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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • You can do Linux if your situation meets these criteria:

    • your hardware is supported. it likely is, but check. Usually running a live usb is sufficient.
    • The proprietary software you want to run is supported in some stable way - like, platinum steam support, or the developer supports and intends to continue supporting Linux. do dual boot temporarily and make absolutely sure.
    • you are psychologically capable of declining to try to fix everything. While Linux just works for me, I’ve learned to recognize escalating effort in getting some new cool piece of software or hardware to work. wait until what you want is at least in beta. aside from that, it’s just not supported. Don’t frozzle the frimfram as /u/linuxminordeity told you to, because after that, you’ll have to bidnap the uperpon. …and on and on. just accept that people are working on it and it’s not ready. contribute somehow, if you feel like it. but accept. If it can’t be installed through typical channels (website package for linux, the repositories, or flatpak) it just doesn’t work.

    tbh, it sounds like you don’t want to have to think about and test it. …and if that’s true, then you shouldn’t be switching operating systems if you can reasonably avoid it.