They could all quit en masse. That’d be pretty funny.

Who’s the bigger fool? The one handing over your personal information to Meta/Google, or the one giving it to OpenAI in the first place?

Thanks. I would never have picked up the sarcasm without the /s. :)

I remember having a ‘silent number’, i.e. opting out, was pretty rare.

True, but they also included your address.

Does no-one remember phone books?

Yeah, I’m sure they’ve got their golden parachutes ready, and will move on to the next scam.

I had to check whether this was posted in the Onion community.

I can’t wait!

It’s still definitely an idol, though.

I am frequently baffled by what people here downvote.

You misspelled ‘and’.

I’m sure they’ll get their money’s worth. :|

I don’t think Australian cops are quite as trigger-happy as those in the USA.

‘A fool and his money are soon parted’ is pretty much the national motto at this point.

Same here. I do appreciate all the help you’ve given, and I know now that I will be able to get stuff working when I do inevitable make the switch. I’ll be saving these posts for when I do. Thanks.

The drive being formatted as NTFS is the issue. Valve doesn’t recommend this with Proton/WINE for reasons. NTFS isn’t case sensitive, for example.

If you have the space to temporarily move your SteamLibrary elsewhere you can just format the drive to ext4 and move the folder back. (If not we are in one of those ‘30 different possible ways to solve the problem’ situations that was mentioned at the top of the comment chain :P)

I don’t, and I’m out.

Yeah it is. Though, if you’re doing sim racing and also modding a game it isn’t an inherently a plug and play situation even in Windows. :P

True, but I’m at least familiar with it.

Most of the games I play are just ‘buy, click install on Steam, press play’.

All my games are installed on a non-OS drive. Will I have to re-download them, or will Steam automatically detect them once I point it to the directory?

Thanks. I will say, though, that still seems pretty lengthy and complicated to get working. ;) But I guess I only have to do it once.

Most of the other mods are simply cars and tracks, which I guess are just drag and drop like in Windows. The only other one that might be an issue is the 2Real traffic/pedestrian mods.

I’m still plugging along with Windows 10. :) It’s mostly just laziness about having to go through and reinstall everything on a clean install that’s causing the most resistance to change, and the thought of learning an operating system I’m not familiar with just adds to the inertia.

What even are the significant differences with different distros? I’ve seen Bazzite recommended as the best one for gaming. Mint comes pretty strongly recommended as well.