https://www.protondb.com/search?q=The+Sims

Well I went to check for you and found that the “legacy edition” supposedly runs fine through proton, who knows. Good luck either way!

Yes but you don’t have to learn anything, except you still have to learn what GUI tools they even are and how to use those just like you’d have to learn how to run MAS. Since idfk what he’s talking about but I can open up powershell and paste

irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex

And click 1 and hit enter, it looks like it’d actually be easier for me to use powershell for whatever the hell he’s talking about too. Hell I probably already have GoodUSB scripts to do it all anyway.

It’s like saying “Nobody will ever buy a vacuum until we can decide if Dyson or Bissel are better” lmao.

Now just see if you can pirate the OGs and run those, close enough unless Aunt Susan is a graphics junkie.

Mostly you can’t, glad that one runs!

The issue though usually (just for clarity’s sake) isn’t that the games don’t run, usually they’d still run fine, but the DRM is often kernel level and nobody on linux wants that, or the DRM just doesn’t work on linux (fault of DRM company), or everything works but they’ll still ban your acct for playing on linux because fuck you (looking at you Destiny).

The things that don’t run now aren’t usually linux’s fault, it’s the company/DRM every time.

Tbf my mom doesn’t know how to install Linux, true, but she also doesn’t know how to install Windows. If you give her a bare metal laptop with no OS I would have to install either for her. If linux came preinstalled (say she buys a Framework and chooses Fedora), and she wanted to switch to windows after not liking it, I’d have to install it for her too.

She also doesn’t know that she can “search” inside her emails to find something, we’re not exactly talking about people who know how to do anything on a computer, so what, do you think I don’t have to “provide IT support” no matter what OS she runs? At least with linux I’ll be able to help instead of trying to figure out windows fuckery after not using it myself for years now.

As to the iPhone users, yeah they make fun of me too because they’re stupid, get good and turn it back on them like I do, “of course I don’t use iSpyOS, I use GrapheneOS like a smart person, get good scrub.” Those capitulating to the peer pressure are no different than them buying into the marketing, that’s part of their marketing.

The Church of Linux can’t save everyone’s digital souls, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop telling people the good word from the books of Torvalds and Stallman.

Or just get good, iPhone users make fun of me all the time for using a non-iPhone, but I just flip it back on them,

“What? Of course I don’t have an iPhone, I don’t like spyware. I use GrapheneOS. Sure ‘your UI is so good that babies and the elderly can use it’ well get good scrub.”

I’m still waiting for them to finish loading in.