Possibly comes from experience with the shitty ones. I was involved in one for a now-defunct tech school I went to and all I got out of it was like $100. I didn’t have to put any time into it but that certainly didn’t make me whole.

Did you buy hardware with Linux pre-installed?

No, It’s not like there’s an abundance of options for this around. Especially if you want something with a graphics card and you want to lay hands on it first to make sure the construction isn’t shoddy. I just did a brief search for laptops with Linux on them and options were extremely limited. This is an unreasonable expectation to have as things stand.

Or is AutoCAD one of your everyday tasks?

Not every day but often. I’ve tried FreeCAD but it runs like ass on every system I’ve tried it on, and by ass I mean so slow it’s completely unusuable. I finished the entire design I was wanting to do in Fusion360 in the time it took to get a single rectangle sketched in FreeCAD last time I tried it.

We all have different definitions of “everyday”, but I haven’t had an issue web browsing on Linux in ages.

If web browsing is your only need then you can do that on a toaster. It’s not a good metric to suggest switching to Linux for most of the people looking to get off Windows. Another example of a recent problem I had was I couldn’t open pdfs off my network storage because the application didn’t understand the SMB in the path. Then there’s the fact that my secure boot enrollment randomly disappeared which somehow prevented it from booting regardless of if secureboot was on or not and I had to start from scratch with a new install just to get going again.

Garbage in, garbage out

Yeah it’s pretty frustrating to hear so many touting it as a replacement and then being met with hostility when you try to adopt it yourself and run into problems. Like I expect there to be some friction moving to a different system but when you’re hitting roadblocks every step of the way on what to you are everyday tasks in Windows it gets tiresome quick and I haven’t even tried to game on it yet.

Hopefully not all the way…

When Linux can actually do everything I want to do I’ll gladly stop using Windows. It’s not there yet and a lot of what it can do is still janky.

Fusion 360 is a big sticking point for me too. I tried FREECAD but it ran like ass on every system I’ve tried it on. I’m currently dual booting but windows already wiped the secure boot key once which rendered the Linux os unbootable somehow even after I turned off secure boot. That was like a week after setting it up. I hadn’t even got started on the laundry list of other shot I needed to get working on Linux.

No. We’re saying you should look inward and address your own short-comings and poor behaviors before looking to blame external sources for your issues. No one is saying anything about what men should listen to.

No one said that.

you don’t actually need community support outside of whatever actual social circle you [should] already have in life.

For me the interest was in having a group to talk with that was of the same mindset and knowing I wouldn’t have to deal with people complaining about their relationship issues or changing plans because of spouse/kids. Which is not something I have in life. I have individuals who I can talk with like that but if we get more than 3-4 of us together someone’s going to start bitching about relationship stuff.

Yeah though the vibe of that community was exactly as you described and not what I was looking for at all.

I remember being excited and thinking maybe I had found my people when I first heard about MGTOW thinking it would be dudes who realized maybe dating wasn’t for them and instead were just focusing on improving themselves. Then I looked at their subreddit and no, just a shitton of misogyny.

The bigger worry for me is that it seems a larger and larger amount of men are unable to sympathize with others.

Not unable, unwilling. It requires them to be ‘weak’ and concede that they may be part of the problem. I say this as a man that had to work through some of this shit when I was young.

Skinny 5’3 guy here. I’ve had that experience buying pants. “Maybe you’ll find something in the kids’ section”.

I hated them as a kid because they were uncomfortable and didn’t fit right. My mom made is wear it but I used to put the chest belt behind my back as soon as she turned around because it dug into my neck. I probably should have been in a car seat for way longer than I was. As an adult I don’t even notice it.

Tesla: LOL our CEO owns the president.

Excel is one of the few things copilot has actually been able to help me with. Apparantly microsofts shitty programs understand each other.

Not if they can’t figure out the peripherals. The only thing missing with the laptop is the dual display. Having to drag around a whole keyboard, mouse, PC, and power bank like that is a lateral move at best. You could probably do what he’s doing with a laptop and it would still be just as if not more compact.

My whole desk setup now easily fits into a backpack and I can take it anywhere

My laptop easily fits in a backpack. Hell I can fit TWO laptops in my backpack.

PIA also has port forwarding. I have been using it with great success for several years. Don’t know anything about their politics.

Yea, it is a complicated issue, but at least the current way offers the little guys some protection. I’ve posted everything I’ve ever made (not that any of it was all that impressive) freely so it doesn’t really matter to me but for some people it may.