I swear, I can't tell the difference between AI answers and the shit people make up with inspect element for the memes anymore.

I personally use Matrix. I haven't gotten very far into using it but it does have groups, text, calls, and encrypted messaging so I'd say check it out.

Yeah, I got mine for 98 cents a can. Highest price I've seen is like two bucks.

Element. It's a popular client for Matrix, which is a federated messaging platform (similar to lemmy and mastodon) with different instances.

Hm interesting. Looking up "1940s solingen pocket knife" gives me some results with either similar profiles or similar grips to the one I have. Nothing identical but it's a good start. Thank you!

Thankfully I'm a bit more aware of things than that. I have multiple pocket knives already but they're all modern while this is distinctly not. I perhaps could have been more descriptive haha

I celebrate Christmas (not as festive as some people but still) but I generally am apathetic to Christmas music at best. That being said, Carol of the Bells by Transiberian Orchestra still kicks ass and I would say it is the one Christmas song that I would actively and willingly listen to.

I'm not sure which programs you're using so hopefully something here can help but here's some stuff I've read/done:

• For MS Office, I believe you can just use it in your web browser or use LibreOffice as an alternative.
• If you use anything Adobe-based, you'll probably have to keep a Windows partition around or find an alternative. I haven't seen anything for running Adobe in WINE or WINE-based tools and I'm not sure if Adobe functions in a virtual machine or not.
• Most gaming-related issues can be dealt with via Proton (Steam's compatibility tool). I've successfully gotten just about every game I play to run in Proton, with the only issues being EA's launcher (the game still launches though).

If you have any specific programs that you have questions about, feel free to ask. Hope this helps!

I've been using Mint for a few months now after initially trying Fedora and Kubuntu. Mint has been by far my favorite experience and I've even gotten a few people converted to Linux via Mint. Definitely my recommendation for any Linux newbies.

It makes a copy of your entire system automatically (and your home folder if you want it to) so, in the event that you break something and can't/don't want to fix it, you can go back to your most recent back-up from before you messed your system up. I've had to use it a few times because I installed some drivers for my drawing tablet that broke more than they fixed and I didn't want to deal with the pain in the ass of removing them and all of the dependencies they installed.

As someone who switched to Linux primarily because of Windows 11's never ending BS (bugs, resource mismanagement, etc) and the inevitably end of Windows 10, I can confirm that Windows 10 will be my last.

Right there with you. I've been living the plant milk life for years at this point and cow milk just tastes so... water-y for lack of a better explanation.