She looks very polite.

Start today. Download VirtualBox (or equivalent software) and if you make a mistake, you can just nuke the OS and start over without risk.

You can always try Linux risk free in a virtual machine like VirtualBox.

If you like what you see, and you have any valuable data backed-up, you can try dual booting. That way you get to use Linux as your primary operating system, but can switch back and forth as much as needed.

I found I was dual booting Windows and Linux for over 3 years before I was comfortable enough to stop using Windows entirely. Switching to Linux doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing approach. You can take it as slow as you want.

Have you ever seen what happens to a balloon that gets caught under a treadmill?

Do you want that happening to a pet?

Don’t let your pets near a running treadmill.

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That would be a great idea, and could even help combat climate change.

Windows kept doing things I didn’t want it to.

The last straw was when I had a 24 hours render running, and Windows decided to update and reboot 1 hour before it was done. I was using the computer at the time, RAM, CPU, and GPU were all at max, the mouse was being moved, I clicked “later” every time the update pop-up appeared, and it still rebooted.

Linux does what I tell it to, and doesn’t do what I tell it not to do. I didn’t think that was a big ask until Windows.

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I thought that open source just meant that you could read the source.

The learning curve is not as bad as it used to be. Almost everything can be done through the GUI, many tutorials exist, and steam will run almost any game without tinkering with it. ProtonDB is your friend.

Is this a sheepdog?

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1654:_Universal_Install_Script

You might be right on this one. I’m not able to find a source to dispute that.

In other news, some Chinese car manufacturers are releasing cars with sodium ion batteries late this year / early next year. Lithium might not be a bottleneck for EV production.

I still agree with your initial point. More public transport is needed.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Is-There-Enough-Lithium-to-Maintain-the-Growth-of-the-Lithium-Ion-Battery-M

“The U.S. Geological Survey produced a reserves estimate of lithium in early 2015, concluding that the world has enough known reserves for about 365 years of current global production of about 37,000 tons per year”

“With known lithium “resources” at 39.5 million tons, we get about 50 years of supply with 100 Gigafactories”

There is a lot more lithium in the world, particularly in solution in the ocean, that is not currently listed in resource estimates. As lithium demands increase, more of these sources will be utilised.

Not true. There is more than enough lithium in the world for every person to have an EV. This is not even accounting for new battery chemistries like sodium ion that don’t use lithium.

I still want more public transport though. Trains are remarkably easy to electrify and don’t need batteries.

It’s about time.

Put the address in last. You can’t accidentally send an unfinished email if there is no-one to send it to.

Can you do all 4 at the same time? I genuinely don’t know, I haven’t had access to windows for years.

Framework has the option to purchase a laptop without an operating system.