Can’t speak to your exact machine but nowadays the license tends to be tied to the hardware.

If you are capable of manual partitioning then you should be able to reinstall Windows quickly if needed.

Gitlab pipelines are super nice to use and integrate nicely with merge requests.

I like the Github UI, clean and simple, but down like what comes along with it…

Interested in self hosting forejo but I’m mostly coding at work these days.

I do -azP for compression

Gnome Files with Thunar.

It’s the perfect file manager for a user like me.

The only thing I really miss is CAD software for working with BREPs, I wish there was Rhino for Linux. However, I can do like 99% of projects in OpenSCAD.

I was gonna say, I don’t like to victim blame but why would people be grubbing around these days to begin with?

My company only requires that I run their AV agent (bit defender).

Microsoft Teams is even flakier than on Windows (yes, it’s possible…)

That’s nice, I think I’ll switch from Firefox ESR on Debian!

Crungbang linux breathed live into some very wimpy hardware I’ve had in the past.

Loved the minimalism.

Desktop: Macintosh (<X) -> Windows (XP-10) w/occasional Ubuntu dual-boot (various DEs) -> Debian + Gnome

Server: Ubuntu LTS -> Debian

I’ve also had a number of used thinkpads over the years where I mostly ran Xubuntu and crunchbang.

I still boot into Windows every month or so if I need to model something in Rhino (CAD). Couldn’t get it working in Wine and my 12 YO computer isn’t performant enough to run it in a VM. The last thread remaining and waiting to be cut…

I remember getting a Ubuntu CD box set many years ago when I ordered free disks in the mail as a teenager. The box was well constructed, prints of high quality and the CD labels were especially sharp.

Crazy how physical media was king back then.

After getting used to the vanilla Gnome flow, at home and at work, even MacOS starts to feel a bit clunky.

Love the minimalism of Gnome with the stability of Debian.

Same! Debian with gnome on my desktop and work laptop. Raspbian on my Pi4. Headless Debian in the cloud…

I’m also a gnome shell convert. Down with the taskbar!

#! brings back some good memories :)