Mint was my first serious move to Linux too! It’s so user friendly and clean.

I’ve been running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with an Nvidia GPU for quite a few years now on my gaming / 3D art rig though, and I’ve really enjoyed it. My Win10 partition has been dormant and shrunk for a very long time. :D

Just make sure you stick with the default of using BTRFS at least on root, to get that snapshot rollback support!

For being such an up to date distro, it’s ridiculously stable. Usually issues I’ve had have been Nvidia problems, but I’ve been able to roll back until they resolved. Things have definitely gotten much better over time.

Wayland has also matured wonderfully and things like multi monitor setups with different refresh rates work just fine these days.

Totally get what you mean about KDE too, I really enjoy how much easy customization it has!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

Long time ago I had one of those “single property renovator man” types move in to replace the nice neighbor girl next door. You know, instantly they freshen up the backyard and put a dozen cameras all over the place.

We let my kitten out back at night for a little exploring. Walled back yard. Within a span of a few minutes found her dead by our sliding glass door with a head wound. We didn’t know what happened at the time. Too shocking to think straight.

But a few days later, the asshole is plinking beer cans in his backyard with some family members or something. Errant rounds are pinging off our windows and leaving rust stains in our pool.

We call the police because someone is discharging dangerous projectiles within city limits, at our house, and the lone, bothered, podgy lawman gives us the “Jus’ sum good ol’ boys, I asked them to take it easy.” routine.

I’m glad I never got this man’s actual name. I’m afraid of what I’d do with it now that we don’t live there anymore. I figure there’s nothing worse I could do to him than the pathetic existence he leads on his way to hell anyway.

(Air guitar riff)

I agree so much. Sadly it’s hard to reach out with how entire neighborhoods are designed. They’re designed like solitary domiciles that only exist because employees need a place to be stored when not in use.

Ours is designed where cars just disappear into garages and only people walking dogs and delivery drivers (or solicitors) use the front door. So everyone hides behind those stupid ring cameras.

“whaa but my neighbors are all assholes”

I’ll admit: Not all of them!

Peoples’ average temperament indeed seems set on being the “leave me alone miserable and lonely” default though.

… Or they’re psychos. I live in a particularly transient city though, people move all the time, most rent, and you barely can tell there’s completely different people next door one day.

I deleted all the details to avoid a wall of text, but we’ve lived through a couple neighborhoods where everyone knew each other, and now it’s barred windows and cameras that shout “YOU’RE BEING FILMED” when you’re 50 feet away.

I notice a common toxicity factor seems to be those “Muh property” NIMBYs that see a house as a “real estate investment” instead of a home. The ones who sic the HOA on people they’ve never met and are mad about everything. (They’re probably also on Nextdoor posting about answering their door “with Smith & Wesson.” Trolls.)

I randomly met a really cool neighbor on a bike ride though. He happened to have his garage open! Sadly we don’t text a whole ton but he’s pretty cool.

People tend to be pretty alright if you encounter them in the wild but nobody’s opening their door to say hi anymore, and I also find that we’re under so much immense pressure that just stopping for a chat feels like it eats a chunk out of a day. This is also not healthy…

I want community, and local friends and all that. But I dunno, I think everybody is just burned out and vulnerability is especially scary these days, especially with the violent polarization of our politics of late.

But I agree, people would be much less likely to vote to harm and oppress their neighbors if they knew more of them personally…

they gobble up insane amounts of RAM to provide almost the same functionality as in 2010.

Critical to using our service? Maybe even an operating system?

ELECTRON APP!

Me too! Haven’t had my coffee yet. I was like

“… character…? Charisma…? (blink blink)”

Some takeaways here:

1. Don’t give up on yourself or your dreams.

2. Keep a steady income going while you work on those things, because then your work can be your art for yourself instead of desperately trying to make something sellable before you run out of cash, and treating yourself to a latté feels like you just blew money on a steak dinner using funds that aren’t coming back. That stuff is scary.

3. Game Dev / Gamer reddit has some gem, but on the whole it is full of very, very bitter people. They got that “everything you do is gonna suck and I’m totally saying this because I care” treatment, and they pass it right along. You’re better off finding /starting a local club.

• Of course, ignore #2 maybe if you’re one of those self-help book authors who is “so tired of their megacorporate 6-figure income after 10 years” and they have zero debt and saved most of that as a runway and can live on 45k a year. Sure, take the plunge and find your soul or whatever lol.

Debian? :p

“I heard them say we’ve reached Morrowind. I’m sure they’ll let us go.”

Morrowind will always be wonderful to return to. I miss all the imaginative player house mods. OpenMW has been so AWESOME.

Also:

YoU wOuLdN’t StEaL a LiMeWaRe pLatTeR

The huge gap between “obsolete” versus “legacy”

Hahaha gottem XD

The Strip has always been the worst part of this city as long as I’ve been here. The weirdest trip is when I worked retail on it, and there was no freaking way you could ever responsibly afford the stuff you sold (even with employee discounts).

I imagine a majority of that area is like that. The rank and file are meant to serve the wealthy invisibly, and get out. The enjoyment is for the oil sheiks and tech bros and other wealthy foreigners who couldn’t tell you what they do for that wealth in under a hundred words.

I’ve been fortunate to see some shows and things here before, but the rest of the city, much as I want to escape, has much more to offer than that nasty den of scum, villainy, and abject misery that is The Strip.

Unfortunately, if the Strip tanks, it’ll likely take a lot of the city with it.

…and then add a sticky note below it:

“And then Einstein and Obama and Jobs were there and everybody clapped they were so shocked!”

“Everybody knows you can have it done well, fast, or cheap. Pick two.”

“No! All three! All the time! Zero drawbacks! All profits and benefits! I am a very good and visionary boss. Have some room temperature Little Caesar’s on the house and make me rich.”

There was an expensive glove accessory it had comparability with, the “P5 Glove” I remember it being called. (WHY do I remember this?)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_glove

I imagine that would have been super neat or crazy frustrating to use haha.

Ah yes, the upcoming McAndroid Sundae is gonna be using this language, actually!

Twice as bad if it’s “In the theatre”! XD

where there’s two of them.

This is getting out of hand!

. . .6 different and contradictory ways that all have to be backward comparable.

After witnessing their handling of Control Panel vs. “trendy no-option we-think-you’re-stupid Control Panel” for like 4 straight versions, I think this has just become their philosophy at this point. Lol