Sam, The Man

Love the colors!! Especially the electric green base 🤘

Balatro is like, $10 and available on my phone tho-…

Hey thank you for posting these! I get a huge kick outta each of ‘em!

Hard pass ✋

It requires the least amount of troubleshooting on my end. It has drivers I know connect to my Bluetooth headphones and it’s has a Calamares installer that I find intuitive. It comes with Flatpak (Linux’s app-store equivalent) enabled. It has snapshots, which store previous versions of your OS*; if something updates poorly, you always have something to switch back to.

It’s not without foibles. Every distro has some wonky-ness to it. But the problems in Spiral fixable and less obnoxious, I think, because it has so little branding.

It’s not like some distros that brag about being “CUTTING edge” or “UNBREAKABLE” while hard-crashing after an update. That’s expected. I’m not expecting perfection, and Spiral steps out of the way (to let Debian take all the blame lol). Thankfully Debian has a very long and stable history and I rarely have that problem.

Just one man’s long ramble. All anecdotal, so my final suggestion would be to test a variety, and don’t listen to weirdos on the Internet.

*kernel; whatever I’m still learning too

SpiralLinux is my Son; I love it so dearly. I install it on anything first, since it has some of the drivers my devices need the most. It makes Debian fun instead of a chore.

I’m fairly certain I know this particular train and it’s very well taken care of as a vital part of a playground. Kids play all over it, and I believe it’s covered in weather-resistant coating.

‘S a cool park.

Edit: here’s a link to the official park website; wanted to make sure I wasn’t telling tales Corvallis’s Avery Park