It's been a while so I can't really direct you. When licensing became very uncertain I backed away and haven't done one in a while.

My best advice is to get a good flight controller kit up front so everything works together without a lot of screwing around. Also to read lots of build logs before you do one. And maybe start with a cheap type to build familiarity.

Also any design where you just have arms connected to a central board tends to be flimsy. I started with a SK450 and it's kind of floppy

They deliberately destroyed our public lands to make sure we all had to pay to live and you're here for it

If apple doesn't want to be in the middle of every transaction, they are welcome to stop doing that. No one is forcing them to gatekeep everything.

SLI causes problems with a lot of titles and also isn't available on Linux any longer. (There is still a feature called SLI in the Linux driver but it is NOT SLI.)

You didn't explain why they would need more than 60Hz.

The USA built that by paying for it.

"The C-Suite that you rail against is entirely profit motivated."

You're not wrong, you're just thinking small. That is, not like a member of that clan of jackals.

They are worried about THEIR personal profits, they don't give two fucks about any given corporation. And if you do, you're stupid, because corporations don't have hearts or souls and are literally not capable of caring about you.

As long as they come out looking competent, they will be able to get a job at the next corporation, and secure THEIR profits.

Anything except competent management people and practices and fostering a healthy workplace culture, you mean.

The language won't solve the cultural problems.

I already said that in my original post.

Just what the fuck do you think I don't know?

Let me make this simple for you: Microsoft refuses to install Windows 11 the laptop. Support for Windows 10 is ended. I already told you I'm not jumping through stupid hoops to extend support for a mere 10 more months.

There may be shady workarounds for all of those known to MS MVPs, but this thread was supposed to be about the average Joe who allegedly can't figure out how to attach a printer to a Linux box.

"The lowest common denominator exists, and they code." ... for Microsoft

Maybe not the smartest thing, to go flying when you know you have a condition that prevents you from passing a medical.

The desktop background is the modern customized splash screen.

Window decorations and effects matter to me, for both functional and aesthetic reasons. To me, KDE is a sort of modernized cross between Windows 7 and NeXTStep in that department. And it gets right things that Windows has gotten worse about in 11, like being able to read the fucking clock. I seriously don't know who came up with that idea, but on the same display, I can read the taskbar clock on KDE without glasses and not on Windows unless I scale everything and throw away the benefit of the high-resolution display. And that's on the automatic display mode, but you actually also get settings.

I tried using Wayland with Devuan Excalibur (Debian Trixie) and my experience with it was not good. I had some games not work and a lot fewer windows could reopen where I left them. This is with AMD graphics. With Nvidia on Devuan Daedalus it really just doesn't work at all for me, and I'm not interested in figuring out why.

This is irritating, but hopefully X will last until my next PC or even my next GPU, which will probably be from AMD. The Nvidia Linux driver situation is unsatisfactory — they will not miss my money in any case, which no doubt helps explain the lack of attention. While their Linux drivers are typically current these days, and have approximately the same performance as the Windows drivers, they still just aren't very stable. Also, the installer sucks, where with AMD OSS drivers that's simply not a thing.

I ran every wm under the sun back in the 90s as well, designing whole desktop and widget themes around each one, and now I just use KDE. Does it do every single thing I used to do, no. Do I care, also no, because it's a great desktop. It does pretty much all the things I used to actually do with compiz. The thing I really want it to do (per-window scaling) I didn't have with compiz either. Yeah I know compiz still exists, but it's flakier than ever.

I used Gentoo on a K6 laptop and it "only" took about three days to rebuild the entire system. Updates were not a serious burden.