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So my poetry is/has been lacking of course.
Work has been... a bear for 3 years. It has finally started picking up and I am actually feeling good about it again.
At home I grew tired of Windows and Mac OS again... so I went back to linux. I can do 90% of what I want to do with Linux, and 100% of what I NEED to do. The only things that lack is my huge STEAM game library. Not so many games work on linux... but I CAN PLAY MY FAVORITES.
Star Stable Online, Diablo 3, and a number of other games (like Borderlands and such) work on linux/steam. I can also create videos for Youtube and stuff like that...
But for the things I NEED to do, write documents, spreadsheets, presentations, coding, etc. All of that is covered in spades (generally more and better options than Windows or Mac OS) with Linux-based OS's.
So currently I am running a gorgeous, efficient and somewhat scary linux OS called Solus. It started as a hobby OS for someone, grew into something much more special. Solus is not sourced from other linux distributions. It is put together with love from a small team. It has running updates which are good and bad. Also since the team is small and they are trying to achieve their own goals with the OS, it can change somewhat drastically from time to time. For example the homegrown UI called Budgie (like Cinnamon or Mate) is written to be Gnome-compatible on the GTK3+ library. However the lead developer / project owner has stated that he is starting to rewrite it, this time using Qt+ libraries! Honestly I cannot wait... looking forward to seeing how the OS morphs over time.
It has been pretty stable so far except where I go app-crazy and start installing all sorts of libraries and such. I've managed to break shotcut which is my tool of choice for creating videos. So until I get that squared away I will have to fudge around to create decent videos for my youtube channel.
Anyway, God bless you all and I pray you are all making your way through this crazy world in tact.
Work has been... a bear for 3 years. It has finally started picking up and I am actually feeling good about it again.
At home I grew tired of Windows and Mac OS again... so I went back to linux. I can do 90% of what I want to do with Linux, and 100% of what I NEED to do. The only things that lack is my huge STEAM game library. Not so many games work on linux... but I CAN PLAY MY FAVORITES.
Star Stable Online, Diablo 3, and a number of other games (like Borderlands and such) work on linux/steam. I can also create videos for Youtube and stuff like that...But for the things I NEED to do, write documents, spreadsheets, presentations, coding, etc. All of that is covered in spades (generally more and better options than Windows or Mac OS) with Linux-based OS's.
So currently I am running a gorgeous, efficient and somewhat scary linux OS called Solus. It started as a hobby OS for someone, grew into something much more special. Solus is not sourced from other linux distributions. It is put together with love from a small team. It has running updates which are good and bad. Also since the team is small and they are trying to achieve their own goals with the OS, it can change somewhat drastically from time to time. For example the homegrown UI called Budgie (like Cinnamon or Mate) is written to be Gnome-compatible on the GTK3+ library. However the lead developer / project owner has stated that he is starting to rewrite it, this time using Qt+ libraries! Honestly I cannot wait... looking forward to seeing how the OS morphs over time.
It has been pretty stable so far except where I go app-crazy and start installing all sorts of libraries and such. I've managed to break shotcut which is my tool of choice for creating videos. So until I get that squared away I will have to fudge around to create decent videos for my youtube channel.
Anyway, God bless you all and I pray you are all making your way through this crazy world in tact.
So many people have left
I pop on every once in awhile, sometimes I check to see if any of the people I used to follow, or who follow me are active at all. But it seems more than a few of them have left dA pretty much for good, they removed all their deviations. :( Makes me sad.
Back to Mac?
Well, I am an OS buff as well as a computer hardware buff... I have been building my own computers for awhile now, but when I saw that Apple was moving to RISC and their own CPU to boot... had to do it. So it is time to go back to Apple! I picked up a new Mac Mini M1, and an OWC expansion... Excited to get it. Coming a week after Christmas. If you haven't read up on the technology, go take a look at it. I used Mac Mini's for YEARS before I started building out my own boxes because of their simplicity and because of the unix-based Mac OS X. Prior to that my favorites were an old Amiga workstation, power PCs... etc. I had home-built Be boxes too. I just enjoy the tech. So, despite the fact I will be taking a hit in my Steam games account (many of the games won't work well, at least for the first year or so I am sure), I am going to go for it. I will post pics when I get it.
Ubuntu to Pop
Well now! Remember I said I thought I would try giving Ubuntu a year? That was before a Snap install/then deinstall hosed the entire system. Yes that is right. I installed some Snaps to do some work, once the work was done I decided to remove one of the Snaps and my system started behaving oddly. So, I rebooted.
Guess what never came back?
I was a little unhappy with that.
Pop!_OS (based on Ubuntu with tweaks) released their own 20.04 Beta so I decided to install that (I've used Pop for nearly a year solid at one point when it first came out - good distro). Pop enables flatpak but I do not believe snaps are on by default, but to be s
Ubuntu 20.04 Beta
Decided to check out the almost released next LTS (long term support) version of Ubuntu. When Ubuntu first came out, I hopped on board and ran it as my linux distro for several years. But things happened, stuff was changed, blah blah and I stopped using Ubuntu. In fact I am pretty sure I haven't really touched it in over a decade, except maybe I did install Kubuntu and ran it briefly.
It installed easily through the ubiquity installer. I installed alongside of Windows 10 (gotta keep Windows around for a handful of games, and sometimes to test ideas for work). Canonical has made some changes to the default theme, including a new icon set
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