Nobody was going to stay on 3.11

NT really lacked drivers and was super expensive.

We used 95, skipped 98 until se came out. We did a fair amount of Win2k, XP was pretty rough until service pack 2. When Serviceback 3 hit, we eradicated everything else on the desktop.

I have space, I keep 50lbs of AP flour, 100lbs of rice, 40 lbs of Maseca, and 40lbs of pizza flour.

Family of 4 goes through it all over the year and i re-buy. Then I make it a point to make stuff from each every week to keep costs down.

IT professional… SO MANY TIMES. Any not just reinstall, we were upgrading and doing primary installs.

I knew a 95 key and an office key. (which was easy because 1201234567 worked on O2k

Here’s an option :)

https://github.com/minexew/Shrine

chromebooks during highschool geometry

Nah, most of the school equipment/networks are monitored/blocked to hell and back. I’m not saying they can’t find loopholes, but they’re severely hampered, and when they get caught, it’s a big deal.

A lot of that chromeOS is people buying the cheapest hardware at Walmart and using it as their faptop.

Just like a lot of the Linux is probably steamdecks.

It’s probably SteamDecks alone.

Imagine TempleOS for PH :) I’m not saying I don’t think it happens … but the irony.

Everyone has their own preferences, many of the loudest pretend Linux is sport betting, it’s not.

What you care about is:

• how well does it support your hardware
• how well does it support your use case
• how open is the community around the distro to new users

The core OS’s have pretty good support and open minded communities.

Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint

Then you have distros that try to cater more to specific needs, like Bazzite focuses on steam and video drivers staying 100% ready out of the box. That’s not to say that current Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint can’t install and just work, but it’s not their primary focus.

Debian was old and rigid about non-free software Ubuntu forked and allowed free, and their community blossomed. Ubuntu made marketing decisions with Amazon and some other stuff that wierded people out Mint formed the community started heading over there. Ubuntu tried to start doing snap package manager which people hated, so Mint got stronger. Debian finally said ohh fine you can have non-free software, no mint and Debian are both strong and well liked with pretty good support and communities. Fedora is from the old Redhat lineage and is a strong contender with an ancient community and lots of support. Mint, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu still all have strong communities and lots of support. They’re a great place to start. Bazzite is a Fedora port that focuses on Gaming and Video driver support.
There is some stink in the air about Fedora dropping 32 bit support, if that happens Both Fedora and Bazzite will have a very hard time supporting games. As long as Fedora keeps 32 bit support, Bazzite is the best for getting your games running out of the box.

Video editing can be challenging. Divinci Resolve is pretty good, but the free version has harsh limits. KDEnlive is free and ok, but it really lacks authoring features.

Watching streams is easy

Streaming live video is messier. OBS still works a treat, but you don’t have Nvidia background removal, and most of the other removal options in Linux are anemic.

Be bored because there’s an overwhelming amount to do, but it’s all so vague and horrible that you can’t overcome the couch-intertia to start.

Today I learned a little more German.

I had avoided KDE for years due to some multi-screen resolution issues back in the day.

I’d be running gnome, and install a half dozen plugins to make it look and feel closer to Windows It was just a personal preference. Every other update some plugin I was using would be broken. I’d replace it with another plug-in or uninstall it and wait for a fix. Fight fight fight fight fight fight. Some number of years later I tried KDE again, and I realized that it did exactly what I was trying to do in Gnome but it did it out of the box.

I don’t have anything against Gnome. The same way I don’t have anything against OS X’s “window manager” or even Windows 11’s “window manager” they’re just not my preference.

Bottom left navigation, thin, stacked app indicators, bottom right tray. Fractional scaling, widgets.