🤘

She’s a pretty cool lady. Till she’s not.

I love when someone asks this stupid fucking question to my wife when she’s in her full punk regalia.

She sizes up their outfit and immediately turns the question back to them, and most often sinks them like the titanic. Not that she couldn’t answer. But why in the fuck would she answer to you, asshole.

Show off

Wow. Some pretty reasonable prices. Thank you stranger.

Hey stranger. I always advise a dual boot setup to start with. Use windows as your daily driver and boot into Linux to learn.

Take your time. Don’t worry about terminal stuff right away. Explore (and maybe break) things. Just don’t have anything important there at first.

Backup twice and often. Timeshift is good. Borg (Vorta) is great.

I wouldn’t start with mint. Probably an unpopular opinion. Debian is the way. It runs an older kernel and doesn’t get a ton of updates, and fairly forgiving. Great distro to start learning terminal with.

Test out desktop environments. Find one you love. Then make it home. Start messing with terminal stuff. Learn the basics. Watch YouTube a lot. Learn Linux TV is an excellent channel. Learn rsync + cron. 🐐

Then backup twice.

Start using Wine and/or Bottles to run windows apps. Learn about appimages, flatpaks, deb files, etc. Permissions is a massive must learn. FOSS is life.

Backup twice and often.

I highly recommend an atomic desktop. Fedora Kinoite is brilliant and you have to really try to break it. Plus you get KDE Plasma! But any atomic distro will do.

Backup everything twice and often.

Slowly wean yourself off windows. When you think you’re ready for the jump, don’t do it and give yourself another week. Then learn about qemu/kvm or any other virtual machine package you like. Get a windows iso file and create a windows VM. Install apps in the VM. This is where windows lives now.

When you think it’s time, backup twice, format your hard drive, install distro of choice, install apps, windows VM, and backup twice. Now you have the best of both worlds without windows having access to anything, and you’re a full fledged Linux user!

Or dont. I dont care.

*gems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor?wprov=sfla1

Heads up. I think you meant to reply but made a new comment.

I should have known. lol. Thank you.

Excellent. Thanks!

Their site says they still need to raise 11 grand for this month, so I assume they are cash/maintainer poor. Like you said, still a great site! Thanks again. :)

I’m one of today’s 10000. Thanks OP. This is excellent! I wish they had an app on fdroid. Still fantastic!

https://newatlas.com/google-deepmind-big-red-button/43711/

Ahh…so you’re doing it for the snacks. Gotcha.

Are you being held against your will and forced to do mundane tasks so your master can gather fake internet points?

Sodium. They apparently were buying small amounts of salt.

Fuck Lars.