Installing drivers can be an ordeal.

When something doesn’t work, it’s always on you to identify exactly why it’s not working so that you can find the specific instance where someone else has dealt with that specific issue and solved it for your specific hardware and specific install of Linux.

The layout is different from Windows and MacOS in most instances, so it can cause some disconnect for your computer muscle memory when you are switching from one of those to Linux.

Simple things like telling Bluetooth to always start as active for your Bluetooth peripherals is not immediately obvious and causes onboarding hiccups.

Some things simply do not work.

All of that being said, I have Linux certifications. I use Linux as servers in my home lab. I use Linux as my daily driver on all of my personal computers. I’m willing to put up with those to not have to deal with microslop.

Linux is not as raw as it used to be. It is much more of a refined thing, and if you’re willing to put in three to six weeks to get used to the differences, then you’re going to have a fun and wonderful time using Linux as your daily driver.

It’s a different way of using your computer. Kind of like using a manual transmission vehicle versus an automatic.

I like waterfox. I felt librewolf was a little too paranoid with its security permissions for convenient use and waterfox strikes a good balance in my opinion between what firefox is doing and what librewolf is doing.

And one major thing that Linux also does that Windows does not is Linux will never install an application on your computer that you didn’t explicitly tell it to install.

I have uninstalled nopilot on work computers so many times. I run scripts to manually disable and remove it and prevent Windows from installing nopilot, and Windows updates, reverts what I did, and then reinstalls fucking nopilot, and then sneakily launches it in the taskbar where I can’t easily see that it’s running to begin with.

Voluntarily running windows at this point is kind of like voluntarily allowing yourself to be sexually assaulted.

Only weirdos and sad people who don’t know that it could easily not be like that continue to put up with it.

There is a difference between being a contrarian troll and having unpopular opinions.

Neither are most of human endeavors.

And if you think about the fact that this AI bubble is going to be a massive collapse and crash the finances of America and cause a massive regression in conservative policy and a massive progression of liberal policy, (since the playbook has always been for the conservatives to hand the reins over to the liberals until they fix the financial system of America when the conservatives break it), then it’s actually a good thing. We’re just in its bad phase.

LLMs are tools. They’re not replacements for human creativity. They are not reliable sources of truth. They are interesting tools and toys that you can play with.

So have fun and play with them.

Does it have Nvidia graphics in it?

I’ve had that issue on computers with Nvidia graphics, and the solution, in my specific case, was to install the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers.

I’d be surprised if there wasn’t an FFMPEG command to run in PowerShell to automatically convert all of them.

If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

Maybe a little more under high load, but those are going to be intermittent and not constant.

I’m just saying it’s not that much more electricity usage, and the recycling more than offsets the CO2.