Is your friend working in the same area/industry as you? if so he will have a better feel for whether it’s “normal” than anyone here! That said, if you would feel safer at home than in the shelter and you can work from home effectively, then I think you should just work from home, and if they fire you, they fire you. If you gotta be there to do your job right I understand why they’d want you there, but you should think about whether it’s worth it to you!
I’ve never really watched the guy, so I have no dog in this fight. That’s definitely a dumb-as-nails take. Not anything I wouldn’t expect from someone born to moderate wealth running a company, but not especially malicious.
Hey, can you say more about the Linux install party? I’d be interested in hosting something like that! Did you find or make any resources to help?
It really is just good! I haven’t started using it full-time but I keep thinking I should try it at least for a bit.
Yeah i heard that after posting this! I’ve also heard that archinstall is pretty user-friendly, really! Do you have any thoughts about that?
I remember you saying it might be easier to stick with Mint, which may very well be what i do!
Thanks for the reply
I bet, that sounds awesome!
Ooh that’s a very cool aspect; as someone with a wife and a job I find I have a lot less time than I used to for gaming so something like that sounds really appealing! That said, I’m also hoping to experience the multi-user part so I’ll have a hunt around and see what’s still got folks playing!
I tried MUME, and it’s awesome so far; and lots of folks still play every day who have been playing since the early 90s which is wild!
It’s because they think they’ll win those lawsuits. They may be right. They’re gonna pull an Alex jones: “oh come on, it’s a bit! Everyone knows it’s bullshit!”
I’m just getting into my first MUD! It’s neat!
I am very happy with mint. I can imagine making arch more of a project and having a lot of fun with it, and as I said, the wiki really seems like a big draw! I probably wouldn’t swap my daily driver from mint for a while, but I’m gonna put together a desktop to maybe run 24/7 and run a little plex server or whatever. I am interested in the possibility of even running it headless…maybe even streaming games from it to a laptop (I don’t have a very good space for a desktop set up in my home right now…too snug!).
Anyway thanks for your thoughts. Arch does seem really cool but maybe I should stick with something a bit more beginner friendly for a little longer, and come to arch when I’m more “ready,” or when my new little obsession with linux has solidified into a habit or whatever!
e: anyone have experience with manjaro as a user-friendly version of arch?
That’s great! What’s Avatar like? Why did you like it?
definitely looks like its still active on mudstats.com!
Nice; thanks for the suggestions!
Solace doesn’t even show up on mudstats.com (which is a tool I just found last night to see how active various muds are)!
Gemstone and batMUD both seem kind of like pay-to-play options; is that your impression? No shame on that, I wouldn’t mind at all if I’d been playing for years and would know I liked it!
I’m just starting too! What an exciting time to be making the jump.
I’m a newbie, just put Mint on an old laptop and I’m blown away; it really does just work!
I have been thinking about trying Arch next because it’s so well documented. I don’t know maybe put together a little home server or something.
Do you think it’s appropriate for a relative newcomer? I’m excited by the documentation but also a little intimidated by it! I suspect I’ll need to ask for help but would worry about not having read everything there is to read first.
I’m a tax lawyer. I’m gonna be very busy fixing the messes people make using AI-assisted do-it-yourself tax planning lol. And by fixing I mean telling them to beg for penalties to be forgiven lol