Not in the same sense as North America. We have debit cards tied to bank accounts with a similar functionality as a credit card, but they often don’t work at a negative balance. No one I know has a debit card that functions the same as a North American credit card. (I’m a Canadian living in Australia.)

I have a MasterCard debit card, but it doesn’t work as an age verification for Steam.

And then it would finally connect, and your sibling would pick up the phone and start dialling…

Aaaaaaargh!

I remember way, way back in the days of dialup a very tech savvy friend had emailed me 20+ files, because I was the only one capable of stitching an image together. Took forever (days?) to download the files, and I had to redownload more than once due to roommates doing fun stuff like picking up the other phone line… (It was of his truck after hitting a moose.) Of course, I didn’t get to see the image until he got home, I had a Hercules monitor, he had a fancy one that did actual graphics.

I’d gotten so used to crashes that started with a lockup under windows, leading to my poor char’s death, or save corruption…

The freeze and then resume feels like winning the lottery. :D

I’m closing on my six months anniversary of not booting into windows. I wish I had converted earlier as well.

Not having to deal with the whack a mole of problems that was windows is so very lovely.

A few ongoing bothersome problems that honestly amuse me, and I’m far less stressed when something does go wrong that I can’t fix.

Haven’t had a game (so far) that I couldn’t get running, and really only miss one program that I could probably run under Linux if I really wanted to get dirty.

One ongoing problem for some of my games and it’s so random that after spending an hour trying to fix it I decided I didn’t care enough, because I wasn’t having the crashes I used to under windows. (The game freezes, and will stay stuck until having tabbed out to Steam (and only Stream), tabbing to anything else the game stays hung. Then some process comes along that I don’t see, frees everything and I’m back to playing happily.)

Missed ‘no simps’ but I guess that was on purpose.