I'm glad I'm not the only one that's had to suffer through this kind of crap.
My last company did a yearly circle-jerk session like this where the leadership literally recorded "intro bits" of themselves like you'd see on a jumbo-tron at a sporting event. You know, like a snappy montage shot of them nodding their head or waving or some shit with fire around it.
And then they literally played these clips on a giant screen with intro music while they came out on stage. It was the cringiest, most ego-fueled, shit I've ever seen from a company that could barely manage their basic operations.
I put it on my gaming desktop and ROG Xbix Ally X and love it. Works great. The Windows Rog Xbox Ally X portable experience sucks. Also I'm not missing the intrusive updates and AI junk jammed into absolutely every Microsoft product.
I'm sure Zorin is solid. I went with Bazzite since it does a lot for gaming out of the box and makes updates pretty easy. I have another Laptop with PopOS on it and have really enjoyed that as well. Again - pretty straight-forward experience if you are coming from Windows.
I took time over the weekend to put Bazzite as my primary OS on both my desktop and ROG Ally. Not because it necessarily performs better but just because I've had enough of all the creepy AI shit that MS is doing.
People who say these things clearly have no experience. I spent an hour today trying to get one of the better programming models to parse a response. I gave it the inputs and expected outputs and it COULD not derive functional code until I told it what the implementation needed to be. If it isn't cookie-cutter problems then it just can't predict it's way through it.
We're fortunate enough to be close to a couple major cities that have some small business options. Otherwise Costco has been a great bet like the other comment mentioned. We're also trying to avoid Amazon more but it can be hard for some specialty items. We figure that spending less on there is still a positive step.
We used to spend a good amount of money at Target and now we won't go anywhere near it. It was great for gift shopping and seasonal stuff but we've figured out better options with retailers that don't have gross values.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that's had to suffer through this kind of crap.
My last company did a yearly circle-jerk session like this where the leadership literally recorded "intro bits" of themselves like you'd see on a jumbo-tron at a sporting event. You know, like a snappy montage shot of them nodding their head or waving or some shit with fire around it.
And then they literally played these clips on a giant screen with intro music while they came out on stage. It was the cringiest, most ego-fueled, shit I've ever seen from a company that could barely manage their basic operations.