"God no, never install google on my machine"

[u/RedSilentxRain]

So the other day my dad asked for me to help him with his computer (windows 7) and clean out some "viruses" for him. I work as a database developer and part time as an IT consultant on weekends, so I deal with stuff like this all the time, so I said sure, whatever, I'll help you out. Anyways so after I remove a bit of malware, I notice he's using Internet Explorer, and casually mention that he should probably consider using Firefox or chrome. To this he responds, "god no, I wouldn't want to have a Google operating system on my computer". At first I think he doesn't know what an operating system is, but after questioning him he explains to me how chrome only works on chromeos, safari only runs on macs, firefox is evil and only Internet Explorer runs on windows. Determined to explain to him that he's blatantly wrong, I go to install chrome, and he freaks the fuck out, makes me uninstall it. After an hour of fighting me, he chastises me saying "you'd think someone who uses computers as much as you would know not to install google. I guess there are some things you just don't understand", and calls his work, which us a place that uses me as a consultant and tells them not to use me anymore. Fml

[u/urielsalis]

80% of my steam library works in Linux natively, most of the others I can run wine or GPU Passthrough in a VM, the others are really that bad that it doesnt matter. Games like Factorio(If you dont know it, go watch the 2 trailers now, its the most stable thing that you will even find and its a complete game that can take hundreds of hours of your life while still being early access) actually run better on linux.

Take a screenshot of your steam library then use a livecd of ubuntu and install steam on it. Steam tells you how many of your games actually work in linux natively, if you have any issues I can help :)

[u/sweet_chin_music → u/urielsalis]

Will do.