And it works well enough. No one is ditching Windows

That’s what I have, except networked. . Works fine. Just meant out of all the things, printers are still the hardest

I’d get a whole second machine and a KVM switch, it would save you much trouble

Nope I haven’t had trouble with drivers in a while. Printers are still probably thr worst but not bad.

I hear but have not verified that they will connect to an open network without letting you know.

Don’t forget you save lots of fuel by firing out of the solar system instead

Wine is pretty good for most things I’ve tried, except new Office (will run the old versions OK). Try O365, if Libre Office won’t cut it. You can try the installer in Wine without hurting anything. For your other stuff,I keep a Windows 8 vm around off network to run some ancient radio programming software, so maybe that is an option.

And it is not scary. A simple distro like Mint, figure out where the software repositories live, how to use thr off8xe suite, and you’re done. Life is "great*.

How did Customs let it through? It has to have DOT spec stuff in the US. I don’t know about more than 25 years old.

Where are you finding things like this? What’s parts availability like?

Stockpile did this too. I quit them (i did not like them anyway but that was the last straw)

DNS over https bypasses much of that, right? till you find and block those DNS servers

It is still there, just not picked up by Google or Bing.

Plex is pretty commercialized these days and I don’t doubt they’re likely selling your data.

You should keep posting on Usenet too…rec.+

Implanting is basically this, if they could make photoresist sensitive to arsenic or phosphorus.

No lie. Gray market Mercedes were awesome. Way more powerful and you could get base models with zero cruft - manual transmissions and wind up windows.

Corel Linux

Yeah that Minecraft setup is ridiculous now, then you get ads.

MS doesn’t care about the desktop operating system except how can they control it like Apple and iphones. All the money is in O365 and Azure these days.