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Cake day: September 20th, 2025

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  • Everyone did not know. What is obvious is that everyone still does not know!

    Maybe you can use your superior intelligence and foresight to help educate instead of calling massive swathes of people morons for not knowing something?

    People aren’t morons for not knowing something that is only “obvious” to autistic techies who instantly think through the ramifications of entire systems. Most people’s brains don’t work like that and calling them morons won’t help anything.

    What will help is education - which takes a lot of patience, effort, time and kindness. Have you really got what it takes to make any difference or are you perfectly content with just feeling superior to everyone?












  • Also the kids mom (my co-parent) is now on Aurora which is basically the same as Bazzite just less gamer centric. Both are really slick modern Linux experiences so far imho.

    Check out Aurora for all your friends and family members you want something really awesome, low maintenance and pretty indestructible for. We’ve not used it for long but it seems really fantastic. Like the distro I would dream up for mainstream (desktop non gamer) users. Or Bazzite if they are gamers. Easy!

    That’s three less Windows machines I’m responsible for… whoopee! (Mom was previously using Mint.)

    2026 is the year of the Linux desktop! ;-) ;-) ;-)

    I’m sticking with LMDE myself because it’s been perfect for me for 15 years already.






  • With Linux systems we never(?) have to deal with defaults decided by the profit motive. The computer might not instantly do everything I want but I don’t have to fight a multinational corporation as part of the solution. That’s what swung it permanently for me. I’m not in corporate IT but as a fixer of hundreds of people’s personal computers over decades, Windows is horrific and nowadays I have started just refusing to become responsible for trying to sort it out, even for pay.