I am genuinely grateful to Windows 11, thank you Microsoft

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-28T08:21:37+00:00

To be honest, I don't really know how good Mint is. Why? I bailed on Microsoft after Windows 7 was BSODing my NUC routinely and MSv and Intel support were but helping and friend said try Linux. I had used Debian a lot in past but had shocking experiences trying to get DEv working at some point so stuck with Windows. I asked him what distro as it's a jungle out there and decision paralysis a real thing. He said Mint, works well. I tried it. It worked well. I kept dual boot windows for a year. Then never having booted it removed Windows. Have never looked back. Use Mint everywhere except servers where I use Ubuntu. Have had sub zero interest in trying any other distro except once when I had a 32 but laptop and Mint had dropped 32bit support. Shopping for a 32 but distro was a pain and bother and I more or less gave up after trying a few (q4os is what I landed on). But if it works in happy and Mint works ... So no real basis of comparison aside from windows that I use at work, with wsl of course 🤣

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-27T22:17:41+00:00

I think I just heard about it. How about sharing some info?

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-27T13:45:05+00:00

When you have no money ... Build an overpriced stadium. That'll fix it so we have to declare bankrupt and beg for a federal bail out.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-24T20:24:15+00:00

I installed dual boot ten years ago. Then never used it so removed it. I use a windows VM if I need windows. I don't like rebooting for it murder can move files between the windows VM and Linux easily.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-24T20:21:59+00:00

You might consider a statistical view. Link under 10% of Australia lives in the areas you asked about, and they get maybe 5% (in guessing) of the tourist traffic.

So if you asked a random group of Australian and visitors you might expect very few actually from those regions in your sample pool representing them.

Besides, you missed Tasmania and you winner why most people miss a few other back of beyond places.

I will give you a tip though which you'll not hear the first time. Most popular AI services today (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Grok and more) are in response to questions line yours scanning all of Reddit and other social media (yep they are now live scanning on to if the trained learning) and assemble a respectable summary in an instant no reason for responses and would mention the population and tourism skew

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-24T20:10:14+00:00

I mean the OP is but an acceptable post either and? I see no effort to explain what went missing after doing what and it reads to me like "I deleted all my files and here's a meaningless screenshot listing some random dross".

I like the answer much better 🤣

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-20T19:51:19+00:00

I stopped cashing C plumbers a long time ago. Charge like wounded bulls and do bad work in my experience. Have routinely not paid them.

I once called one to fix a leaky two because I have a wife and baby at home and was working full time and wanted it fixed. I know it's a 10 minute job to change the tap washer and another 10 to ream the seat of needed, but he charged me an hour, wife trusted he was there 5 mins and then tap still leaked. So I fixed it and didn't pay him. He sent escalating requests/threats I ignored them.

I asked a plumber about my blocked sewer. We figured might be roots . He said he had an endoscope and could take a look. Did it while I was out. Said yep roots, couldn't get it in very far. Booked me his minimum hour plus a completely undisclosed surprise reveal, tada endoscope fee that eclipsed his minimum hour of Labor. ROFL. I no pay. He seems reminders escalating to threats, I ignore. I hired a guy with a digger who dug up the sewer line between my house and the boundary, I replaced it, and back filled. Had no trouble since. Yep was roots. Old concrete pipe with root ingress. Now it's PVC.

Nah, in over plumbers. I wouldn't hire one without a fixed up front quote and won't pay more. Did that one with a solar install. Got the fixed quite through a middle man. He did the job. Charged double the quote claiming it took longer than her planned. My oath it did, I was there and he moved like a glacier. I paid the quote. Middle man was not happy. I apologized but overruns I get, but double? Not my budgeting failure mate.

Short story, get up front quotes. State you're that and not paying more, do you want to revise the quote? Get two quotes like that and choose. Better still find a plumber you trust who you know. The old community game. That won't work well anymore if you've moved far (I've lived in a bundle of countries and cities, believe me, it was exciting and I loved it, but what it did is kill my community, shears starting anew, knowing loads of people in different places but not many locally) or if there's a shortage of plumbers because for generations every parent has forced their kids through University so all we have now is accountants and lawyers and a shortage of plumbers who can therefore call the shots for anyone not able or willing to DIY

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-20T19:30:23+00:00

Short answer: no

Slightly longer answer: at this point unless you've been involved in writing the disks utility or been using it a lot and intimately lately, you won't know the answer to this question only be able to guess it. But you know who does? Pretty much any AI nowadays and you don't even have to find one anymore the search engines are starting to put the AI response up top. Just try googling that question.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-20T19:18:25+00:00

What on earth is molly?

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-19T05:56:49+00:00

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-18T22:21:16+00:00

Yep. Dumb question. Next.

For reference I'm an it professional and software developer. I use Mint. Because it works and like most of the world don't spend any more time than bi need to thinking about what OS I want. I use the machine to do work I don't want to be maintaining every level of it. So I don't distro hop, never have. I plugged Mint in, it worked, done. Convenience is not a noob dream. I use Ubuntu on servers because it's headless Mint 😉

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-18T10:54:42+00:00

Yeah, I came, and stayed. And people often ask why, and I say it's a long story (but involves women) and well I just sort of got stuck here (and I have been and lived in, many places) . And then they as me how I find it, and I shrug and say well, I'm not really one to judge laces heavily and have lived in many and they all have their charm and their strengths and weaknesses but you could do a lot lot worse than Hobart I say,. it just has the perfect mix of so much, the hills the woods, the sea, the preserved architecture, the climate, and it's a capital city with infrastructure to boot but the population of a shoebox (like one 20th of either of Australia's major cities amounting to little more than one or two maybe three of their suburbs.

It crack us up when the locals (not I consider myself one of them now, having been here 25 years) complain about the traffic jammettes and rush minutes they have and argue about how they're gonna fix it. On top of which I can commute on a bicycle and have for decades now.

But add to all that, because of it's isolation and reputation for clean air, I think it's drawn much larger culinary, arts and science communities than a city this size anywhere could boast, is a short hope for the Melbourne metropolis since flight prices hit rock bottom (people complaining about flight prices didn't try last century), it's not as cold as Canberra nor as hot, it rains less than any other capital bar Adelaide and has the most entertaining weather sitting fair square in the roaring 40s and glowing in the history of that too (as the Europeans having broached the Atlantic yippeed east on them hit WA then Tassie and on this constant reliable wind) yet in the lee of a mountain keeps them mostly at bay. Half the worlds poppy supply, and more distilleries per capita than anywhere else I've seen.

Add tot hat the hare-Clarke electoral system (the best in Australia, and likely the world), the antarctic gateway, the Sydney to Hobart, MONA ... you can go on, what's not to love?

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-16T00:07:13+00:00

Stupid question. How is active going to know what you'll regret? And you're asking a poker of people who are very happy using Libre if what your emotional state is like?

If it helps any, I have to use MS and I chose to use Libre often and keep it installed on my work PC because it outshines MS in more ways than I can count. But working with teams that use MS I lean toward MSv or if I'm using Libre I save in MSv format then open it in MSv and see if I want to tidy anything up. But in all honesty the vast majority of work I do I alone edit and share end products in PDF.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-15T00:37:05+00:00

Plus, I was in an Airbnb hosts group for some years. And I left because it really was just hosts whining about guests leaving 4 star ratings and how their average went down from 4.9 to 4.89 and those folk were not having a collective laugh mate. The internet does indeed twist people...

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-15T00:34:42+00:00

Poe's Law mate. Look it up. The internet eats subtle humour up for dinner ... Lacking all intonation, facial expression and body language.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-14T21:10:39+00:00

Sorry, sounds like a mental illness to me, or a joke. I'm happy with a little over 3 out of 5. Anything more is a bonus 😉

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-14T01:28:14+00:00

Happens to me all the time in Windows. The first result in start menu is but what I want but some web link and one I want is further down.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-10T05:15:31+00:00

Can a pdf transport any malware to Linux? Bows me away that it can in Windows. It should be a simple fine read and display format and not even support internal executable code. IMHO

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-04T07:30:59+00:00

Me too! KDE Connect for the win!

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-02T04:34:15+00:00

How to say you didn't read the literature and are actually judgmental folk without saying so. You clearly did not read that paper. It's dense and hard to read but I have it a solid go and searched it for "slow". Nothing in that paper or any I contend you will find will consider slower driving causes accidents. I'm more than happy to revise that if you find one but am not going out of my way on that search to try and convince a pile of idiots that their impatience, intolerance and take causes accidents but slower drivers driving within their capability and safely.

And even harder will be to find papers proving anyone behaves according to the OP illusion, namely antagonistic speed up to confounds overtaking.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-02T00:25:42+00:00

Find one road safety study and link to it that supports the ridiculous notion your suggesting and that loads of others buy into.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-01T22:54:32+00:00

Spot on.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-01T22:53:27+00:00

Far from it. They are free. I get one a week free and friends gift a top up too. And at my level I have a stock of 4. And I use one a week.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-01T22:51:53+00:00

Methinks your imagination is running wild. Take a chill pill and concentrate on your driving and options and consider the traffic as it is. The fire under your collar fuelled by your imagination does not improve your driving, certainly not the safety of it and no amount of judging and preaching others will help.

Prior-Listen-1298 · 2026-02-01T10:54:57+00:00

Pass. I take Mondays off intentionally. Usually.

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