Run updates without me having to worry that "whoops, an update was fucked, and the system is not unbootable anymore. Enjoy the next 6 hours of begging on forums for someone to help you figure out what happened, before being told that the easiest solution is to just wipe your drive and do a fresh install, while you get berated by strangers for not having the entirety of the Linux kernel source code committed to memory."
DLSantini
Linux is not free. I already work full time job, and unlike maintaining and endlessly diagnosing countless issues that I don't experience on Windows, my actual job gives me a paycheck every week.
I bought mine on Amazon. It's an Addlink. You should find it by searching (ad2TBS91M2P). It's currently $10 cheaper than when I bought mine. No idea if it's a good deal anymore, I haven't shopped for SSDs in a while, so I don't know current prices to compare.
Bought the deck, upgraded to a 2tb SSD, upgraded the cooling, swapped the shell, added additional grips on the sticks, pads, triggers, rear buttons, did some overclocking and undervolting, spent many hours tweaking various setting and plugins, etc. I've played a couple of hours of Mario golf on yuzu, and haven't otherwise touched it for a single other game. I've had it for 8 months. And the $2k gaming laptop that I ended up with a couple of months ago really kind of put the nail in the coffin. I had big plans for the Deck when I bought it(and the many accessories, upgrades, and mods), and those plans just kinda.... didn't become a thing.
I've been thinking about pulling the SSD and putting the 512gb back in, and just selling. The only thing stopping me is that I have some ideas on possible major life changes for this time next year(think tiny and/or mobile living arrangements), where the form factor of the Deck would/should be beneficial. That was the original intended purpose of me buying it to begin with. But even there, the laptop is plenty small, and vastly more powerful. Just not sure I see a reason to have both, and if forced to choose one or the other, I mean...
Plan to do this soon with my only credit card that has an annual fee.
And they want it that way. Because they can look at their constituents, point a finger at everywhere/everyone else, and say "look what THEY'RE doing to you! They're causing ALL of your problems!" And those people continue to eat it up, every single time.
What I'm eating will determine which two of those I am combining together. Potentially all three, in some cases. But there are also times when all the of those are better left out, in favor of barbecue sauce.
Louis Rossmann would be proud.
I used to prefer Coke after it goes flat. Or mostly flat. I still don't mind flat soda. Perfectly happy to keep drinking it long after all of the carbonation is gone.
Meanwhile, I discovered that you could get A&W root beer versions of those little flavor packs that you dump in a bottle of water. Yeah, no. Horrendously disgusting without carbonation. I'll stick with pink lemonade.
As long as everything is wired properly, and there's not too much going on on any individual circuit, that's an awesome setup for so many things. Imagine you're a streamer/YTer, OF girl, maybe musician with a big recording setup, etc. How nice is it to not need a shit ton of extension cords, power strips, splitters, etc, to plug in all of your camera chargers, lights, audio devices, other assorted devices required for such a setup. Even though I didn't film/stream when I was painting/crafting, I still needed so many power strips to plug in my lights, airbrush compressor, paint booth fans and lights, Dremel and other tool chargers, laptop, 3d printer and wash station, mini fridge, and other assorted items. I only have 2 outlets. So yeah.