EnsignWashout

I was going to push back on your point here, but then I couldn't think of a game that makes a good counterpoint.

Before they enshitified all the sports games, I would have pushed back a bit and comparer running Windows for a specific game to emulating an Atari for nostalgia.

But actually, the last good version of many of those sports games probably runs in Wine now anyway.

One pushback - there's still community on some of those very shitty games. I understand people not wanting to leave their gamer group behind.

Of course, my gamer group all moved to SteamDeck.

Ouch!

The good news is you'll get invited to Cobol/AS400/Mainframe conventions if eventually you're the only ones left on Windows.

Those folks have similar challenges, but are great to party with after a day of conference talks.

I felt that too!

I was a bit nervous, but mostly relieved not to worry that every boot into Windows could cost me my whole setup.

Now I'm going through a trying-not-to-preach phase. I just want my friends to feel as free of Microsoft's bullshit as I do.

Yes. It's pretty funny reading someone so confident in all the extra security they're getting from Windows messing with their boot sequence, earlier in this thread.

Corporate OS is going to corporate. End users and private files are rarely winners when corporate needs to corporate hard.

I've had the same dual boot configuration since around 2018 and this never happens to me, yet I keep reading that it happens to others. I really wonder what I did differently.

We have very long memories.

In my defense, an OS that I paid for breaking my boot settings was such a virus thing to do, it was really memorable.

Fixed it by blowing away the Windows partition.

That's how my dual booting experiment ended, as well.

Yes, the office web apps all work fine inside of Firefox on Linux.

Yes. Cola, Orange Cola, Rootbeer Cola, Mister Cherry, or Zest!*

`* ~All colas except Zest and sold out. Pressing Zest! delivers Orange Cola.~

I've daily droven Linux for ~3 years and learned a lot

I don't have any thoughts on certs that haven't already been shared, but some thoughts for any interviews you may land:

• The person interviewing you has probably daily driver Linux for 20 years, and that's okay. We all have to start somewhere.
• There aren't going to be many others (if any) interviewing who have daily driven Linux for three years.

So be humble, but not too humble. Haha.

We're a neat bubble here, but running Linux as a daily driver is still pretty rare, and puts you way ahead of the pack of other candidates, at least for entry/early Linux systems jobs.

Edit: And if you find an organization that uses AI spicy autocomplete to do entry level Linux admin work, run far away. There's not enough money in the world to make it worth working with people that stupid (who choose to use hallucination for problems that demand reliability, haha).

Exactly. I know I'm not the ideal gamer they are designing for.

And I'm not to proud to drop to carebear difficultly, or put in a cheat code.

But some games just don't give me anything, so I just rage quit and move on.

I can’t see these gaining more popularity over Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo if they are only sticking to do retro.

Right. I don't think they are particularly trying for those markets - although Sony dropping physical media of any kind is probably doing Evercade a favor anyway.

I carry my Hyper Mega Tech Pocket more often than my SteamDeck or Switch Lite, because it is so much smaller.

From my understanding, most indie companies want maximum reach for their games, especially for the amount of time and money they put into things.

Yes. Evercade's gimick is multiple games per cart, rather than exclusives.

Some of my Indie game collection I got cheaper by buying it on Evercade. Some idie devs I have only discovered because they included a game on Evercade.

A few I have bought again on my SteamDeck, to add it to my family library.

Nothing explains Arch users, they're a mystery.