Thank you for the implementation advice, that was my next question.

I have an old drive I installed Win 10 on a few years ago. It was a fresh build, so it would have been the only drive in the machine when I installed it. The software I need is already installed there and in a working state.

I also have a new machine with a new drive. I installed Mint on the new drive while it was the only drive in the new machine.

My plan is to move the Win 10 drive from the old machine to the new one. In the BIOS, I would set the Linux drive as the default boot option. When I need Windows, I would boot into BIOS and select the Windows drive as a one-time boot option.

Am I on the right track?

Who cares if the program takes ten seconds to run instead of one when it only needs to run once and coding it in Python takes a few hours instead of a day or two in C?

If you need performance that badly, by all means, use C. If you have ten ideas for simple programs and just want to code them real quick without fighting the compiler and worrying about all the little shit that C demands from you, then there’s nothing wrong with using Python.

Everything in life is a tradeoff. Use the right tool for the job.

Hilarious if true. We always used to poke fun at rich kids by saying, “he walks around like he’s got a stick in his ass” so it gives that expression an entirely new, arguably funnier, meaning.

Having donned a toga several times for Halloween, I can tell you, they’re surprisingly comfortable and delightfully breezy for the undercarriage.

There’s a reason they call it “playing the skin flute”

Gotta save that 12 cents. Profits are only slightly higher than last year’s

Neither. They go in the codpiece.

It was actually the fact that the people with boats also lived in an area where carbon-rich iron was in the ground all over the place. While other civilizations first needed to discover and perfect metallurgy, Europeans only needed to mine it and work it into shape to have superior weapons and armor than the rest of the world.

Basically, Europe got the best spawn location, used that to gather momentum in the early game, and has been able to preserve that momentum through military dominance throughout the midgame.

“Indications of humans wearing pants” doesn’t have to refer to an archeologist finding preserved remains of pants buried in the ground. It could refer to art depicting people wearing pants, writings where people are described as wearing pants, a receipt for the purchase of some pants, or even the discovery of tools that could be used for making pants.

Probably in their pocket. Before being incorporated into clothing, “pockets” referred to small pouches that were cinched shut and tied to a belt. The term “pickpocket” was created during this time. It was common to use a small, sharp knife to cut and “pick” pockets right off someone’s belt.

Ok, but before pants, humans wore robes, kilts, loin cloths, all kinds of coverings besides just pants.

Also, fun fact, the reason why it’s called a “pair” of pants is because each pant leg used to be a separate garment; they were held up together at the waist with a belt.

Oh, what about the ones with gangsta Bugs Bunny / SpongeBob / Tweety Bird. Memba?

Gog literally won’t allow you to sell a game if it has DRM

So, Steam respects their customers enough to offer them a choice while GOG doesn’t; good to know.

set whatever environment variables the game needs, create the necessary folders, install the redistributable runtimes the game needs to run,and link the dlls properly

Ok, and? I can do all that on Steam too. I can even launch the game directly without involving Steam at all.

If you only have the game files you have to manage all of that yourself

Yeah, and all that is a huge pain in the ass. Having it to do myself isn’t a positive.

If a game has DRM on one platform, but not another, that’s because the publisher required it. That can be for any number of reasons that don’t have anything to do with the platform.

I guess what I’m asking is, what’s the benefit to having the installer instead of the game files?

You have to be online to download the installer. The end result is being able to play normally, offline, from portable storage if you choose. Besides a few gigabytes, it seems like a distinction without a difference.

If the game itself has DRM, then it has DRM on GOG too.

Steam itself is a form of DRM if you must install it and login to install and/or run a game.

Did you read what I wrote?

How is this not also true for Steam? Unless the game itself has DRM, I can copy game files to an offline machine that doesn’t have Steam installed and launch and play them normally.

Edit: Glazing GOG for this while insisting “sTeAm iS dIfFeReNt” is like buying the cereal box that says “Asbestos Free!” on it.

Ever since that Sony tweet, all these kids are, overnight, developing all these strong opinions about shit they never cared about before, based on nothing but hype, memes, and regurgitated streamer slop.

Physical media has licenses too. GOG purchases come with licenses too. Optical media rots. And Steam isn’t secretly Sony (yet. They probably will be after Gabe dies).

Downvote me all you want, it doesn’t change the truth and reveals much more about you than me.

Depending on your desired level of mastery, practice and consistency alone aren’t enough. Self-taught is the slowest, most difficult way to learn and i only recommend it to those who are interested in coding at a hobby level.

If you want to make a career of it, if you want to be a professional, you also need timely (ideally immediate) feedback from a trained expert who can spot errors in your technique and teach you how to effectively conceptualize and approach the problems you’re solving.

You need a coach, a mentor, a teacher. Harvard university’s CS50 course is free and an excellent way to get access to such experts and other students with similar goals to collaborate with.

“Doesn’t make a profit” doesn’t mean “is run inefficiently”. It doesn’t even mean “doesn’t generate excess value”. It just means excess value is reinvested into the system, like the US Post Office. It never makes money, never has made any money, has always either saved or reinvested the money left over on the balance sheet at the end of the year.

Optical media will eventually suffer bit rot and be useless. Save them to an old HDD, SD card, or USB drive, they’ll last longer.

Company-issued slop muzzles