TabbsTheBat (they/them)

A side hop if anything :3 I wouldn’t count secondary devices as distro hopping, especially something like the steamdeck, but I suppose someone might

Speaking of steamdecks tho, I’ve thought about picking one up. I just wish I travelled more to actually be able to justify the price lol. It’s a cool piece of kit

I started on pop!_os and now 6 years later im on… pop!_os

Yeah, I didn’t really do any distro hopping :p. Though I’ve tried a bunch of distros in VMs

If I ever meet them in the wild I’ll suggest they try nixOS x3

Im very aware =w= I just got tired of putting on with it, especially with the way they were treating me like on call tech support expecting me to forego my plans or use my free time to assist with whatever, whenever

At some point even if you know why someone acts they way they do, you just have to throw in the towel and look out for your own health

They were on mint lol. They just wanted to do a bunch of random specific stuff like transferring their entire setup from one drive to another, and then transfer the windows to a drive their linux was on, or installing windows apps that require pretty specific setups (which usually had install scripts made for them, but even reading the guide to how to run those was something they were struggling to do) etc.

I mean, I did mention a lot of alternative solutions and all that, but they weren’t always accepted

That person was in fact an LLM user. And I do believe it was specifically chatGPT =w=

I actually blocked someone over something like this =w=

An ex friend that kept bothering me for linux help, and would refuse to look at or read any source. Literally got so annoyed of them asking something, me telling them what to do, telling them the tools that can do it, and even linking sources that explain the tools, and they still message me with some rudimentary thing that’s literally in the first paragraph of the step by step guide breaking down each argument etc.

Some people just don’t want to try or be competent, they just want to shout “I don’t know computers” and make you read out the same steps you just sent them

I use VLC. I have no real reason for choosing it other than knowing it since I was a kid, and it doing the job I need perfectly fine so far