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DS9 has better character chemistry than the other shows. It also has a solid mix of both serious and humorous episodes.

Plus they also got that polycule thing going on at that space station

Oh look, another episode of the suffering of Miles O’Brien

At least we missed the suffering of that time Miles O’Brien (and Defiant Crew) got trapped back in time on a planet unable to return to their families

Basically the district he’s in now issues iPads. All course work is done on them through a mix of Canvas, Google Docs, and some websites. We talked with the school and had a thing where he’d have to leave it there and check it out in the morning cause he couldn’t be trusted with it.

The teachers get frustrated by it too, but can’t do much. I was saying below the most the schools give them is a tool to spy on the kids screens, but the kids know they can just turn off Bluetooth to get around it.

I’m actually having to move school districts this year just to get him into one that isn’t shit like this. The one he was in was pretty low rated. Hoping he does better in a well rated district.

Man… coolmathgames.com and all the sites that would pop up to get around the school filters.

I also remember playing RuneScape in the lab, and passing around a flash drive with Halo CE on it.

But not like we had access to it all the damn time. You had to actually go to a computer lab or library for that shit.

Well the teachers can’t lock it down. Most they give the teachers is a way to peak on the kids screens via some app, but the kids have figured out all you gotta do is turn off Bluetooth to get around it.

The school on the other hand, I’ve bitched to them and their IT about it. Like Apple HAS good lockdown policies, and it’s not like they can’t just install Jampf or something of the like to really control it.

I was more a fan of Animaniacs.

Also wtf. Why did it go from Looney Tunes to Tiny Toons??

Saw the above and wondered why he spelled it Tunes, cause I thought it was Toons, looked it up, he’s right. Spelled Tiny Tunes above, then saw your comment and said the fuck, looked it up and sure enough. Confusing af.

That show was fucking wild.

90s got Tiny Toons 😭

That point in history where everything had to have a “baby” version

This has been a major problem for my kid. They don’t even lock down the iPads they issue so they just do whatever. So when my kid is failing classes because he’s not doing assignments in class and it turns out he’s just on YouTube all day, it’s like why the fuck are they even able to get on that in the first place? Doesn’t matter how tightly I restrict technology at home when his school just says fuck it.

Nah that show’s a classic

This guy commented a bit lower with pics of what you mentioned. They look pretty cool.

Miles O’Brien and Cardassian Engineering

What I’d recommend is getting a couple USB drives, download the distros you’re thinking of trying, boot into them, and just click around a bit to see how they feel. It’ll give you a chance to try out the desktop environments, like Gnome and Cosmic and see if you like them or not.

Little harder to compare the actual distro part without using it first and trying to set them up or do something with them like installing programs and updating. Unless you can spin up a virtual machine to try them out, but that might be harder for some if you don’t have the resources for it.

Fedora will be Fedora regardless of which backend you choose so it’ll have the same familiar commands, feel, and stability. Where the atomic versions of Fedora will differ is in how they handle updates and system changes.

Pop_OS! is based on Ubuntu, so where you were hearing about the popularity and ease of use of Ubuntu, you’ll find a similar feel with Pop, but with a lot of quality of life improvements. It’s got support for Nvidia drivers built in, which is big, and a lot of the bloat you were concerned about with Ubuntu has been stripped out. Since it’s based on Ubuntu you have access to everything that’s available to that widely supported platform.

Regarding Atomic updates, and immutable distros, it’s something to consider for sure if you aren’t confident, but there are some slight downsides (depending on your point of view) you should look at as well.

Since Atomic Updates keep copies of previous configs, you might see slightly more storage use.

Immutable distros focuses on making sure you can’t break things, and it does that by restricting access to system critical folders. That can be a very good thing, but it could also mean that there could be a time you run into trouble trying to change something you don’t have access to. This is just a hypothetical as I don’t know how you use your computer tho. It’s a trade off. You know how people joke about how Windows won’t let you delete a simple file, but Linux won’t blink if you tell it to delete critical folders provided you run the right command with permissions? Yeah, that’s kind of what immutables are stopping.

Here’s a couple articles you can read that go into Atomic Updates and Immutable Distros.

One distro you’ll hear come up a lot when talking about Atomic and Immutable is NixOS. It’s considered to be the best at what it does when it comes to those two features. But as I don’t know enough about it I can’t recommend it confidently. I will say tho that I’m probably going to take the plunge and flip over to it sometime in the near future. I’ve heard enough great things about it I’ve gotten interested in trying it out.

Last thing to note is when considering a new distro, another thing might help make you make a choice is to check out the wikis. Good documentation on how to do different things can make a world of difference to your experience with the OS. For example, I really love the CachyOS wiki because it just walks you through every step of setting it up and makes a number of solid recommendations for things you might want to change or enable. When something isn’t in their wiki, there’s the ever extensive Arch Wiki as well, tho the language in it goes up a couple steps so it wouldn’t be where I’d send a new user. For that matter I wouldn’t recommend an arch distro for a new user. While CachyOS is great, rolling releases probably isn’t what you want based on your use case.

Hope this helps!

Which book is this from? I don’t recognize the passage. Because of the rhyme my guess would be a Hobbit related novella, and because I hadn’t read those ones.

For starters if you are dual booting with Mac OSX you’ll need to use rEFInd Boot Manager. This is something you’ll usually be asked to select at install, so don’t sweat this part too much.

When you mention wanting a Mac like experience, I’d recommend going with Gnome Desktop. That’s going to have a familiar look and feel to you.

There is a custom flavor of Gnome called Cosmic by System76. It was designed for their distro Pop!_OS and has been very popular. Cosmic basically came about by System76 not being happy with how Gnome did some things that didn’t fit their needs.

Most distros (versions of Linux) will allow you to install whatever DE (Desktop Environment) you want.

As you mentioned Linux Mint comes up a lot, which ships with Cinnamon DE which is based on GNOME 3, but modified to look a little more traditional in the Windows sense of things. There is also an alternate version of Mint that ships with a custom version of MATE, a DE that is based on Gnome 2, but that may feel a bit dated to you.

Distros to consider:

Fedora - very well maintained and stable distro.

Offers Gnome (or other desktop environment of choice)

Offers Atomic options. Atomic or immutable distros are a newer thing that basically ensures there’s always a path to roll back on in case something gets messed up. There’s a bit to read here about all the benefits of this, but worth looking into.

Fedora Silverblue ships with Gnome and is atomic

Fedora Cosmic ships with Cosmic and is atomic

Pop!_OS by System76 is pretty popular and easy to get running. Popular with people looking for gaming, tho I know you mentioned you’re not doing that. Ships with Cosmic Desktop. Definitely worth a look into.