I work for a big enterprise, we have RHEL on all our Linux servers save for a few that are SuSe for SAP.
Oh didn’t know that, thanks!
I agree those arguments have no legal ground, but I don’t believe emulators are made with the primary purpose of circumventing protections, it’s just naive to think people wouldn’t use them for that purpose IMO.
Haha :D English is not my first language, if the wording is not correct or there’s a better way of saying it, I welcome any correction :)
Valve then forwarded us the statement from Nintendo’s lawyers, and told us that we had to come to an agreement with Nintendo in order to release on Steam.
We all know Nintendo is a bitch and there’s nothing illegal in emulators, but Valve’s stance looks reasonable to me, it would be serious damage to Steam if they were involved in legal litigation.
The concept of having to compile something yourself is basically foreign to me
There’s no need to, what software do you need that you can’t find on Mint repositories?
having to basically rely on a built-in app database/store to easily install apps… Kinda stinks to me, and not being able to simply download an installer from a website and having the program, whatever program, up and running reliably within a minute, the concept seems ridiculous
Having an app repository is way more secure than downloading software from random websites, it’s also way faster.
But it’s fine if you don’t like it, each person has its own preferences.
I don’t because no antivirus can protect you from yourself, I learned that the hard way while I was still using Windows many years ago.
I had antivirus and antimalware on Windows and I kept them updated and ran scans regularly, almost religiously, than I got a malware that antivirus couldn’t detect (they take a while to be updated with new viruses/malware that constantly come out) and the only way to remove it was a blank new install following a specific procedure to clean it all.
That day I understood that no matter how attentive you are about your antivirus, you’re never really protected until it’s you who learns what to do and what not while accessing the web, so I did a bit of research about how to better configure my PC, how to better recognize phishing/scamming, using adblocker, don’t download random software, stuff like that.
I basically learned “how to behave”. I stopped using antivirus/antimalware on Windows and I didn’t catch a virus since, then I switched to Linux and I still apply the same principles of “good behavior”.
That’s not to say I’m immune to viruses, I’m certainly not, but my mindset now is that if I ever catch a virus, it will be my fault for doing something I shouldn’t have done, and I’ll do my best to learn from it instead of relying on software to do that for me.
Overwhelming beginners with more than they can chew is not the best way to welcome them to Linux, giving them the chance to learn a bit at a time is instead.
There are distros that need little to no intelligence to set up and maintain
It’s not a matter of intelligence but prior knowledge, Arch wiki is the best thing ever for everyone, even if you don’t use Arch, BUT you need some Linux knowledge - at least Linux “lingo” - to be able to understand it.
That’s something a Linux newbie doesn’t have yet, exactly the reason why Arch is not recommended for newbies.
Being lightweight or not doesn’t depend on the distro but the desktop manager (the graphic interface). Unlike Windows, the graphic in Linux is separated from the system so you can use different desktop managers on the same distros.
The lightest DE is LXQT but it’s pretty barebone, XFCE has more features while still being very light, avoid GNOME and KDE.
That being said, I suggest you try Linux MX XFCE or Mint XFCE first, if that’s not light enough for your liking, try Lubuntu, that’s Ubuntu with LXQT as default DE.
That’s if you use opensource drivers, good for AMD but not so much for NVIDIA.
There’s not a “best” distro for gaming, it very much depends on what games you play.
If you want to play latest releases, a rolling release is most probably the best option for you, I hear Suse Tumbleweed is very good if you don’t like Arch.
If you want less “aggressive” updates but not exactly a stable, you can try Solus, it’s a sort of middle-ground between the 2.
If your games are not the latest ones, a Debian-based distro is a very good option, rock-solid, updated enough and without any “extra fluff”.
I personally use Linux MX XFCE and I’m very happy about it.
They’re not telling (rightfully so) and hopefully won’t until all instances are fixed.
Fantastic write-up! Thanks for sharing so hopefully other people can avoid the same problem.
Fantastic news!
Nor did any spam problem eventuate (yet?)
It would seems so, you can see how engagement is still growing regardless of number of accounts declining, that shows spam accounts didn’t actually start spamming yet IMO.
many of these accounts never actually materialised as they never went through email verification
But in that case they shouldn’t be counted in the account number, do they?
Terraria. It’s a sort of hybrid between a minecraft 2d and an action RPG, really fun game with lots of content.
You can play it as standalone or as co-op and the server component is included in the game for you to host it if you want.
Tho If by interesting you mean MMOs, there are emulators for a few of them, WoW is my favorite (TrinityCore, AzerothCore), but know that opening them up to public use is illegal (copyright violation).
Edit: added github links to wow emulators.
It’s not “me” thinking, there are several posts bringing this problem to the attention of admins, basically they took advantage of servers with open registration to “spam create” thousands of accounts, you don’t see signs because they’re “dormant” for now (that’s what bots do when a spam campaign is not currently active), you can recognize it by confronting number of users with user activity, for example, if you see a server with 6k users and only 5-6 posts, it means it’s a bot farm waiting for a spam campaign to start.
Well, it’s obvious that any public data can be “harvested” by anyone, but with federation there’s also the thing that data gets replicated among all the federated platforms so that each server has actually a copy of that data on it.
I wouldn’t want my posts being stored on their server as a consequence of being federated with them.
you can consume content from their users without being on their platform
Wanting to avoid them and then go getting their content nonetheless, doesn’t seem very coherent to me.
It’s most probably IBM forcing it, but yeah it’s dumb.
I use the XFCE version, it’s around 400 MB idle, fluxbox should be even less I think.