Living the Chumbawamba life.

The George Hammond.

My first was Suse Enterpise Linux. Bought from Best Buy in the late 90s.

It’s not Ubuntu but the fuel control systems and the pumps at Speedway run linux. They also boot really fast.

Michigan lotto terminals are also all linux.

I ran Gentoo in high school. I think I spent more time tinkering on it than I ever did getting anything done, but damn was it fast. I ripped support out for everything except for my hardware.

Just got a new laptop and put an arch flavor on it, keep thinking of going back to Tumbleweed. I’ve kept on Arch derivatives cause of the AUR, but I haven’t actually touched the AUR in a while, and a couple of the things I used the AUR for are now being published as flatpaks by the creators because of the Steam Deck.

Pole position on the commodore 64.

I spent more time with my 2600k than I did with my threadeipper 1950x.

I remember when a new generation came out (I forgot which) and I just overclocked the 2600k till it matched the stock benchmarks for the new chip. It truly was a monster.

I keep coming back to GRID 2 on my steam deck. I’ll go weeks between playing it then get in the mood to work my way through a bit more of the campaign.

I’m 65 hours in, I’m on act 1.

I should make a Drow…

OS that didn’t report what it was, probably a mix of ancient windows installs and Linux and other OSs that resist fingerprinting so they don’t tell servers what they are.

As someone who has grown to hate pretty much all things apple, Apple Music is an obvious choice over Spotify for audio quality alone. The music selection is also very good.

The orders are currently up to Q1 2024, not Q4. The Q4 orders were for 2023. The 2023 pre-orders sold out in less than 10 hours.

I also don’t have the money for it… Well shit I’ve got a batch 1 order time to find $2500 somehow.

With how much I’ve distro hopped recently I probably count as like 6 people this month. I’ve gotten a steam hardware survery every reinstall.

The strangest choice I’ve seen for a daily driver is I had a friend who used Knoppix as his daily driver. He started using it on a thumb drive when his computer died, so he just used a thumb drive and random borrowed computers for a while, after getting used to it he transfered the install to his new laptop when he got it.

When I installed Gentoo back in the very early 2000s I genuinely had no idea what I was doing. I printed out the entire install doc, then launched into the install with no working computer and just the paper doc.

I didn’t know what I was doing but the install doc was good enough that I got a working installation!

I remember baffling some people on a forum asking for help with something dead simple and them not understanding how I had a working system without understanding that thing.

“But… you installed Gentoo from scratch, how do you not know this?”

“I just followed the install doc!”

I’ve historically had ATI and AMD cards, when I built my desktop in 2017 I bought a 1080ti, love that card with just how long it has lasted, but I don’t think I’ll ever buy Nvidia again. For a good long while I just gave up on linux on my desktop and just ran windows.