I first started running Linux in the early 2000s. I wasn’t solely using Linux, but it was very much a situation where I used it for what it was best at and used Windows for where I needed Windows. Mostly that was for games, but it was early in my IT career and Windows was a skill I needed to build, so I did a lot of dual booting. It really propelled my understanding of computers running and breaking multiple OSes.

I fully made the switch a couple of years ago when I realized I hadn’t booted my Windows install in six months. Linux has come a long way, and has also been helped by so many things being browser-based these days.

Completely jettison all of Star Trek Discovery and the Section 31 movie.

What finally pushed me over the edge was when I was trying to fix something in Windows and it said I couldn’t access that part of the OS. Bitch, you work for me, not the other way around. I’ve flopped back and forth between Linux and Windows for decades and just decided that anything I couldn’t do in Linux I just wouldn’t do. So far, I haven’t really encountered anything. With how much of my average computing is done in a browser these days, Firefox doesn’t really care which OS it’s running on.

It sounds like you’re really sensitive to workflow disruption at this time in your life. You can’t change from Windows to Linux without some pretty hefty disruptions, same as if you chose to go from Windows to Mac. If you really don’t feel like you have the personal bandwidth to deal with the workflow disruptions and learning curve, you should go with Windows 11. If you hate it, it’s not like Linux won’t still be there for you to investigate later when your life calms down.

The race depicted are notoriously dumb and only achieved space travel by stealing the technology. Don’t think about it too much or you’ll see all the holes in that idea.

I love it with hummus.

“…you have the audacity to come to me for help?

Sure! Linux isn’t nearly as difficult to use as people think. There’s a learning curve since Linux does things differently than Windows, but you’d face that if you switched to Mac, too. Here’s a USB disk with [insert user-friendly distro here] loaded on it. If you can make your computer boot with it you have all the skills necessary to install Linux. You can test-drive it from the USB and if it’s just too different from what you’re used to, it won’t have made any changes. Have fun!”

I know which album I’ll be listening to on my commute this morning.

It’s so short that you might as well sit through it.

Futurama or Star Trek TNG.

The teacher is AI, and the student uses AI to answer the questions. It’s just two AI talking to each other with a middleman.

I‘be really been enjoying it. It feels like it took the parts I liked best from World and Rise and refined them. The new wound mechanic feels like a refinement of IB’s tenderizing mechanic only it doesn’t annoy me.

I’m torn on the way it tells its story, though. On the one hand, I really like the story thus far, but sometimes I just want to go smack a monster in the face with my horn and not have to wait through 15+ minutes of story to get there.

My Mustang Mach-E has a physical key, or you can use your phone as a key, or in a pinch, you can set up a door code and an activation code to start it. The physical key still isn’t an actual key, though. It just needs to be near your car. There’s no physical lock in the door or the dash.

I like physical books, so I get the fun of hunting for books through the used bookstore, having them on my bookshelf, then I get to shame myself for my growing backlog of books. Once that’s done, I find reading to be very relaxing.

Especially if you just shift when you buy something by a day. You still bought it.

Maybe records became fuzzy due to the whole WWIII issue.

I think it’s just one of the GW texture pastes (Agrellan Something), then I hit it with either Nuln Oil or Agrax Earthshade, then dry brushed with Screaming Skull, I think? I think the tuft is an Army Painter one?

Thanks! The Sisters models are so cool.

This is my go-to. I have the old DVDs ripped onto my Plex server so that I can hit shuffle on all the old seasons and just watch episodes at random.

AMD support is baked into the kernel, so you really don’t have to do anything unless you’re on bleeding edge hardware and the drivers are in a version of the kernel your distribution doesn’t ship yet.