It’s not just quality compared with UHD rips, it’s things like prime video refusing to play anything except 480p on a web browser… WTF are they thinking?

I used a Miele hoover as a shop vac, hoovering wall plaster, muck and sawdust etc and pretty much abused it - replaced all filters and gave it a good clean and it still works like new. That was 5 years ago and it’s still going fine.

Most people don’t even know what Linux is… and a huge amount don’t even know what version of windows they use

Tried it in Bali and it wasn’t that expensive at all for a cup. It tasted weird though, could tell it had the taste of something that had been digested. 4/10 if I’m being generous, the teas there were great though.

I mean to be fair, it’s likely you’d spend most of your time reverse engineering creative’s drivers with something like ghidra, which doesn’t need Linux 😄

Anyone who’s feeling Linux savvy, try getting EAX working with some X-Fi hardware. Best of luck ;)

Usually if you’re involved in something that is genuinely urgent, it doesn’t even need to be said. I remember being in a situation where a server wasn’t starting back up after some changes while we were in the data centre, and if it didn’t come online by the time we left the office, one of the largest pay as you go networks in the UK would have gone down lol. If a PM had approached us with something ‘urgent’ during this they’d have to run away from projectile rack mounts…

Plenty of people out there spend more money just on soap and diffusers, than you or I make in a year and a half, lol

It’s mostly this unless you go to a popular server on a linux channel. I did that recently from windows 3.11, and it was just like the good old days

Why would they care about your opinion enough to not go on holiday where they want? If you want to fly without the chance of noisy kids then fly first class, or better still, private jet.

No? Can’t afford? Suck it up then lol, people are going to live their lives regardless of a bit of noise that you can easily cancel out with headphones.

Seeing ndiswrapper just brought back a twitch in my eye. I don’t miss WiFi dongles / cards one bit.

What about with a laptop where you can’t disable secure boot? Ubuntu works with it ootb, very few other distros do.

As a petrol head, that is a very convincing argument to move.

Ha, I’m aware it was stating the obvious, but I never found vim difficult in the beginning either. I was given a “linux cheat sheet” and then told to bugger off and do stuff… vim took maybe 15-20 mins before I was comfortable.

The hardest part was learning how my company’s ancient software worked honestly, which even after six years there was still intimidating and baffling at times.

I’ve used vim for so many years now that it blows my mind when people act like it’s difficult to use.

The same thing with installing Arch and even Gentoo … if you’ve got good experience with something like redhat/centos and can read documentation it’s a breeze.

Timeshift makes all the difference, no more panicking after breaking something.