Just dive in head first. You will likely find things you miss about windows but if you give Linux a fair chance I promise you in the end it pays off.

My switch was first a dual boot but I quickly realized I was rarely booting into windows and eventually just formatted the drive to purge all Microsoft from my system.

These days even games only built for windows run just finez if not better than Linux.

LibreOffice is great alternative to MSOffice and most other windows software will run with some form of wine (wine is not a windows emulator).

Freedom isn’t free. But it sure as heck is worth the extra steps to get there.

Linux Mint is a great starter Distro.

Ubuntu, and I’ve been using it for 10 years without trying anything else until this week, I use arch now.

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Lol yeah, what is their release schedule like? Any speculation on when 13 is coming out?

I just assumed Ubuntu releases were based off of Debian.

As someone who has been using Ubuntu for 10 years, I am sad that I don’t know more about the intricacies of Linux.

I know more than I did 10 years ago… But probably would really be uncomfortable running arch.

I think I will install Debian 24.04 as my desktop (daily driver) this year and be done with Ubuntu. Hopefully I learn some more and eventually try out Arch on my laptop.

Agreed 100%.

Also Assange is a whistleblower and is in jail for it… Sad.

Lol OK buddy, I went to school for this and worked in a power plant.

I concede that it is exponential and not logarithmic, but the original statement of yours “loses its harm exponentially” is what got us going down this tangent. I think that statement is misleading, because the truth is that the waste loses its harm exponentially slower as time goes on.

Exponential decay is not the same as “exponentially losing its harm”

It very slowly “loses its harm” and as time progresses, it gets even slower.

The inverse of an exponential function is still an exponential function.

This link shows that the number of nuclides decreases at a slower rate as time goes on. Opposite of an exponential function.

As time progresses the rate at which the nuclear waste decays into innert matter is slower and slower. This is not at all an exponential rate.

So I don’t think it’s correct to say “loses its harm exponentially.”

It “loses its harm” more slowly as time goes on

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-physics/chapter/31-5-half-life-and-activity/

Dang that’s scary. The user would need ssh access to the container for this to work, right?

I could be wrong but I thought rate of decay was a logarithmic function, not exponential.

The problem with nuclear is nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is stored in barrels in caves and buried. It remains radioactive for thousands of years. By creating nuclear waste we are forcing 100 generations after us to live with this nuclear waste. I don’t know all the details but they say it’s “safe.”

Hard to believe how safe something can be from an inconvenient earthquake or terrorist attack.

That’s a cat who knows his networks