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Cake day: July 27th, 2025

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  • I had already done that before pulling the trigger. I used Obsidian to get a listing of distros and then took notes as I tested them on my Lenovo Yoga 720 laptop. Obviously, not the same as my daily gaming rig, but it gave me a good enough approximation for how well I’d like some of the distros I tried. In the end it was Mint Cinnamon (currently installed on my Yoga) or openSUSE. I eventually had to reinstall openSUSE last night when KDE started giving me trouble. It’s probably the last time I try KDE for a while. I just don’t seem to have good luck with it all three times I’ve tried it across different distros.

    Either way GNOME is working great this morning and I’m working on getting stuff customized!!






  • I appreciate the cautionary tale. I already had to reinstall. I gave KDE another shot thinking previous issues were from the old Lenovo Yoga or distro I used it with. Unfortunately, that wasn’t so. Even though I intentionally took my time customizing the layout, somehow I had some KDE thing crash twice, the main display had shifted to only showing have the page, like it was stuck under the monitor, and after a reboot to fix that problem it had made it so the context menu on the main desktop was not showing all the options.

    While I’m not a fan of GNOME, per say, as I am not a fan of Apple style docks for a taskbar, I never had issues with it, so I am using that instead of KDE.





  • I think that’s part of why Bill and Melinda divorced. Melinda was always the philanthropist. They divorced right around the time Bill started buying up farm land in the Midwest, likely to hedge against food shortages he knew would take place as runaway climate change decimates a lot of the country. It was also around 2020, during the height of COVID, so a lot of that land was dirt (pun intended) cheap.

    Just speculation on my part, but a lot of his moves around the time of his divorce coincided with his more capitalistic endeavors, including the pressure he put on Moderna and others to withhold releasing the COVID vaccine for free.