I’ve had a couple of people suggest they were going to dualboot and I often suggest against it. Logging in and out is more of a deterrent than people realize.

The only instance where I think it would be effective is if you work with MS software, in that case you can get away with having a work OS and a home OS.

IMO, the hardest part of moving over is relearning a bunch of things you’ve taken for granted. However, Windows has been changing and breaking things at such a rapid pace, that not even my friends who still use it can keep track.

Can I ssh into a server and not lose all productivity yet? Last time I tried ghostty I had to setup separate configs for my servers because they didn’t recognize it :/

Never trust the last person, especially if the last person was you.

It’s a shame we don’t have those banner ad schemes anymore. Cybersquatting could be a viable income stream if you could convince the cleaners to click banner ads for a faction of a penny each.

It’s scary and disorienting, but imo it’s worth it.

I can now say anecdotally I have more friends that have tried Linux and are happier on it, than I have friends who went back to Windows.

Most of the people who went back went back for edge cases, weird hardware or that “one game” that has kernel level anticheat and doesn’t run on Proton.

This is true, antibiotics are only effective against bacterial infection, not viral.

Yes, but also its illegal to kill a goose.

And I’m pretty sure someone told the geese.

I’m not going to lie, that last one is the hardest thing for me.

After years of trades i always loved having a physical thing you can touch and feel at the end of the day. I’m in university for tech, and i’m still struggling with the lack of achievement. I don’t often get to see someone use a thing I worked on, so it kinda feels like I spent a lot of time doing nothing.

This is actually how my professor, who has a PhD in mathematics, does math.

Yeah, when i played through it i quickly discovered that I’d have to set aside a few hours at a time in order to actually let myself enjoy it.

Luckily, this was mid 2020 and i had just gotten laid off, so i had time.

I want a phone as thick as the camera bump. I don’t even care if they make use of the extra space, but if you’re going to sell a flat rectangle at least make the flat rectangle flat.

Actually, I’m on my second flip phone and I’m not sure i can go back to the regular rectangle anymore, i love these things.

I know it’s not indicative of the industry as a whole, but the Steam hardware survey has Nvidia at 75%. So while they’re still selling strong, as others have indicated, I’m not confident they’re getting used for gaming.

You have a choice. We can watch Ninja Turtles, read Ninja Turtles, or play Ninja Turtles.

I’m not buying this just because Konami can get stuffed. They canned Kojima then rereleased his greatest work.

Oh it’s possible, and it runs well, but I’d never recommend the SD for that.

But it’s all in your expectations I guess. I don’t use my SD for serious game sessions, I use it to goof off in bed, or on a plane or ferry.

A lot of people I’ve spoken to seem to think it’s a replacement for a ps5 or a full sized gaming computer. It’s enough to get by, but I wouldn’t tell anyone to chuck their setup and get one.

It’s an outstanding machine for little rogue-likes at the bus stop, or some Star Fox, but I’m not even going to try to load something like Expedition 33 on it.

I could drill down into the work that went into DXVK before Proton came about, enabling the Steam Deck, but that’s a boring history lesson. I will concede that newer bleeding edge hardware is far more likely to be plug and play on Windows, but one of the leading reasons I transitioned was Windows removing support for the audio chipset on the motherboard for my Ryzen 1600. Every time I rebooted, I’d have to unpack a zip file and reinstall the audio drivers, it was maddening.

In my experience (so, totally anecdotal), my hardware is stable longer on Linux than Windows.

Nvidia is a real stepping stone on itself, keep with it and I’m sure you’ll learn your way around.

Think of it like moving to a new house. Even if you put your furniture in the same place, the floor plan is different, so for the first little bit you’re bound to stub your toe in the dark.

I fucking hope not.

The other night I dreamed Uncle Scrooge solved The Lament Configuration, so Huey Duey and Louie went to the pain dimension to rescue him. I don’t want to dream, I just want to die in peace.