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Cake day: January 3rd, 2026

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  • Career software engineer here, love terminal/CLI, hate using a mouse - keyboard shortcuts are king.

    Every 3-4 months I try to switch to Linux and I lose 2-3 days trying 5+ distros only to arrive back on my debloated Windows because things just. don’t. work.

    Shortlist of things that don’t work at all or don’t work in a performant manner:

    • RDP/ParSec/AnyDesk/RustDesk/xRDP/VNC
    • Customizable window tiling managers
    • Drivers - whether it’s my earbuds, my keyboard, my mouse, or other various things - at least one thing doesn’t work right
    • Font / display scaling
    • Teams, which I need for some jobs

    I really would love to make it work, but every time I try and something comes up and I ask online about how I can address it the answer is typically, “you can’t” or “you just need to be OK without that”