linux

For possible bragging rights - or to humble myself - I'll make some predictions about the pricing of the Steam Machine.

I got around to reinstalling Linux on the laptop. Sayonara, Manjaro. As I alluded to in the previous post, my usage was limited enough that Manjaro had been perfectly adequate and I had not run into any problems. But it wasn't shiny and new anymore.

Before I transitioned to Arch on my desktop, for about a year I was running Manjaro on a clapped out Microsoft Surface 1. I think I was trying different distros and Manjaro just worked nicely out of the box, so I stuck with it. I avoided most Manjaro-isms, no pamac, just used pacman directly. It

Early in the summer of 2025, I impulsively decided I would switch my primary OS from Windows to Linux. The inciting factor was, I believe, Windows mysteriously removing the date from under my clock, again.