wake up, I boot into Linux Mint…

I decrypt my drive, my machine launches conky and expressVPN silently

I remote onto my work machine via Remmina.

I launch MS Teams on cinnamon and join my morning team meeting

I enjoy the crisp rich sound of Pipewire

I launch Skype and message some friends

I check on some discord servers

Back to work

I log into my Citrix front end and launch some applications running on Windows Appservers.

I have windows only applications working on my cinnamon desktop via Citrix Workspace…

I connect up to my other VPN and remote directly onto some other work machines.

I take lunch, dick about on Brave Browser for a little while…then I launch steam.

I play some Apex Legends for a while, on my 3080 with 200fps+ on proton, it runs like native.

I open vscode and write some scripts for the rest of the day.

I have no gpu issues

I have everything running on 185hz in 3k, no stuttering.

Idle RAM usage is 3GB

All the applications above work flawlessly on cinnamon

No snaps

Just flatpacks if I need them

There are no ads

There are no nagging updates to apply

Speaking of which

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade -y

My kernel updates while I work, I barely even notice

sudo shutdown now

I smile

This is what it feels like to chew five gum