Mandrake, I wanna say ~1998 or so. But tbh, I only recently finally took the plunge and wiped all traces of M$ off my system. I’ve tried Linux distris over the years and always just couldn’t make them work for me for one reason or another. Red hat, Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Pop_OS, Manjaro, Arco, Endeavor. Nothing really worked out for me and something inevitably broke that genuinely wasn’t my fault. Now, I have settled on pure Arch with KDE and for some reason, it’s been stable and been used daily for months now and I can’t think of one thing that could ever make me go back, or anywhere else for that matter.

One of the main reasons I made the switch from 10 to 11 and I used it constantly. I have several services that simply don’t work right from the web interface because of the drm BS. Being able to use the android apps worked great even if side loading an alternative store was a little bit of a pain on initial setup.

I am even more glad I recently made the switch to a 100% Linux environment at home. I have a simple waydroid install and it works much easier and is equally integrated into the desktop experience when compared to WSA. Only hassle is making sure you have a Wayland compositor since it won’t work with x11 but that’s just confirming a configuration essentially so par for the course really.

Regardless, this would be very disappointing if I hadn’t already had an alternative.

Assassin’s creed 3 remaster, Tomb Raider Trilogy, Just Cause… Its just a coincidence all im playing right now are old games, lol.

Thanks! Yeah, I have noticed a lot of places where the location of things is not necessarily a requirement but it is considered “proper”. It’s a whole different paradigm compared to the rather severely rigid requirements of Windows. I went through a lot of documentation about services and the real eureka moment was when I realized it was more or less just a command being run with extra fluff around it like environment variables and such. I have the service placed in the /etc/systemd/system directory, where all the other ones valve made are. I have seen how powerful systemd can be when leveraged well but for the moment I’m pleased with the results. Thanks for the encouragement!

I actually did try that but I messed it up somehow and didn’t get it working. I then sawanexample similar to what I did here and since it seemed to work for them, I copied it. Would also be able to ping the NAS itself instead so you can not only confirm the network is up but also confirm the NAS is listening and replying properly. 100% sure there are better ways to do almost everything here but it was my first big win and I had to share. 😂

Frankly, you are probably right. I am pretty new to all thisandwhat I have here is basically just cobbled together from nonsense examples I scrounged up off the internet. What’s funny is, a good 20% of this I have no idea how it works! Lol

Originally i was juat going to make the script simply a list of all my mount commands and not even post anything about it at all. I spent a good two days playing around with about a dozen different ideas on how to accomplish my goal until this one, the first that worked at all. But yeah, I have been doinh a lot of fun stuff since I officially dropped Windows entirely a few weeks ago and a lot of the inner workings of how Linux works in general is just starting to make sense to me.

Pretty much the Arch wiki and the Gentoo wiki alongwith copious amounts of google fu have become an all encompasing hobby of mine as of late. I’ll get there eventually. 😁

Not surprised really. Netflix was part of my cellphone plan, when I switched plans, I just couldn’t rationalize it anymore. I remember as a young working teenager loving how I could just mail those DVDs back and forth. I’ve never not had a Netflix since they first launched. Feels odd really, but ultimately I just can’t abide their shenanigans.