Alright, I have a ton of Windows 10 machines, a couple OSX machines, and a few Linux machines for various purposes. Don’t let anyone here fool you—Linux is great, I’ve really enjoyed it, but NO distributions of Linux are easy, effortless, and just /work/. They ALL require some heady maintenance, they all WILL run into issues more than Windows or OSX, they WILL require a lot more learning than Windows or OSX, and there are programs that won’t run on Linux (or are prohibitively difficult to get working on Linux.)

Still, I have been loving Linux. I refuse to get Windows 11 EVER, so I’m now using Windows 10 LTSC IoT on all of my video game computers. If you want a computer that you turn on and click buttons and games appear on screen and work great, Windows is for sure the only way to go. That’s why all of my video game machines are Windows.

I don’t have a video for ya unfortunately, all of my Linux learning is through forums, documentation, and bouncing ideas off friends who know a lot more than me. There are some distros that are very user-friendly and “just work” great out of the box, but no matter what you do, they WILL require special maintenance. You will find programs or games you want to run that just don’t. There’s often alternatives, and in my experience, the alternatives are always free which is cool.

I think for your use case (and my use case for playing games), Windows is still the way to go. If you can get Windows 10 LTSC IoT and crack it (and run something like OOSU10 to turn off all the spyware you can,) you’re good for almost a decade!

(honorary shoutout to OSX—Lemmy overall hates Apple, but fuck em. There’s a reason every dev and programmer I know have an OSX machine, most of them using it for their main work machie. OSX is rock solid and works incredibly, and Apple’s hardware is acutally good for the price now unlike the mid 2000s when they were insanely overpriced for what you get. You can get an M4 mac for 500-600USD and they’re insanely efficient and powerful… Just NOT for games, my Steam library on my OSX computer is extremely limited compared to Linux or Windows.)

Heyo yeee also on Linux… And Windows 10… And OSX lawl. I gotta have em all for different things!

I love the Black Forest in Valheim!

Reading is hard for some people lawl

Absolutely insane! I needed a fresh machine to test something so i installed Windows 10 LTSC IoT on a 13 year old machine (processor, mobo, RAM, PSU… the video card was updated and it has some SATA SSDs.)

The install took less than ten minutes and I was in. Cracking took five minutes, and ninite took a minute or two to install all my software.

Not4Sale: TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies.

Nobody had seen it, it’s in insane audio/visual dreamscape/nightmare. It’s very difficult to find, but it’s worth it… especially going into it on acid without knowing anything about it. My friend did that to me, put it on, said nothing once we were trippin balls, and by the end I had cried laughing more than I have for any other piece of media I’ve ever seen.

I’ve seen introduced many friends to it the same way.

My partner and I are getting haircuts and beautifying ourselves before getting fuckin gakked on drugs all night at home with our cats. I’m very excited.

Edit: oh and eating pieces of sushi whenever we can throughout the night

Working from home: Bidet yaaaay

Office: I bring my own toilet tissue because every bathroom is a nightmare

What’s the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?

Me, at the end of any social engagement.

It’s like that episode of Simpsons where they’re filming something at the Simpsons’ house and Homer learns there’s snacks. He suddenly becomes a Homer-shaped cloud of dust.

Surprisingly, that’s fairly normal!