And good news, Nvidia seems to have more or less fixed the second one a few months ago.

I still can’t believe they got that one past the censors.

You could just do a live install on a USB, and you don’t even have to install to your machine to try it out. Debian has live installs available for both KDE and Gnome and should be perfectly fine for just checking out the DE (and most distros have a live option, check to see if your preferred distro does), just know that it will be slow and you won’t see that in a proper installation.

Edit: just saw further down thread, Mint can do a live USB but you’ll probably just want Cinnamon with that. Bazzite does not have a live boot, and from my cursory glance at possibly running both DEs it seemed to be a bit more of a headache on Bazzite than other distros. Trying Gnome on a Debian live install will at least tell you if you like Gnome.

Ooh, I’m a brain dead idiot, are your clients hiring?

I think the year of the Linux desktop is imminent, assuming you consider Chrome OS Linux. :/

Sure, but 10 was worse than 7, especially current 10. Six months ago or so, I booted up an e-waste laptop I had that was still running a very old version of 10 and seeing it running next to current Windows 10… it’s gotten so bad. I’ve never actually used 11, 10 got so bad I jumped ship early.

They’re cheaper, and they seem to have been pushed heavily to kids in school though loaner laptops. Some decent percentage of new college students already know how to use ChromeOS and they’re broke college students…

Apple kinda did something similar when I was a kid, they gave a bunch of iMacs to my elementary school, and because they came from families that could afford it, they just kept using Apple products.

I’d look up and memorize winning lottery numbers, then teleport back two weeks ago. (4-d space!) And then I’d just buy a lotto ticket and chill until my past self becomes my current self, but with lottery money.