I use Pop!_OS with Bitwig, Renoise, and Reaper as Linux native DAWs and Guitar Rig 7 through Wine emulation. I haven’t given the Guitar Rig 7 install a proper run through, but Bitwig, Renoise and Reaper work great.

His love of film wouldn’t allow it.

This is a great point. I don’t know what the genesis of the bootleg is, but it is unlikely a copy of the original 35mm from Cannes.

Both films maahed together. The Whole Bloody Affair has existed in torrent sites for many years, which leads me ro believe that it is a fan edit. If I am correct then Tarrantino is about to cash in on an edit he probably torrented himself.

How to sell a gajillion copies of a game.

Step 1: Hire Laura Bailey
Step 2: Profit

The E.T. game being “the worst game” thing is all myth. It was a tremendous flop, but it had nothing to do with game quality. I’d say that 90% of Atari 2600 games were objectively bad and E.T. was amongst the 10% of good ones. They over estimated demand, overhyped it, and sold it during the holidays, which means extended and relaxed return policies. That resulted in too many units manufactured and too many units returned. Thus the landfill full of cartridges.

Source: I was one of the kids that got it for Christmas. It was fine, but wenty minutes later, I was back to Yar’s Revenge.

I rented a house once that had a hammered copper kitchen sink. Never have I been more shamed in my life. It is the reason I trained myself to wash as I cook. It turns out that racing to wash before the water boils over or the food burns is a great way to keep my focus.

Surprise company trip? I’ve been in three of those.

100%, but OP said he was a complete noob. Given that they only have 4GB of RAM on an older computer, I suggested Lubuntu. But yes, no DE is best if they can manage it.

Another choice is Lubuntu, a lightweight and fast variant of Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu instructions you find online should still work.

When I was a kid I lived in the Caribbean where all the kids ate their veggies.

Deep fried.

No. Everyone always focuses on the flashy stuff like datacenters but the truth is that the most vulnerable, overtaxed, and underfunded weak-spot for the United States is the electric grid.

I didn’t back then but eventually I messed with my sleep.schedule so much that I developed that type of insomnia. At my worst I would sleep 90 minutes in a 24 hour period. Within two weeks you are not the same person. Literally insane. I fixed it by eating a piece of plain tofu and a microdose of delta-8 (not 9, 10, or weed) right before laying my head down to sleep. Now I get 5-6 hours, which is nice.

I got really good at timing my meds so that the crash (never use XR) would match bed time.

“One sheep, two…Zzzzzzzz”

Some “bootlegs” are licensed and sold in Amazon. Note the manufacturer.

Real

“Bootleg”

I guess you do understand what the M chip is, which makes your comparison even more surprising. First, comparing a SoC to a GPU is wildly unfair. Second, you are severely underselling exactly how much more energy efficient an M chip is versus a CPU/GPU combo. My PC laptop with an i7 and a 4070 built in will run for about 20 minutes, maybe 30, under a full workload, all the while being hot enough to fry an egg and noisier than a jet engine. Even then, the performance will be trash and get worse as the temps rise. My MBP M3 Max will run a DAW sessions my PC could never dream of, with multiple plugins, on battery, silent, no heat, for a couple of hours without even the hint of a stutter.

All of that said, when it comes to price, Apple’s gonna Apple.

PS: I’m typing this on my phone while the idle i7/4070 laptop is fanning (again, fully idle) because it runs so hot. I might need to start traveling for work again and, if I do, I might need to switch to a MacBook Air for work on the road unless I can find an ultra-slim, powerful yet efficient, high resolution screen, Linux supported laptop. Simply because of the chip. We need an equivalent on the PC side.

I don’t think you quite grasp what an M chip is if you are comparing it to a 4070 Ti.

I believe in using the best tool for the job. For that reason, I use Macs for all my music stuff, Windows if I have to, and Linux for everything else.