My advice is: make your data eternal, not your distro. Your kde config and customization should work across distros (but don’t dualboot with 2 distros messing in the same /home). Don’t know about you, but I like the separated work/play dynamic I have with linux/windows so I’m waiting for bazzite to become dual bootable with linux to be my playstation. If you put your game library on it’s own partition/disk you can mount it from dualboot distros.

Every distribution is always the most stabellest, maintained piece of software on their website but fuckups happen, teams change, users get blamed for exotic circumstances tarnishing their reputation. Have a backup and use whatever feels right currently.

Pop_os is also ubuntu based btw, hate the name but maybe system76 is able to keep you safe from the snappification while you use what you are accustumed to?

A lot of shit happened in the past on 9/11, especially in German history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9

escaping cheese noises

I interpret it differently. I have seen plenty of people putting up huge barriers of entry for themselfes before trying out a new hobby. They like the idea of a new hobby and try to hold themselves hostage with a huge investment, or in sad cases overspend because they go in badly informed. “Once I have spend so much money it’s impossible I won’t be able to motivate myself to keep going” oh no, it required more effort than buying stuff, I gave it away… I think persistance is indeed more important than the best gear. Get going and borrow/second hand what you need until you know you have the routine to make better equipment worthwhile. Get to know fellows who can help you make informed decisions after a few sessions. The climbing shoes in your basement don’t help climbing halls to stay open. The table saw you never use doesn’t help wood demand and availability in your area.

Schöffel has been pretty good for me so far. Last raincoat lasted 10 years, they repair broken zippers if needed. If you have a schöffellowa store nearby, they tend to go on sale late summer.

Because they are students? Both are high demand professions, I don’t get it.

I took into account that OP’s domain is from the UK, where everybody calls each other a cunt and therefore lifes a cunt’s life by default.

Kutleven!

(The Dutch attach genitals or diseases to words to turn them into swearwords. This one is often used for “shit life” but it literally means “vagina life” which I find very fitting and ironic in this context)

I too want to open a business where both customers and suppliers pay me. Do you know any more gullible sectors? Academics are pretty extorted already it seems.

Went from gentoo to manjaro, can confirm. My hut was awesome but the shower took hours to compile.

Doesn’t mean your motherboard had it or supported it well. You might be right though for the ddr3 era this mobo is in.

I just checked: A 128gb ide ssd (industrial!) costs €170, I wouldn’t invest that either into a throwaway system. And its the biggest you can get.

Ext4, xfs, you can format a file with a file system and mount it like a disk.

Ah yes, the classic homework folder, linux edition.

U9!! Westhafen!!!

I still don’t get the problem. Are you complaining you have to chroot into your system and finish the update because your power got interrupted? Is a 5 min detour into a live system making you unconfortable? This is how you would fix it in any distro except the image based ones and the arch wiki will guide you excellently how to do it. Good luck!

No non-metric area in that picture, the core of my joke still stands :P

It’s a japanese bird, that should be Pascal.

How dare you not growing up like a boomer and not getting accustomed to linear television as your only source of joy, therapy and emotion avoidance? /s

AI’s have certain input words that break the conversation, presumably to keep you safe/give you an off switch. Google’s AI doesn’t seem to be aware that a users’ NO will make it stop and drop everything and tells a joke in the format of a yes/no question that expects a ‘no’-response if you don’t know the joke already. Following, it ends the conversation with an ok because the user said no. Luckily that breaks our expectations of what should have happened in a way that makes some of us laugh anyway.