Plus 1 for Prism Launcher. Works really well.

This is super neat, but I swapped to Floorp awhile back because I like the workspaces feature.

Super happy for folks who wanted this built-in tho.

Congratulations OP!

About a year and a half ago I nuked my root partition with sudo rm -rf /*. Fun times.

Hey those look nice and they’re nearby. Thanks for the find. I may have overlooked them in my exhaustion during my search. Thank you.

I haven’t yet but I was trying to avoid it. I wanted something bespoke, made by someone who isn’t being paid slave wages. I hope that doesn’t come off as arrogant.

Someone else suggested a clay pot modeled after the in-game ones and that’s a very neat idea.

Thanks for everything.

Thank you. Him dying was something I’ve been preparing for for a long time so it’s been more relief than anything. I miss him but I try to look at it as he’s no longer suffering, y’know?

A laser engraved wood box is a fantastic idea. I’ll look into that. Any sellers on Etsy or anywhere you’d recommend? I tried searching this morning but found so much it felt overwhelming.

Hey the clay pot idea is great and I feel silly for having not thought of it. I’ll have to look around for that. Get the pot and then have someone paint it later. Thanks for that.

As for the wood, that also sounds nice. A buddy actually suggested something similar and then having it painted or carved on.

I got mine last January and it’s been pretty much flawless on Arch with KDE and Wayland. No regrets whatsoever. Battery life is probably the only weakness, but I also push my stuff hard. Overall, I’m super satisfied with the choice.

The oldest hardware I’m still using is an Intel Core i5-6500 with 48GB of RAM running our Palworld server. I have an upgrade in the pipeline to help with the lag, because the CPU is constantly stressed, but it still will run game servers.

Not much really. Maybe being able to download random exes for silly shit, but I could always spin up a VM for that.

In the earlier days of Plasma 6, it would crash on me when waking from sleep, so I had a small script that would basically restart plasmashell when waking so I didn’t have to wait the several seconds for the system to realize that it was frozen before I had a functional desktop.

I personally like this, so as far as I’m concerned, yes.

The final straw for me was Microsoft reinstalling software I had removed with updates, as well as installing crapware like Candy Crush, all in the background and without permission or notifying me. I left Windows back in August 2021 for Arch.

Until recently I had kept a Windows VM with a GPU passthrough set up until I decided I was done with Destiny 2. Now the only remnant of Windows in my life is a simple desktop in my living room that has a game I can only play on Windows, which is currently being ported to PS5. Once that port is released, it’ll be converted to a server running some atomic distro and become a fully dedicated server, and Windows will be fully removed from my life, ignoring PCs outside of my control like embedded systems.

Man I wish it was that cool. Controlling it remotely would be primo. Unfortunately, it’s not, and I work in a building that’s 183,000sqft. If I have it running automatically on the other side of the building and it gets stuck, I’m suddenly burning time to run over and unstuck it.

It’s a floor scrubbing robot. It uses LIDAR, a 3D depth camera, and a couple 2D side cameras to map and navigate its routes. It was cool for about six months and now we just default to manual driving because it’s slow and gets stuck very often.

That is really cool.

My company has a robot scrubber that runs a custom Linux distribution.

I tried that first, but the wifi was broken on Arch. That was several months ago though, so it might be good now, but when I first got it back in January it was not. I can vouch for Fedora though (as well as Ubuntu), since Framework endorses it (them). It’s pretty flawless.

Can second this, OP. The DYI option saved me like $350 over the pre built and it took like ten minutes in between being amazed at the packaging. They even supply the only tool you’ll need for it!

As for Linux, Fedora 39+ fully supports every aspect of the laptop OOTB. It’s a wonderful experience.

I’ve flirted with Linux for years, all the way back to Fedora Core 6. I still use Windows, so 11 is my most recent version, but it’s stripped down using the AME playbook. I use it to play some games with anti-Linux anticheat. I also have a minimal Windows VM on my desktop for playing Destiny 2.

That being said, my primary computers run Arch (custom built desktop) and Fedora (Framework laptop) and I have zero intention of ever using Windows as a primary OS ever again.