I would suggest, whatever you try, that you make sure to write down your windows key and then deauthorize your PC. That way, if it doesn't work out and you want/need to go back, you can reinstall windows and not deal with the unlicensed copy BS.
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ANOTHER series I just remembered and highly recommend is the Unincorporated Man series. I think there are 4-5 books in the series. Pretty good IMHO. Similar to The Expanse, it's the Inners vs the Belters, and explores personal liberty and person hood from the perspective of owning "shares" of yourself like a company.
The conflict is awesome, and two military strategy geniuses duke it out in a Legends of the Galactic Heroes sort of way--one has all the resources and latest tech, the other is scrappy and has to deal with extreme resources shortages. Awesome story.
Wholeheartedly agree. I've read the first and second, and liked the first the most. Still planning to read the third eventually.
I also should mention I "read" them on audible, and the narrator was good too.
The only other one I've attempted to read by Niel Stephenson has been Cryptonomicon. It seemed to get way, way into the weeds and is over a thousand pages. It was in my 20's that I attempted it and I only made it half way through.
His work is top tier and highly regarded by many as thoroughly researched.
Going to have to check this one out!
Seveneves is incredible, with the caveat that the last chapter of the book was almost handwavey with regards to the author's conclusion of where humanity ended up. 10/10 otherwise.
Children of Time series goes over this a little bit, especially in the first book. Colonists end up waking up early due to a malfunction and end up falling into a devolving tribalistic race to the bottom on their journey to the planet.
EDIT: As for "hard" scifi, while I wouldn't say this series is at the same level as The Martian or maybe The Expanse, it is pretty good with trying to keep things real, especially with regards to the human threads of the story.
If it's good enough for the NSA and other paranoid intelligence agencies and military, I think it's good enough for our healthcare orgs.
But I do get your sentiment on a user level. If one of my comp sci professors is using Linux in lecture, they are instantly more credible to me than those who use windows (or MacOS!!) unless I have known them for a while and have found out firsthand.
If System76 doesn't get some movement on Cosmic soon I'm going to have to jump ship to KDE. This shit looks awesome.
Didn't we learn our lesson 24 years ago with Y2K!?
EDIT: To be clear, I was being facetious. I remember my parents and father freaking out about this when I was in middle school. I would have thought we got this taken care of permanently already
Hogwarts via steam's proton runs flawlessly.
Sigh, unzips