Wheeljack

In OP's situation where they're downloading a car, I think it's a safe assumption that the car has already been designed/engineered and OP is just printing it out and assembling it. This would be akin to a kit car, and modern kit cars certainly don't require specialized engineering skills to assemble.

At it's core, whatever system you implement is going to have four buckets:

• I need to see and deal with this immediately
• I need to see this immediately, but can deal with it later
• I need to see this at some point
• This is a complete waste of my time

When you set up filters/rules, it's typically safer to err in putting something in a higher priority bucket.

Past that, it really depends on the email you receive. For mine, an easy differentiator is if I'm a direct recipient, just a CC, or if I'm getting it as a member of a group mailbox. I get a lot of automated notifications, and those are easy to sort based on source and subject line.

I never found anything that I considered "budget". Even the cheapest split mechs on ebay are $100, and I don't think I'd trust any of those.

If you give up the mechanical part and just want to try a split, I'm seeing those starting around $40 shipped.

When you say "stagger", do you mean not-ortholinear? If so, I'm confused as both the Sweep and Corne are ortholinear.

It seems rather ironic to make that post on a fediverse service.

Use Ubuntu until you have a first-hand reason why you should use something else.

It's not perfect, but it's still the 800 lb gorilla, and it's what things have the least chance of not working with. It has the most eyes on it and the most immediate solutions when you google a problem.

If you don't like Gnome, then use Kubuntu.

Six does look great. I really appreciate the Zangief redesign and how it takes him looking like a bodybuilder to looking like a strongman competitor. Hopefully they'll be an analogue to Champion Edition so I can pick it up for a bit less and not have to pay extra for half the roster.

You could always try booting up a Live CD and testing it out. It'll run a bit slower than a native install, but it's a super-easy way to check things out.

Which is hilarious to me because how Linux handles application installations/updates though package management is so much easier than anything on the Microsoft side. No muss, no fuss, no chasing down dependencies, just "install X" and X is now cleanly installed on your system as well as everything it needs to run.

Wing Commander: Privateer.

I'll never forget when I went over to my friend's house and I couldn't understand how the pirates weren't attacking him. And then we loaded up my save (off a 3.5" floppy) and he couldn't understand how the militia weren't attacking me. It's the first time we were ever exposed to factions that responded to your actions.

I sank so much time in that game. Never paid too much attention to the storyline, but I did have the fastest ship with highest-end targeting computer and a full load-out of the best weapons.