That makes a lot more sense. I remember living with $200 laptops for a while and that’s kinda what I was thinking initially.

Stop it, you’re scaring the normies away. Shoo, shoo, go back to your Thinkpad running GNU Boot.

I don’t get it…

I heard adélie Linux is really good for slow and old hardware. action retro - Adélie Linux on a Pentium 4 laptop

I haven’t used it myself but I’ve seen this guy throw it on old mac’s for a while and this was particularly impressive.

Man a laptop new enough to require a newer kernel but slow enough for gnome to be slow. That’s an annoying spot to be man.

Why does the installer still explode sometimes when I use it on my computers. I use it on my mother’s computer or our movie server and it works fine.

Maybe it just eats shit when it sees a btrfs partition or something. Nothing against Debian but I tried to install Debian testing weekly and it just refused to install on my system 76 laptop. After flashing arch on my USB drive to wipe the disk I just said fuck it and installed arch on my laptop again. I haven’t had any issues with arch since I’ve installed it on my desktop five years ago. If arch blows up on my laptop I’ll try Debian again.

I got the spaceship car in grand theft auto V. I never felt so empty after spending so much time on something so pointless. Ah well, at least it wasn’t flying rats in GTA IV.

Yeah, it sucks but you can always work on it. I still struggle with social anxiety but I push myself to mingle with people every chance I get. After a couple years I still get overwhelmed by people and struggle to share when in a big group of people.

There’s always a virtual machine if you need it for work.

No, there is not. Updating through terminal still bypasses it and I don’t mind so much seeing how my mother might accidentally power it off in the middle an important update otherwise. Most people know not to hit the power button when the scary load bar pops up with a message saying please do not power off system.

Calm down children, they both suck. Now put the rulers away.

You can learn any workflow. Adobe Photoshop was pretty alien to me the first time I used it in school. The thing that made it easier was how good the documentation was on adobes website. I recommend anyone try krita to see if it works better for them.

I’ve heard it’s not as feature rich as gimp but more people coming from Photoshop seem to like it.

HDR games is fucking baller on the steam deck. I’m legitimately thinking of switching to kde from sway so I can take advantage of it on my new OLED monitor.

I have a physical switch on my laptop. Physically disconnected USB device as far as Linux is concerned.

GTA IV my old friend when have you been?

Yeah, I was gonna get a brz after failing to fit in the Miata but they said I’d only be able to test drive one if I ordered it(someone already reserved it). I tried to test drive a mustang but the dealers didn’t take me serious (didn’t even bother to let me look inside).

I went to acura and got me the new Integra with a manual. I love that car, I don’t care if it’s a dressed up civic si. I loved the civic I sold because of the oil dilution problems. that’s life.

I know this pain. It hurts me more than you’ll ever know. Mazda hates tall people.

I know it sounds counter intuitive but the way Debian handles things makes it really easy to break things and not know how. All these scripts that automate tasks it’s easy to try to change something manually and have a script that automatically runs break something.

It would help if their wiki wasn’t so painfully slow. How is it possible to have a website so slow it times out after like ten minutes of loading.

My first distro was arch btw. It’s not hard if you approach it with a mindset to learn. That’s the whole point of Linux anyway, it’s a tool and the better you know your tool the more capable that tool becomes.

It’s like a lathe with interchangeable parts and gears. You don’t know what your doing it might throw some metal at you but it’s also capable of crafting a precise and finely finished part in a short amount of time.

I also throw fedora on my laptop because laptops are an ergonomic nightmare. Plug and play is nice for when you don’t have time to really learn your tools or do setup and just need any hammer to get the job done. You can still smack your thumb though, it’s not a cordless drill with proprietary batteries like Macos or windows.

Welcome, if you need any help feel free to ask! Also don’t let the few bad eggs in our community ruin your time, there’s plenty of us who really care about building a strong community.