Thanks, this looks sweet.

Just switch servers once or twice, usually works for me.

Try getting better at google?

Try google.

Honestly not even worth wasting my time. As if there isn’t a billion news stories and websites explaining this shit already, and much better than I ever could. It honestly feels super strange even having this conversation in 2025. I guess there will always be people who refuse to understand the tech they use.

Why are you so aggressive? I get it, you like Windows 7. I liked it too at the time. Take a breath.

I don’t know what the fuck you do on the internet… Are you really trying to suggest people don’t get hacked like this? People have lost millions in crypto from shit like that. I know you don’t care about crypto or whatever, but it doesn’t make the situation less real…

Some people have things of value on their internet-connected devices. It’s just foolish to not stay up to date with security updates.

As someone who has been on Bazzite for maybe 6 months now, I will never go back to any form of Windows, regardless of how neutered it might be.

I can’t speak for VR though.

You’re just making yourself a target. People go after low-hanging fruit, and people who haven’t had security updates in a decade are top of the list.

If you’re into gaming, Bazzite is based on Fedora (SilverBlue, so immutable), and it works amazingly for gaming and everything else.

It was my first experience with anything Fedora after coming from Arch, and I have to say that I’m pleased.

Yeah, I had this realization a couple of years ago when I switched as well… I felt like “this is what personal computing was always supposed to be like before capitalism had its way.”

Considering you stopped receiving security updates years ago, any kind of malware developed since then is going to have a field day with you.

Pretty much everything (except for games with kernal level anti-cheat as others have said) works now.

Even if Steam says “unsupported,” there’s a decent chance it will work out of the box, or maybe with a little tweaking. Protondb.com is a great resource for this.

Proton is fucking great.

Oh I misread that and thought you said they thinkpads themselves were $140 lol

I have to use Windows 11 on my work machine and it reminds me every day why I will never go back.

I opened the process manager a week or two ago for the first time in a while, and holy shit how do people live like that??? If it were my personal laptop, I would have had a fucking aneurysm trying to figure out what the fuck all that shit was.

Not familar with AtlasOS… Interesting. Not that I have any use for it personally.

And all Windows-only software works natively on it?

Right? People don’t think about the years (decades in some cases) that they spent learning Windows in order for them to be as comfortable with it as they are.

For those people, learning Linux should not take very long and once you do you will realize that it is superior in literally every way.

Who actually keeps hidden folders hidden? It’s like the first box I check when I open a file explorer for the first time.

Because I’m bored at work?

You do have the wrong image in your head. Abuse is not limited to physical abuse. Frankly, it’s the emotional and psychological stuff that can be much more scarring in the long term (not to mention harder for others to recognize).

I appreciate the willingness to learn new things… but how is it not easier to just type “glib” into your url bar and read the definition that comes up? Takes less than 3 seconds.