A few interests of mine Started playing the piano at around 9, but at 19, was on a 6-year hiatus due to lack of access. Now I'm trying to start again and work off the rust. I draw sometimes, when I don't know what else to do. I enjoy wandering through mountains and forests; nothing clears the mind faster. When those aren't available as options, a night drive is also something I'll do, once in a blue moon. Picked up reading again recently, looking into philosophical topics and others. Linux: I've taken to looking for alternatives to using products from soulless corporations, as their end-goals don't align with mine, and are prone to enshittification. I've been having a lot of fun with the freedom to do as much or as little as I want with this system and not having it overriding my choices. If I have the time -- I'll game here and there.
My use case mirrors yours pretty closely, save for the fact I'm not the biggest programmer, but I do plenty of scripting.
I use Artix Linux, which is Arch but without systemd.
If you want something that you can set and forget, just grab a barebones server image and install all the packages that you want on your system. I use dinit for the init system, but you could just use openrc and refer to Gentoo's documentation for that.
Let me know what else you might want to know.
Nextcloud, syncthing, and Immich can all provide those services, plus you won't have to deal with OneDrive's drawbacks: the data is yours and stored on your devices, and you don't need to use a third-party account to access your own data.
Here's a good place to start, I'll have to dig into some other documentation I've saved for it somewhere.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
Not all VMs are created equally! You can get much better performance through setting up one through QEMU, and passing through your GPU to it. There's a lot of documentation over the process, if you are looking for a cleaner solution than having to dedicate an entire partition for Windows.
If you're interested, I can pass you some helpful documentation for VFIO.
It's how I'm able to boot the 2 games in my steam library that actively block Linux, but they don't see much use these days though.
One tell is that the stones didn't move at all despite being landed on with full bodyweight. They just phase in and out of view.
Vet here. Resisting illegal orders is not just our moral imperative, but our very obligation to the oath that we all took to uphold the Constitution.
Right now the US military is completely ignoring the ACTUAL domestic threat — this entire administration — in favor of enemies both imagined and realized externally.
Any member of the armed forces carrying out these illegal acts is complicit in them. I would rather be jailed for observing my oath than decorated for abandoning it.
Good people don't end up in places like those. I've been trying to find full-time employment for damn near 3 years, and never once has DOGE, ICE, or any of those fascist organizations ever come to mind as an option. Those cold empty eyes are exactly what would be staring back at you in the Nuremberg trials.
Well if it weren't for those pesky age of consent laws, conservatives would all be going for girls that haven't started their periods yet. Fucking insane that we continue to coexist with these monsters like everything is okay.
I'm also noticing many are recommending dual-booting Windows and Linux. Definitely a valid option, but in my experience, even though these two OSes can live on separate drives, Windows frequently wipes other boot options that aren't the Windows Boot Manager, and will leave you having to reinstall your Linux bootloader - not fun.
My personal recommendation is to run Windows in a Virtual Machine, if you absolutely still needed it somehow. That way it won't break things for you. Hope this helps!
Games work out of the box. The ones that have issues will be ones that have their anti-cheat configured to specifically block Linux. Main culprits are Destiny 2, any COD and Battlefield game after 2021, Fortnite, and Roblox.
Windows software can also be emulated in WINE, but there are more than likely Linux versions of the app that you want that are faster and more lightweight, without sacrificing capabilities.
If you want some help researching some of that stuff, feel free to hmu.
Woodchipper. Feet-first.
Nah, he's holding his head up. That landing on his tailbone must have hurt like a bitch though.
Not the precious!!!
In more than one way! Via public execution AND a school shooting. Both of which he endorsed! Bitter pill to swallow, not that he could after all that.
I'm not saying that failing to punish the Confederacy is incorrect, however, accountability is a continuous process that must be upheld. Had we properly handled the traitorous cunts back then, we would still be susceptible to growing lax in holding our contemporaries to account. America has demonstrated a pattern in applying the law unequally to its people, and it's a problem that demands immediate resolution, should this country wish to prevent its demise.
It's less about being a win for the military, and moreso the sinister design of this country's economic system. Keep people desperate for long enough and those benefits start looking very enticing. That's how they got me.
With the right vise, you can center the object to the drill that is being used. Additionally, lathes such as this allow for things like threads to be created on a cylindrical object. There's a lot of utility in being able to simply rotate the object in place and make fine adjustments to the tool that is removing that material. It all just depends on the workflow.
Thanks friend, I needed a good laugh today <3
Not only that, but the highlights on her legs don't align with the direction her shadow is cast. If the light source is the fire behind her, her outer edges should be brighter than the center.
I'd wager trimming the part of the url that formats it into a "short" might help.
Soundiiz also has a free service for that, so be sure to check out what options you have there!
Research is always a critical part of migrating a setup.
Make sure you've done so to your satisfaction!
It was definitely my last Windows version lmao
Ultimately the choice is yours to make.
As a recommendation, I would not stick with software that has been abandoned by its creators though. Lots of risk with doing so. Take Windows XP for example, within moments of connecting to the open Internet, tons of malware infests the device and renders it unusable. The same will come for Windows 10 eventually.
I've been helping as many people as I can to switch to Linux and get out from under Microsoft's thumb. Just DM me if you need help.
A very belated, but no less warm welcome to the Linux community :D
That unknown logo is Glorious Eggroll!
He rolls a custom version of Proton that applies additional patches and tweaks to make gaming on Linux even better.
On top of that, he's made a distribution of Linux called Nobara, which is a fedora-based distro that optimizes things around gaming. It's definitely a contender with the other options you've listed.
Have fun doing all of that again for every "update" Microsoft inevitably forces :/
Users have reported that using Winboat allows you to run the Adobe suite on Linux. Don't expect native application support from them until more people switch though.
Most all drivers are compiled in the Linux kernel.
Most likely, you are referring to NVIDIA, who have stubbornly refused to commit to open-source contribution (they are improving). You can obtain those through your distribution's package manager, so we are pretty well past the days of painful driver acquisition.
For modding, Nexus Mods has a native Linux application in active development that you can use right now, in addition to Gale mod manager. The future is bright on the open-source side :)
I will say this about Mint, it frequently runs into issues with getting games to run as its packages are not the latest version available, which means you'll have to wait longer for fixes from upstream.
On rolling-release distributions, everything is much more up to date and is more performant as a result.
Gaming benefits from cutting-edge updates, so I would really recommend something Arch-based that makes itself more friendly for users to install, like CachyOS, EndeavorOS, Garuda, and others.