okay, I installed Mint with root and swap mounted to my SSD and home mounted to my big drive and now I feel incredibly smart ✨:lucario:​✨

it is frighteningly responsive and fast

steam wouldn't start after installing and instead of panicking I ran it from a terminal and notice it couldn't find fonts and apt install'd them myself and now it works and I feel like a fucking god

the terminal is not scary

it is my friend (whom I respect)

update: basically every Windows app I used has a great functional Linux version

not to mention Mint handles my Switch-audio-to-line-in setup SO much more simple and straightforward than Windows did

Also love the built in super-fast region and window capturing, no ShareX needed

hell my Switch audio setup sounds 5x better than it ever did in Windows because I can actually see information in front of me re: line gain instead of 5 ambiguous independent volume bars

it's so fun to learn!! i'm learning!!!

bark!!!! :lucario:

I've been legit absorbed in this all day and now I'm -starving- oh my god

It's so satisfying how quickly and thoroughly things can be removed and reinstalled with a just a quick couple terminal commands

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@ShugoWah don't do this, but one of the more amusing ones is... I think `dd /dev/urandom /dev/dspkr`

this just sends random data to the speakers (and bypasses all volume controls, hence why I say not to do this)

@monorail @ShugoWah oh, I guess there's been some restructuring of things since the time that command was made?

@Felthry @ShugoWah `dd` requires you to prefix the input file and output files with `if=` and `of=`, respectively (unless you're using stdin/stdout)

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