Re: Linux penguin -- Best, comment, rage.

Two years ago my life was too simple, so I bought a refurbished ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA506IU
laptop from Best Buy. Exactly one second after the return-for-refund date had passed, my Windows V.whatever install crashed, and the laptop's recovery media was DOA. Naturally, I turned to Linux.

That has been interesting. Stability has been an issue. Nvidia chips too cutting edge perhaps...
I have had, over the last couple years, the unique learning opportunity of installing, in rapid succession, a very large number...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi all! I keep coming back to tech every decade or so, as my other ventures and initiatives complete or wind down. I started in tech in the 1970s, installing cable TV, maintaining broadcast/video gear, and lusting after the new computers in Popular Science and Byte Magazine. (What a great mag that was). I finally acquired my own in '85. It was a PCjr. Lame, but I could afford it. My infatuation with computers continued though an undergraduate degree in international relations, and I even tossed my hat into the import/export trade....