At one of my jobs of scripting, I remember hearing about somebody using “eject” Linux command to make an adjacent computer reboot.

Never used it, but it seemed like a cool showcase of what an optimized Linux distro could be on Intel hardware.

Okay Linux users, no snark about this distro is better than that one. We’re all just one happy family.

With recent articles claiming some games run better on Linux, I could see this sort of jump actually being possible

Forget the tapes. This is hard to say but just pay for online storage. It’s $9.99 a month for 2TB from Google and Apple. Your data will be safe and accessable by family if something happens to you. You could also get a cheap NAS like device like this https://a.co/d/dgsnQbr and maybe every couple of months you create a offline backup onto another device.

Super long time ago. Mandrake anything? How about Slack? Ha ha good times. Probably 20 years ago. I loved freedom Linux offered. Back then graphics divers sucked bad. Just getting opengl working was an accomplished. I can remember thinking “I’m going to just run Linux”. It was rough, then I discovered Slack, then I discovered Debian, then I discovered Ubuntu, then Debian, then Arch.

These days I dual boot usually with two disks. 97% of the time I use Linux, but if something dumb comes up I’ll bring up Windows.

Arch is pretty good

Retroarch is my go-to for retro gaming. It’s pretty amazing. I do find the UI to be confusing though.

I have an A1 and it’s been a fun learning 3d printing. I got it before all this started last year. While I’m happy with my device I’ll probably just wait for it die or a major upgrade comes along. Elegoo looks nice.

Guess my next GPU will be AMD