JustARegularNerd

I take it you can't run Bedrock because you're not on Windows and don't have the game on a mobile/console device?

I'm somewhat in the same boat, although I do have a Win10 VM so I'll probably just fire the game up on that. Otherwise I imagine you could use mcpelauncher on Linux if you have the game on the Play Store.

It's a fair bit older than yours, but I've been so pleased with my X260. I originally got it as a side to my T480 but I find myself just taking the X260 when studying and leaving my T480 as a docked laptop because of the smaller form factor, battery life is way better (6 hours for my use) and for what I do (attending online classes, programming, and other studies) the performance is good enough (on LMDE, it probably wouldn't take Windows well anymore)

The later X series like the X280 have options for quad core processors I believe if you wanted more performance. Given I only paid $120AUD for my X260 and I like the slight chunkiness of it (feels more rugged for on the go) that the X280 lost, I'm not upgrading anytime soon.

I grew up on Windows my entire life, but really only as a user until I got into teenagehood. I still remember when I was 12 and had to reinstall Windows 7, and I was given the option of either x64 or x86. I thought "Oh, my laptop is stupidly old, it's gotta be the lower number" and it took an embarrassing amount of time to then actually try the x86 option which immediately worked.

Like with all my devices, I will try to set a wallpaper that I took, usually from a trip. Each device has its own wallpaper to differentiate them and to remind me of different places I've been.

Here's my lock screen where I took a photo of a small roadside garden while I was in Hervey Bay, Queensland.

I will also buy into a setting to get past "Hey guys, welcome to my video!" and "Please like and subscribe" automatically, but I doubt Google is into that.

They did the exact opposite to this. If the person in the video tells you to subscribe, the subscribe button will play an animation to get your attention.

Don't think so, this screenshot looks older to me and was probably taken during the transition to the Teams rewrite, Teams (new). So the user has both old and new Teams installed, which was a common occurrence as you could switch between them with a toggle button.

I think you're both right.

If you've always grown up Windows, then you generally know the steps to go through to try and fix it, which are oftentimes laborious and sifting through useless answers like sfc /scannow until you finally find some command you need to run like onedrive.exe /reset and about 12 other steps to get your OneDrive syncing (example problem).

Now you switch over to Linux as a fairly new user, oh my audio isn't coming from my speakers but is from the jack. Uhhhh, the Settings show it all there and working? Oh, here's a forum answer but it tells me to edit my pulseaudio.conf file? Where the hell is that? Oh, I found it but it's read only? Oh, I have to type sudo nano /etc/pulseaudio.conf into a terminal? Woah, what the fuck is this text editor?? I guess I use the arrow keys to move, but no mouse support? Alright I've edited it but what the heck Ctrl S isn't saving? Oh, the legend at the bottom says Ctrl O, and uhhhh, yeah overwrite? Now Ctrl X to exit, and uhhh, okay it's still not fixed but maybe a reboot fixes it. And if we fast forward 4 hours it turned out to be an audio driver.

You get my point. Linux is just different enough where if something breaks, and its something weirdly specific, its a lot of unknowns the user has to rapidly learn where they know these annoying troubleshooting things in Windows already. Linux does have really good forums and answers and documentation but its a learning curve regardless and that can be too much for a really casual user who doesn't have the time or will to follow through.

See I'd use Notepad++ if I was coding or doing any kind of actual file editing.

However, when I'm at work and need to take a phone call, the tabs in Notepad and the auto saving are literally game changing for me.

That being said I haven't bothered with the AI stuff in it at all, and it feels as usual, Microsoft doesn't stop when they have a Good Thing already, they keep pushing it beyond that point for their interests. And now we're left with not a basic editor but a personal assistant.

Long live Linux and freedom of choice.

That's about as 'judging a book by it's cover' as it gets.

Ultimately OP isn't trying to sell it to you, they're just saying that for them, they've been happy with it.

And hey, if you choose your distros based on their name, I'd like to see you sell that idea.

I might actually suggest this to that relative. They're close to retirement and I believe are planning to put a percentage of their savings into BTC which has me apprehensive, but starting out with just $50 here and there to get a proper feel for it seems way less high stakes for learning.

I've got a close elderly family member who's recently gotten fixated on investing in crypto, watching all the YouTube videos on the subject.

I don't know enough about it to confidently say they're going to lose all their money, I've never looked into it because it just screams get rich quick scheme, but I don't have high hopes for them.

The resonator on my old car blew out and sounded obnoxiously loud for like a month, I felt like such a dork commuting it to work. I genuinely felt so happy to have it quietened again.