Recently I installed Linux mint on my laptop, and then my main PC died so I replaced it with windows 11. I’ve had the unique experience of setting them both up from scratch alongside each other.

Windows 11 took longer to set up (4 days), but was 80% via GUI, and the 20% I did in PowerShell was mostly using winget with very few failures. I used ChatGPT for some planning and checklist and also used it to craft a PowerShell script that would silently install about 35 applications that I was too lazy to do manually by downloading the exe’s, but I could have gotten there without it.

Mint took 2 days to set up but was 80% terminal, and I would not have been able to install half the things I wanted without the help of ChatGPT crafting baffling workarounds for me that I would not have found on my own.

In the end, both systems are 95% how I want them, with 5% unattainable due to their own unique issues.

I’ll continue to use both for now, and see how I go in a year or so.

Edit: I must add that I am extraordinarily fussy about my OS configuration, it needs to look, act, and respond exactly how I want it to or I’m dissatisfied

Criminal scum

You don’t want to do your taxes with the Comic Sans racecar app “Tax Freeway (for Win)”?

Sylvan Esso - With Love

That’s John Yemen.

What’s next, oval shaped memes?

I might be locked out, but if I have physical access to any of the infra, I can always knock the building down.

Liberte

Hipster plaid shirt final form

There are more Olsen twins on Earth than there are stars in the solar system

Actual, legit Fortean lore regarding this is that the phenomena knows when it’s being observed and photographed, and can manipulate time and space such that it doesn’t show up on digital photos.

Pope Brandon I

You can definitely kill window with windows,it’s just done through the GUI and it’s a messy operation, like killing a whale with a chainsaw.

No preserved root because candied ginger is gross

Free as in climbing

Posting to Linux forum: “How do I enable Copilot in Word using WINE on Linux?”

There is a number of crabs that can run linux

Then they should do their job exactly as half-assedly as it’s possible to do without actually being fired. Steal coffee and creamer from the kitchen. Steal toilet paper. Accidentally deleted System32 on the office computer. Open all file attachments and links in emails. Crop-dust the bosses office. Start office rumours to sow discord and erode company loyalty. Slip and fall on a stair, go on extended paid medical leave. When fired, sue for wrongful termination, crowdfund the legal fees

Crowdfund the airfare to El Salvador?

Not pictured: The angry cassowary mama just offscreen about to eviscerate this person