Okay, so my airing of grievances post had some issues.

So, lets swap it up:

What events are you looking forward to in 2026?

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    All of them! I have Ubuntu 24LTS on my desktop, prepping Mint for a utility machine, testing Manjaro and Endeavor in VMs, not sure what distro I will move my laptop to yet.

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      <Insert highly subjective complaint about choice of distro here>

      Either way, another soul saved. Great to have you on board!

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        I still have Azure certs, and Microsoft is still my job. But… if I can make my job moving others off Microsoft, many souls can be saved.

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          Oh, in that case, and considering the list of devices you’re updating, you might be interested in putting Linux From Scratch on one of the disposable devices:

          https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

          I wouldn’t run it as my main driver, but it’s a book that steps you through each package to manually compile until you have a fully working system. It’s pretty error prone but along the way you learn how most of the pieces fit together. It’s probably still a bit much for now but I thought I’d mention it

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      Ubuntu 24.04 is doing well for me. I use the cinnamon flavor. Switch the scheduler to performance, before that with multiple apps open while gaming there was stuttering it the CPU load was below a certain amount (Ryzen 5800X). After switching to performance all stuttering was gone.

      Liquorix Kernel is something else I am looking at utilizing since I also edit 4K 60FPS video on the same computer.

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        Not familiar enough with the differences. Plus I’ll learn it better if I have to figure out all the ways to do a task instead of just one. Nano or Emacs or Vim? KDE or Gnome? Too much to choose from! :)

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          Yeah, there’s plenty to get overwhelmed in. If the overhead becomes a bit, then any of them are probably good enough and either way you’ll work out what you like

          A friend of mine did something that might work for you: he used genAI as a linux tutor. It’s one of the better use cases I’ve heard for it, if you’re not ethically opposed. Just make sure to double check something more official before you run a command and accidentally destroy something