I’ve been using Windows since 3.11. I’ve been supporting it for a career since 1998 (although almost entirely servers not desktops for the last 23 years). I’m tired of Microsoft’s bullshit.

On the other hand, my expertise at resolving their (server) bullshit over the last couple decades sure did pay well. So I guess it wasn’t all bad. But these days they can kiss my ass.

Yeah I haven’t completely gotten rid of Windows. I have it installed on another SSD but in the last 8 months since I switched, I’ve only needed it for Dyson Sphere Project (needed AutoHotKey), Deadlock (crashes too often in Linux and they ban you for 2 hours every time you leave a game), and whenever I feel like playing C&C Generals which for some reason runs like absolute dogshit on my Linux box despite everything else working fine.

But that Windows SSD has nothing, NOTHING on it but Steam games and Winamp. Microsoft isn’t getting access to a damn thing anymore when it comes to personal data. I’m tired of protecting myself against them, and FFS I’ve been a Microsoft backoffice sysadmin for over 25 years so I know how, but I’m still sick of it! I don’t even surf the web on that install. I play my game and when I’m done I boot back to Tumbleweed!

Gonna have to look into Lutris, I really like the idea of that sandboxing!

Worked on me, I finally switched (like, REALLY switched) on my primary PC this year after using Linux only for servers and hobby projects for a long time. My only regret is that I may not live long enough to have used Linux longer than I used Windows. I’d have to make it to my mid 80’s just to break even.

Valve gets all the credit. Gaming was the main thing holding me back all this time.

That’s ok, I took away my support for Apex Legends many seasons ago!

Their anti cheat has always been a joke anyway.

But what if someone hid a Bat’leth inside one of them?

Wow, as someone who says howdy to people all the time, I’m surprised you get any kind of reaction at all other than “hi” back.

What a tease!

Looks at 11 year old receipt… “oops”

As if Russia or NK give a shit about their soldiers…

There’s no way the dog dragged that around those corners without the paper tearing.

Bad human!

Cosmopolitan magazine.

Infamous for being filled with garbage sex articles to further screw up women’s self esteem.

Wrong group of people to try to get a Cosmo article out of.

What an incredibly shitty human being.

Needs Mandy and Color out of Space options.

I mean, I do.

If I was in your shoes I’d probably build my own hypervisor box and rent colo space for it. Strictly because your requirement to migrate VMs to your own system later is more trouble than it’s worth.

I don’t know for sure but I’d guess you would pay less for colo than renting someone’s server for a year or two. Renting bare metal is stupid expensive.

Why do people buy these things? They have a terrible track record with vulnerabilities on their devices.

You’re going against your programming.

Nah.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in this day and age

This can’t be a real product.