My husband is using the non-LTS version of Ubuntu 25.10 with a 9060XT and has driver support and is happy with it. Mint would not support his card at this time according to our research. Bazzite was just a disaster for him – lots of issues with not sleeping and the immutable distro made it hard to do what he wanted since he uses spinning hard drives for storage and wanted them to automount as well as managing a huge music library housed on a NAS. I think some of the issues were with his older B450 motherboard despite having updated the bios to the latest stable version. I am on older hardware and love Mint. I feel at home on the Debian-based distros though. Depends on your use case and how much you’re willing to learn. Protip: Before you leave your friend alone with the system, make sure that it will do normal system things properly – enter sleep, wake from sleep, reboot, etc since these are the things that will drive an average person insane when they don’t function correctly.

This garbage makes me so glad I switched to Linux Mint. Gaming has been just fine. Sure there have been a few hurdles, but they were well-worth spending time on as Microsoft continues this foolishness.

I can confirm. I learned real quick in college working a part-time help desk job for the University that I attended that I under no circumstances want to work in IT at any level or program because they are both thankless and stressful career paths – when tech works, then why do we need you and when it breaks, why do we have you is all the “leaders” ask in many companies because they do not have a basic understanding how any of the IT systems function, hardware lifecycles, etc.

I’ve found KDE connect to work better than the native Windows Phone Connect when I was using windows. I switched to Linux Mint a few weeks ago since I primarily value stability.

Kiwis and bananas.

WOW! Buying your son a house and a car is extremely generous. Financing his education is beyond kind. I personally would be concerned about your son’s ability to manage money once he is on his own. I don’t think you’re doing him a lot of favors in that department. I think sitting him down and discussing how to budget, what a mortgage is, personal loans, and how credit cards work would go a very long way. Also discussing why you budget and don’t live at the edge of your means is important too - too many people who make good money do this and end up in debt forever. My experience when I was 18 was learning to manage money with my parents help came with a lot of life-long lessons. I got a credit card and they didn’t just pay it for whatever I put on it. I remember getting in a lot of trouble once for putting restaurant dinners and expensive clothing store purchases on it. After my parents got the bill for the month, we had a long conversation of needs versus wants. I never ran that card up like that again because I was informed that I would be paying it off with my minimum wage job. From then on it was groceries and maybe dinner out once a week. I also had a summer job and lived in an apartment with a roommate. Boy does that give you some perspective on money and struggled of others when parents are not just paying for it all. Adult children should never assume mom and dad are paying if they mess up. Life can change in the blink of an eye, and I personally feel it is important to be as self-sufficient as possible and prepared for the worst financially.

The 24H2 update would not install on a brand new prebuilt PC that I bought for my parents. I contacted both the manufacturer and Microsoft and spent too many hours troubleshooting before I gave up and returned it to where I bought it as defective. Back to the drawing board for a replacement PC for my parents.

Oh my, I can feel the regret in the damp kitten!

I think you are making the right decision for you. I have watched a lot of people struggle after having children they did not plan for. If you know you are not and likely will never be interested in having children, getting a vasectomy is right for you.

That being said, if things change down the road, you can always foster, adopt, or attempt to have the vasectomy reversed – the last option is not guaranteed though.

Sounds like someone is upset that they cannot appease their shareholders by selling uninteresting video games riddled with microtransactions and cash grabs. I think that its time their leadership revisit the Agile Manifesto.

WOW. Ozzy is a Rock legend. The world will not be the same without him. People can say what they want about him, but he was an artist. He and Black Sabbath were the epitome of Rock & Roll.