I recently moved my ASUS ROG Zephyrus entirely over to Linux and it’s been seamless. I’ve been able to play every game without issue. Between my Steam Deck and the laptop, my console days may be numbered.
I have one last windows machine hooked up to my TV, using Steam Big Picture. I’m going to wait until Dragon Age Veilguard just to see a new game how quickly it becomes supported/how difficult it’ll be to set up, but if I can get it working pretty quickly, I think that’ll be off Windows
What I usually do is change every Steam game to use the “Experimental” version of Proton. As soon as I enable that, basically any game in my library becomes installable. Even non-Steam games can be added in and use Proton iirc. My success rate has been pretty good, but some games are still a little rough (mostly lack of controller support, or things like traversing dumb launchers like in GTA).
Oh yeah, the number one issues were with non-steam games, getting EA play to launch by itself. Learned a lot about Lutris and wine for that, DA:O and ME:L were both like that, but got both to work perfectly!
City builders, transport games, and factory games are basically “System Design” work already - you could probably disguise a CPU or circuit board design problem as OpenTTD or Prison Architect or Shapez and get gamers to design boards for you.
When I was younger, paperback because they were cheap. These days I prefer hard back because the font is easier on my eyes.
That I said, like everyone else it seems, I do much more reading on my Kobo. It has the font benefits if I need it, but huge space savings. I still have a large collection of books but every time I move I tend to move more and move of them into ebooks.
Make confused/disappointed face, don’t laugh. “Uh… Okay, kind of mean.” Then move on.
Most people behave to impress/entertain their friend group. Not sure if they’re your friend or not, but that’s been successful for me. It’s not to attack them, but just to show them that that behavior isn’t going to help your opinion of them.
If they don’t care, then that’s a choice for you to make about what you’ll tolerate.
I’ll check for sales first, and if there is one upcoming within like a week or two I might wait if I can, but outside of that I just pay whatever the price is at the time that I need whatever it is I am buying.
I don’t really buy anything solely because its on sale though. The sales are an extra bonus, not a necessity most of the time. Unless its something I can wait forever on.
There is a website to check which hardware is supported (on which distro). You can look up your laptop there, but beware that it is crowdsourced, so there might have been tinkering involved before submitting the results or the results may be outdated.
Click on “probe your computer” then check the results to see what your current setup supports.
You may need to elaborate a bit more on what your are trying to achieve; it looks like your post is missing a bit of backstory. It sounds like your concern is keeping your personal business and school activities separate, though.
Switching away from Google is overall a good thing for privacy, but if your goal is privacy from your school, not from Google itself, it makes no difference who you want to use for email.
Creating an additional account on your PC is not detrimental to privacy; in fact, some might argue that having a separate account for separate tasks is actually a good thing. I have multiple accounts on my servers, depending on what/who needs to log in. It doesn’t hurt to do the same on a desktop PC or laptop.
Simply accessing school resources on your PC isn’t going to send the school your personal information, browser history, pirated movies, whatever. Clear your browser cookies between sessions if you’re concerned. Better yet, just set your browser to automatically clear cookies when you close the window, and make sure you exit the browser when you’re done with school work.
Do you really need to use your school e-mail for anything other than school? I have a work email, but I only use it for things that are directly related to my job.
What you’re saying doesn’t really make a lot of sense. A lot of people here are probably happy to help you out, but you’ll need to be a bit more clear on what your goal is. I get the impression that you’re concerned about your school having some kind of privileged access to your computer because you check your school email and work on school assignments using personal computing resources. That’s not something you need to worry about; it’s really not how technology works. Logging into your school’s online portal doesn’t give them access to your files any more than buying something on Amazon.com lets Jeff Bezos browse your system.
If you’re really, REALLY concerned about privacy, just set up a VM using VirtualBox (it’s free and easy) for school stuff and continue to use your computer as you would normally. If you’re already comfortable re-installing Windows, then you absolutely will be able to set up a simple Windows VM. To be clear, I wouldn’t consider this necessary, but if you want to do it for peace of mind, then you have nothing to lose.
This situation becomes vastly different if you have a company or school-issued computer. In that case, then I wouldn’t use it for anything other than strictly business (or school)-related activities. Given the fact that you’re able to reformat and add/remove accounts, though, it doesn’t sound like you’re using a computer managed by an IT department.
On a side note, if your school did some how manage to gain access to your personal computer without your permission, find information that was detrimental to you, and somehow use it against you, I would ask you two things:
What the hell kind of school are you going to?
Do you like money? Because you and your lawyer are going to get a lot of it.
Hahah thank you for answering! You’re right I was trying to be brief and forgot to better explain this part: I use the university email to sign for Microsoft office, they gave us free access during covid. I read a lot of stuff about people mistakingly enrolling in their school’s environments (if I got it right, I might mistake terms) and I decided to do this. I had added a school account on my device, and even if I think it wasn’t the main one, I still didn’t really understand when it was activated and when not. Also I didn’t like the cloud file that would always appear in my documents…
Now I will obviously need to access those apps again, Outlook for sure and Teams for some lessons recordings… How does that work? Am I safe when using them for example on chrome, and not creating a school account? Maybe it’s a silly question but I just wanted to make sure, or at least someone might just go “hey wait this happened to me so pay attention to this and that”… hope this clarifies it a bit 😅
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