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I am looking for a Linux OS

I switched to Bazzite on my gaming rig a month ago and felt great. I managed to install and mod Skyrim effortlessly and yesterday I installed Tarkov and SPT with no problem whatsoever. Highly recommend.

But check if your favorite games are compatible, mainly the multiplayer ones: Tarkov can only be single player PvE, GTA is story mode only and forget about Destiny 2. Not a problem for me, plenty of alternatives, but you should check for yourself.

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Game Preservation Crisis: The Stop Killing Games Movement Explained

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Dev here. It's not a challenge.

  • you make one last patch to the game that enables the user to change the address of the servers required (for authentication or whatever).
  • you release the server for free.

This way you are not losing money (you are not making any either, but that's why we are here) and the users can install the game and the required components to run it.

The most "challenging" thing you must do, on the server or in the game, is eventually authorized everyone, but I can't see this as a challenge...

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Have a good day <3

I'm Italian and I would try this. Also, fudge those "purists" of Italian food: every family has it's own recipe for everything different from their neighbors', there's no or little historical documents about dishes still served and most "based" Italian food was invented by Italian emigrants coming back home with inspiration from where they were.

Cuisine is mixing and experimenting, tradition is the death of good food.

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I miss Levis

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He's right: I use only 501s straight, and after a year at most the fabric between the thighs is very thin if not ripped (yes, I am chubby).

On the other side, I have an old pair of jeans of unknown maker dismissed from my uncle which I use weekly for yard work: ten years in my possession, unwashable stains, destroyed sockets, but the fabric is still perfect.

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Transformation

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The flamberges were never used in combat, they are cerimonial swords used in parades to display wealth and prowess: the flame shape of the blade was very difficult to forge, and only most proficient bladesmiths were able to do it, charging an hefty sum for it. Plus they are way bigger and heavier for most combat use.

Landsknechts used very big two handed swords swinged horizontaly at head heigth or above to cut the enemy pole weapons. As such, they were supposed to die quickly (two days of combat was the average), and they received double pay, double rations of food and better barracks. So the sword was as cheap as possible, because it was likely to be missing at the end of the battle. Plus the flame shape is not very sturdy and its quite impratical, its only really beautiful.

Source, I'm an HEMA athlete in Italy for an association that promotes the study of renaissance combat.

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X11 vs Wayland

On my 2014 PC I'm using Fedora 44 with KDE, which defaults to Wayland: not problems whatsoever, but some applications say "Wayland support is experimental, beware".

I switched to X11 after a suggestion to debug some issues with a game. The issues was not fixed, all the other applications I've tried are still working flawlessly. PLUS the KDE night light feature is working (was not in Wayland). So I stayed with X11.

On my wife MacBook (2015) I installed Kinoite, defaults to Wayland. Everything works, but Rustdesk renders VERY small. I have not tried X11 on that, and will not try it.

Try both with all your applications and setups and choose the smoother experience. Make security a secondary priority: if it was the first you have less attack surface sticking to terminal only.

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X11 vs Wayland

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Yes: it was the only way to update the software inside. It was so old some pages refused to load, and was really slow. It was a painless and quick procedure and it has been working better than ever since then: decent hardware with (now) very good software.

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You are right, licensing could be an issue. But as others said this is not a retroactive law, so new software must be developed accounting for a "free" redistribution. Hardcoded paths are just bad practice.

Never said it's easy, but it's not that hard. At my job we are required to deploy the whole server infrastructure on-premise, so we only use software with MIT license or something that allows us to distribute to our clients without disclosing the source code. We've been doing this for the last 20-ish years, our software accepts easily hundred of thousands of connections and with Docker and similar tech the whole thing can run on standalone PC (with performance limitations of course).

It's not easy, but it's doable. And that it's all that is required by this proposal.

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Advice on an early-2015 Macbook Air (8GB)

My wife has a 2015 MacBook that was too slow/old with MacOs. I installed Fedora Kinoite, choosing an immutable distro because I wanted to make sure the base system always works. The only issue I had was (as always) with wifi drivers, but done that it was smooth sailing for the last year. She is not Linux savvy but every week says how much she loves the KDE interface. The system is quicker than MacOS and battery runs for much longer than before. It's a work PC so I cannot vouch for gaming.

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Oh! Here is terminal for you

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I understand them: I am an old Linux user, used to the command line. In there, once upon a time, a command has only on way to be called, and that way was the name under which the command was known and distributed. Aliases were a personal customization made by the user for his own amusement. I am still under the assumption that if a program is presented to you as X, then X is the command to type to run said program. But I understand this is now not as obvious, even in the Linux world.