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@MentORPHEUS oh wow, and that dude normally likes all the plant-based imitation meats.
Just how bad was this crap?!
Wired magazine article about an Israeli company's plant based and 3D printed steak and fish products. Spoiler: the reviewer pans them.
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gonna throw my mustard in the food here:
Please consider using linux anyway, even on the main computer as a dual boot especially Arch Linux (I am the incel beta lalala so of course I use a derivative of arch linux)
@woodsmoke Windows 10 is far less a headache than 11.
I bought a new laptop last year that came preloaded with windows 11, didn't like the win11 and switched over to linux mint while the computer was brand new with nothing of mine to lose on it. I already extracted everything I wanted from the last computer and put it on an external hard drive, so it was a good time to experiment with an unfamiliar os. If you get a second or new laptop, that's the best time to do it.
Still couldn't pay me enough to sit behind a desk again.
I honestly don't know how people do it. I don't even know what the hell anyone could be doing on a computer just sitting there for 40+ hours a week.
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Thanks, I'll look into those when I have some time.
Probably won't be soon. My current PC works just fine with Win10 and I'm a firm believer in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Possibly the only thing I miss about working in IT was the easy access to "computer guys" whose brains I could pick to get a new rig squared away and solve problems as they popped up.
Still couldn't pay me enough to sit behind a desk again.
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windows11 (this is where I drew the line in the sand)
The 11, taking the screenshots at random times to help you if you need it... but if you dont want it, you cant turn it off.
Slowly boiling a frog.
I got a new laptop and slowly transferring all files and settings over.
I only checked does it work with all the devices (it didnt work with a niche WIFI card so I have replaced the card).
Istalled in dual boot (in an unlikely case I would need The W11 shipped with the laptop).
I have always used Mint but decided to go with Fedora for some challange.
Saying that, I have little exp with Mint anyway. Probably played with it for Max 50 hours excluding actual work done.
@woodsmoke I switched to Linux Mint a last year and it has been a great experience.
It is much cleaner and faster than windows11 (this is where I drew the line in the sand) and has so much less shit hidden inside of it always running. I liked linux mint so much that I pulled out an old laptop that I thought was old junk (which it is) and put that distro on their just to see what would happen. Lo and behold! the old ass computer could be used again. It is so bare bones that it requires very little performance requirements.
Windows shit is always working its ass off in the background, I can hear my computer constantly making noise and clicking because its working so hard. Linux mint doesn't have any of those problems.
I won't lie to you, there are some things that you will have to learn. Some basic terminal knowledge is very useful, some programs don't work easily with linux like they would with windows, some usb formats don't like linux, etc.
But it is Absolutely worth it. Linux is the future because microsoft has become too old, too greedy, too interested in itself to make anything useful and streamlined for the common man.
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