This is a great point. I moved onto a distro that does need more tinkering. But Mint is still, and always will be installed and ready to go. Mostly just because when something goes wrong in my main OS, it’s easier to boot into Mint to fix it, rather than a bootable USB.

Even more annoying is when the green car leaves 2+ car lengths in front of it so the car behind can’t get into the turn lane if they need to.

Nvidia drivers have worked fine for me on Mint, Parrot, and Artix. The only downside is they are pretty bloated and want to be loaded early in the boot process, so it adds several seconds to the initramfs load.

I haven’t tried compiling the image without them, mostly because it’s only a few seconds on boot and I don’t enjoy repairing broken boot images.

Way back when, I loved Windows XP. I was always dorking around with it, seeing what I could do to personalize and customize it. I had that mindset until Windows 11. I just couldn’t anymore.

So I finally tried Linux. It turns out, this is exactly what I wanted back in the XP days. I just never had the need to try it. Now that Microslop has forced my hand, I’ve experienced the environment outside of windows. As such, I really don’t see what they could possibly do to bring me back.

I’m running the same setup. I migrated from Mint. I had just a few headaches, mostly due to some multi-boot configuration confusion. I learned a lot by fixing those and now it’s a solid setup.

I’m loving having a much lighter weight PID1!

Please do post back with how Sway turned out.

As impressive as the physical catalog is, their website is legitimately phenomenal. Super easy to find anything (as long as they sell it), most items with freely downloadable CAD of several formats, all with zero BS.

And if you think the McMaster catalog is beefy, you should see the Misumi catalog!

The book is a good read, too. ‘Ship of Gold’.

Yep, it seems to be working now. Thanks for fixing it!

Hell yes! Fascists are running scared and I’m here for it.

Poopy-Pants Promenade seems apt.

Excel flash fill is amazingly bad. I’ve never seen produce anything but unintelligible garbage.

Well, let’s get crackin’ then! 👊

Agreed. Something is better than nothing, and if enough people get on board, it might just be enough to make a difference.

Windows causes poor software performance. In other news, water is wet.

Or putting it on the back of your truck, where it will get covered in road grime, but you won’t care because you’re a ‘patriot’.

Also /s, of course.

That was my experience as well. 2 hard drives, so I thought, why not dual boot? Surely, I’d need windows for some reason or another.

6 months later, I realized the same thing - I have a 1 TB drive doing nothing. I nuked it and never looked back.

This is a drop in the bucket when compared to the damage they caused.

I got curious about x86 assembly, so I followed some tutorials to get the hang of it. Once I had some confidence, I wrote a prime number generator. I had a loop that I was sure could be more efficient, but couldn’t figure it out.

I pasted the code to ChatGPT. It came back with an optimization that wouldn’t work because it wasn’t preserving critical register values. I pointed that out, and it responded, again and again, with the same code with the same problem. I was never able to get it out of this broken record mode.

I did the same thing. I also asked it to stop coming off as so certain about things after I discovered how wrong it is on some topics. It now presents confidence levels, but who knows if that’s accurate. At least it reminds me to verify.

Oh, neat! Message received: if I eat enough beans, I can be my own creme brulee torch!