Developers stopped paying attention in college when they learned about the Turing machine and how it had infinite storage. They missed the part about it just being a concept and computers really aren't infinite. Sadly human stupidity is.
Perl, Larry Wall, paying developers is more expensive than paying for more hardware, etc.
Doesn't really fix the core issue, but Ad Nauseam does have an option to prevent elements over a given size from loading, which helps. I think UBlock Origin may, as well, but I'm not sure. If you set the threshold too low, it will break pages, though.
What's most infuriating to me about web page ramhogs is a lot of it is using your own resources against you for tracking and way too much of it is just terrible design. Luke Smith and Mental Outlaw each have videos covering how absurd "modern design" is and they're spot on in their own ways.
If I'm going to use it on public machines, Tails with the write protect tab on (not that that is perfect), and if I'm just going to use it on the go on my own laptop, something like the PeppermintOS boot CD, mainly out of old habit and it generally works with the older laptops that I'd actually carry around places.
Leaving windows on your computer will tempt you to going back and getting spied on. If there's nothing important on it you should just get rid of it.
I was feeling like having to choose os every boot would be annoying anyway. What's the simplest way to get the windows emulator or whatever it is running? Preferably with windows 10 at the latest. I have a different machine I could use the product key from.
Using windows stuff in linux will always be the second class citizen experience, especially when you're already inexperienced and with that ill-equipped to solve the problems and small annoyances that'll invariably crop up with windows stuff.
If you have Windows software you have to use just run Windows in a virtual machine. I have a Windows VM on standby but haven't touched it since I set it up.
Where "newcomer" means "person who doesn't know how to compile Wine for x86 on an x64 machine".
Like the others have said in this thread, if you need Windows applications, the best options you have are:
If it was only wine. You need all the 32 dev libs too, for the 32 bit wine binary. That's just for 32 bit windows binaries though. If the package manager doesn't have it, I'd only really attempt that in something like gentoo because otherwise it'll be pure gore. I have no idea about windows applications whatsoever because I haven't used any in at least about a decade but even the older windows games now are 64 bit already in my experience.
Because people think I'm trolling when I tell them to install gentoo. That's what I did though many moons ago, saw the fisher price WinXP UI and the ever increasing black-boxing, wanted no part of that anymore. (It really already started with Win2000, but I tolerated and hung onto Win2000/Win9x) It was difficult but not *that* difficult and if you get to know Linux and Linux Userland from the ground up like this, you can use whatever later and nothing will throw you off.
It's only elitist if you refuse to mentor someone who's putting the effort in. I agree as well.
The folks at KDE market it as a distro, it's not like Gnome's live image. Slimbook even sells laptops with it pre-installed, like System 76 does for Ubuntu. And anecdotes go both ways: my boomer relatives have had no problems, and neither has anyone I've recommended it to. If you're thinking of early days, it has changed a lot since then.
ill throw in my two cents on this, Dont do it, unless its life or death. If you have cash to spend you and time, and you need graphics performance, you can look into PCI passthrough (this is where you pass through your GPU to a virtual machine giving you near "native" performance) theres also CPU pinning but i can feel your eyes glazing over so i wont go into too much detail,
I've heard of LTSC but have been stuck with win 10 home/pro for a while. I'd definitely want to try it out in a vm but can you encounter more issues with newer drivers since it's not updated as regularly?
