Do you buy expensive things?

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So then you get Linux which is about as user friendly as a poke in the eye.

Yes, I buy food. Food is expensive. Especially nutritious food. But people need food to survive and it's one of the basic human rights.

Well, I'm currently in the middle of a four-year process which I'll be lucky to have paid off 100 years after I die. So yes.

I don't buy expensive things unless I need them though. For one thing I'm a college student so I don't have any money, but also I just don't see the point in spending a lot of money on something I don't need. The things I don't need I either buy for small amounts, get as gifts, or make.

I upgraded my previous Dell desktop PC from W10 to W11 with no issues. If anyone wants to buy it they can have it for £100 plus postage costs.

Just PM me.

My experience with Linux is you have to spend hours googling to get anything to work.

No.

Unless it's actually an investment, actually something that endures by quality and remain reliable in long term.

I'm trying to figure ways on how to find very sturdy clothing that's also just as comfortable and passable at home, indoors and outdoors events. The same can be said with footwear.
Even if I have to resort to finding materials myself and have it tailored to my preferred patterns.

Temporary stuff like make up and nails? Never. Temporary is temporary. I'd DIY them myself.

Jewelry? It better be real gold.
That, or a decorative something that only costs less than 2 USD equivalent per piece just for an occasion or two. I don't have the need to impress anyone.

Phones? Unless there's a high end phone that can lasts for 20+ years for all my needs and preferences, no.
Until then, I can only go for minimum future proofing low to mid range something durable.

Consumables? Not by bulk unless it's already guaranteed for me.
Unless it's the very thing that will give me guarantee reliable executive function, perfect hair or even-out skin tone, I'm not spending much on it.
I can experiment here and there, out of luck if there are vendors that sells genuine per pieces to try, until then I won't be sticking to any brands much and I won't be trying anything that cuts my budget to something that can potentially not work for me because I brought something by bulk.

Other tech like laptop?
Well, it's complicated. All I do know is that I don't jump towards 'the best' at the first go or first upgrade.
But I can finally able to afford to a bit. Only a bit. I need more than one or two; one would be something I may kept using until I get the hang of it a bit to know enough of what I need.
I'd rather have that, and a very optimized low end spare.
I don't need anything fancier than budget mid-range something unless I ended up in careers that do require me to get something high-end.

Furnitures and appliances?
I try my best to take care of mine and I only buy what I only need so far before upgrading into something sturdier, more personal and more permanent.

Everday food? Not really. That's already expensive by itself IMO.
If I can get away with it, I can just live in cheap pre-cooked minimum.
It's easy to get something of quality fresh and cheap here if I can cook from scratch. I just need better cooking skills to ensure any potential health investment on my part.

Vehicles?
So far, I can get away with just walking and biking. I don't live or work in places where I have to travel into the next city to work or go home from work yet.
And it's not like people will rely on me to do a lot of heavy work transporting stuff, and I think I don't like the idea of me being told to fetch people on schedule unless that became a job.


Basically, almost nothing.


Health? I cannot afford to splurge over that. It's a fricking gamble that may win me nothing in my case.
A consultation can costs me about 1/6th of my monthly salary at minimum.
That's not including what I may need or other tests if it gone right, that's not included if the doctor assumed wrong and wasted my time.



On topic of switching to Linux...

I'm currently just emulating one via virtual machine. I always wanted to do that. It took me over an hour to make it work.

But couldn't because all the PCs I owned before couldn't handle it. Too low end to run and support properly.
That, and my reading comprehension sucked enough to get stuck at certain steps. I was in college.

Of course it's slow in this case because it's being emulated. I'm only on my 3rd day...
... Because I only get to use the PC for only 1-3 hrs a day. I don't mind Googling everything for hours end, because I already had that habit.

My current PC?? Only recently been fixed. Like 5 days ago.


I've yet to: get a genuine 8GB USB to flash a live OS into to try out if some of my other old, lower end devices are compatible running with it before actually installing it.

My current laptop's already on Windows 11 when brought -- I failed at getting any working GUI experience over WSL. Don't know how to get WSL2 yet. I fail at self-remote viewing any OS over whatever server.

Windows 10 support on my current PC will end soon. Still deciding if I'll install a Linux distro in either, or not and keep it emulated in either/both.
Or possibly double boot either/both.

Still need windows to accommodate some of my current jobs.
Else, I don't mind chains of file conversions because my boss had recently got a Mac laptop and wanted windows based files so transfers to her old laptop would be less of a hassle. Why not me practice with linux as well?

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I thought you were talking about things like frozen dinners.