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It’s SUPER hard to use. I had to download an .iso from my distro’s website, make a bootable USB drive, plug that into my computer and boot into it, answer a few questions and wait a few minutes, A FEW MINUTES… can you believe that??
And then It had the audacity to give me a super easy, working, private OS! Like what the fuck!
How bloody dare you make my life difficult. I was expecting to be TRACKED and EXPLOITED and BOMBARDED with ads all day.
Instead I get all this calm and happiness??
FFS!

True until you get to italics or handwriting. O_o

Install a Linux Distro. Connect to external monitor, plug power into wall.
Use it for a dedicated torrenting machine or use it as a test machine for whatever you like. If you kill it, whatever.
Otherwise I would just take that SSD out and recycle the machine.

I use a Medium theme on my desktop. It’s not dark or light. It really works for me.
I found it here, https://github.com/blue-mood/blue-mood-kde-color-scheme
I was actually looking for a Med-Dark charcoal theme and decided to try this first. I’ve used it for years now.

New at Dominos “LED Pizza”

I highly recommend Kubuntu. I don’t use any snaps though. And I always install the LTS version. Been using it for over a dozen years.

I second RuTracker, you can find some pretty rare out of print stuff.

I really liked Mint at the time, but only the KDE version, and would never have left if they hadn’t stopped supporting it. They had great nVidia support. I no longer have nVidia on any of my computers because it’s just annoying to fight with that mess.
Plus Linux as a whole has better driver support than it used to.

In 2007 I tried Ubuntu and it was weird, then again in 2008, no! In 2009 I found Mint and was really happy, until they stopped supporting KDE. Then I tried a ton of distros, Xfce, no. Lxde, no. open suse, no. fedora, no, lots of others, no. I finally found Kubuntu and I have been on it ever since. Even tested Neon lately but hated it.
Kubuntu does what I want it to do.
Linux always seems scary at first, but once you learn enough, it’s super easy.

Anytime you see the word “smart” in the name of the product, remember to mentally replace the word “smart” with “tracking”.

Ankle!

McAfee Antivirus.
Got so tired of the software slowing down the computer and freaking out over non-virus programs. Also the price to renew was stupid.
No need for AV running 24/7 on Linux.
After using a few different distros over a couple of years I decided to never go back to Windows (and I detest Apple so that will never be an option), and I settled on Kubuntu.
So. Damn. Happy.

The top secret classified, for your eyes only papers will finally be revealed and we will find out that…
we have all been using BETAMAX this whole time, not Linux. O_o

I use Open Sans for System and in LibreOffice https://www.opensans.com/ .
And these are good resources as well, https://fontlibrary.org/

I use it often for sites I rarely will visit again. It keeps My Rules file from getting cluttered.
And it’s fun!!!

And just to add to your important point, Ad Blockers are really Content Blockers. They allow the user to delete annoyances that have nothing to do with advertising. We should all start calling them Content Blockers.

100% agreed. I personally hate the Appleverse, so Gnome just irks my gears.
KDE Nation, we are armed with Plasma!!!

Sweetie, I am very familiar with lotz & lotz of nix.
Refer to my previous post for Nordic jokez.
Takk skal du ha.

We have no Baloo on this rig.
And Thunar was a thunder god, not a king.

Russian moms would tell their daughters this.