Nutanix…oof. I deal with them every day. It isn’t their fault their shit can’t handle what we do, but it is their sales folk that constantly lie and misrepresent.

Wanna know one of rhe big reasons people hate Oracle so much? It’s their sales guys. They are awful. If that guy went from Oracle to Nutanix, that tells me that I cannot trust a single syllable out of their mouth.

I think you meant “emotionally scarred” but if I’m honest, “emotionally scared” is also true.

Getting sex ed and intercourse tips from my mother was horrifying, but it saved me from many mistakes. Not all, but many.

Hatred of Oracle predates “cancelling” by decades. Oracle is and has always been one of, if not the most disgusting and vicious companies in tech. They kill everything they touch.

If you need a political component, then Oracle = Larry Ellison, but Oracle hate predates and supercedes the American political slide into fascism.

MySQL belongs to Oracle. That’s literally all you need to.know in order to avoid it.

Oh, I 100% agree and I love my mother for that and many other things she did where she went above and beyond to prepare me for life. Still, that was…something.

Having cool and upfront parents when it comes to sex can also be problematic awkward. My mother was a social worker in New York and Philly during the sixties and seventies. She use to tell me (as a pre-pubescent child) about how she use to have to put young girls (10-13) on birth control and how some already had a child at 13. I hit puberty at 10 so she gave me the talk about how regular masturbation was healthy and showed me how to put on a condom.

Decades later and I’m still emotionally scarred. *shiver*

EDIT: Fixed my wording as it made it sound like I don’t approve of the proactive approach. I very much so do.

I was going to reply with an image of “meth mouth” but I threw up in my mouth just remembering those images.

“Fuck you!”
Great! I’ll get the lube, the waterproof sheets, and the rubber chicken.
“What?”
What?

His aesthetic doesn’t inspire thoughts of gay shit.

Ooof! You are absolutely right. Hopefully they use dedicated e-mail and contact information for their business.

Who the hell uses their real name and e-mail to open accounts in sites like PornHub?

EDIT: I enjoy porn and so does my wife. Neither one of us is shy about it, but neither of us would use our real info to open an account. Who the hell wants infinite floods of adult product email spam?

One last thing. Since you are completely new, are coming from a Windows background, and do more than just game, I’d suggest starting with Linux Mint (Cinnamon). You do not have to stick with that distribution forever, but it is probably the most painless introduction since it is Debian/Ubuntu based and most of the help/articles you’ll find on the Internet are focused on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint. Debian based distributions are more of a “set it and forget it” experience. Nice and boring.

Other major core distributions that are different from Debian/Ubuntu include Red Hat (Fedora), Arch, and OpenSuSe. Red Hat (Fedora) is a good choice for corporate users since Red Hat is the defacto Linux distribution for the corporate world. Arch is great if you REALLY want to learn Linux and truly get into tinkering with its guts. OpenSuSe is the European option and what some European governments are ditching Windows for.

FYI: You are already on Lemmy, the most Linux friendly place on the Internet. If you ever run into trouble, just ask around. People here will love to help you.

Will I be able to run Blender without issue?

The free and open source 3D creation software developed on Linux and primarily run on Linux? Yeah, you should be fine.

Can I run Steam/Steam games easily?

Absolutely. Games that have a problem running on linux are mostly contained to this with anti-cheat. You can verify your game’s compatibility with protondb.com.

Will Discord work?

Of course. Discord has a linux native client.

You know what the true Step One is.