[img; homer gasps and says oh, not souter]

winner gets to read the credits in a style of my choosing

alt: a man slides up from the crowd of people and happily exclaims but she's got a new hat and the crowd pushes forward

caveat; i've used linux in the best from debian to fedora to ubuntu to redhat on servers but this is the first time i want to actually switch to using it on my laptop because win11 is increasingly bad but also because i love it.

i'm just lost as to where to start. i'm currently looking at laptopwithlinux.com, system76.com, and thinkbooks. a lot of them come with specific distros, though i'm much more partial to debian than ubuntu. is it generally able to switch between a different one without too much hassle?

i also have an hp envy; https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/5818425?baseline=5818425 is it wise to get rid of windows and just install linux on it?

i know some hardware but i'm not an EXPERT (with drivers and such)

any thoughts? hopefully this is an alright community for this question; it was the closest community when searching that i could find that seemed like it fit.

alt text: linux terminal output showing the following text:

"command 'sudosu' not found, did you mean: command 'sudoku' from deb sudoku (1.0.5-2.1) try: sudo apt install "

Is there any downside to leaving something seeding indefinitely? Typically I just leave all my torrents seeding whenever I'm done 24/7 (whenever the VPN is on) but is there any detrimental issues to seeding too much?

It doesn't bother me I was just curious if there was ever a such thing as too much seeding since I have like 20+ things seeding and maybe one thing downloading.

Speed isn't an issue since I have gigabit internet.

trigger warning obvs

Death in Bangor: Report from Boston in 1984 about the death of Charlie Howard and a look at anti gay politics

It's wild how much today's anti trans hate and politics mirrors this. :(

🎶 Sanford and Son theme plays 🎶

so that i can finally get rid of meta :3