I know zero coding and trying to query something in snowflake or big query is basically not accessible to me. This is basically a cheat code for me.

From a person who does zero coding. It’s a godsend.

I don’t remember what it was called. I was in grade school. I just remembered it was the funniest thing.

I remember there was a virus that had a tiny cat on the screen and it would chase your mouse cursor. Once it catches your mouse cursor, the computer would crash. It was freaking awesome.

I’ll give it a try! Thanks!

I actually value my life.

I also did the same thing. I’m back to Mint OS but at the end I’m not much happier.

Honestly, the major issue is that they don’t pay us enough for us to stay longer than 2-3 years. When I was brought onto my job, I was having the hardest time navigating the home grown primitive system they custom built. The people who created this system were no longer working at the company. I was left trying to figure out a system that was custom built, semi functional and poorly maintained using an old confluence and Google doc.

I left the company after 3 years leaving in place of my own custom code, and my own sets of instructions for the next sap that has to try and figure it out.

I just found out that PopOS is getting abandoned. So I’ll just wait for Rust?

I get that. I think my line of work doesn’t require much. I just want the basics like slack and zoom. I just need the basics working “Back Gestures and a non freezing computer”

I do care about privacy. This was the primary reason to try Linux again.

I just didn’t realize how much work for a newcomer would need to do to get basic functionality working.

The main reason I was even attempting Linux was my concern for privacy.

Perhaps I didn’t give Mint a good enough chance. I felt the UX wasn’t very good. Like, why are there so many apps just preinstalled and thrown in an “All Application” section.

I see its categorized as well, but it’s just daunting the first time using it.

Insightful. You must be a professor.

I literally typed in a search “Easiest linux distro for a windows user” and downloaded the top results which was Mint and PopOS. What do you suggest? I’m open for suggestions.

So Arch? I see so many negative comments for Arch that I fear using it.

I’ll give it a try.

Thank you.

I do appreciate your comment. I think next time I will purchase a computer new with Linux built in so I can get some support.

My nvidia card is probably my main issue. I will likely try again in a few years and maybe next time purchase a Linux box from the manufacture to get some support.

I care about privacy and have a spare computer willing to see if it can completely switch over. I don’t think it’s a compromise having my computer freeze each time it needs to sleep. I think that is more of a bug.

I went into this project understanding that I need to spend some time to make it work for my workflow.

For the sleep issue, I tried this command sudo kernelstub -a mem_sleep_default=deep

It didn’t seem to work. I ran out of ideas to try and got frustrated. How do I configure the swap memory?

Thank you, but I’m very calm. I just didn’t realize how sensitive the Linux community is with their lifestyle.