Start with something simple like Linux Mint. You can run it in a VM, if you want to “try before you buy (in)”.

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Valve made a compatibility layer for the Steam Deck and Linux called Proton. It uses a lot of technologies, including WINE, dxvk, and more to make Windows games run well on Linux. It basically takes Windows API calls and translates them to Linux with little to no performance penalty.

Steam also has native builds for Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Linux now, so you can just install it. Most Linux distros have Steam right in their software manager now.

Typically, unless the game has blocked Linux with something like kernel-level anticheat, it’ll “just work” on Linux now. There is a community database called ProtonDB that has a list of games and how well they do or don’t work.

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions.

Cool story. I don’t care if they know I fucking hate them.

Per usual, Rackspace is about 18 steps behind everyone else

new and interesting ways

$80 and more micro transactions.

Xfinity/Comcast hijacks DNS, even if you use another DNS server (they just redirect DNS requests to them). I suspect that they’re using it for analytics data to sell while disguising it as “security”.

They also block access to root DNS servers, so you can’t use a full DNS Resolver run locally. It’s super f***Ed.

If you want to ensure they don’t do it, use your own modem and always force DNS over TLS.

Nifty project. Definitely I could see this being useful for discussing things that would traditionally be censored on other more centralized or semi-decentralized platforms (piracy, anti-authoritarian discussions in an oppressive country, etc).

I gave it a try and the loading times are atrocious, though. I suppose that’s an unfortunate problem with running decentralized.