Because I may like it better? No harm in trying something different. I always have Mint to fall back to. You could call it slow cycle distro hopping :)

Wine is still kind of a thing, as in it’s what is underneath Proton, the base.

I’ve used mint for ages. Most flavors, and tried most DEs. I use Mint in my laptop currently.

It’s like jeans. You can wear them for ages, for most every situations, but at some point you may decide to give chinos a try. Also comfortable, versatile, but different.

How are they going to check/enforce private corps investing?

From what I see, Snapper is similar, at least in concept, to Timeshift in Mint, which has saved my ass a couple times.

Do you think anybody is going to spend a minute checking if this is carried out?

This is only a face saving “deal” for trumps benefit.

That is not throwing anybody under the bus. The issue is so overblown, for political noise issues, mainly to influence voters, I guess.

It is an issue, like bathroom use, and I think they are not easy, but they are blips in the challenges trans people face, like Healthcare, etc.

Usual distractions.

Pastafarianism is going to grow.

There is got to be a way to glue some googly eyes here somewhere.

I used to recommend Mint with Timeshift. Timeshift has saved my ass (or has made fixing stuff way easier) a couple of times. Now my go to is Aurora.

I believe that immutable distros are a game changer (god I hate this expression) for nebws.

I did a tour as a conscript. I hated “losing” over a year of my life when I was drafted.

Looking back, I actually had fun, learned a lot about society, as we were from all walks of life and I came from a priviledged environment. Made great friends.

Got to play with a bunch of things that go bang and brrrrrr. (The MG is awesome!).

Learned to kill in a bunch of ways, being in a Scout unit. Thankfully I never deployed, so it all stayed theory.

Learned a lot about patience, discipline, survival within a dystopian bureaucracy, repressing the urge to frag, teamwork, esprit de corps, and much more.

I really think that despite all the shit that being in the military entails, it was definitely a net positive for me, especially because I never deployed.

A bit reckless giving advice, aren’t we?

We don’t know if OP has personal data in the windows drive, or copies thereof, and yet, you write:

If you plan to switch over all at once, during the install, tell Linux to use the entire drive (ie, do a full format). That will completely remove Windows during the install.

Also:

If you are going to dual boot, don’t dual boot on a single drive. Windows likes to fuck with other things on the same drive as it, including other Windows installs.

Would you please enlighten me about why you shouldn’t dual boot on a single drive? I, and millions of others have been happily doing it for decades. As a matter of fact I’m willing to bet some money that that’s precisely the most common desktop setup in the world for Linux. The major caveat is that sometimes Windows upgrades/updates won’t respect your dual boot setup, which is usually trivial to fix.

The article says mint chocolate chip. I’m not 100% sure, but I think it looks more like roadkill rat balls barf ice-cream to me

I believe Netanyahu has nominated Trump for the “Tourism person of the year” award

Pyongyang

YouTube with those kind of numbers every day is some real money. They could create an online only channel, not constrained by formats, which could have huge audiences, with the taping done during late night’s time slots.

Well, remember that the hippies are all part of that geriatric cohort.