Just to be safe.

You should wipe your whole drive and install linux, just to be safe

Kerbal Space Program, the best game, is on sale for five dollars right now, and has no DRM.

Really hard to fuck up

Also thanks to windows for continuing to double down on being dogshit

VPNs work fine in China. The point of the great firewall is to keep Facebook et al out, not to keep anybody in.

The Microsoft Surface is known to be especially difficult to get working with non-Microsoft software.

The stylus pen for my Thinkpad X1 Yoga gen 4 works perfectly out of the box in PopOS.

I simply stopped using Manjaro, this resolved all system-level issues I had encountered.

Switching from paid streaming services to piracy is at least as important as switching from Windows to Linux, probably much more so.

Look at 2-in-1 laptops instead of pure tablets. I use a Thinkpad X1 Yoga gen 4 primarily for note taking, Xournal++ is my favorite note taking application.

The difference in build quality between ideapad and thinkpad is significant

I recently upgraded from an Ideapad FLEX-14API to a 4th gen Thinkpad X1 Yoga, I really like the folding back on itself tablet/laptop style machines.

That is a deeply unserious point

Yeah, from this post a week ago.

I’ve seen it before as a tantrum about GDPR

I’ve had a good experience using PopOS on a 2-in-1 laptop, their COSMIC DE is a better GNOME.

In my opinion it can’t. The core thing you want to do, prevent the user from running whatever software they desire on their own computer, is fundamentally malicious behavior even if the user is yourself

If it behaves as malware it’s malware in my book. Same reason I consider things like kernel level anti-cheat to be malware.

Looks like malware to me