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When I can't sleep, I turn around and sleep "upside down" - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.

Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let's put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.

What are your own examples of this?

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Windows really hasn't been the "it just works" option for a while. It's just the option that you've gotten used to the bullshit to make it work. For example, the install process for every Linux distro I've tried is far simpler than the insane install process for Windows.

Like others have said though, you're using the wrong distros for your hardware, without some manual work. I'd recommend CachyOS or Garuda Dragonized, as they're made for gaming. They're both Arch based, but they include everything you need out-of-the-box, so you really don't need to put any effort into setting things up, only customizing it after.

One key thing with switching though is recognizing that you aren't on Windows anymore. If you switch expecting it to be Windows then you'll hate it. You need to go in with the same attitude you hade when you learned Windows (which you probably don't remember). It's something new. You have to accept that you have to learn how to use it.