Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year!

That is gorgeous!

I read that as "dinner" and well this was what my brain thought of 🙈

Hmmm~
Perfect for getting milk for all dem cookies yes~

I imagined that in the most cursed way possible: Two Switches stuck together with a hinge 😅

Happy birthday!
Hope you have a wonderful day today@

In conclusion... don't be afraid to try something new. Spinning up a linux distro on a flash drive isn't the commitment it might seem. And then again you might fall in love and go the whole nine yards. 😈

It was this drive the simple question of "is the grass greener" that made me want to migrate. Add the intrusive AI BS preying on me every second of every day and the choice was clear.

I am happier now and I'm probably never going to have a windows device again...

This leads neatly into why I threw windows out the window (pun intended) and embraced the penguin: This years long slog of just being an exploitable resource not regarded in any way else than something to make open its wallet. My experience in that ecosystem was honestly exhausting looking back...

I think it comes down to deeply human focussed UI design that great features I just find whenever I need them are conveniently baked into a desktop environment. It really shows the care and attention and not to mention the passion that goes into developing free software.

I LOOOVE the desktop environment. KDE Plasma is what I've been craving on windows for the last decade! Features you have to essentially hack into windows are standard with it. Case in point the ability to set a window always-on-top comes out of the box, conveniently at the ready with a right click.

The penguin in the room with linux so to speak the "everything has to be done via terminal" has not come up at all. Between the system assistant rani and the package manage frontend octopi the most common tasks are easily accomplished nice and safe within the gui in simple and user friendly manner!

Aside from this Garuda was a treat from day one: Quick and easy to install, user friendly, FAST as blazes and subjectively quite nice looking once you set it up to your liking! And to that end setting everything up is even easier in many respects than on Windows 11 with its mess of control panels.

Most aspects has been positive save for the challenges of drivers for certain devices. Not the end of the world but a bit annoying. The other big hurdle was modding Skyrim but that wasn't strictly a linux issue but rather a technicality in how Steam's emulation, proton, works. This is now sorted.

I'm reminded of a time on British Dragon's Den where Peter Jones were disgusted by looking at his poop while flushing to save water... Maybe this is a real and stressful issue plagueing rich folks?

To be hacked so strangers can see yer nether regions as you take a shet!

Then again my dad told me stories about what they got up to with glass ceilings (it was a street level glass floor with their offices under it) in the 60s so all generations have such things!

Maybe the final nail will be the masses not being able to afford the devices running the BS AI tools or consume the things they produce thus demand for them will collapse?

Hella ironic I think!

My my my~ quite the dumpy on him~
I approve! 😈