OverfedRaccoon 🦝

Just a spacefaring raccoon that’s eaten all the food onboard. Sorry.

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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • I’ll try and keep it short with a bullet list, as I can tend to be long-winded about everything.

    • Helped recover files on an old laptop in the Win XP days (how I got started).
    • Breathed new life into older hardware that was too crappy for Windows.
    • Thought it was neat, novel, fresh, etc.
    • Free. Why pay for or pirate Windows?
    • FOSS and, specifically, FOSS alternatives to paid software I’d otherwise have pirated.
    • Less targeted for malware.
    • Windows 11 says no to my aging, but plenty capable, computer (the last holdout on Windows til Win 10 hits EOL).
    • Reasonable, optional telemetry.
    • Not having to reboot (possibly more than once) during updates.
    • Fun to learn.

    There are some reasons to like Windows, but it’s harder to justify with the direction Microsoft is, and has been, moving.

    EDIT: To actually answer your question about Steam and Linux… because I have a Steam account that I’ve had for many, many years with 1000 games that predates me moving to Linux in a more serious capacity. While I could move to GOG (and have), I’m not just going to throw away my game library. But also, Steam working to make gaming more mainstream on Linux is a net positive for Linux in general. That was always the reason many people gave for why they wouldn’t switch - that, and proprietary software that won’t run on anything other than Windows or maybe Mac.