mekkagodzilla
Born in the early eighties, French nerd, anti-fascist, woke bloke and usually friendly.
When you spent time tinkering on your linux box, at least you usually learn some piece of knowledge that can be applied later on.
When you tinker and debug something on windows, you usually have little idea of what went wrong and can derive very little from the experience. At least that was the case back when I still used windows, in the XP and vista days.
We might have some silent letters, vestigial remnant of ancient forms, but English has basically no rule for pronunciation. It’s so funny watching English speakers debate among themselves how a name should be pronounced.
- Bear, pear, tear, tear, near.
- Rough, tough, though
- To read, read, read (your very best one, guys, believe me)
I use debian at work, but for various reasons I use my own laptop for work. Couldn’t stand the old MacBook they had for me.
So no, I never switch back to being a normal user.
My biggest gripe as a non native speaker is phrasal verbs.
Unless you know exactly what they mean, you are screwed. You can’t decypher them, there’s no link between the meaning of the component parts and the phrasal verb.
As my English teacher used to tell us jokingly: you should never say: “I get on with my brother, but I get off with my sister”.
- PS1 : Little Big Adventure (action adventure with the first voice acting I heard in a game)
- DS : ghost trick (it’s getting a remake!)
- 3DS : 1001 spikes (tough 2d platformer)
- Modern era : Slay the Spire (best card drafting and rogue lite game).