The worse is that you didn't even had to be that well studied to know he was full of bullshit from the start, I remember even before he was Space Karen when he tried to be Train Karen, and their fanboys wouldn't understand that vacuum tubes Km long for transporting people were a BAD idea for several reasons.

I've been a multi monitor guy for a LONG time, mostly because I use a WM that benefits from it. But I recently moved and the company offered me a pick of monitors under a certain budget, so I decided to pick an ultra wide (34" 21:9) and a regular one (32" 16:9, I wanted smaller because I plan on using it vertically, but ended up preferring having two monitors with the same refresh rate), and sincerely, just the 34 is more than enough, since it arrived first I had to make due with it for a week so I built up some scripts to make it be seen as two monitors by the OS so I could use it as if it were two side by side and that was working great, and when I wanted to game just run my other script and it's one monitor again so it's the best of both worlds.

Given the chance in the future I would definitely go for a single 32:9, since I could even make it be 3 (or more) monitors with specific areas designed for slack and others for code, etc. That being said I'm not sure the same is possible on Windows.

To be fair the comics do him much worse, he kills his first girlfriend trying to save her, he kills his wife with his radioactive sperm, he's the ultimate tragic hero.

However I don't think that's what OP is talking about, I think he's talking about how it keeps getting rebooted so Peter Parker never grows old, he's forever a teenager. In the comics it took time, but he did eventually become an adult, during the Civil War he's an adult for example.

Excuse me, but that's always been the case. The first ever appearance of Thor is in Journey into Mistery #83, that's before he had his own comic, in that comic a guy called Don Blake finds a cane, and when he grabs it this happens https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/journey-into-mystery-83-thor-debut-1.jpg

So Thor has always been the title of the person in possession of the Hammer, he converts himself into Thor by grabbing the hammer, the movies then changed that because in the Marvel Ultimate universe it's different, but Jane Foster is from the original comics, where holding the hammer made you Thor, and she did exactly that in the 70s, just a couple of decades after Don Blake.

Congratulations you essentially described what Stellaris devs did.

Don't use Wayland. I've had a very awful experience with Wayland and external monitors on an Nvidia with the proprietary driver. Because Wayland is the default in most modern distros it might be that all of the ones you tried used it. Try Linux Mint Cinnamon edition, it's using X11 as the default and it's Ubuntu based so it should be familiar grounds.

My grandpa used to do this way before smartphones, I remember his 30.000 days birthday when I was a kid.

Others have suggested Markdown formats, if you're willing to do that you might want to look at Silverbullet.

Read the post, the human still got the job and was paid for it, he was just saved the hassle of going back to read new lines every time they needed a new line while still getting paid.

I'm pretty sure you can get that in many other ways varying in degrees of legality, I personally wouldn't pay for something that I can't use unless I jump through hoops to please the person I'm paying to provide me a service. But I also never saw the appeal of watching any sports, much less watching it live so I know my philosophy doesn't apply to everyone and if you want to do that you'll have to settle for either that or some IPTV provider.

Not the user you've asked but I'm using Silverbullet and have been loving it, it ticks every box of what I was looking for:

• Self hosted
• Stores files in plain markdown text format
• You can edit those files externally and Silverbullet picks up the changes
• Allows customization and expansion easily
• Provides queries that allow you to extend markdown to pull data from other files
• These use an SQLite db to get these things to work fast, but if you delete them they get regenerated
• Can be easily synchronized with multiple nodes by using synching to sync the markdown files

1. Streaming services like NowTV. (Works in Windows in browser only)

Honestly I would just cancel the service and cite lack of Linux compatibility as the reason. Most likely you can get it to work, like when Netflix didn't supported Linux, 90% of the time it's just changing the user agent and the website loads because (with some exceptions) a web app is a web app regardless of OS.

2. DRM proected VST's for use with Reaper (not via Wine)

Same as above, if it won't support my OS I won't give them money. I'm sure that whatever it is there is a DRM free version in the high seas, and if I'm being forced to sail the high seas I'm not paying for it.

3. Roblox (Using Waydroid was not very successful)

Can't comment on this one, have never used either Waydroid nor played Roblox, but I've heard good things about Waydroid, it should be almost a native experience from what I've seen people mentioning so it's weird that it doesn't work.

4. Office 365 (I like Libreoffice and OnlyOffice but fact is Word and Excel are just required for some stuff)

That is unfortunately true, there are online versions but afaik they're not feature complete. But the fact is that Microsoft has a vested interest in making sure that those don't work on Linux and that companies use their products.

At the end of the day I would like to point something up, none of your problems with Linux are in fact Linux issues, they're NowTV not supporting Linux, some VST's not supporting Linux, Roblox not supporting Linux and Microsoft not supporting Linux. This is an important distinction, because there's absolutely nothing that Linux can do to fix any of these issues, NowTV, those VSTs, Roblox and Microsoft are the only ones that can, it's almost like saying the problem with my house is that Amazon doesn't deliver there, while annoying and something to consider about it before renting/buying, there's nothing your house can do about it, but if enough people move nearby and cancel their prime membership citing that Amazon doesn't deliver there, Amazon will start delivering there, same thing for all of these problems (unfortunately I know that's not always possible, e.g. telling your boss to send the document in odt instead of docx might not be a good career move)

Yes, I use a swap file, but I don't think the installer gives that option, so I'm trying to play it safe. Also a file will always write to the same part of the disk too because you allocated it first, but it's easier to create another file and migrate to it.

I will keep this as easy as possible, but if you installed Windows 10 that's much harder than installing most Linux distros. If you want a lengthier tutorial but with pictures go to https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

1. Go to https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=311 click any of the links there, the nearest to you they are the faster they will be.
2. Find a USB drive you can use (probably like you did with Windows, and just like then everything inside it will be lost, so make a backup on another drive) and plug it on the PC.
3. Download https://www.balena.io/etcher/ select the image you just downloaded, the USB drive you just plugged, and click flash.
4. Reboot and boot using the USB drive like you did for Windows 10.
5. You're now on Linux, feel free to just poke around, you can connect to your wireless, browse the internet and do whatever, just notice that anything you install or save will be lost since its not really installed but running from the USB drive. When you're ready click the install button.
6. Follow the on-screen instructions like you did with Windows 10 (or )
7. Reboot and unplug the USB drive and you should now be in Linux.

As you can see it's 99% of the same you did with Windows, the hardest part of it (boot via USB drive) you already know how to do.

Now, that being said I do have one small recommendation, while installing you'll see this screen https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/installer-install.png I personally recommend you select the "Something Else" option there and manually partition your drive to have:

• 512MB vfat (or fat32 not sure how the Mint installer calls it) partition to be mounted on /boot (this might not be needed, but if you're in UEFI mode, which is very likely because the machine originally had Windows 11, it is needed)
• 60GB ext4 partition to be mounted on / (this is your system, 60GB should be enough, but if your disk is large enough you can give it 100 or whatever you like, just bear in mind that every program you install will be here)
• <Amount of RAM> swap partition (e.g. if you have 16GB of RAM then 16GB swap partition) (Swap is a place in the disk that can be used as RAM, you want it at least the same size as your RAM so you can hibernate the computer since RAM gets wiped when the computer powers off)
• Remaining as an ext4 partition to be mounted on /home (This is where your data, games, photos, etc will be, having this in a different partition is the reason I recommended to go with the custom partitioning. Unlike Windows on Linux partitions are just folders, so if your data is in a different partition than your system you can wipe your system, reinstall it or even install a completely different distro, without touching your data. In short this means that even if you screw up and end up with a non working system, you can follow the installation again, ensure that this partition is not marked for formatting, and you should be back in a new system but without losing any data or configurations)

That's just a recommendation for future-proofing, but if you just want to try it and are okay with wiping everything later if needed then feel free to choose the default.

It's curious, I have a similar story but with different countries, and the reactions are VERY different. I was born in Argentina, but my family emigrated to Brazil when I was 13 years old. I speak fluent Portuguese but obviously have an accent that people can't quite place, but once it's pointed out they notice it. Yet the vast majority of my interactions about it are something similar to:

• Where are you from?
• I was born in Argentina, but lived in Brazil over 16 years
• Ah, so you're mostly Brazilian then

And I think that that says a lot about Brazilians and how they're very welcoming and friendly. Unfortunately the British don't seem to be the same way, at least from your experience, maybe people in larger cities are more used to immigrants so they would see you as mostly British or something.

As for the voting, for me at least the only way was to become a citizen, most countries allow you to ask for citizenship if you've been living legally long enough so you probably qualify. Just bear in mind that some countries ask you to abandon your other citizenships when you do so, so not sure if that's your case and if it's worth it just to be able to vote.

I would argue the low cost option is already serviced by the Steam deck.

True, but I don't think it's the case for OP since he reported less performance than on Windows, so I assume he meant on the same hardware.

Which GPU do you have? Which drivers are you using? are you sure you're using those drivers and they're not just installed but unused? My first guess is that you have an Nvidia and are using open source drivers (nouveau).

Some performance difference is expected, after all most games are being run through a compatibility layer, and many others were ported as a second thought so they're not optimized on the same level. Also note that lots of us don't use Windows, so we're not comparing experiences, if it runs at an acceptable frame rate with an acceptable graphics settings for what I would expect the GPU to be capable of, then I don't bother benchmarking it.

just making a docker compose and maybe having ansible deploy that?

that's what I do, why ansible? Because it makes it easier to deploy the same service in different servers with slightly different configurations, for example when migrating from one server to another. Also it helps with having something I can easily backup (e.g. git repo) that can redo my server(s) if needed.

That being said I'm still setting everything up with ansible.

• Spanish (native)
• Portuguese (fluent)
• English (fluent)
• Italian (understand 99% but speak very badly)
• Russian (very basic and haven't trained in years, but enough that I was able to tourist around Russia a decade ago)

I've also studied some German but I don't think it's at any level worth mentioning. I can also say the phrase "Sorry I don't speak X, do you speak English?" In:

• German
• Dutch
• French
• Finnish (I can also say the weather is bad/good and obviously Perkele hahah)

Essentially every country that I've visited I can at least ask the person if they speak English, I consider it rude to ask that question in English.