Yep. At least Linux is complicated because it gives you near infinite options, not because it wants to prevent you doing what you want to do with it.

I have so much more time to figure out how to do cool shit when I’m not busy trying to fix whatever Microslop breaks!

There’s a great solution.

This is so true.

I didn’t install Linux in anger, I did it in an autistic hyperfixation fueled mania (I was hyperfixating on Linux after reading an old compsci essay posted to an unrelated forum I frequented at the time, and just knew I had to actually play around with it a bit to make the nasty side effects of a hyperfixation go away), but… yeah. When fixing shit on Windows, I’m usually already mad going into it. When fixing shit on Linux… I have so fucking many “Wait, if that means that, then can I do… I can! Yay!” moments. And, usually, “fixing shit” means “trying to change a minor annoyance” or “trying to do something cool”, not “trying to resolve an error preventing something I need from working correctly”. (Or, when something breaks that isn’t something I can manage to fix, I’m far more prone to resigned acceptance and working around it than incandescent anger, which makes using Linux better for my health than using Windows. Because excessive stress takes years off your life. Today, I plugged my laptop into an external monitor and got it working how I wanted it, except that the laptop keyboard wouldn’t work once I connected the monitor. Troubleshooting first step: Grab a spare external keyboard and see if that works on laptop’s USB port or monitor’s. It worked and I just left it for now. We’ll see if anything changes when I next reboot the thing.)

I get the exact same “Using A Computer” experience I remember from when I was four, whenever I decide to find out “OK, can I do X, and how do I do it?” It’s the best.

This guy sounds worse than my dad.

He knows just enough about computers to think of himself as very technical, and he’s very much a “Windows guy”. Now, he’s not bad at computers, he doesn’t break things, he’s genuinely very experienced and skilled, with Windows systems at least. But he is… very tied to that paradigm, and when the differences in computer operating systems now and in history does come up, he can be… very sectarian.

There is a reason the little stuffed penguin on my purse zipper is a cutesy girly thing, and I never ever talk to him about computers unless I can use a truly idiotic line like “what’s an operating system?” or “where’s the “any” key?” or “what’s a caps lock?” (He doesn’t buy the truly stupid questions, but he takes them as jokes and laughs at me making fun of my own tech illiteracy, and he buys that the moderately dumb crap is asked in good faith.) The arguments are bound to be unproductive and frustrating and sure to last for weeks, so I’ve learned from watching others to pretend to think technology is magic and he’s a wizard, and never ever tell him when I think he’s doing something incorrectly or not the way I’d do it.

Could you link the guide? Been having a bear of a time with my Fallout games.

A thin client that isn’t even thin.

Installing Linux is seriously easier than setting up Windows these days.

If Microslop keeps going the way they’re going, even a manual Arch install will be an easier task.

I wonder if it’d think I’m a kid cause Sims is a casual game series, or assume I must be an adult because Sims 2 is itself an over 20 year old game, and obviously everyone who plays it must have been around and old enough to enjoy it when it was new.

I wonder what it’d make of Rimworld and Tropico.

I mean, I don’t even really use Discord, beyond being forced to when some thing has its only official support/documentation hosted there. But it’s funny to wonder how it’d classify me.

I wouldn’t be able to not cuddle the bear cubs… best. teddy bear. ever.

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If not for hugs, why hug shaped? If not cuddly, why made of fuzzy?

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All the better for getting all the honey out of the beehives…

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Is that a challenge?

I’ll hug literally anything remotely hug shaped…

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That’s good… when things suck, people need more hugs, not less.

I might not be able to hug the bear, but if a cute owl is offering hugs… come here…

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Either way, he’s getting to hug a bear, so he’s definitely winning at life.

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You’re not a bear, you’re an owl… unless you’re an owlbear!?

When everything hug shaped is charging for cuddles, you know the economy’s screwed.

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Oh, look, it’s a cat posting a cat…

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He’s a cat. We’ve always done something to offend them.

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Why yes, fluffy hexagons do stack! How cute! They look almost as cuddly as me in my bear suit…

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Not every hexagon is the bestagon, but this cat sure is!

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ⓘ Please boop the hexagon.

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