me: restarting for updates is such a hassle, i wish windows could just apply them without that

them: restarting isn't so bad

me (with 6 desktops, each with entire running environments, vms, separate creative tools in the middle of projects which take minutes to even start up, and a mountain of carefully curated and placed browser/file manager/terminal windows set up to research and work on something in specific): i guess

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oh! if you thought this was an exaggeration, i also have 3 monitors, so the problem is actually worse than you might think!

my current desktops are:

1: lisp things! currently with fennel and scheme shenanigans, possibly seeing how to interop fennel with ruby, and seeing what problems would arise if i removed the global namespace mangler in fennel
2: researching/maybe eventually fixing kiwix-android, the thing that lets you download wikipedia, since it can't open its packaged local files. also kotlin
3: japanese practice, and rom digging
4: my work-work
5: my vm that i host docker things from and test linux contributions. also long-running tunnels and monitors
6: plan 9 research and attempting to figure out how to get various things working on my dedicated plan 9 pi and researching kernel things (kinda empty rn though)

i'm ignoring a lot of other things i have on each desktop, and the meaning of these desktop changes as i start drawing or composing music, or doing more messing around with various projects that interest me

there is also a WSL component underneath all of this that isn't immediately apparent

this is typically how i linux, and i guess i'm just determined to treat windows like a linux by any means necessary

(glances at my phone that's half termux scripts at this point) i'm sure this is shocking information

is "forces everything they own to be linux" a personality?

because if it is, i might need to reevaluate some things

@thingywott yeah idk if anyone's told you but the way you use computers is kinda cursed

@thingywott I enjoy being able to shut down my computers at night

@noiob seems like a handy thing to be able to do!

i typically run my desktop system perpetually because i use it pretty extensively through ssh when i'm not physically around

also, have i mentioned that i run approximately everything on the planet at the same time because my brain jumps between hyperfixations a lot?

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