Aasikki

My 50 year old Kenwood mixer stays on the counter for one reason only and that's because it's too goddamn heavy to be lifting back and forth. Also I sometimes get inspired to bake just from seeing it on the counter, which is a nice plus.

I prefer carbon steel cubes myself but cast iron is nice too.

Addicted to caffeine and sugar at the same time.

As a former child, yeah, but it's not always that easy.

This feels like a personal attack lol.

Someone actually uses those?

Probably at least one big reason is that most non techy people switched to laptops which can be used anywhere, so no reason to have a huge computer desk taking space anymore when the dining table or sofa is good enough.

I think he meant custom as in specifically made to be a computer desk. I don't think those aren't custom at all either but I get what he means.

I'm 26 and I've already been called a boomer by younger people. I don't really see the problem as to me it's just funny and reminds me to try my best not to eventually become a boomer that hates everything that isn't how it used to be.

I started on home assistant with just a couple Smart bulbs and oh boy has it gotten out of hand since then lol. Home bridge sounds good if that's all that's needed though.

I meant as a regular computer user who's new to Linux. Like most of them would be.

The whole point imo was supposed to be to test linux from a point of view of a regular user, and that while surely a bit extreme, isn't too far from what might happen when a newbie stumbles on an issue (which may or may not happen depending on luck).

Then again he did test it on uhh, quite interesting hardware that's almost guaranteed to have issues. Maybe it would have been more fair for him to switch to a more conventional desktop for the duration of the experiment.

I didn't really see that affecting the market share of Linux much either way. Luke who has a normal desktop also had his fair share of more minor issues and so did I when I ran fedora for a bit over half a year on my desktop last year ago, as a similar experiment. What has and will affect the market share, positively too, is the steam deck, which Linus is also a big fan of.

I still use linux a lot in my daily life even if not on my desktop, my home server runs on TrueNAS scale and I have a couple projects running on raspberry pi's (more probably coming). But for desktop use, I'll let it cook for a couple more years before giving it another try. Running Linux on my desktop is absolutely my dream and end goal, but unfortunately it still has too many issues specifically for my (actually very broad) use case of video editing, Photo editing, 3D modeling, graphics design, gaming and more. If it was only one of those uses, I'd be able to fairly easily come by with solutions, but when it's all of them combined, it adds up and becomes a real chore, unfortunately.