For me, I’ve been throwing distros on a spare SSD so I could test run in a proper install, but I’m sure a thumbdrive would be fine. Just keep in mind that you might get some hangs and things will be slower due to the speed of the drive, rather than the inefficiencies of the OS you end up on. If you want to test out specific programs or games or something, you can always do what I did and put them on a separate faster storage drive (I’m on SATA SSD for my OS right now, but am putting other things on NVME).

As I mentioned elsewhere, I still have my Windows on another drive so I can boot to it if I need to, but I honestly haven’t needed to even once since switching, so I’ll probably end up just switching to VM only for anything that requires Windows fairly soon here.

The transition has been much simpler and smoother than I ever had imagined.

Plus these days you can just use AI to scan your entire system in detail and explain where everything is while sending that data back to their creator.

Oh wait, sorry, that’s Windows, my bad.

Absolutely agree, edited post. Was meant as a joke, clearly wasn’t in good taste and I apologize. It’s pretty solid, just not for me.

I don’t think they’re saying it as a problem or trying to argue with you, just stating reality 😅

Right now, I still have Windows as dual boot in case things go sideways or I run into road blocks with work, but my plan is to move all of that to a VM in the near future (and ideally an actual work supplied machine with a KVM eventually). At that point, I could see myself falling back onto something like Pop!_OS as a stable side install if/when my main OS is having issues and I just want to play a game and not bash my head against a console for 5 hours.

Sorry to be so seemingly unfair to Pop OS, what it does it does do quite well, just not for me as a main driver.

You just have to install steam, haha. I got CS2 up and running in 10 minutes 😝

Honestly, it seems really stable and works great, I just hate how…hand holdy it felt for me personally. I think the emoji was a little over the top. My apologies, haha. It’s totally fine for what it is, and if it works for you, that’s fantastic!

Considering said Wikipedia entry did not exist 5 years ago, when I mentioned the prior requirements of mine that were met at the time, that wouldn’t have helped me much at the time. Seems pretty convenient for current prospective buyers as of the article’s publishing, 3 years ago.

Regardless, to reiterate, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but I’m sure you’ve never consumed a product from a company that’s committed any form of fraud or other unethical act.

Having said all of this, please do not take what I’m saying here as support for Tesla, Elon, or unethical corporate practices in general. There is no way in hell I would buy a Tesla as of now, and I do indeed try to limit my consumption from companies I disagree with on moral and ethical grounds.

Call me ignorant at the time of purchase, if you want, I suppose.

You can say that about literally any company that exists under capitalism.

I think what they’re saying is more along the lines of fracturing the existing org and replacing it with something worse.

But the whole song is the irony. She’s just playing chess while we’re all playing checkers.

Nah, for sure, I don’t disagree, I just saw the opportunity for a dumb low effort oneliner, lol.

And you wouldn’t be supporting a Nazi in doing so! I’d support you in your goofy lil EV truck.

That’s assuming a lot. I wanted a car that was fast, electric, had easy charging, good range, and didn’t cost $100,000. 5 years ago, that was a Model 3.

Didn’t give a shit about Musk’s lies, always knew he was full of it and was a typical scumbag CEO; I did not peg him as someone to go full on Nazi mode.

Huh, I didn’t think it was possible to out-ugly the cybertruck

Eh, checking out the source (Drazen Zigic via Getty Images), he seems legit.

Go 100% on BTC, no regrats.

Edit: Yall, this was sarcasm lmao. Don’t fucking buy BTC.

Billionaires don’t go to prison tho

An altruistic billionaire is an oxymoron. If they were truly altruistic, they wouldn’t be a billionaire.

coyotes can smuggle iphones across the border

Aaaaand the US is the new North Korea…