I tossed Mint on a VM briefly and really disliked it. Specifically finding the terminal was painful. Did they bury it pretty deep or did I just overlook it?

I use PopOS on my rig which is primarily gaming. It does great and gets out of my way.

Having tried Fusion 360… It’s interface and design paradigm is utter trash. NX, Creo, and Solidworks are all far ahead. Can’t speak for catia, I’ve never used it but the versions I saw looked worse than Fusion

Does in Midwest USA too.

Identity theft monitoring services always scare me. It seems like you are dumping a huge amount of information into a single system and just hoping the vendor is secure. I have access to one but refuse to put much information in. Is this mindset incorrect?

To have one ready out of the box with linux maybe look at the System76 offerings? https://system76.com/

Edit: just got a chance to check and they are slightly above your $1000 criteria. So maybe on his recommendation.

Is this actually confirmed anywhere though? I keep seeing it repeated and the only ‘source’ is a ?xeet? .

Highly dependent on workplace. Many with govt contracts could feel an obligation to punish this.

Super happy. POP OS has been entirely pain free since I installed it and has a great looming future with COSMIC DE!

Pop has been Rock solid for me and steam gaming. Trivial to set up and the store is wonderful too. Nice that it works great for non gaming tasks as well.

Similar but only because I skip lunch

Did they ever allow for turning off head bob and blur? That game makes me motion sick to an insane degree.

We use a Neato Botvac Connected (it’s an older model) and the eco mode is quiet enough that we can run it at night. I’m an exceptionally light sleeper and it has worked for me. If we are leaving the house for a while I set it to turbo and that’s loud but cleans even better.

Highly recommend Neato. I think we’ve had ours for 7 or 8 years at this point.

As a counterpoint, I’m specifically keeping passwords with a separate service out of concern in having a single point of failure for the majority of my online persona. I do pay for proton unlimited but mostly for VPN, simple login, and email.

Saxx solves this (and I think a few other brands) by giving your balls a pouch. Super comfortable and adds the comfort of boxers.

Ubuntu broke with my Nvidia card. I went to PopOS and the problems stopped.

How has your experience been with the softmaker alternative to excel? Do all the functions translate well? I just took a peak at their site and it looks dramatically better than libreoffice but I’d never heard of it before.

So COVID was like Uber sploosh?

I’ve used h2owireless in the past for overseas visitors and it’s worked well.

Oni by Bungie.