Laurel Raven

Well, if you’re not going to go with Arch, might I suggest Gentoo?

(kidding… mostly…)

On a more serious note, Mint will run on most systems well, and Just Work for the most part, with the caveat that if you have really new hardware you might need to use a version with current Linux kernels (if they’re still doing that, I’m not seeing it at the moment though).

The main downside is they keep to stable LTS builds, which means software is often a bit behind, but for most things, if you need the most up to date, there’s always flatpak. The upside, though, is updates tend to not be as big or numerous or frequent as in a more up to date distro like Fedora or a rolling release like Arch. It also means updates are less likely to cause issues and your system is less prone to developing quirks.

Anyway, Mint is what I’ve been using, though I’ve also been using Fedora some at work… Both are solid, but I like Mint better. Could just be personal taste though so take that for what it’s worth.

As is good ole 'Murican tradition, blowing shit up.

This is why you should just put the date in the file name in ISO 8601 format, no indication how many times you’ve been over this

Gotcha

Where did murder come into this?

I thought they didn’t block political figures… Guess the muskrat just meant the figures he agrees with…

Well, you did just describe my experience with diet Pepsi pretty well…

Probably more because of how easy it is to drink than raw strength… It’s way easier to put away a bunch of 70 proof sweetened liqueur than the same amount of alcohol worth of 80+ proof hard liquor, very easy to not realize how much you’ve had until way too late

I’m pretty sure that’s regular Coke zero, unless they’ve changed the packaging again

But yeah, something about the artificial sweetener just doesn’t work with alcohol

And then Biff Tannen was elected US president

Yes, but which new one should I use?

Nevermind, I’m sure they’ll both be plenty broken

I mean, I’m pretty sure he could get one quickly… He’s got plenty of money from all the bribes he’s been soliciting…

Yeah, Ma Bell breaking up into the Baby Bells is the only real example I can think of, and even they came back together later (though, by then, there was enough diversity in the market that they couldn’t reclaim the level of market dominance they once had)

That’s what I’ve heard… Getting real tired of people building great products only for corpos to find a way to make it terrible for an extra buck

To the new system you’re migrating to

Well, I had been considering one, but I guess not

I’ve been using it off and on for over twenty years and it’s never needed more than running the installer to get it working on Windows in that time…

You should totally do that, I think she’d appreciate it

Also, I’ve never sewn but I knit sometimes, and crafting takes a lot of time and energy, especially for pieces of clothing that cover more than a head, hand, or foot… It’s a lot to ask a kid to appreciate that, but it still feels like a slap in the face to have something you’ve poured so much effort and time and love into be treated like that. I’m glad you ultimately realized that.

Your mom sounds awesome; raising kids under any circumstances is hard, and while poor is just…I don’t even know how people manage it

I may be off base but I think that might be referencing what the computer chips are made of…

For me it was AOL chat rooms and Star Trek role play that got my typing speed up, later followed by wow when voice chat was uncommon and communicating during a dungeon or raid required typing fast to not interrupt what you needed to do