Arch users are forced to write their own AI?

[2028] Apple announces that they will no longer sell phones to consumers, only rent them. “Our customers love the ease of monthly rental payments that never stop and we listened!” said one Apple exec.

His next “big idea” is bs prediction markets that he wants to push on 18-34 year olds. Get 'em started gambling young!

Linux '26er here. I tried a few and CachyOS is now my jam. I’m way too new to offer true insight, but as a new convert, Cachy has good video/gaming support and all the core features I need to keep exploring. 100% recommend a day or two to try it out.

Once these countries leave, they’ll never go back. And then the rest of us get better alternatives to this enshitification model.

Thank you. I liked KDE when I played with Mandrake many years ago. Does that still exist? Maybe just dated the last time I tried to run Linux as my primary. I have “supported” Linux as needed throughout the years, but mostly through competent searches and general IT knowledge.

Easy?!? We’re talking about breaking 30 years of habits :). But thank you for your response. Remote/RDP because I travel as much as possible (digital nomad currently in the Caribbean) and want to connect home while I’m out. Why hypervisor? Work. I tend to spin up a clean VM for each client, and sometimes need to test things. And my media server has a hardware RAID, but needs to move off NTFS. Probably the first machine I move to Linux.

Thanks. I’ve had a lifetime subscription to Plex for more than 10 years and it works well on TVs and such for the few ppl I share it with (they’re all luddites). I also.may have mis-typed, I have a hardware RAID 5 off a ?Perc5 controller, but its NTFS and I would want to switch.

Thank you! Being an IT professional, I have many machines and will probably try more than one until I find my stride. I bought a new SSD for my media server so I can swap out (and go back if I run out of time) while I learn the new OS. I have two or three other machines that are ready for a change. My primary laptop may only get a Linux VM or two while I adapt.

And which flavor of Linux? I would assume I’d use Ubuntu, but I don’t know the pros and cons of any of them.

I want to switch, but I need some help. I need to be able to “RDP” into remote machines. I think that one is probably easy and built-in from decades ago. I also need to be able to setup a Hyper-V equivalent, to run other machines from my main laptop- haven’t figured that one out yet. And for my media server (Plex), I need to understand the best way to setup a RAID5 or better across multiple drives. Any recommendations on guides for a lifelong NT4 MCSE & current Azure admin? I am sick of Win11 (and 10, 8.1 was OK, 7 was better… they just keep getting worse)

If their staff weren’t incompetent and understand SPF records, DKIM and DMARC, they wouldn’t be flagged as spam. But when morons who don’t understand the tech fail at using it, it’s not the systems fault for identifying it as garbage. Source- me, 25 years supporting email systems.

Power off the AI farms that no one wants anyway (except the oligarchs of course)