No need to say 'thank you' unless you win ; )
I want to give some general life advice that's been very useful to me, so have some charge-free
Psychotherapy, like CBT, is often used when treating depression. Modern CBT has its roots in ancient stoicism, from which it borrows many ideas and exercises.
Some links of interest.
A tiny handbook compiling stoic exercises. Perfect for impatient and/or pragmatical people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/comments/4bz797/practical_stoicism/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5xf_-m7GMFYZDRKb2RKSzBQTnM/view
More general links.
https://www.reddit.com/r/stoicism
http://media.psychology.tools/worksheets/english_us/unhelpful_thinking_styles_en-us.pdf
Money and happiness have a direct relationship, but this is not proportional, due to the law of diminishing returns. Moreover, sudden changes in your happiness level will be eventually absorbed and you will return to your baseline level of satisfaction, due to hedonic adaptation.
What to do then with our disposable income? You can invest it, so you can earn more money in the future. If you decide so, the best possible way you can invest is through low-cost index funds. If you go far enough with the whole frugality + investing combo, you can become financially independent. This means your passive income is higher than your expenses, so you don't actually need additional income. i.e. You can quit your job, effectively trading money for time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwkjqGd8NC4
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
We spend a lot of our waking time interacting with computers, so picking OS is not a trivial decision. There are many reasons to pick Linux over Windows for your daily use, even without taking into account the spying efforts from Microsoft. Granted, there's still room for improvement when it comes to game availability: you can dual-boot for the time being if you are not ready for such a commitment.
My former partner introduced me to Linux when we started dating. Maybe that's why I was so motivated to dive in. Or maybe was all the Blue Screens of Death Windows had gifted me over the years.
If you want to learn from a cute girl, like I did, you can browse Nixie's youtube channels.
https://www.youtube.com/user/NixiePixel/playlists
https://www.youtube.com/user/nixiedoeslinux/playlists?sort=dd&view=50&shelf_id=5
If you prefer to learn from anonymous Linux users, go to
https://boards.4chan.org/g/fglt
and blame me for pointing you there if they are rude.
Or you can just google every question about Linux that comes up to your mind. If there's no answer to be found you're free to come after me and slaughter my cattle. i.e. You WILL find the answer.
I hope this covered it well enough.
Cheers and good luck in the GA and overall!
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To be honest, I've considered getting away from Windows for a while now. But as you also stated with Linux, game availability is the main problem for me. I'm not really interested in dual booting, but I'd love for Linux or any other OS to soon be on par with Windowson that note.
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I'm hoping Vulkan will fix that soon. However, it's not a big issue if you dual boot. WIth an SSD you can reboot quite fast. With some games that incite your to Alt+Tab (I'm thinking CiV, AoW III, etc) can be bothersome, but fortunately those are available to Linux.
I encourage you to give it a try. The trick about dual-booting is that once you get a taste of Linux you will probably find yourself going back to Windows less and less as time goes on.
Thanks reading!
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Yeah I probably should really give it a try. And with dual booting I wouldn't really be giving up anything anyway since I can always switch back and forth fairly easily and quickly. Is there any versions of Linux you'd recommend? Haven't used Linux before, but I'm not a total novice when it comes to computers.
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Thanks a lot.
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Thanks for the game.
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I hope you enjoy it! The developer is a cool guy and apparently very into the Silent Hill series.
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