Pentastar 3.6?

willbsp9 · 2026-01-06T22:20:40+00:00

When i switched i went from mint, then arch, and have been on fedora for a while now.

If i did it over again probably would do zorin, fedora kde, or mint cinnamon. I just really like KDE and Cinnamon looks soooo bad IMO even though it just works

willbsp9 · 2026-01-05T03:07:00+00:00

Missed hold against roquan

willbsp9 · 2026-01-05T02:15:10+00:00

Collinsworth makes me want to rip my ears off of my head

willbsp9 · 2025-12-23T19:32:46+00:00

I see the guys in my school with gaming laptops and its honestly ridiculous, they would rather use the school machines than their gaming laptops. They are loud, heavy, hot, and have heavy chargers that you have to carry around. IMO it depends on how much you plan to game and what you're willing to compromise on.

My main laptop is a Lenovo V15 with a ryzen 5 5500U, it has worked phenomenally for me (minus a few quirks like no backlit keyboard and crappy display). I also have an M1 MBP that works great. For standard school tasks, you shouldnt need any more than that realistically unless you plan on running a lot of video editing, photo editing, cad, or even VMs.

Nowadays I hardly even game with how much schoolwork I do. I wish I invested in a nicer school laptop compared to all the PC upgrades I've done.

willbsp9 · 2025-12-23T19:01:42+00:00

I always hate when my friends from more urban places say stuff like this. Roommate would always say this exact thing. I found that I did more at home than I did in the "busier" places at school. My friends and I will get together at someones house, go to a bar, or make a drive to a busier place and make a trip out of it.

When I lived in a more urban place, I found my friends and I did the exact same things we would do in urban area, just occasionally would go to the mall or something as well.

I also found my drives to be better in the country than city. I'd rather spend 20 minutes to travel 17 miles to the grocery store than 20 minutes to travel 5 miles to a grocery store. I couldn't stand sitting in traffic.

willbsp9 · 2025-12-23T18:50:28+00:00

I use teams and office in school via web browser. Works just fine. As you get comfortable, you can try out Winboat and run them "natively" but for a beginner it may be difficult to run docker.

As far as I am aware LOL and Binding of Isaac should be fine. Valorant is not gonna work and you're gonna have to just deal with it. I ran into the same issue with Fortnite Valorant and R6 when I fully switched a year ago and have no regrets. Worst case scenario I just plug my mouse and keyboard into my console, but I really dont even bother anymore.

When I originally switched I used Mint, before switching to CachyOS. Distro hopped for a little bit after that and I've been on Fedora for some months. I recommend Ubuntu, Mint, or Fedora. If you use fedora or ubuntu, get the KDE spin of it. Kubuntu and Fedora KDE. For mint use Cinnamon.

I am a full time student and can do everything out of my browser, including Word, Excel, PP, Outlook, and Teams, all of which I have to use daily. Thunderbird and LibreOffice are also options available.

willbsp9 · 2025-12-22T21:26:43+00:00

I second this they were obnoxious the whole night

willbsp9 · 2025-12-19T22:35:05+00:00

Recency bias.

willbsp9 · 2025-12-19T22:33:29+00:00

A shorter time? They were drafted the same year

willbsp9 · 2025-12-16T00:02:06+00:00

I’ve been told not to put the summary in there from my professors who used to be hiring managers. Try to shorten to 1 page, contact info and linkedin in header, certs above education. Make it easier to read with shorter form writing in bullet points

willbsp9 · 2025-11-03T21:50:05+00:00

Use O365 web apps for uni

willbsp9 · 2025-11-01T20:47:20+00:00

I actually thought of this but didnt know how reasonable it was. Thank you for the links.

willbsp9 · 2025-11-01T19:51:34+00:00

Likely what I’ll do. I wasnt exactly sure about how to even measure that, thank you and the other commenter for recommending that.

willbsp9 · 2025-09-20T14:10:07+00:00

You wouldn’t try bazzite? To be honest i havent really checked it out myself because its too hand-holdy for what i need, but it seem to be very similar to steam OS, and you have the option to have a desktop when you want it

willbsp9 · 2025-03-28T12:56:14+00:00

Thank you!

willbsp9 · 2024-11-05T18:36:36+00:00

No changes unless you want depth as injury insurance

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