NightFantom

Oh yeah I just found it amusing that the old “unreliable” thing is now being used as a gauge for “reliable enough”

I luckily have no experience with either breaking for me over 15ish years of active computer usage, so I have no fears or trust issues there yet. I also use cloud saves on steam for everything and I’m lucky enough to live in an area with good internet, so worst case I play a different game while my big game is downloading again after I broke something.

I remember people saying that about SSDs vs HDDs, SSDs were the unreliable newfangled junk. Am I old?

For me the biggest leap was letting go of my local settings. My kubuntu has about everything I want out of the box, then I install zsh with omz and I’m pretty much done.

So whenever I break something it’s an easy fresh install.

My data (steam games, code) is in a separate drive, and especially with cloud saves / git everything is available even if I were to break that drive (would just suck to remember which things I need to redownload from where).

So that helped me release my tinkering spirit as much as I wanted, and while I’m far from a Linux guru, I’ve definitely learned a lot from that.

Edit: not to say that I don’t try to fix things, just knowing that I can easily restart is the main thing.

Interesting, I put linux on my work laptop and I always get hours more out of it than my colleagues using windows. And I’m the type of guy having 200 tabs open and carrying extra peripherals around which probably also take some power.

Anyway ymmv of course