Those of you who still use windows for one reason or more, where do you draw the line about the shitty things microsoft is doing? By drawing the line I mean using some other operating system no matter how bothersome it might be.

Not judging or anything, i'm just curious where the general mindset is about it.

Just got the game and its otherwise really nice, but I cant play it. I'm unable to connect to anyone, i cant play solo either since i wont get any xp, samples, money or anything after finishing the mission. Friend cant see me as online on the ingame friendlist either.

Since this problem doesnt seem very common, did my friend just waste his money in gifting this to me?

Since its looking more and more that popularity of linux is going to keep rising, I'm kind of worried about how corporations will respond. Way they do things has always been either just trampling weaker things or corrupting them if they cant. Has this topic been considered before in linux communities?

I really like everything about how linux related things work; how application repositories are full of nice things that fellow users have made because they wanted to and not necessarily to make money out of them. And the general wibe of being made for community by the community. And I want it to stay that way.

I think at some point, big corporations like microsoft or google will try adding their crap to the repositorys and try to make them used by majority. Maybe they will also try worming in into the development projects themselves and keep making things more compatible with their own systems or gain more influence over how things are done. Or maybe they are already doing this, i dont know.

I'm quite certain things will escalate more as linux usage rises, as it will directly mean less profits for the corporations (or less perceived profits, you know how they are). And if these things are not considered beforehand, it means the corporations will be able to do more damage before its reacted on and it might be too late by that point. At least that is how i feel about it.

I read there is something called firejail that does this, but according to the reviews on software manager, some have had it destroy their system or mess up their programs, so i dont want to risk that.

There was also something called bubblewrap, but it has no reviews at all.

How big risk does the firejail have and are there any other programs that are good or better for this? I already managed to mess up my system once (blackscreen after login. I think installing portmaster caused it or installing and uninstalling some software + its dependencies), but fortunately i had backup of the system so i could reverse the damage, so i'm a bit more cautious now.

Also, are there any other concerns that one should know about regarding sandboxing?

This seems like quite interesting game, kind of like combination of stalker and extraction shooters.

I tried the demo and it seems promising but it has several problems:

-lethality is crazy I couldnt make it out even once. The pve threats alone are really deadly. Then on top of that you have to deal with other players, while damage recieved from bullets is like in tarkov, so you will die really fast if someone shoots at you. You find a lot of loot, but i have no idea how valuable it is as i cant get out with it.

There are also A LOT of pve monsters, and ai controlled humans too on top of everything.

-anticheat malfunctions It keeps kicking me for doing nothing wrong while apparently real cheaters seem to be able to play without problems, at least according to people on forums complaining about cheaters. Maybe it just discriminates against me for using linux. Though it did allow me to play multiple rounds before it started kicking me. Now it kicks me as soon as i join the round.

Good things i noticed: -the game is quite unique

Enemies are not your average zombies or whatever gribblies they always put in games. So far i have seem these twisted invisible things that warp around, some corrupted looking people that mope around until you aggro them and then they also teleport at you, but in different manner than the invisible one. I have also heard there is some statue like enemies that work like scp-173 / weeping angel, and according to the mission enemy list, there are bunch of other monsters too. There is also these flowermen, who are basically human shaped things that blend in with vegetation really well. They just run around you and hit you and are generally awful even if there is just one.

The environment is quite nice. it looks good and has all kinds of anomalies visible in the distance. There are also these gravity zones which turns your center of gravity, so you can walk on walls or ceilings.

-gameplay feels nice

Actions feel smooth and i didnt notice any jankiness. Looting is nice and easy, no inventory tertris either, though i think i would prefer that over having to calculate volumes of items.

Shooting would be nice, if the mobs werent such bullet sponges. But hopefully they will adjust the balance on that.

There is also this nice system that is like scavenger system in tarkov, so you can use free random loadout to go in mission with. Not sure if you can keep it if you make it out. It does say "rent", so maybe not.

There is a safe pocket item too, though you dont get it in with rented gear.

Here is the mission select screen:

I havent been able to exlore the map very much.

It also doesnt let you exit until you have completed at least one mission, though just exploring enough also counts for that.

There are a lot of systems that feel a bit confusing at the start, as game has extremely bareboned tutorial. Once you are in the main hub, there are bunch of things there that you just have to find out yourself how to use.

there is also somekind of faction pvp thing going on. Missions for that look like your basic pvp maps with capture points and such.

So there seems to be a lot going on for this game, i really hope they fix the damn anticheat. I would add some pictures of the actual game, if it allowed me to stay in the round for longer than few seconds.

What things do you know that would be really good to do with freshly installed system? Or things that you wish had done earlier?

I'd like one potat please

Maailma menee kokoajan kohti sitä, että vedestä tulee arvokkaampaa kuin öljystä tai mistään muusta koko planeetalla. Suomessa on sen verran juomakelpoista vettä että ei ole puhettakaan että se jätettäisiin huomiotta.

Isot yhtiöt kuten nestle pyrkivat aika varmasti viemään siitä kaiken minkä saavat ja jossain välissä muutkin tahot. Onko tätä uhkaa vastaan alettu varautua mitenkään?

Sama homma myös muunkin luonnon suhteen kuten metsät, mutta vesi on minulla päällimmäisenä mielessä tämän asian suhteen.

Luottamus siihen, että politikot omaehtoisesti puolustaisivat tätä ennen kuin on liian myöhäistä ei ole kovin korkea. Se tilanne missä on liian myöhäistä on siis se, että merkittävä osa vesistä olisi jo myyty sopimuksilla yhtiöille tai toisille maille suoraan ja niiden rikkominen aiheuttaisi kestämättömän tilanteen.

En haluaisi että se menee joku päivä siihen, että pitää joko katsoa vierestä kun vedet viedään muualle tai sitten tehdä jotain mistä puhuminen on kielletty.

Should there be somekind of restriction to sending dms? While these spambots sending stuff isnt overwhelming at the moment, they still shouldnt be able to do it so easily. In the future its only going to get worse.

Then there is also other instances, accounts from them can also send stuff so it makes this even more complicated.

Sorry that this is so awful to read, i would add more space between paragraphs but it doesnt let me.

• min account age?

this would force spammers to make tons of accounts into "storage" and slow down their efforts.

• some custom verification before sending?

not captcha or anything like that, it would have to me custom made so they would need to also build custom workaround. Maybe this wouldn't be so useful since it would be just temporary measure and a lot of work and also annoyance to users.

• add some trivial task to the dm sending

Some really easy little minigame. If you want to send just one message then it wouldnt be too much of a problem but if you want to send multiple, you have to do it every time. Or make it a timer where you have to do something within x seconds. That should make paraller tasks quite awful. Problem with this might be that if its processed only local, then it could be bypassed unless its something really cleverly made.

• manual accepting for being able to send direct messages?

This would be a lot of work for admins, though i dont know how big part of userbase even sends direct messages. Messages from other instances would create even more work.

On this email service called disroot you have to write an answer to a question like "tell us about your favourite food" which they seem to manually check when accepting new account.

AI likely makes this really annoying to verify since you have to judge is the text written by human or not. This might be good system with some creativity though, but still not good for processing large amounts of users.

• manual accepting, but leave it to users themselves?

When you send message to someone, they have to accept receiving messages from that user first, before even seeing the message. This would at least hinder the bots if they can get something out of user just loading the image.

It doesnt even have to be a singular solution. Maybe different things could be combined like if account is younger than x then different things are applied to it. It just cant be too annoying to users no matter what.

Does anyone else have ideas how to deal with this?

Is there? I want to know what kind of stuff they are storing on my computer so I can know if i should do anything about it.

Hey

What most useful guidebooks or other information focused books do you know?

I need some advice regarding which distro to choose. I tried installing fedora workstation on my laptop as test and it seemed quite annoying to get the user interface right.

I dont mind the technical differences, in fact i'm looking forward to them as linux is more secure and better designed.

The problem i'm having is that i want the good things from windows desktop. for example; tray icons, being able to control filesystem easily with gui, shortcuts on desktop.

Every distro i have tried or seen has been really basic regarding this out of the box with very little customization options. I prefer not having to download million extensions for every little feature that might stop working at every major update or if developer doesnt feel like continuing.

I also would like to be able to easily backup customization settings so i dont have to do everything again if i need to reinstall. I like being able to easily customize everything so having a lot of settings is good thing for me.

I read somewhere about kde plasma and screenshots seemed promising and downloaded kde fedora. Haven't installed it yet but am I on the right track for what i'm looking for? Are there other even better choices? I'd like to nail this from the start so I dont have to reinstall later. I really dont want to wade through every possible distro.

Thank you all, you have been big help