My daughter's drawings are held on my fridge with old HDD magnets.
MXX53
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We have primarily used windows servers, but our datalake, data warehouse and internal apps are on Linux servers.
I am looking at offloading asuch power draw from my physical residence as possible. I have an older windows desktop that I use strictly for gaming. However, I have mostly moved my higher end gaming to GeForce now. The service is often and my dream is to be able to run a lower powered laptop, and use GeForce now for high end gaming, but Nvidia is doing everything in their power to prevent Linux users from getting their full benefit of GeForce now. This means that I have to either keep an old macbook around or use windows to get my 1440p 120hz feature in geforce now.
As soon as there is a reliable way for linux to do this, I am completely off of windows. (with the exception of work)
Over the last 6 months I have played my steamdeck more than my desktop. As a dad of young children, my weekday gaming in done on my deck after my kids go to bed. Then on the weekends, I game on my desktop in the basement with my buddies from college.
In the last month I have spent more time working on learning some new skills and reading books instead of gaming during the weekdays. This has taken the place of my normal deck gaming time. I will probably go back to adding in some gaming in a few months. That will all be on my deck.
I think you misread. I am in my early 30s. I have no idea how old you are. You write like a 13-14 year old, but I'm sure you are older.
You don't say anything about servers, but you specifically call anyone wanting stable Linux a "boomer asshole" I believe. There are no caveats for servers vs standard use.
I hate to break it to you, but swearing every 3 words is probably the most lame and juvenile thing you can do.
Absolute trash.
Outside of the holier than thou attitude there is just such a lack of understanding why other people may want certain features.
The following is all being written by someone in their early 30s.
Stable builds? On my personal machines I use openSUSE to get my new features and software, but for my work I use stable systems. Down time costs me money, there is no way I would ever trust my enterprise solutions on a non stable distro. I would be asking to have my contracts terminated and lose money. My clients rely on my solutions to have as close to 100% up time as possible. I just can't trust a rolling release enough to put my income on the line for it.
What is the desire to dump perfectly good machines because they are not new enough. I wouldn't even call myself an environmentalist, but I can't stand to see the amount of perfectly good machines being eWasted because they hit an arbitrary age and are now "old". I have been using old enterprise rescue machines for years. My current laptop is nearly 8 years old. It has 20gb of Ram and a 512gb sata 3 ssd. It isn't playing any games, but it is more than capable to accomplish all of the dev work that comes my way, and lots of other media work too. I have a more recent desktop, but even then I usually run my desktop hardware for 7-10 years and just upgrade the pieces that need it and migrate those old pieces to my servers.
I also keep some old 1gb or less RAM machines around because it is just fun to work within limitations and have distraction free machines for completing non cpu intensive workloads. I even keep an old iBook around for the fun of playing with old powerPC chips and really challenging myself to make software that is modern but functions on extremely dated and limited specs.
And I managed to say all of that without saying "fuck" one time. Imagine that.
Edit: read more blog posts. It has to either be a troll or a child. I refuse to believe an adult writes such absolute trash. I was less edgy when I was 13. I cannot imagine any self respecting adult writing like that. If this is an adult, then I am getting "middle aged woman that also writes weird erotic fan fiction about teenage characters" vibes.
I think anyone can be too dumb for anything. Personally, there are many things that I feel like I am too dumb for. Specifically things that require artistic ability or emotional thinking. Even as a kid I find subjective topics completely baffling. I always loved math because I was either right or wrong, and I liked science because my hypothesis was some variation of right or wrong. Could I learn an instrument, sure, but by the time I get any good I could have gotten substantially better at something that clicks for me.
Don't get me wrong, if you find it interesting and have passion for it, that could probably overcome what you are lacking with enough time.
I am pretty sure it is a nostalgia thing for me. It smells like electronics from my childhood, moreso than other newer electronics I have. When I smell the vent it brings me back to my childhood and all of my friends and siblings gathered around a console in a small room with no AC in the middle of summer. A simpler time when I wasn't a dad, didn't have a mortgage, a job, taxes and bills to pay etc. I was just a kid sitting on the floor shirtless in shorts surrounded by my friends trying to finish games.
I loved pop os, but in the last 6 months gnome shell has been taking up tons of ram and performance has been trash. Moved to KDE on Fedora and I am back to less than a gig of ram used at idle, and smooth as all get out.
Had been on pop for a while. But lately gnome shell was using a ton of ram and performance was trash, so I moved to fedora with KDE. Been great so far.
I needed something lighter than windows 7 basic on a cheap network my girlfriend at the time (now wife) bought me when we were in high school. Ended up using Ubuntu 11.10 netbook edition. After spending 5 hours getting my Broadcom wireless card working, I was hooked. Used it until that laptop died and during that time I slowly migrated all of my computers to Linux. Only kept windows on secondary drives or a different partition for the occasional time I need it.
Host is Proxmox, with Ubuntu LTS VMs.