What Linux distro are you trying?

Right now I have Linux Mint Cinnamon running in a Virtual box. Tomorrow I'm going to run out to get an extra USB stick and try to run it from there to make sure everything works. The virtual box environment gives me weird quirks. Ultimately I'm switching regardless because Windows has annoyed me that much, but I'm not super tech savvy so trying to take baby steps into it.

I haven't played around with mint too much. Seemed pretty good though. I ended up going with Ubuntu when I ditched windows in 2020.

windows is self imposed torture

It was never great, but I needed to know it well for work anyways and I'd rather be baking or gardening than be computer experimenting so I just never bothered learning anything else. But it's just gotten worse and worse and worse that now I'm leading the whole permaculture guild away from it... Which feels a little like the blind leading the blind but hey we're trying our best 🤣

I tried Ubuntu around then as well but couldn't hack it; there was too much going on and I hadn't girded my loins enough for the transition. This time I'm emotionally committed and also taking the transition much slower so fingers crossed it sticks for me this time 🤣 I do like Mint more right now, it feels more like what I'm used to.

that sounds like fun actually. charting new ground with others and learning along the way… thats the real stuff.

I started a new club called the Sovereignty Salon and it's to do exactly that 🥰 already there's so much momentum and I've only held three meetings.

Right behind you! As soon as windoze goes cloud only wind 12 or 14 likely. I'm out. Potentially just run a local LLM that vibe codes everything I need in real time!

What's funny to me is many I'm organizing are actually very against AI. I asked them if they thought they were avoiding AI by just not using the explicit AI tools while remaining on legacy OS, software, and social media. So that's what's inspired more transfers, eventually I'll have to get them on board with using AI more because it's an important tool that isn't going away.... But baby steps, baby steps 🤣

I always give this piece of advice, though now it might be outdated (I haven't used Windows since XP) : something working different than Windows doesn't mean it's bad or broken. Keep an open mind that the way things are done might be different, which sometimes will make you happy and sometimes will make you upset. But at the very least your computer will be yours and not a rental from Microsoft.

I'm ok with Linux already. Just compiling from kernel hurts my hair. Plus regex! Also random thought: does extra ocular vision only work with another person in the room? Type of telepathy? Or... Monroe seems to see in 360 sometimes. Also described as part of Kundalini experience so... 🤔

Exactly. I am committed and it's good that it's different because it's not going to nickle and dime me over things that used to be included completely. I passionately dislike Windows at this point 🤣

That's kind of complicated to answer. When you start to experience out of body you have to question how you can see from different perspectives. If you can be out of body, then why would your body limitations still continue to limit you? The seeing part for me happened early. My friends taught me why only see out of my eyes? Maybe I could see out of my knee? If I can see out my knee, then what's stopping me from seeing like a fish might as if I had eyes on the side of my head instead of just the front? Then why need a body on the other side at all, why not be the wind and see 360? It was just persistent practice and didn't matter if another is around, although it is easier to tap into another's eyes than to be the wind. Monroe mostly stays more embodied than I was taught to, even in his OOBEs. But I think it might make it easier to be fully functioning here to remember your body even on the other side. I had my own troubles related to being taught this so young and I think life would be easier otherwise 🤣 I can't speak too much to the Kundalini experience, although I think it must be part of this. I'm just not an expert at that language and wouldn't want to mislead you.

I've been using GNU/Linux since '98. Holler if you need help.

Thanks! Pretty sure we can all "see" in many different ways if we learn. Just came into my mind that often folks demoing sightless vision have another person in the room so may well just borrow their eyes instead. Don't forget to bury yourself from time to time. It's very, (wait for it!) grounding!

Thank you! 🥰

Curious if it'd have just played with VLC (which you'll probably also want installed on linux -- though many alternatives do exist). But glad you decided to come to Linux anyway :-).