I tend to keep my laptops on mint or ubuntu. PC’s you use as a daily driver, should be easy to manage. When you boot, they just work.

Build a homelab, if you want to break stuff.

A homelab can be as small, as a vm in virtualbox. No need for extra hardware when starting off…

Laptop is Linux Mint, because my wife also use it and i want my laptop to be as easy to handle as possible.

Servers are Debian, because it’s very light on my hardware. Mostly used for containers.

Microsoft forced win11 on customers… we had 100+ pc’s upgrade on their own… gave f all about group policies.

Happy to not be a part of endpoint management team and to not care if my work pc is on wi10, win11 or anything else… I need a browser, an ide and a terminal to do my work

Buy local goods, even is it cost more… most people will go for cheapest price, even if you’re handing your money to warlords and human trafficking… same argument every time “There will always be <insert sicko>”.

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I’m in either terminal or browser most of the time, DE is not an issue for me… KDE has an easy battery life optimization feature for laptops, so I guess I’ll go KDE