Debian+KDE for workstations and servers, arch+kde for specialty needs and playtime.

Definitely freeplane is the winner here - solid piece of software

Thanks!

Yeah, I generally don’t run software that isn’t under an open source license if it can be avoided though

Now that looks like a serious contender! Thanks for the link

Kind of the other way around there, starting with markdown to make a mindmap. Not that I haven’t used mermaid (though I’ll be candid, I mostly hate how mermaid renderers work and the layouts can get real funky real quick), but I’m more going the other way around. Start dropping stuff into a map, then sort it out after. For concepting things out, I like a GUI better. For documenting something existing, mermaid is a perfect decent option.

No conversion to tex, but markdown export is decent (and can then go to pandoc), not a bad option - thanks for sharing

I think you might be confused about using linux. At no point do I enter it more often than on my work laptop (windows, constant) or my build target Mac mini.

Edit: Not new, but still. This isnt something ive set up special.

Another here - it was great if you bothered to set up groups. Filter for the name quickly on the keyboard.

It was set up by default to be kind of shitty, wasn’t explained well to users, and overall a failure - IMO - of presentation, not product.

That was the one! Definitely a lot of fun

What was that one that had the full band worth of gear?

Anyway maybe I can finagle my old ps2? 3? guitars for my kids to use. I remember seeing a open source guitar hero implementation somewhere.

Same with the DDR stuff, I think my kids would have a blast with that.

If its for work, its on a work machine.

That said, I have a lot of efforts (personal projects with hardware I get given, or side work not related to my job) where I need specific software. For those, I have a VM tailored to that application that’s been trimmed down as much as possible.

This let’s me rdp into them, do what I need to do, save to a designated location, and shut the VM down. Since its a VM I tend not to give it network access unless required, and I have USB drive I pass through to the VM.

This makes sure everything works, I limit the access of MS with local only accounts and win 10 (among other specific versions like XP for a specific piece of hardware, server 2008 for an irritating piece of software I sometimes need, etc).

All the VMs are on my proxmox cluster, easy to start/stop with a script.

Already have, along with my concerns about the outsized money going to essentially DHH events.

Might even sell my FW, I don’t think I want to be associated with the brand at all.

This definitely had a negative impact on my view of framework, can’t say I’d buy from them again.