i downloaded Linux and now have a side of the airplane to myself

March 1, 2026

so back in August, i did an SSD upgrade going from a 1 TB hard disk drive and a WD Green 128 GB to 2 TB Samsung 990 PROs.

in hindsight, it would have been better to absolutely stash some DDR5 RAM, but i don't view into the future, so...

alright, i'm already way off track. all you need to know is i had a W11 partition before i decided to go to Linux.

i started by using Bazzite. i liked that it was indeed easy to maintain and update in theory, but immutable systems proved to be more trouble than they were worth.

case in point, i attempted to layer a VPN directly onto the system and it screwed up networking, which the docs said was a last resort.

turned out i liked flatpaks, so long as they did not attempt to replace all traditional programs and only supplement them.

so, i then went upstream to Fedora KDE and tried that since Fedora (Atomic) is where Bazzite upstreams and it proved to be better than Bazzite in that regard.

it was pretty good and i was happy with it until i tried to update any software that wasn't a flatpak.

KDE Discover constantly complained of bad GPG signatures with most software for some reason and I wasn't actully sure why.

it even happened with my system updates, too, which meant going to the terminal to update since it didn't seem to complain.

i eventually had a good setup going, but then felt the sudden need to downstream yet again.

then i went to Nobara and now we're here. i enjoy it a lot so far, as it's good for gaming and content creation but not too restrictive like Bazzite is (in my cases).

and since i already mentioned the fact i'm in a cybersecurity class, yes, i played with Linux there, too.

i actually studied it for an event along with Computer Security. i ended up placing in 3rd and 1st in regionals, so i say it wasn't a bad choice.

i'm still using the practice VM for casual use, too. I used Fedora Workstation, and it's suprisingly usuable after extensions + gnome-tweaks.

overall, i enjoyed my time with Linux so far, and i wished more devices out there used it more often.

pretty sure i annoy everyone when talking about it in every circle i'm in, but hey, i get a side of the airplane to myself without paying for first-class!

- mmmega idiot

"mmmega, where the hell have you been???"

Feburary 24, 2026

okay, yeah, fair question

so what ended up happening was that at some point in my own dumb life, i got a liiiiiitle sidetracked, and when i mean little...

i mean a lot, oh my god.

like how i'm on a FIRST Robotics Competition team now, and although i am on the way outta high school i actually managed to get a Best Autonomous Award for the team.

i also managed to convince the principal to finally let me go to a technical center for Cybersecurity, which took a few eternities, but we got there.

it helped me quite a lot, actually, the people there are chill as hell and i can actually say i have friends there. (not to say i don't have friends at the main school, who will all probably be reading this first, which in that case, hiiiiiiiiiii :B)

okay, so cool, i did a lot of things, so why am i back here in particular?

if you cannot tell with the current state of the internet as of this point, it suuuuuuucks ass

you gotta hand in your id to access stuff, every major site has a video black hole you can get stuck in and have to fight to actually get out of, advertisers yoink every last drop of info avaliable that is both about you and in this plane of existence (maybe even the next ones at this rate)

but, you do not need me to tell you that, probably because you all came to that conclusion millenia before i actually acted on it

you all seem chill as hell, so i'm just gonna be here.

hi again :B

- mmmega idiot