Replace ‘gin’ with ‘rum’ and you have my attention 😁

The increasingly inaccurately named Hitchiker’s Trilogy by Douglas Adams (…)

Aka: the trilogy in five parts? But yeah, it’s a great pick book-wise

Seconding Bazzite (or in general, UniversalBlue distros), but went a step further and created a dual-boot setup. Relatively hassle-free, aside from some minor, (probably) NVIDIA-related hiccups.

Alphabetically by bands:

The Agonist:

• Prisoners
• Orphans

Alestorm:

• Seventh Rum of the Seventh Rum
• Sunset On The Golden Age
• No Grave But The Sea

Arch Enemy:

• Deceivers
• War Eternal
• Rise of the Tyrant

As I Lay Dying:

• Shaped By Fire

Avatar:

• Dance Devil Dance
• Hunter Gatherer
• Hail the Apocalypse

Godsmack:

• The Oracle
• Faceless

Parasite Inc:

• Dead And Alive
• Cyan Night Dreams

System Of A Down:

• Steal This Album!
• Mezmerize

Hoo boy, The Agonist… It’s unfortunate they disbanded, but yeah, Lullabies for the Dormant Mind is one of their better albums. Great pick 👍

Arch Enemy - Stolen Life

And then promptly leave, before I get accused of attempted mass murder

Parasite Inc. - Function or Perish

(…) A nightmare, nicely wrapped in gold Stuffed in our heads And we just accept In our human density Bread and games modern I call it enslavement A mental enslavement And you call it life

It’s called “Needles” 😄

Fellow .NET dev here, switched to Linux for side-gigs recently.

In general, the experience is a lot better than Windows / WSL. Some general remarks on the setup (relevant mostly for Debian-based distros, so YMMV):

• Rider / VSCode suggestion is spot on; go with the former if you have cash to spare and you’re fine with snaps, otherwise - DevKit can do DevKit things (with the only problem here being lack of .dcproj support in VSCode; can be ignored with proper integration test setup).
• Containerization of DBMS: by all means, go for it if you have the resources to spare.
• Possible gotchas:
  • If you’re going to use MS apt feed for .NET runtime / SDK, set up apt preferences to point to their feed for dotnet packages. Otherwise, you’re in for a bad time when running updates.
  • Docker: personally, I recommend Rancher Desktop for this purpose, as Docker Desktop on Windows left a bad taste in my mouth. If you’re fine with the latter, it’s up to your own preferences then.
  • Test containers: if you do use it with anything else than standard, bare-bones Docker setup, you’ll need a custom config; stumbled upon that the first time I tried running integration tests.

Some of recommendations I did not already see, that are not-that-well-known; all of these are various flavors of melodic death metal:

Parasite Inc. - Once and for All

Avatar - Bloody Angel

The Agonist - Panophobia (unfortunately, the band is now defunct)

At home: FLACs ripped from CDs (prefer to buy albums I enjoy instead of Spotifying them) -> KORG DS-DAC 100 -> TEAC AX-501 -> Elac Carina BS243.4

On the go: The same FLACs on Pixel 6 Pro -> B&O Beoplay HX

Seconding this. B&O know their stuff when it comes to sound (though I’d avoid TWS due to having bad experience with them myself); currently rocking HX, seem to work fine

Almost every track off of this album is an absolute banger 😃