spriteblood

I like the idea of rolling release in theory, but stability is extremely important to me because I use Linux as my daily driver.

EndeavourOS and Manjaro aren’t really going to do much to address your desire to use terminal more than Mint IMO, either; most mainstream distros like that emphasize usability first and foremost.

If you’re looking to really get under the hood, go with Arch ans follow a guide so you don’t bork anything too badly. Arch uses a different package manager than Mint/Ubuntu, so some of the commands might look different if you’re not following Arch-specific guides, but terminal is terminal is terminal in many cases. You can run Steam on Arch, and building the core functionality on your own will get you acquainted with terminal.

Although I’ve used everything from Arch to Zorin, and eventually you will have to use terminal for something. Just depends on what your longterm goals are, what usability you will need to rely on quickly, and how you think you’ll get to those goals most efficiently.

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Sounds like you should just use Mint, especially if you tried and like it. It’s customizable, GUI friendly, it’s based on Ubuntu so most guides for either will work, and you can download Steam to it and play native games (or Windows games through Proton).

I don’t know what you’re looking for, that Mint doesn’t provide. You can download different DEs or window managers, you can write your own bash scripts, and the core functionality for regular use is already there.

With horror movies, you at least have that layer of knowing it’s not real. Seeing the real horrors of mankind without that to protect you is truly disturbing.

I’d hope some of it gets socked away for any possible time in the future when costs may be greater.

As for the rest of it, I’d like to see it used to grow the platform - marketing to increase user base, more developers, etc. Whatever makes sense.

A good start to fixing the poverty is if companies making obscene amounts of money from their labor start fairly paying people in these areas.

Here’s the source for anybody curious:

https://youtu.be/FwHMDjc7qJ8?si=UdaMXa7uJTqgZniu

Def worth a watch. Tony’s chocolate looks like a good alternative.

There’s also a shockingly high failure rate for modes of state execution, and a lot of gross details surrounding it as a method of punishment. Jacob Geller did a great and disturbing video about it:

https://youtu.be/eirR4FHY2YY

Watch Bender’s Big Score. There’s some continuity. No spoilers.

Gaming laptops have historically had a reputation for being bad for a number of reasons:

• Poor build quality compared to flagships in comparable price range

• Poor battery life

• Poor cooling implementation

• Poor relative performance due to above points

• Large and bulky, offsetting the value of portability

• Cut corners in other ways, like poor color depth, having a good graphics card but a CPU bottlenecking the games that would utilize it, lower RAM than it probably should have for gaming, etc.

And then not to mention some people just don’t like the neon green and red “gamer” look many of them have. There’s the distinction here between “gaming” laptops and gaming-capable laptops.