Not to mention the bears were uninvested in and perennial losers until the owners wanted to get various governments to buy a new stadium for them. So now that they are playing one location over another they found the ability to support the team they own but that will all be gone once they have convinced someplace to pay their bills. Im a chicago fan not a bears fan. eff these wealthy team owners taking advantage of local pride.

I have an old laptop with windows on it out of a combination of pure laziness and im in a no spend condition and need to buy a solid state drive.

Heres the thing if your in the US. The federal government no longer follows its own laws when it comes to due process and the constitution or really law in general. Of course the problem with that is it goes way beyond piracy. But pointing to your piracy would likely play well with their base.

oh man. totally don’t remember. I wish they were more robust and lasted longer as there is tons I would do if it was less common for them to die when sitting around.

im lazy. I use zorin. Its pros are its easy, stable, and out of box. But its pros can be looked as cons. Well maybe not the easy part but its stable because it uses ubuntu lts which means its not using the latest linux kernel stuff. Then out of box can be looked at as great I have any program I need installed right away or it can be looked at as a bunch of bloat. Either way another thing is its not a gaming distro. If gaming is your thing then either use a gaming distro or you will likely want to dual boot one. Speaking of dual boot I recomend not dual booting windows. If you have an older laptop you upgraded from in the last few years then throw linux on the old one and be amazed at how well it runs and how your older machine seems better than your newer one.

Its more why don’t I use osx anymore and why did I use windows so long. After osx came out in the new millenium and when the apple warranty was tops I was a total mac person. And yes because it was something that just works out of the box and with the warranty you did not need to worry about anything for at least 3 years. This made the extra cost worth it. It was more out of the box than windows because you could, for example, burn a disc right out of the box. I stopped doing macs when they blamed their magentic cable sheaths coming off as from use and would not cover it (at one point you could come in with a mac with a cracked screen and they would not blink and get it replaced for ya. no questions asked. Although not specifically spelled out it effectively was an accident warranty to.) So with the warranty not being any better than a windows machine the extra cost was no longer worth it. Concurrently mac went down this simplicity path (the iphonification of macs) wereas previous to that they use to extol their power and greater number of ports. Basically my last mac was the last version of the mac book pro that had a dvi slot and lots of ports in general and was large and powerful. Now linux at that point had gotten much better than it used to be in the first decade of the millenium, but yeah. It was not exactly out of box. Zorin os had just started but again was not quite there. In addition much of my work things were windows and I had this sweet solution for computer support with my wife where I got thre laptops that were cheap in a bang for the buck way and it was a nice solution for tech support for my wife. So I was on windows. Also portable apps made windows really easy to update and migrate hosts. Eventually my wife wanted to much of gaming machines to the point we got her a desktop so my tech solution was sorta out the window but there was work and the portable apps thing (I at one point voted for portable apps as the best open source enabler). Zorin had gotten much better (out of box linux distro) and I was aware of it and played with it (along with other things like puppy) but inertia won out. Then windows 11 came along and it was a no go. Especially when I was already aware of a linux distro that was as out of the box as osx and maybe a bit better really (which keep in mind was more out of the box than windows). So I finally said enough is enough and installed zorin on my old laptop. What sucks is app image is so close to what portable apps brings and it has some related projects that have the components of it but just is not packaged nicely all together in a one and done.

Your using kali for your casual machine. lol. Do you eat using a katana and trident?

my reason is stupid and two fold. One is just pure laziness as I had a nice setup for my day to day on windows and it would take some effort to get going with linux. The other is I have been in IT and its kinda handy to use day to day what you have to work with or support (this includes my wife who I have not gotten off of windows). Once im working I should be able to buy a new drive and stop my last uses of windows since I have only done the super easy low hanging fruit.

I mean I did not post anything about switching but have commented multiple times. Fact is I should have switched awhile back as I already knew it had gotten to the point it could do everything I needed it to. Windows 11 was the tipping point. I could no longer delay and it was already a massive pain to block the telemetry and such especially since updates would regularly reactivate things…

not sure if it applies but I use command line to shrink the size of pdfs by putting them to like e-reader standards.

yeah and its been around for awhile but never works quite as well. I choose my os partially by it being install and work with not much more muss or fuss. That being said when buying hardware I preference amd because of the drivers.

Agree those are 100% free? I don’t know. It would take a lot of research to verify but I trust fsf as it is currently so think its likely the case. Agree to fully switch to a 100% free os? No. I need the nvidia driver. I would like to though. Believe that really any linux distro is a black box/closed os? No. Just having some binary blobs from vendors is a compromise but its not a deal breaker.

honestly I feel you need to think more about what you want. If gaming is primary then a gaming distro is what you are looking for like bazzite which is basically open source steam os. If you also want to do other things you may want to dual boot with another distro but I don’t think it would be strickly necessary. I often promote a lazy mans linux called zorin that is out of box which means you should be able to do most common things people do on a machine after installation without doing anything more. That means bloat though and I often here mint recommended which I think would be the other side not putting in to much excess stuff. There are light distros to conserver hardware resources. So im not sure if what you described will help people get you where you want to go.

I recommend zorin os. Its an ubuntu lts (long term support) respin that is fine with proprietary software so will offer to install nvidia drivers and such if you want. This means its anything but bleeding edge and about as stable as your going to get. It tries to mimic the windows look and feel to be comfortable to windows users. Then it is also an out of the box distro which means it comes with software someone would exect a laptop to have and then some. so it will have libre office and a browser and software to play and edit audio, photos, video and software to burn a disk if you have a burner. Even an rdp client. It also has wine setup with play on linux so you can right click a windows exe and run or install it (may or may not work depending on the windows program). When you find programs online if it has a debian download you can use that or you can check a gui add software ting and search for it with the spyglass icon. Its about as easy as you will get. That being said I often recommend people install onto their last laptop if they have one that did not break when they replaced it. Linux runs so much better than windows that the old one will often run better than windows on teh new one.

ok. good point.

I don’t see how any modern country could do it. It would close off all cloud things.

sorry. I figured you had tried but mentioned just in case. I was surprised when using playonlinux. I thought it would just run executables but it doing like a pho install was neat. I don’t use cad software though.

yeah. I mean I will not be buying pre sales or anything. I will let it come out. See some people who bought it give a rundown and like the steamdeck pick it up down the line after a price decrease. If I do pick it up. Sorta need to be working before I can be buying toys.

Im just not sure how much steamos specific or hardware specific stuff are a part of it.

If there is an easy way to extend the desktop to the virtual big screen it will put it higher on my list.