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kojack

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  1. 9 hours ago, Ishayin said:

    Hmmm, difficult to say. What is it that you like, and drew you to those options in the first place? And what are the important deciding factors for you?

    Ease of use for people who are used to windows made me choose mint.  I chose Zorin because I like the touchscreen aspects of it on some of my systems.  I am typing from a Zorin OS equipped little dell system right now and it's awesome. 

  2. Or uninstall windows. Linux is where it's at.  And, with the US governments 10 percent buy in into intel.  I would NEVER purchase an intel product again.  It's the american version of Huawei at this point.  I am removing all INTEL cpus from my household moving forward.  NO THANKS.  Just not sure if they can push a software update to install spyware on my older cpus or not.  

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  3. On 9/12/2024 at 11:30 PM, ryan said:

    a few months ago i was searching for an office chair, nothing looked comfortable and they were a little too simple, but they were newer models so therefore better chairs allround. I settled on a completely black dowinx for 200 cad and although its good it will have to hold up for a few more years yet for me to give a durability review, 

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    Dowinx Gaming Chair Office Chair PC Chair with Massage Lumbar Support, Racing Style PU Leather High Back Adjustable Swivel Task Chair with Footrest (Black) : Amazon.ca: Home

     

    pros: stiff but not overly so

              good looking

              foot rest

              lower back massager(vibrates)

              newer

    cons: TBA

    We are almost a year in,  How's the chair holding up?

  4. 55 minutes ago, Papusan said:

    So they have Ai 'training' at work now. We have to sit in front of a computer and try to sell ai a phone.  Meanwhile, our frontline software which we use to actually sell products and make money are borked constantly.  I can't wait for my year end "anonymous" review of the company.  I don't care. I voice my opinion.  Can't wait!

     

    I just realized how slow stuff is on my pc compared to my little linux box. Everything is clutter free and fast!  SOOOO nice.  Once my son is back in school and I can use his monitor I am getting my server setup and working with TrueNAS and some sort of software to remote access it while on the road and MS is gone from our computers!

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  5. Moved my CSV file to brave. It's all use now. EFF MS. I am back to work after taking a mountain bike vacation with my fam. Once my next round of days off come in 6 days, I will move all my onedrive files to a HDD and get my wife's and son's off their onedrive as well.  Adios MS. 

     

     

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  6. Is it that bad?  I am using Zorin on my little Dell and I love it. I am "THIS CLOSE" to getting new drives for my laptop and desktop and installing Linux on both of them now. I am just done with everything.  Clean and mean is linux and I love it.  It makes old systems that are bogged down by the sewage Microsoft has pumped into windows, feel light and swift.  I would save thousands on new hardware by putting free software on the older systems and mosey on and do my work. 

     

    The system I am using right now is a dell inspiron 3169 with a pentium M3 chip, 4gb of ram and 1tb of sata ssd.  and it's just as snappy as my current dell laptop with a 1165g7 chip 64gb of ram and a fast NVME ssd because windows is so bloated and "ai'ed".  Windows 12 is going to be a massive dumpster fire too.  Done with that. 

  7. On 8/9/2025 at 2:51 AM, Linux said:

    I like the challenge of being ahead of MS with my hardened clutter-free version of WIndows 11. Until now - with minor regular modifications - i am totally fine with it. They try, they fail. And since i am not alone with this, i always find solutions, if anything comes up with an update.
    My Win11 is running rather lightweight and very solid, let them come. And i always have Linux running on my 2nd SSD and my 2nd laptop.

    I am back on my main dell notebook now and running win 11 again. I actually find it fine. I am sick of MS pushing co-pilot into everything, and more sick of hearing about recall and copilot vision.  That's to far. My wife and I use the basic copilot app for certain things we want but I have it turned off for most all of my software.  I was using the linux box for a bit and while, decent, I really don't think it's the right decision for us to use. 

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  8. Just an update for people wanting to run Steam Games. When installing Linux, format your ssd / hdd to EXT4 instead of NFTS . This makes proton work properly with all steam OS games from what I have been told.  I will be trying it for sure.  It will be a slow process as I am going to upgrade Colin's system while doing the switch to Linux.  I am going to put a 4 or 8tb fast SSD in it, 64gb of ram upgrade as well. That way I will kill three birds with one stone, a fresh new ssd install of Linux garuda gaming on his system with his Games installed.  

     

    I hope I can get Garuda to be a little more user friendly for installing and using games. 

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  9. I just hope that Steam makes all games available on the platform be made to work on linux either natively or through proton and run correctly.  If that's the case I would say Colin will be moving to Linux. My wife and I will have no issues even though she thinks she would. But if she was using mint, it would a minimal swap from windows 10 she's using at work. 

     

    I have been using Zorin more and more and enjoying the lack of lagging, and no bullcrap using the OS. I am enjoying Brave as a browser and once I get this or some sort of disto on my main computers, I will be very happy to edit photos, videos etc on it.

     

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  10. That's promising. What about older Nvidia cards. Do they have issues too?  I have a 2070 super in my desktop and my son has a 2060 super in his gaming laptop.  Will both of these work properly?  

     

    Oh, checkout the battery life on my Dell inspiron 3169 this morning when I started it up and went into thunderbird.

    Not bad for an old budget system running Zorin.

     

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  11. Got everything up to date on garuda. Now that I know how to install software, It's great.  I love the look of the OS. Will be a daily driver for me I am not sure as some of the inner workings are wonky. But overall, I like it alot.  It always comes back to ease of use.  No linux distro is as easy to use as Windows. Moreso for someone who has special needs.  That's why windows continues to win out for us.  Even after all the crap MS is pumping into it, it's just easy. 

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