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- Win10
- Win11
- Fedora
- Fedora Server
- Hirens
That and running games in a VM has been known to get you the banhammer for multiplayer.
I actually tried linux (Fedora) this past weekend; I had fewer issues installing and using it as a day to day computer, than I did with Windows. Tried out Gnome and KDE both, preferred gnome but UI scaling (for my shit vision) was simpler out-of-the-box on KDE (about 125-150% was comfortable for me.) I found KDE a bit overwhelmingly customizable to start out with, and maybe a bit bloated.
The caveat to this was Gaming, in my case I did not have a good time with gaming (probably because I am trying to run at 4k and play a game dependant on Ubisoft DRM, as well as an older MMO that doesnt handle high DPI screens and ui scaling). Very frame-y at 4K, a decent amount of tinkering is/was required. YMMV, check ProtonDB as it is heavily dependent on what games you play, and heavily dependent on Steam. If you want to multi-box (without software, just alt-tab through windows) an MMO, I found functionally no information on how to open multiple instances of the same game to do so (which is why I mentioned the dependency on steam, which only seems to let you have one game launched at any given time)
Moving back to windows for gaming felt like a major downgrade as far as general computer work goes. Inside of an hour I had a fully functional, up to date, linux machine. Windows 11 took 1-2 hours to install and update itself, then another hour to install drivers, then longer to de-bloat and start disabling all the stupid shit from Microsoft. I’m sure I’ll be doing that continuously for the next few weeks.
Same with “Client” instead of “User”
Electric rocks were a mistake, return to goat herding.
I use excel because its stupidly easy to output a shitload of objects with properties (computers/hosts in my case) to a CSV via powershell and sort through the data.
Is it bad that my first thought for “ASCII porn” is a pelvic thrusting stick figure with a boykisser meme head?
Story of my past couple months. There are five different products named “g4 dock”, four of which are newer than the G5 dock.
The OLD g4 dock, and then 120W/280W Thunderbolt variants that are either TAA approved or not. One of these four has a 2.5GB Intel NIC. Good luck figuring out which one because they merged the specsheet for all four of them.
M.2 is a form factor, there are different "key"ings for NVME vs SATA M.2
Whatever it can get away with. Had a cat that would drink my dad’s beer. Also had one that liked lemonade for some reason.
Pub cats are an important part of culture. Often found lounging on a billiards table in the middle of the day.
Who TF uses the official YouTube app?
As an admin… end users are generally fucking stupid with regards to technology. I don’t trust the average individual to operate a spoon.
I’m more or less determined to make the jump on my next gaming rig build. I assessed my needs, and frankly, there’s nothing I need that Windows offers and Linux doesn’t. I don’t game competitively, I don’t have any real software needs outside of gaming or a browser with appropriate extensions.
Also, I’m a Windows admin at work, and coming home to more microsoft bullshit is getting old.
Edit: honestly the more I think about it I’d probably be better off migrating sooner than later. New gaming rig is a long ways off (GPU prices are batshit crazy and have been for every generation since the 1080TI) and it would do me good career-wise to familiarize myself with linux. Might be a weekend project for me.
If I don’t have access to a keyboard something has gone catastrophically wrong (I work in IT)
I have a Sec+ but that’s just a job requirement; the only parts of the test that I’ve actually used were public/private key cryptography, and even then I was just dumbing it down to explain to end users. Otherwise it’s all just experience.
Degree requirements are mostly there to satisfy HR (and can probably be waived in most cases), IT is realistically a trade profession.
I saw a cybertruck in person the other day, pictures cannot fully convey how fucking hideous they are
Private servers and exportable characters, I’d be pissed if all the work I put into a character was gone.
raspberry noises