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Literally spent the second half of my holiday vacation moving from dual boot Mint+Win11 to EndeavourOS. The last few days has been fun getting the latest Plasma to be themed out how I want it.

To ease my move, I repartitioned my secondary NTFS days drive to free up space for an EXT4 partition and moved my /home to it. Once that was done, bye bye to the other 2 OS installs and hello to a nice clean install of eos.

It's worked very well so far. As a long ago Arch user who battled the AUR back in the day, I was hoping for the experience to be better now. And to my joy, it is. (It's been probably at least a decade since I last used Arch.)

Since almost all of my Windows needs are now covered natively and the few that aren't are something I've gotten working via WinApps for a (mostly) seamless experience, in pretty comfortable with where I'm at now.

I've even got my 2024 Kraken Elite working via NZXT CAM so I have full control over the cooler until that is eventually supported elsewhere. (Including control of the screen.)

You never know what it will actually be. In fact, it's likely that it'll be too late before people realize it.

They're more than happy to take in everyone's dollars, though. Can't get enough of those.

I think you mean Burgess Meredith and it was Time Enough at Last.

Did anyone else first read this as "Air Zola"? No? Just me?

And yet, grandpa or that weird uncle everyone has could just pop onto amazon and buy a normal tp-link router on sale right now for all of about $40 that has wifi built in.

Anyone who's tech-savvy should put themselves into the shoes of their non-tech-savvy parents or grandparents in a situation where they don't have you around to help. That's who the main audience is; not someone willing to go even slightly down into the stack with this idea.

Now consider your average parent or grandparent and tell me that they'll be 100% fine on their own and actually want to do this. Most would not. Often-times, the marketing itself is enough to scare these folks off of that kind of tech. They worry about things you probably don't and don't generally want to worry. Hell, even the fact that you'd have to purchase two completely separate items to get what you can currently purchase in a single unit is enough to not get many of them to do it.

"just"

That's not an option for most people. They're either not savvy enough to manage everything at that level or don't care to and they will likely spend more money doing it this way.

That's not exactly true. The AI answers are often wrong or incomplete. You still need skill, it's just that the required skill has shifted to accepting this is true, recognizing when the AI answer is not complete and correct, (which can be more difficult due to the answers often being seemingly correct, yet slightly wrong or incomplete), and then doing what you'd do in any other search that nets poor results: adjust and search more or dig further down the given results stack.

The Nazis had watches too, you know.

Burn them all down.