So, we essentially need a non evil company to put together a curated distro, with a solid wine solution for most windows shit, something businesses can trust for their day to day, and then people, being familiar with their work linux would come over to the light side of the force at home.

Seteam OS for non-gamers?

Because I may like it better? No harm in trying something different. I always have Mint to fall back to. You could call it slow cycle distro hopping :)

Wine is still kind of a thing, as in it’s what is underneath Proton, the base.

I’ve used mint for ages. Most flavors, and tried most DEs. I use Mint in my laptop currently.

It’s like jeans. You can wear them for ages, for most every situations, but at some point you may decide to give chinos a try. Also comfortable, versatile, but different.

I was thinking Q, Suse Q.

Interesting.

From what I see, Snapper is similar, at least in concept, to Timeshift in Mint, which has saved my ass a couple times.

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I still don’t understand why Ukraine isn’t building V1 style buzzbombs with modern navigation systems. Cheap as fuck, long range, easily manufactured in massive scale. Pulse jet engines are so cheap, tha RC enthusiasts use them.

Makes sense.

I didn’t say I don’t have scouring pads, just that the main tool is the brush.

Try sesame Street. It’s very visual, and surprisingly cute for adults

I used to recommend Mint with Timeshift. Timeshift has saved my ass (or has made fixing stuff way easier) a couple of times. Now my go to is Aurora.

I believe that immutable distros are a game changer (god I hate this expression) for nebws.

So, Americans will pay a 15% tax, while not getting those manufacturing jobs.

I’m using a dish brush as much as possible now. If you must use scouring pads, use 3M scotch brand. They last way longer than other brands, so less waste.

I also use a brush as much as possible. When replacement time comes, I will get bamboo brushes.

Nice life pro tip! Thanks.

I’m tri-lingual, and can make myself understood for basic stuff and can generally get the gist in 3 more. I learned English by immersion in my teens, probably the ideal age. When I arrived in America, beginning of summer, I joined all youth summer activities available in town; baseball, archery, joined a Scout group, etc. I made friends and was interacting in English constantly. By School start, I was placed in regular classes. My sister didn’t do these things and was placed in many English for learners classes, with foreign students. I speak much better than her.

Also, I watched Sesame Street, Mr Roger’s, and other children’s shows

My kids have not lived in an English speaking country, but game in English, watch all media in English, with subtitles in English, and attended bi-lingual schools. I spoke in English with them a lot while they were growing up. They speak very good English, with my daughter having EU C2 level, the highest official level in a foreign language.

Watching foreign media, with subtitles in that language, including children’s shows, reading foreign news and stuff, etc. helps a lot.

Also, in many areas there are foreign language oriented Meetups.

A bit reckless giving advice, aren’t we?

We don’t know if OP has personal data in the windows drive, or copies thereof, and yet, you write:

If you plan to switch over all at once, during the install, tell Linux to use the entire drive (ie, do a full format). That will completely remove Windows during the install.

Also:

If you are going to dual boot, don’t dual boot on a single drive. Windows likes to fuck with other things on the same drive as it, including other Windows installs.

Would you please enlighten me about why you shouldn’t dual boot on a single drive? I, and millions of others have been happily doing it for decades. As a matter of fact I’m willing to bet some money that that’s precisely the most common desktop setup in the world for Linux. The major caveat is that sometimes Windows upgrades/updates won’t respect your dual boot setup, which is usually trivial to fix.

This was making me wet, until I checked the price… for a kit!

Granted, it’s open source, but it looks like sourcing the BOM would be quite a bit of work.

The Maslow, which is entirely autonomous, cost less. The downside is the space required. The Compass is the winner in the space required department, but 500$ ?