Same here! I actually don’t touch the mac part, which I need occasionally for one piece of software (QLab). I call it the Dark Side, and it always complain about available updates indeed.

On the Bright Side I’ve got it all, even some “evil” ones like Teamviewer which I need to manage remote windows machines at work. It runs smooth, boots quick, and Gnome gestures on the excellent trackpad are a delight. Excellent screen, good batteries (not as long lasting alas but still a Day’s Work’ good).

If you buy 2ndhand m1 or m2, the fedora Asahi remix works pretty good IRL. No, m3/4/5 are not ready, far from it.

Depends what you do with it obviously. Lighting software like Chamsys or Grand MA screams for touchscreen. For work I also need a Mac, and I stupidly hit the screen all the time.

If you’re not into graphics / art design enough to have a separate wacom tablet, again it is useful in a pinch.

There’s no “it’s good!” no “it’s bad!”, it is just a matter of how useful it is for you. I don’t know on windows, but with Gnome touchscreens work very well.

Good! Arrived on location early this morning, sun is shining, 24c a cool benefit. Lots work for our next perfornance but I can’t wait, it’s gonna be great!

I guess you’d better start with building an appropriate theatre ; don’t worry, just follow “Pratica di fabricar scene e macchine ne‘ teatri” and you’ll get set up in no time, with gods descending from above, devils surging from the bowels of the earth and other high seas tempests (with monsters) - all the normal things you need in any decent opera. Have fun!

Thinkpad / Debian / Gnome: Works.

Spinning cube and wobbly windows is all I need (on top of 100% pure gnome).

My bad (seriously). What’s the slang now to “spend hours years fiddling with a zillion parameters so my desktop is exactly like I want it for the next 5 minutes”?

Oops, probably shows (again) my age. Is because “ricing” was ethnic something ?

Tuning / ricing is overrated. I used to spend hours years ricing my desktop (enlightenment DR16 anyone?). Screw that, Gnome it is: simple, elegant, functional.

I do add 2 very useful plugins tho: Wobbly Windows and the Spinning Cube. Shows my age I guess.

Not all of them, we were lucky I think. Yoga’s have it by their very 2-in-1 nature, nice little things, classy matte black like any Thinkpad should be.

All the best! My SO runs a T480s, the elegant one, for years now, switched to Debian after U went super-slow on her.

I went all fancy-schmancy with a Yoga x390, debian too.

Both cheap secondhand, both issue-free (and both with touchscreen!). Whish the official batteries where still available tho.

Oh, we hire people all summers. Pay is Legal Minimum Wage. Must speak French and agree to move about 500 chairs a week.

I once met a ranger in the Lassen Natural Park (North California). He was 100% into it on smoking holes and exotic strates and whatnot - also, he was adamant it was “the best job on Earth”.

The view from his office was nice, indeed.

I love my job. It’s stressful, it’s horrendously unevenly paced, but it brings joy and stuff to people.

Also, I have the nicest office :

Your coworker isn’t wrong if she can afford a choose in her job - yeah, you better like it, it’s so many hours of your time, so much mental space and energy.

Apples and oranges : Ubuntu is a commercial endeavour with a huge entreprise desktop and server base (not unlike redhat), while Fedora is the testing grounds, community-side of said redhat, so inherently not made for IRL work.

I’m pretty sure a lot of people use Fedora for work (I do, on my Asahi macbook), but if you are a business you probably won’t, as you’ll look for something with available customer support.

All other merits and demerits enunciated here are valid, but the true difference is in their target audience.

I switched to kobo only because kindle - I don’t want to be an amazon billboard. I’m 100% calibre too, tho kobo do sell some drm-free ebooks.

My PW 3g was the absolute best ereader ever. Snappy page turns, perfect soft lighting, infinite batteries… funny unlimited worldwide wikipedia. Fuck amazon.

Cats offer us mice because we are incompetent at hunting ourselves.

Wrangle out of the clutching, greedy hands of marketing departements the names “Abarth” and “Cooper”, then give them to actual performance workshops working on bettering affordable cars.

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