@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@rnmissionrun The husband uses one of those silicon skins over his keyboard to help keep it clean.
He had me try one, because I go through keyboards like kleenex. (With all the long-winded bullshit I type, I realize this probably shocks no one.)
I am so brutal on keyboards that it lasted less than three months before I had worn right through it. I mean, I have stupidly acidic skin on my hands (has eaten through fine leather gloves inside a day before), but... uh, just keep that caution in mind in case you are similarly hard on keyboards.
If you're not, though, one of those might help, and they're reasonably cheap.
I was using those, but I went through them fast, too. And they just seemed to impede my typing.
As for putting Linux on- been there, done that, don't have the hours to waste on dealing with the bullshit.
If you have the free time to waste, be my guest. I don't. As it is, I don't get enough sleep at night for how busy I am. I use Mac or Windows because I know it'll work. I can work with Unix, I have worked with Unix, but regardless of distro, you're going to sit and spend time finding packages to make shit work.
And then doing it again months later.
And again months later.
and again...
..........and so on.
Some people get their kicks doing that. I don't anymore. You wanna pay me to do it, sure. But not on my free time.