I've been a lifelong ms admin, and always stuck to their desktop environments because they "just worked". Often use Linux on containers, devices (handhelds, rpi etc) and webapp servers.

That win11 recall stuff though is a step too far. So I looked at which distro was likely to be easiest to use and just as you say - mint is the overwhelming consensus. And now it's my daily driver. I needed to learn a few new tricks, but the mint forums are filled with windows refugees so finding forum posts is easy (e.g. I thought had a problem with my "task bar" not my "panel" but since others called it the same thing I found what I was looking for).

My biggest reason for staying on windows was that I could search for something and almost always find an answer - that's become worse over the years IMO (often get these useless forums posts when they're basically advising the user to reinstall with five paragraphs of pasted/generated text). The mint forums are genuinely friendly and helpful, and searching them is as useful as searching for win stuff used to be.

I don't know if "this is the year" but I can't imagine I'm the only one who has had enough of the MS ecosystem. My experience has been great so far, and I hope there are others who give it a go.

Nicolas Lubitz, a PhD candidate who studies marine predators, said he could only assume the shark gobbled up the echidna while it was swimming in the shallows off the island, or travelling between islands, which the animals are known to do.

TIL echidnas can swim

I've seen many articles, comments and videos praising mint for being friendly to users coming from windows. It looks nice and I've been impressed by the friendliness and helpfulness of their forums - if I switched on my laptop I would try mint first.

You also don’t get to enjoy many of the PSVR 2’s vaunted box features — HDR, headset feedback, and eye tracking are all disabled. So are the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback (not including rumble) on the controllers.

Wtf sony

if the music is older, and not from the US, it's often not on spotify. Versions matter too - even for some mainstream bands their B sides/acoustic/live versions just aren't on spotify or youtube. Album metadata for spotify is garbage too - it just isn't an adequate replacement for a record collection.

I do use a spotify subscription, but for me it's a tool for playlist generation and music discovery.

Also audio quality, as others have mentioned.

Excellent - thanks OP

I'm glad I didn't have to be the one to say it

And it's awesome. The staff have to actually study and pass a test so they can advise on wine selection. The selection is huge and far beyond what's visible in the stores - and there's a great app for ordering stuff. They even have massively subsidised wine courses and a free wine magazine that's surprisingly good.

After seeing this I can safely say that I'm never gonna miss another euro vision final again.

Find something you love then watch a sequel/reboot/adaptation written by a different team with contempt for the source material. For me it started with ghost busters 2016, but tlou part 2 and the witcher Netflix really helped too.

I certainly haven't figure out how to be happy without being grateful. And I've noticed comparison seems to serve little purpose other than to undermine gratitude.

I just meant I was surprised that an award winning writer and producer has ringle levels of time

She is a lot less busy than I would have thought.

Oh cool - I didn't know it was different. Will add it to my handheld

Lol I just cracked out both in one session. I think a1 might be easier than a0

Great video. I should play through that Snes game again. The "recent" ones on PC were pretty good, but the snes one somehow has a cooler vibe.

2025 might be enough time for me to get a heart win with ironclad and watcher. Not sure I'll be ready by then tbh.

This sure sounds like an internalised version of "you're one of the good ones". It's cool man, don't let bigots gaslight you into feeling bad about your gender.