I'm an educator, and my Windows PC crashed during my first period class.

I had a cinnamon mint USB drive in my bag. I booted to it, and it saved the day!

I don't have anybody to tell just how much of a godsend that was, but I figured you guys might appreciate it!

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I’ve been on a straight Linux laptop for a while now. So far, the one major issue is getting Scrivener to work. Everything else is fine.

Minor self tech support getting Calibre loaded. And working GOG games (pathfinder) onto the machine. As an IT noob though, it’s not bad. I liken it to suddenly learning browsers and the internet alongside windows back on the 90s, in terms of difficulty. Steam games are a click and go so far.

Granted I bought an S76, so I’m starting with a base that is supposed to work right out of the box. It mostly does.

The most major hiccup is mods for games. My partner is still into DDO, for example, but needs a windows partition to run his favorite mod.

My only issue is fan noise. So I just use the Sony corded headset and it works. Yeah, I know, but they’re the industry standard for sound and purchased before the shitstorm re ownership of games.

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