Yes. You could use vlc or even as an iso file just open them as a virtual drive.

CTRL-tilde or CTRL-backtick?

Only office is basically the same interface again, all cloning MS-office 2007-2010.

Bleach.

Because it’s a common phrase and because one can accept that people have a name for their deity even if you believe that deity doesn’t really exist.

you subscribe to a belief wholeheartedly, even a crazy one, to the point where youd rather die than question it.

That’s what I said too, which is to say that the point is not the killing but the unquestioning nature of it.

It’d be so much better if that authoritarian fifth would drink the flavor-aid in the sense of killing themselves.

It actually works, without a bunch of insane weird behavior.

That’s not the point of the phrase — the statement refers to the true believers drinking poison unquestioningly, without entertaining the thought that it will kill them.

There are, but “long haul routes” are definitely better for a train.

What an incredibly infuriating waste of effort that would be so much better spent on trains, driverless or otherwise.

I’ll remember that in case I drop it into a boiler.

Yeah but this is the US.

You think we’ll be using trains?

To be fair, a lot of Linux apps also do similar things and ~/.local is a similar swamp.

Gotta love user-mode installers… let alone portable apps.

I’d say it’s both, yeah.

But also user demand partly drives what the employer provides, and some people really like those k-cups.

They use k-cups so being inconsiderate is a given.

If they sound different they’re not lossless. (Or they’re different masters)

I’m with you on the “FOSS office alternatives are shit”, but unfortunately MS office is also shit. Google is the closest I have found to a good office suite but even that is becoming a bit chaotic and awkward. LyX is a promising word processor but also pretty awkward to use in its own way. I’ve got nothing, there.

As far as gaming, this sound less kind than intended but you deserve any shit you get for saying Linux gaming is bad these days. Apart from a few AAA games with anti-cheat where the devs just don’t want to, basically every game just works without any extra effort. Even obscure indie games. I can’t think of the last game I wanted to play that didn’t run on Linux, and often it is better under proton than Windows or native.

Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do.

This is clearly false. There was a definite point at which it was decided to call Burma Myanmar, or at a more local level Peking to Beijing.

Have you tried sfc /scannow?