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Brace yourself for Discord to get worse: Reports swirl that the company is in talks with bankers about opening itself up to shareholders (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

It's happening. Slowly.

I first dabbled with Linux around 2015 by dual booting. Ran into too many issues, then I royally fucked shit up by accidentally deleting the bootloader or something, so I was pretty hesitant to try again. I finally got a hold of a surplus laptop from work so I could install Mint on it without any worry that I'd lose important data.

I've been using that as my primary PC for a few months now. I've run into some minor challenges, but nothing critical that I couldn't figure out with a search engine.

I had another old laptop still running Windows 7 that has been having weird issues, but I'd been too lazy to backup the files so I could wipe it. I finally pulled the trigger today, fully wiped it, and installed Mint on it.

I'm not ready to preach Linux to my "normie" friends yet, but do mention it to them here and there in hopes I'll be able to bring them over in the future.