Ok, dad.

When someone points out something I normally care very strongly about, but also absolutely can’t do anything, my reaction is brief euphoria, including giggling sometimes.

This makes it so that I sometimes giggle at inappropriate times.

Basically, just hearing about the situation charges me up to do something about it, but that tension is released before I can do anything, because it’s literally impossible to do something. This is the same psychological mechanism that powers most jokes, it just isn’t triggered as often by real events, because real events aren’t engineered to “hit right.”

You can do Linux if your situation meets these criteria:

• your hardware is supported. it likely is, but check. Usually running a live usb is sufficient.
• The proprietary software you want to run is supported in some stable way - like, platinum steam support, or the developer supports and intends to continue supporting Linux. do dual boot temporarily and make absolutely sure.
• you are psychologically capable of declining to try to fix everything. While Linux just works for me, I’ve learned to recognize escalating effort in getting some new cool piece of software or hardware to work. wait until what you want is at least in beta. aside from that, it’s just not supported. Don’t frozzle the frimfram as /u/linuxminordeity told you to, because after that, you’ll have to bidnap the uperpon. …and on and on. just accept that people are working on it and it’s not ready. contribute somehow, if you feel like it. but accept. If it can’t be installed through typical channels (website package for linux, the repositories, or flatpak) it just doesn’t work.

tbh, it sounds like you don’t want to have to think about and test it. …and if that’s true, then you shouldn’t be switching operating systems if you can reasonably avoid it.

-bro, but yeah, good point.

yeah. poorly worded.

yeah, that was ambiguously worded.

Grow up. he did.

he has. people just prefer to go on judging. how you supposed to feel good about yourself if the people you hate for hating stopped hating?

then don’t ask questions you can find out in other comments.

because people like things.

maybe read the headline and the comments, but only like 30% before i react. I guess 75% for the headline maybe.

i get it, and don’t mind seeing him these days, but I don’t seek him out.

so much better

If you don’t let people make mistakes, change, and grow, you’re living a petty, sad life.

they’re responding to other comments, like about Pewdiepie being a nazi.

shrug

good point.

it’s not the dislike, it’s that you frame it as though your distaste were the truth, as opposed to framing it as an opinion.

Although, a windows update may nuke this, and require reinstalling bootloader/keys.

Congrats, you know how to dislike something and blame others for your dislike! You’re on your way to True Narcissism! 💫