I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don’t even use chrome, i’ve switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been looking into that recently. The last time I ran Linux was in the early 90s, I don’t think there was even much of a GUI then, most or all command line, so I have no idea what it’s like now. I’ve been hearing about Mint and Zorin as good distros for Mac/Windows users, but I have been reluctant to ask anywhere because the many conversations I’ve seen in various forums about which distro is best for a specific scenario have seemed . . . to put it extremely diplomatically, less than constructive.

    I’ve seen it so often that now I am starting to think Linux is the cocaine of all operating systems: great stuff, but with personal side effects. Risk of personal transformation might be worth more than warranted by situation calling for its use. Mention with caution, if at all. And yes, I fully expect to get flamed for this, lol.

    • Ninjasftw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      I’ve used Mint for a couple of years now. Gaming has never been better on Linux. It’s not perfect and there are still a lot of issues with games that use intrusive anti cheat. It depends on what you like to play. COD type games you may have issues with but almost every single player game works these days. Some times it will require a little fiddling to be fair but generally it only takes 10 min to check what’s required. Protondb is your friend if you want a good idea of whether it will work before buying

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’m not much of a gamer so simply using Linux to put old hardware back into use is already more than I’d hoped. I have an old Macbook and per your suggestion just made a Mint Cinnamon boot USB, so I’ll have a test machine up and running very soon.

        While I’m at it . . . any suggestions as to the best forums in which to ask stupid noob questions?

        I will try other distros if I don’t like Mint, because if Linux works out, I’m ready to jump ship off Windows and start changing over my more crucial boxes. I just don’t see going to Windows 11, not least because I am certain that even operating systems are eventually going to try to trap users into a subscription model, and I am simply not having that shit. It won’t happen immediately, but it seems inevitable, so why wait. Thank you again for your recommendations.

    • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Get kubuntu or fedora. The desktop is KDE which feels a lot like windows but nicer and prettier.