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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • At their heart, most distros are approximately “made of the same stuff”. There’s differences in package management in the background (e.g. how the “software centre” works), but essentially the difference between a “gaming distro”, “normal distro” and “creative distro” is just what programs are installed by default, and how a few things are set up by default.

    Nothing stops me playing games on Mint (and historically, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio) - and likewise, nothing will stop you installing office programs, audio/video/graphics programs etc on something presented as a gaming distro.


  • There’s a sort of order from least to most destructive:

    Exactly correct driver >
    using an elastic band or other thin piece of rubber, between driver and screw, for grip >
    different screwdriver that fits differently (e.g. a small flat driver in any cross-headed screw) >
    again, with elastic/rubber >
    other, unlikely drivers >
    other grippy options, like steel wool >
    superglue the driver to the screw >
    epoxy resin a driver to the screw >
    cut a new flat-head into the screw head with a dremel >
    use a screw extracting bit >
    drill out the screw head >
    cut or drill out the plastic surround

    I’m sure there’s other options I’ve not remembered. A lot of it depends on which screw is stuck, and how accessible it is.