Mint. Takes half an hour to install and set up. Doesn’t get in the way after that.

There are no civilians when profit is involved.

If you don’t compile everything from source, you may as well get a Chromebook!

But only for men. Women will be treated like in Afghanistan.

So holy.

You guys sure are a thirsty lot.

Took me way too long to figure out this stuff is called B Cache FS and not BCA Chefs.

Obviously. I use Mint, by the way.

I’d love to go but Berlin is a bit far away.

It took me over a year too. I was using a mini PC with Mint but still kept my old Windows PC under my desk. When I built a new PC, it never got defiled, though.

Step one: back up your data.

Step two: back up your data again.

Ubuntu has been making quite a few missteps lately that have cost it a lot of popularity.

Take it slow. Install a VM with Mint. Play around with it. Get familiar. Move your regular usage over to it gradually. Make the jump when you are ready. It’s perfectly OK to have reservations about a big change like that. But you don’t have to do it all in one go.

Interesting. Obviously Valve has them spooked. When was the last time MS came out with a product that at least made an appearance of caring about what users want?

I really want to see that email.

Stupidity and malice very often go hand in hand.

Can’t decide if aneurysm posting or non-native speaker.

So there haven’t been any problems with Windows updates recently? I’m happy things are running well in your particular shop. But that’s not the regular experience of every business let alone home user.

That doesn’t look safe at all.

It’s definitely something you should have lying around for exactly this kind of contingency. That goes for Windows too, btw. Windows installations also get borked and having a Linux live system available can be a life saver.