Usual Chuck Lorre series lifecycle. Many are pretty good, for their 1st, 2nd, seasons. Then they should die gracefully.

I have the same questions about Stremio.

Because I use a paid graphics suite for profit (Affinity, great and pretty decent payment model), and I’m OK-ish with paying (a fair price) for stuff that allows me to make money, but I’d rather live in Linux for most everything else.

I currently use Affinity mostly in a VM, and dual boot for some very specific things, but this seems to be a way to make the experience better.

Also, a lot of people have paid for a license when buying their computer. I’m OK with people sidestepping the strict licensing terms if they have paid for it.

It’s not “you have pirated it”, but “you aren’t using it exactly as we want you to”

How is the user experience with Linux?

I’m a Linux /Android/occasional Windows user who after 4 generations of Android tablets, finally gave up and got an iPad (first and only Apple device in decades), because it’s leagues ahead in user experience.

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I don’t know if it’s being done, but since AI is here to stay, and these sort of tasks seem to fit with their capabilities, maybe a group could carry out testing.

Yes. I would think that English having so many exceptions to it’s rules, and so many ways to pronounce a letter, could deal with symplifiying, such as; de=the, dos=those…

I like how Spanish is mostly phonetic.

Because I may like it better? No harm in trying something different. I always have Mint to fall back to. You could call it slow cycle distro hopping :)

Wine is still kind of a thing, as in it’s what is underneath Proton, the base.

I’ve used mint for ages. Most flavors, and tried most DEs. I use Mint in my laptop currently.

It’s like jeans. You can wear them for ages, for most every situations, but at some point you may decide to give chinos a try. Also comfortable, versatile, but different.

I was thinking Q, Suse Q.

Interesting.

From what I see, Snapper is similar, at least in concept, to Timeshift in Mint, which has saved my ass a couple times.

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Try sesame Street. It’s very visual, and surprisingly cute for adults

I used to recommend Mint with Timeshift. Timeshift has saved my ass (or has made fixing stuff way easier) a couple of times. Now my go to is Aurora.

I believe that immutable distros are a game changer (god I hate this expression) for nebws.

I’m tri-lingual, and can make myself understood for basic stuff and can generally get the gist in 3 more. I learned English by immersion in my teens, probably the ideal age. When I arrived in America, beginning of summer, I joined all youth summer activities available in town; baseball, archery, joined a Scout group, etc. I made friends and was interacting in English constantly. By School start, I was placed in regular classes. My sister didn’t do these things and was placed in many English for learners classes, with foreign students. I speak much better than her.

Also, I watched Sesame Street, Mr Roger’s, and other children’s shows

My kids have not lived in an English speaking country, but game in English, watch all media in English, with subtitles in English, and attended bi-lingual schools. I spoke in English with them a lot while they were growing up. They speak very good English, with my daughter having EU C2 level, the highest official level in a foreign language.

Watching foreign media, with subtitles in that language, including children’s shows, reading foreign news and stuff, etc. helps a lot.

Also, in many areas there are foreign language oriented Meetups.

A bit reckless giving advice, aren’t we?

We don’t know if OP has personal data in the windows drive, or copies thereof, and yet, you write:

If you plan to switch over all at once, during the install, tell Linux to use the entire drive (ie, do a full format). That will completely remove Windows during the install.

Also:

If you are going to dual boot, don’t dual boot on a single drive. Windows likes to fuck with other things on the same drive as it, including other Windows installs.

Would you please enlighten me about why you shouldn’t dual boot on a single drive? I, and millions of others have been happily doing it for decades. As a matter of fact I’m willing to bet some money that that’s precisely the most common desktop setup in the world for Linux. The major caveat is that sometimes Windows upgrades/updates won’t respect your dual boot setup, which is usually trivial to fix.

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A problem with macbooks is that most have soldered ram, and even hard disks, which negates the possibility to upgrade to modern capacities. Many older non apple laptops can be upgraded to a larger SSD and ram, and be given a new lease on life.