Mint.

I’ll be very honest with you. It’s not fancy, it’s not snazzy computing. It’s simple, designed with a graphical interface in mind, and a good operating system for someone who A) does not know Linux, or B) does not want to fiddle.

Do you by chance live in a high CoL area?

Congratulations. Your a system admin. For real.

I’ve interviewed candidates for system admin jobs who had less exposure to managing Linux then this story.

Not dissimilar - my three steps.

1. Ran away from vista.
2. Get a job at Microsoft and figured I should learn how to use a core product again (Windows 10).
3. Dual boot for years (you never know when you will need to wake up the windows for some random task), until Win 11 and recall…

See you think that - but excel finds a way. We have what are lovingly called the “spreadsheets of doom” which accounting uses to manage all forecasts, and the bits that involve money flows. Did you know you can hook excel into Salesforce and pull all the sales records? A person who thinks her monitor is her computer (she has a Dell laptop) somehow found a way…

That makes me wonder. Can you escape it with a non-us keyboard?

Can we take a moment to ask ourselves - how the hell did piping to shell become ok? We have all kinds of method’s for deploying stuff - from the age old tarball to the new shinny flat pack. But somehow we also became ok with

Curl foo | sh

Oftentimes as root.

I beg to differ. Wood phone cases hide the bump by increasing the total thickness of the phone and making the back nice and flat.

It’s software put on every machine so that the company can quickly isolate it if/when something bad happens (or it falls out of security compliance). To do this is requires a constant Internet connection, insanely high privileges on the machine and frequent updates to be appraised of risks.

That risk update went off the rails and into the next state.