"secure" boot, the industry standard for ensuring that devices don't run software other than Windows during the bootup process
FTFY
I do because I just don't want all that stuff around. Save states are also a blessing for folks like me with endless skill issues.
Not OP but:
on a desktop it's defaulted to desktop mode. I'm unsure about the steam deck.
you choose. KDE or GNOME. Budgie is being worked on.
lutris can install your windows executables. Bottles is available too.
The only games I'm unable to play so far have been AAA games with unfriendly anticheat. ProtonDB helps here.
Some of the questions about distros don't take into account those of us who have been using Linux since the mid-90s. Your scope here seems to be directed at the last decade or so.
can confirm. am crazy and dangerous. 🤣
"Don't cry, you can run bash on Windows 10 now." I'm dead... hahaha
There's a really fine line between needing a spreadsheet and needing a database and I've not yet found it. It's probably more fuzzy than I realized but I have participated on so many programming projects that amounted to a spreadsheet that lived too long.
That's kind of a confusing way to explain binary
Mint Cinnamon. Things generally work put of the box. There's the occasional weird config mess to get into but it's Linux.
OpenVoIP on anonradio is fun. Dial into a party line extension on the air.
SDFers can get access to a SIP extension. I think it's enabled by way of the maint command from the shell. From there, you can use a softphone like linfone to communicate with other SDFers.
The SDF VoIP service is also connected to the C*NET telephone collectors gateway and you can dial around to explore that network.
I paid for a DID for a while and connected to that with a grandstream DECT base station with a few wireless phones as well as a grandstream ATA and an old western digital phone. For a long time that was the only phone service in my home.
Look at the join and tutorials pages on sdf.org for all sorts of other info. There's countless services on the fortress. Some old, some new, all in various states of maintenance. Keep digging. You'll find some cool stuff.
Mostly these days as a community and also a web presence. Through the years I've used it for many things: file storage, places to practice coding or run builds on other systems, a place to learn, gopher, a VoIP provider, a VPS provider, DNS host, blogging service, mail+usenet service, games, mailing lists, VPN, and a bunch of other stuff I'm sure I forgot.
I've been a member verifiably for 20 years (see my uinfo) but I've been around for longer than that. Probably closer to 25. It's always just sort of been an extension to my computing. My membership has waxed and waned but there was rarely a time when I wasn't donating at some level.
I find I don't rely on services on SDF for critical stuff because sometimes they go down for extended periods of time or they go neglected. I do, however, appreciate the hell out of it.
I'm out of the loop. What happened to libgen?