I understand that. I attract less people to PeerTube, contribute less content for others, if I refuse to make my things public. I'd rather have big, corporate YouTube bear the burden than the smaller PeerTube.

Is Wine an emulator? There seems to be disagreement

There is a lot of confusion about this, particularly caused by people getting Wine's name wrong and calling it WINdows Emulator.

When users think of an emulator, they tend to think of things like game console emulators or virtualization software. However, Wine is a compatibility layer - it runs Windows applications in much the same way Windows does. There is no inherent loss of speed due to "emulation" when using Wine, nor is there a need to open Wine before running your application.

That said, Wine can be thought of as a Windows emulator in much the same way that Windows Vista can be thought of as a Windows XP emulator: both allow you to run the same applications by translating system calls in much the same way. Setting Wine to mimic Windows XP is not much different from setting Vista to launch an application in XP compatibility mode.

A few things make Wine more than just an emulator:

Sections of Wine can be used on Windows. Some virtual machines use Wine's OpenGL-based implementation of Direct3D on Windows rather than truly emulate 3D hardware. Winelib can be used for porting Windows application source code to other operating systems that Wine supports to run on any processor, even processors that Windows itself does not support. "Wine is not just an emulator" is more accurate. Thinking of Wine as just an emulator is really forgetting about the other things it is. Wine's "emulator" is really just a binary loader that allows Windows applications to interface with the Wine API replacement.

—https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/FAQ

I'd migrate to PeerTube but I figure I might be a drain on resources without giving back: I only upload unlisted personal videos for family/friends/myself, of family/friends/myself. Extremely uninterested in sharing them with the general public. Don't want rancid comments about my family, friends, or myself. So I stick to YouTube for all my uploads.

Maybe if I do something useful and informative for others I'll put it up there.

Oh wow, how did it do the latter!? (I'm more technical than the average person, but half the time I feel too dumb for programming.dev, but I'll never smarten up if I don't stick around and learn, so…)

Also shifted off Windows 11 to Fedora. Well, at least, a modified version anyways—Nobara—on the suggestion of a user in the thread.

I understand reluctance to move because of ease of modding.

This does not answer it for all your games, but did you see this post about Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim modding on Linux? It might help for those at least.

I have managed to mod Dragon Age: Origins successfully with the help of winetricks and/or protontricks, I forget which one.

I'm really lucky that I avoid anything that has anticheat. Not because I'm a cheater but because all the slur-screaming 12 year olds and my own fear of getting addicted to MMOs if I ever gave them a try have mostly dissuaded me from anything with online multiplayer.

Which means most of my games are Linux-compatible and I have no gaming group I'm giving up by making the jump :D

Saw something on programming.dev about some extra telemetry Windows 11 was adding or something like that? I forget. It was definitely something I think is bad, that people on programming.dev also think is bad. Then, despite having done registry edits and everything else I could think of to turn off auto Windows updates to make sure I would not get the bad new feature added in an update, my Windows 11 computer auto updated anyways. Got mad, wanted to switch to Linux, [asked !linux@programming.dev for help](https://programming.dev/post/18482370), and finally did it four months later, a few days before the new year started.

Alright, I went and installed Linux! I honestly have not looked at most of those resources since I made the post but I plan to as needed—the thing that I took was a user's advice on which distribution (Nobara) for my specific use case. In case we have the same use case: I was replacing a Windows computer that I only used for video games (none of which are online multiplayer games or have anticheat, sometimes those might be incompatible with a Linux install?) and BOINC/Folding at Home. If I hate it or have too much trouble I'll try another distribution.

One thing I can tell you is a couple things I learned during the installation process. Only later did I find https://www.howtogeek.com/693588/how-to-install-linux/ which would have helped me hit less bumps in the road. (Mainly because I was looking at https://wiki.nobaraproject.org/ and saw the two steps about downloading ISO and creating a usable USB device. I already had the ISO, so I moved onto creating a bootable USB device on my own and failed at that. Ended up finding the howtogeek guide which helped me with the USB device later.)

• I am an idiot who thought doing https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-essentials/install/create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive dumping the ISO on a flashdrive was enough before reading that howtogeek guide. It is not. I learned the hard way I had to use https://rufus.ie/en/ on the ISO (if you're smarter than me you can figure out what that actually does to make it bootable lol). That linked tutorial does work though.
• Because I was migrating from a Windows 11 machine, I needed the flashdrive in fat32 so UEFI could read it, not NFTS.
• Finally, I got "the volume is too big for fat32" or something like that when trying to format to fat32. I tried to look up if I could just make a smaller partition on my flashdrive that was fat32, no answer found. So I just did it. Yes, you can indeed just make a smaller fat32 partition that is big enough to hold your Linux install.

Well it is four months later but I'm just waiting for Nobara to install now. I did not dual boot. Thank you for your help!

EDIT: Installed and running. I appreciate not having my computer sound like a jet engine taking off every time I ask it for anything.

Oh thank goodness I am not the only one. Just the way I, an American, read things, and my cynicism about people trying to replace devs with AI says top (trying to hire real devs) goes first and bottom (fired everyone) second; title and the fact this was posted in Programmer Humor implies it's bottom first and top second.

It tries to put me here https://tilvids.com/w/e34ea848-c20b-4ebf-8ff9-c4cb7fd9c564

Oh dang. I don't calorie track anymore, but back when I used MyFitnessPal I think they let me scan barcodes without a subscription… thanks for making this for those who need it!