Stop teasing me with best case scenarios.

Fage 2% with some low sodium mixed nuts and low sugar dried cranberries is one of my favorite breakfasts these days. No joke.

Anything that exceeds the difficulty of a assembling a sandwich or put something on and off a grill, is something I’m gonna leave to the pros.

I’ve been using Windows since 3.11. I’ve been supporting it for a career since 1998 (although almost entirely servers not desktops for the last 23 years). I’m tired of Microsoft’s bullshit.

On the other hand, my expertise at resolving their (server) bullshit over the last couple decades sure did pay well. So I guess it wasn’t all bad. But these days they can kiss my ass.

Yeah I haven’t completely gotten rid of Windows. I have it installed on another SSD but in the last 8 months since I switched, I’ve only needed it for Dyson Sphere Project (needed AutoHotKey), Deadlock (crashes too often in Linux and they ban you for 2 hours every time you leave a game), and whenever I feel like playing C&C Generals which for some reason runs like absolute dogshit on my Linux box despite everything else working fine.

But that Windows SSD has nothing, NOTHING on it but Steam games and Winamp. Microsoft isn’t getting access to a damn thing anymore when it comes to personal data. I’m tired of protecting myself against them, and FFS I’ve been a Microsoft backoffice sysadmin for over 25 years so I know how, but I’m still sick of it! I don’t even surf the web on that install. I play my game and when I’m done I boot back to Tumbleweed!

Gonna have to look into Lutris, I really like the idea of that sandboxing!

His real first name is Earvin. Which rhymes with pervin’, so still pretty close.

Worked on me, I finally switched (like, REALLY switched) on my primary PC this year after using Linux only for servers and hobby projects for a long time. My only regret is that I may not live long enough to have used Linux longer than I used Windows. I’d have to make it to my mid 80’s just to break even.

Valve gets all the credit. Gaming was the main thing holding me back all this time.

Now I’m on board.

Not really, otherwise we’d have read a sovcit success story by now.

What happens when you call them?

Yeah and I went to the supermarket this morning and they ALREADY have all the stuff out!

That’s a man who knows his game.

Is any part of the OS installed on the HDDs? If not, disconnect them and see if the OS is stable.

I’d also recommend running memory tests on your RAM just to eliminate that as a factor. You could also decrease the clock speed on your memory for a while and see if that helps.

After all that , if the issue persists, try disconnecting all storage and running Linux from a usb drive. If the system is stable at least you know it’s something in the storage, but if it keeps crashing you’ll know the storage errors are a red herring.

Laugh away! Especially since I didn’t suggest anything!

people would rather deal with all that, then switch to Linux

Most people would rather deal with nothing. Most have a passing familiarity with Windows because they had to use it for work or school. But it’s not like they went out and specifically ‘learned Windows’. Most people just don’t give a shit about how a computer works and want it to just do the stuff they want it to do with as little knowledge required as possible. If they have to let the corpos spy on them, oh well.

For the other 4% of people, there’s Linux!

You must not browse All much then. There’s a community here called LinuxSucks which I ended up blocking because it just wasn’t very funny but holy hell they were on a posting spree the other day.

my Mac

I have no desire to talk about my OS

Cause. Effect.

😀

Because they are wise in the ways of the world.

Bitwarden can be fully self hosted, I’m doing it. My Bitwarden server doesn’t (and can’t) talk to them at all as it has no way to access the internet. They know nothing about my deployment except that I signed up for a free license key.

Arbeit Macht Frei.

We’ve learned nothing. Humanity might be a lost cause.