nobodyspecial

Google has turned evil. Back to Microsoft, everyone!

My daughter speaks German, and briefly considered college in Germany instead of the U.S. She has been to several countries in the EU multiple times on her own as a teen, and still thinks of moving there after she gets her degree and some work experience. Unfortunately, top schools for her degree are not as accessible elsewhere. 97% job placement rate for surviving grads in her major.

As a metallurgical engineer there’s work for her around the world upon graduation, in just about every industry from mining to cosmetics to renewable energy and recycling. But I won’t be surprised if she bails on the U.S. immediately, trading a likely six figure starting salary for quality of life.

Ask 3 Linux users and you’ll get 5 dissenting opinions. Mine is that KDE Plasma is very simple out of the box and more familiar to Windows users. A previous Windows user can use it without any kind of deep learning. Gnome is a bit more alien, borrows a bit more from OSX, and does force its workflow on the user more.

KDE also offers an insane amount of easy customization for those of us with a desire to tweak or enjoy a different aesthetic or workflow. The built-in shop for widgets, wallpapers, themes, cursors, etc makes that very accessible to anyone. Gnome customization requires a lot more command line and editing of configs.

As with relationships, if you make a mistake you’ll wind up supporting it for life.

I kid, I kid. We all know to job hop every 2 years for better compensation. It’ll be someone else’s problem after that.