Ok Thanks for the info. I might check it out 👍

It’s an interesting article and I’m also starting to think more and more about game preservation.

I don’t understand why a company like Sony wouldn’t provide you a way to play ps1-3 games on your ps5. I would even be ready to pay for it.

There might be some technical problems I’m not seeing, but people can do it on older pc’s…

I guess the whole video game industry has to think about preserving its own history.

I don’t know if open sourcing games would help, but something needs to be done.

Even playing a game like Sim City 2000 on pc is proving challenging now on Windows. I would want to play it on Linux but I can’t imagine how difficult that would be as the game isn’t even listed in Proton DB. And the VM solution would probably not work as Steam wouldn’t support something like Windows XP…

Oh okay thanks for the info. I don’t think it’s such a problem because it’s open source and the code can be reviewed.

Also I’m not sure American companies are less evil than companies from other superpowers.

What is the problem with its origin?

I would want to « force » my relatives to use Linux. My wife had an unsupported MacBook Pro from 2012, so I managed to convince her it would be safer to switch. Since then, she hasn’t used macOS, but she also hasn’t used Linux because she can use her work provided windows laptop 😅

I also proposed to my mom to provide IT support remotely to her via Linux, but she prefers using windows and relying on an old friend who is forcing her to buy a lot of Microsoft products otherwise he refuses to help her.

I hope I’ll at least be able to teach my kids that Linux ain’t scary 🙏

Yeah clearly Lemmy might have a lot of Linux users because Lemmy in itself is really niche. Way more than Linux.

I’m also thinking a lot about the best way to move everything from one computer to another if one day I buy a new computer.

I thought I had found a way with Clonezilla, but after trying to clone my Surface Go 1 to an old laptop I had, it didn’t work. Could be because I hadn’t removed the surface specific kernel. But now I don’t feel safe anymore.

Some people are suggesting to copy my home folder which I did, but I’m not sure it would fit my needs.

Basically, my files are taken care of with cloud storage (kDrive by the way), but I’d like to keep the way all my programs and extensions are setup.

So I ain’t sure I was a big help😅

I hope one day we’ll just have some program to prepare an archive to unpack for your next system to make the transition seamlessly. Or just putting the computer side by side and sending everything wirelessly.

I feel like we need this with all the personalization we can have on Linux.

Okay then I guess I’ll just backup my home folder on kDrive (my cloud service) and then just remember which programs are installed since the automatic listing of programs seems a bit too complicated for me. Thanks for the help!

I forgot to say that I’m using Linux (Fedora 40). If you think it wouldn’t work, do you know another program which would?

My data is stored on the cloud, but I wouldn’t want to go through the hassle of setting everything up again if I move to another computer (extensions, mail, calendar, installed programs and settings).

Okay thanks for the answer 🙏

As you seem to know a lot about Clonezilla, I’m allowing myself to ask you something.

Would Clonezilla work for doing a backup and reinstalling it on a completely different device?

I’ve already used it to backup and restore on the same device. I also tried to install my Surface Go device backup on an old Acer Computer but it failed to boot afterwards. I’m not sure if it’s because of the surface specific kernel or because it doesn’t work from one computer to another.

Would you know that?

Thanks I’ll check it out👍

Just for curiosity, where do you get these old distributions?

I might try the Ubuntu version which got me into Linux one of these days😇

I’ve only heard good things about them so I’m interested to know too.

Seems a bit too complicated for me, even if it probably ain’t.

But I’d probably use it if one day I break my Fedora workstation install.

If installing the surface kernel (kind of necessary for my Surface Go 1) and installing a few appimages didn’t look so difficult, I guess I would already be on Silverblue.

I’m kind of the opposite of OP and just having nightmares about breaking my system 😅

That’s why I’m doing clonezilla backup but I think the custom kernel would be a problem if I reinstall on another non-Surface computer. Maybe I should just go back to the normal kernel before doing a backup…

I’ve found some tutorials online, but I’m always cautious with these things because the more I tinker, the more I break my systems 😅

Surprisingly it was really easy to install fedora on my wife’s MacBook Pro from 2012.

The only thing I had to do for everything to work perfectly was to install the RPM fusion repository and accept that the @ is gonna be mapped to the wrong key.

It’s the easiest device I’ve had for installing Linux in quite a while…

I guess a lot of it depends on the hardware you’re using.

I now use a Surface Go 1 and it suits me really well.

But getting it to boot on a usb drive was difficult and I would have given up if it was just to try Linux.

Fortunately, I had already used Linux on many other devices and I knew that the reward was worth the struggle and that the difficulties were not related to Linux.

It looks like a great service, but since I’m already paying for cloud storage (kDrive from Infomaniak) I wouldn’t want to have another subscription.

Although I wouldn’t mind paying once for an equivalent to Google photos which would be storing and going through my pictures on my cloud storage.

Does anyone knows if such a program exists?