My suggestion is to spend maybe half an hour in the evening learninga new hobby/skill, then when you’re in bed go over what you learnt in that half hour in your mind to cement it. You’ll find that just running over the knowledge in your mind induces the “counting sheep” effect and will help you drift off to sleep.
If it doesn’t work, then at least you’ll learn a new skill much quicker!
I used i3 for a couple of years, but I missed the ease of having a DE that just recognised USB sticks and external hard drives, and all the other little things that you have to set up manually
Join a smaller instance. You can still see posts on lemmy.world, and you might find a niche you’re interested in in the process
Nobody is talking about marxists or leftists here, tankies are a breed of their own
Maybe you should read the manual on how to reply to a Lemmy comment
Yes exactly! Linux has its pitfalls, but the pitfalls of Linux are far more tolerable for me than the shortcomings of windows.
Macs I can’t speak for because I’ve never tried, but they seem overpriced
Yeah I don’t see the problem here
I’ve been using nothing but Linux for 5 years and I still have problems every now and then.
My laptop is 6 years old and has been running arch Linux with xfce for most of that time. I got tired of maintaining it and changed to an “easy” Linux mint distro. It takes much longer to boot up now and feels generally sluggish in comparison to a minimal arch install. So from experience, in older hardware having a bloated distro can really slow down your system.
If Linux was fine, then I wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of looking for an alternative and taken the time to teach myself Linux. I don’t know anybody else who uses it so it’s not like somebody twisted my arm
Oh in that case you could ask if it’s running on Windows, cos you don’t want any forced updates halfway through…
actually you don’t even have to type all that, just typing ‘yay’ is equivalent
wait, reddit used to have livestreaming? How did I not know this?
bingo!
just vanilla water
I tried for 2 years, but with long work hours I didn’t have much time to meet new people and since I’d just moved there for work, I didn’t know anybody. Cost of living was great and I loved the friendly people and pace of life. I just couldn’t handle the loneliness and isolation. I would do it again, but with a better work life balance and a stronger intention to meet people and make new friends.
Have you ever tried listening to hardcore history by Dan Carlin? I find he’s the right level of captivating to keep me interested, but slow enough that I can still drift off to sleep