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I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

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[–] [email protected] 246 points 7 months ago (30 children)

Reddit death > installing mint on my second PC > realising I can run most of the games I play and installing mint on my main PC > start learning Rust as a first foray into programming in a long time > realise I want to go back to uni and study info tech to get out of my shitty marketing job > get a shitty second hand laptop off my parents that struggles to run windows and install endeavourOS to try something different.

It really is a slippery slope. When does it end???

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

would you like to try some fish?

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