What are you even talking about? There is no world in which a normal human would read my message and think “this is clearly the only reason a human would buy from steam”. There never was. There is also no world in which I am required to provide a serious response. You seem to just be mad I made fun of valve and are looking to start a fight, but you say it’s not because you’re a billionaire shill who wants to help get him a second yacht. So I just don’t really get what’s going on in your brain right now except some sort of bizarre mad at the world thing.

I’ve now rea through some of your recent comment history and understand you just take everything way too seriously. I do not. You may as well give up talking to me.

I prefer to believe aliens are better than that

Doesn’t change that we don’t know what thought is

Lol @ whoever thinks aliens are not better than musk.

If anyone genuinely thinks my message is the only reason you’d buy from steam.and hardcore refused to read any other comments besides mine… I really dgaf about them. It’s like fox news always says, this is clearly for entertainment purposes only and only a fucking idiot would believe it.

That seems worthy of being a top level response to the question

I offered one potential motivation which is giving billionaires a yacht

Other people have already listed their own motivation, I’m not required to represent every single possible motivation

You’re right, I didn’t do anything resembling what you asked me to do! Would you like me to do the same thing again?

If you want to own the thing you purchase: gog

If you want to fund a billionaire super yacht and be subject to the whims of a large corporation run by a billionaire: steam

To me there’s no contest but a lot of people on lemmy are corporate shills.

Citation needed

You’re a machine. Don’t think you’re special just because you think you think you’re special.

Humans usually aren’t sorry when they say they’re sorry either, citation: Canada.

We are still in the last ice age (not for long, I suppose). I do not live on a glacier. I think you might be confused.

If you’re not looking to do much you might be better off with one of the immutable variants (silver blue, aurora, bazzite). The upside is things are not supposed to break too much. The downside is if it breaks almost any existing instructions on the internet prior to maybe 2022 will fuck the system up more. Tbh Linux changes so fast that’s true for most variants, but you can reach back to maybe 2018 before you start to hit system-breaking legacy instructions.

Mint isn’t a good choice, but if you want a generally straightforward system that looks like Mac (gnome) or windows (KDE) then fedora is a good choice.

None of these options will be as secure by default as a Mac or windows machine – you will have to do a lot of learning and be generally technically inclined to get there. The immutable OSs will give you a small leg up there, just because you’re running less random shit from the internet as admin/root, but the Linux community hates Intel and Microsoft so much it’s taken a lonnnngggg time to adopt standard security techniques, mostly resting on their laurels from decades past. Will you get viruses? Probably not. But just because nobody broke in doesn’t mean leaving your door unlocked is secure.