefit.

Anticheat still frequently trips on Linux. It's not Linux's fault but companies still go out of their way to screw over Linux users for some reason.

This is tech 4 games, bud, the fourth installment in the series that started with tech gamers 1!

To be honest, install is easy, and if you just go with flat packs and app images you probably won’t have to mess with much. Sure you could be crazy and use Arch if you wanna tinker with everything, but mint, bazzite, and others are pretty stable and simple. Just a small amount of “which suits my needs/wants best” before you install.

But now is not a great time to try and build a computer so… womp

Just back up your important data! Always backup before messing with operating systems or partitioning.

That's what they think.

It feels like we're living in an Onion article.