Lettuceeatlettuce

Lol!

Was in a public restroom years ago, I was the only person in it at that moment, taking care of business.

About a minute after I had sat down in the stall, I hear the main door to the bathroom smash open and a male voice desperately saying, "Shit! oh fuck me! Ohmahgaw! Holyshitomagaw! Fuck me!!!"

He slams open the door a few stalls down from mine, all the while never stopping his stream of profanity. I hear his pants ripped off and his belt hitting the floor, and what follows is a massive explosion of farts, liquid-sounding poop, and the entire time, he never stops loudly blaspheming lol. "Ppfffftt!!!OhhhhfuckkkPPRRrrppSPLASH!!!Ohhhmahgaww!PPrrrppprrtttShiiittFuggggohhh!PrrrtprraaaPPSplashhhh!!!Awshhiii!!"

I had to hold in my laughter while trying to wipe, pull my pants up, flush, and haul ass out of there before screaming with laughter the moment I got out of the bathroom lol.

Poor guy, I don't know what he ate, but it came back with a brutal vengeance.

Keep it up! 😊😇

Early 2000's

My gaming rig has been running Nobara for years now, it's built off of Fedora by the developer who does the glorious eggroll version of Proton.

It's got multiple desktop environment versions and is optimized for Linux gaming. It has a bunch of gaming-specific kernel patches and optimizations. Extra drivers pre-installed for controllers and Nvidia GPUs, etc.

It has a very easy update wizard, I run it once every few weeks, works awesome.

Nobara Linux

My advice: Don't wait until you have to switch to start learning, it will frustrate you if you're under pressure to figure it out all at once.

Buy a cheapo SSD online, 500GB ones are out there for $35 and install Mint on it.

Use that to dual boot and play around with Linux. Start slow, if you get frustrated, take a break. It will be a much smoother experience than you probably expect these days.

Mint is very easy to get started with, very Windows-like in its UI. And it has easy options to install Nvidia drivers if you need to, and the app store is very easy to use.

It's really solid.

KDE on my main gaming PC, or if I want something that looks really modern and sleek without tons of setup/tweaking on another PC.

Mint with Cinnamon if I want a #justworks setup that is rock stable and I don't need to look sexy.

My side business laptop uses LMDE with Cinnamon for that reason. I need that thing to be rock stable and dependable at all times.

Cinnamon has been more stable for me than any other DE, and in my experience, is just as performant as other low-spec favorites like XFCE. My fresh install of LMDE with Cinnamon right after boot uses about 850MB of memory. My testing with XFCE was about the same, maybe 50-75MB less, which for my use case is effectively identical.

Not crapping on XFCE though, I like playing with it on one of my old thinkpads. Not a fan at all of Gnome, I've tried to like it for years, but I just don't care for it, and I experience quite a few bugs.

I plan on trying the new Cosmic DE soon, it seems like Gnome done better, and I could see myself liking it from the reviews I've watched.

My current company is being absorbed into a much larger company right now, got bought out earlier this year.

I was the only IT for the smaller company, and I was using 100% Linux (Debian with KDE Plasma) on my laptop to administrate everything in our environment, which is mostly Windows.

• Our DC with AD on it, I used Remmina to RDP into it for admin tasks.
• O365 and Azure/Entra stuff was all in the browser.
• Our ERP system is cloud-based, so browser was fine for that too.
• Our access control system was cloud-based and the RFID card reader/writer was plug-n-play on Linux.
• Our company SMB share worked fine with Linux in Plasma using my AD credentials.
• I set up my company OneDrive sync using rclone, it also worked flawlessly.
• Our Fortigate firewall VPN has a native Linux app which, although ugly as sin, works without issue.
• I used OnlyOffice for a while, then switched back to LibreOffice. Both worked basically perfect, a few very minor font bugs, (bullet lists having a slightly different style for the bullets, etc.)
• Teams, I used a wrapper flatpak for a while, which worked fine, then switched to the browser version of Teams. No major issues, I had a bunch of meetings, screen shares, webcam, presentations all on Teams in Linux, pretty seamless.
• Email, Outlook in the browser is fine. I also used Thunderbird for a bit, but didn't like how buggy it was in the Flatpak version, and the Debian package was way too out of date for my taste.

Now that we got bought out, I am being forced off my Linux laptop and onto the new company's Windows laptop, which really sucks. I am planning on quitting soon, as I hate using Windows and I am very underpaid at my current job as it is. Only real perk was not having to report to any IT manager/CTO, and being able to use Linux.

I mean, if you have the money and inclination, sounds like a nerdy but pretty cool project!

Your hardware is nearly identical to mine. On my gaming PC, I use Nobara.

It's a distro created and maintained by the developer who works on the Glorious Eggroll version of Proton, so very well known in the Linux gaming community.

It's based on Fedora, but has a ton of Linux gaming tweaks for extra performance and compatibility patched into it and pre-installed.

It's very easy to download the ISO and install, and requires basically zero configuration out of the box to start gaming and using the PC.

The only thing I would caution you about, is the only use the built-in Nobara updater app to update your system. Don't use Fedora commands like DNF to update stuff, it will cause conflicts.

As long as you do that though, you should be fine. I've been using Nobara on my gaming PC for about 2 years now, and it's been awesome.

Fair points, yeah.