alecsargent

I've contributed thousands of games to a bot to play like shit. That is genuinely cool.

[bubble goes pop pop]

That fucking little rat, played this game so long ago but still remember his voice.

I remember Microsoft revoking my license keys for a 2011 Office Suite disk which were supposed to be a one-time purchase. Since then I gave them the middle finger and installed pirated copies on every single family member's device.

They could have had a loyal lifetime customer but broke my trust and now they have a full family of non-customers.

Are these laptops provided by the faculty?

In any case I do not mind so much the "I should try to fix this on my own first". If it's your own device and accept the risks/consequences. But if it is a work/university provided laptop then it makes no sense to attempt to fix it on one's own.

I can feel your pain trying to fix/repair something you have to figure out what kind of stupid stuff was done to the device.

ah well, then that is them being stubborn and being unable to troubleshoot.

People who don't read error messages or do not take the time to see what is going on and just come to the technician/mechanic/doctor saying "it doesn't work" or some half-assed hypothesis piss me off so bad.

I know that at some point we all do a little of this in our lifes, but some people don't seem to be able to read one goddamn paragraph ever.

Disco Elysium

oh, that is the cartoonist from Exploding Kittens. I'll add that to my bookmarks.

right? what the hell?

lol, you can just set it up to keep the latest snapshots only.

(noob here)

I responded this on an alt account:

The most important decision as a new Linux user is the desktop environment, the most similar desktop environment to the Windows desktop are KDE Plasma and Cinnamon. This means your best options are:

• Linux Mint (Cinnamon): They are the creators of the Cinnamon desktop environment and will be the default on installation.
• Kubuntu (KDE Plasma): This is Ubuntu's official KDE Plasma flavour, it comes with everything as usual just different desktop.
• Fedora (KDE Edition): Same story as Ubuntu here, only that with Fedora's own packages and environment.

First I would check if the hardware is compatible (99% of the time is). Then I would check what software you need and/or want and check if it is available at these distros, and get familiar on how to install the software packages (either with their respective app stores or in the command line).

There is a lot to learn but with these distros you can just install, forget and simply keep using them for eternity.

The last and more important tip I have is to not to worry about the sea of options out there, you will not be missing anything huge by picking one or the other. Which is how most of new users feel (I did in my time).

Hope you have a great Linux journey mate!