With a specific mix of spiteful grumpiness toward windows and a naive optimism, born of youth and abundant nerd resource at university.

That and a stoic acceptance that shit breaks, but it also broke on win 95, 98, XP and especially millennium edition. Which is the timeframe I switched in.

Going full time was fully enabled by reliable virtualization. When I could run a win XP VM and expect no issues in a work day, I was about to ditch windows as my main OS. Over time, I used fewer windows only applications, now I barely need the VM.

Can’t tell of sarcasm or serious, damn Poe’s law.

No I program with a magnetised needle and a steady hand.

Golf clap

So not an industrial automation engineer. Nothing but windows software.

Ignition for scada works on Linux, but nothing else does.

2001 first introduced to Fedora (1?) A friend installed on my laptop. Used it for a little; but it didn’t do the things I wanted. A little while later I was back on XP.

I tried Ubuntu 6.04; it wasn’t ready. Back to XP.
I tried Ubuntu 8.04; it was really close. Back to XP.
I tried Ubuntu 10.04; and have had Linux ever since. I have jumped to various distros over the years, I kept coming back to Mint though. I currently have a couple of computers running Bazzite and the rest on Mint.

I do keep Windows VM’s around; XP, 7 and 10. But they barely get turned on these days.

I haven’t had Windows installed on a machine in 16 years; even in 09 it only lasted a couple of months till I got time to replace it.

So if someone was to hypothetically label an image in a blog or a article; as something other than what it is?

Or maybe label an image that appears twice as two similar but different things, such as a screwdriver and an awl.

Do they have a specific labeling schema that they use; or is it any text associated with the image?

Maybe profit isn’t the only motive…

Long time Mint enjoyer, the ONLY caveat I would put on that is I doesn’t yet have stable for support Wayland.

For a beginner, having the ability to run android apps via waydroid could be a real draw card.

Wayland support is coming, but it isn’t here yet.

How is Bazzite with Waydroid?

I am looking to change my Sons laptop from Mint; he is using Minecraft education for some things at school. It is an older dell laptop; but has plenty of power for a 10yo kid.

Covered here you choose to look into it more if you want.

I don’t mind waiting…the 9yo however does mind 🤷‍♂️

Got nothing to do with being humanoid.

Bipedal predators are a rounding error, probably the most effective hunter/killer robot would be dog shaped and medium dog sized, with a back mounted turret.

Give it pack tactics, with radio comms…

When you have a Samsung monitor, even windows boots faster

Kinda.

So Linux Mint then!

Something something magical shell history

The children yearn for the mines looms

Market research?

I get that, why import stuff that you produce locally…

I try to never get imported food products that we make here… It just seems wasteful.