Good shit. Hopefully you backed up anything important before the switch. Generally good to have backups anyway and use the 321 rule to never lose anything. That’s three copies, two different media (hdd & DVD / cloud), and one copy off sight. Although that may be a little excessive for everyone but it will ensure you never lose anything important.

I usually suggest people shop around / distro hop a little. Get a USB, install ventoy, download a few iso’s and try a few different distros on their live boot. There are a lot of different paradigms for a distro, different user interfaces, different kernel compilations, proprietary driver options, audio driver options, package management options and so on.

That said for someone new it is literally just easier to use a more widely used or common distro, usually there’s better wikis and active forums and it’s more likely someone has already had whatever issue you’re having when trying to fix something. I usually suggest Fedora or Linux mint (lmde). Although with flatpaks and immutable OS’s things are getting easier, more copy paste if you will.

Not from Australia, there’s a season for chorizo?

Remember, support FOSS and not E-corps

Switch to another OS and 256mb of ram is enough. If you really want like 32mb of ram is enough.

Obligatory, here’s your sign to switch to Linux. For people who do nearly everything or everything online it’s a pretty easy switch.

Yeah it’s just unfortunate market timing with the hardware shortages

I’m still on the side of treating AI development with more caution than less. So depending where you live this could be a very good thing or a very bad thing in the long haul.

Depending on where you live it’s a good thing or a very bad thing.

I support their ethos but also can’t justify the purchase.

Yes I’m aware of his story. The Canadian company named themselves such because they were stealing Tesla’s (Elon musk’s company) idea for the electric semi namely because they never delivered and the guy really wanted one so figured he may as well make one himself. They seem like a pretty decent company, although very small.

Is your issue with the man or the company? I actually don’t know much about Edison trucks beyond that they exist.

You know what kills a lot of people? A collapse of the biosphere.

Sounds like it’s your chance to pull an Edison (like the Canadian Edison semi trucks).

Maybe not a minivan but I’m pretty sure you can configure this with a lot more seats for not too much more and that’s until after market parts become a thing.

Not much of a turnaround on plastic, but worth a shot I guess.

Yeah gimp has always been on like this cusp of being really good. I’m not sure if it needs to be forked or a full rewrite or just more funding. I know the biggest complaint has been the transition although that’s a tough egg to crack. It shouldn’t be a Photoshop clone but also not so dissimilar from industry norms.

Yeah it’s definitely in the range of just building a box and installing steam OS, maybe even of buying a pre-built and installing steam OS, that said I still find their efforts very commendable. I know they wanted to be cheaper but it’s tough with the current hardware market.

Not saying you’re wrong but the Japanese market is a special place for gaming products. I wouldn’t necessarily project sales in Japan to the global market.

I would say Krita and blender are industry competitive but gimp has lagged behind. It’s usable but clearly not on a professional level yet. That said, if enough people started donating a fraction of what they pay to use Photoshop that this would change very rapidly.

If enough people started donating to FOSS like GIMP like a quarter or an eighth of what they pay for these E-corps I’m sure we could have industry competitive software that’s free and open source. Adobe has made their bed, they are ditching artists, essentially forcing them to give up their content to train their AI to change their business model to B2B. Now’s the time to revolt and have the community build their own tools for themselves.