back pain :(

abortion clicker mid game: you own hundreds of clinics as well as think-tanks which dismantle sex ed courses as well as politicians which strengthen pro choice institutions

if you're able to spend that much time digging through settings, installing scripts, and/or using commandline, even if it's only while you're following instructions, you won't struggle with linux. you will spend less time doing all of that shit, because your OS will cooperate with you (and you won't have so many things you want to get rid of).

the most 'beginner-friendly' distros have graphical installers that you don't need to delve into too much if you don't want to, try and minimise the amount of time you need to spend in terminal, and have user interfaces designed to let you hit the ground running. there are tons of easy to find resources if you get stuck, and people will help you. if you can follow those instructions about how to get deep into your windows settings, you'll be able to install linux. mutuals I will literally sit on a discord call and go through your install step-by-step with you if you still find it intimidating, or do it for you if we know each other irl!!

I really really promise that linux isn't scary, and especially not if you've been spending time trying to force windows to cooperate with you. You Can Try It.

hello prev! yes there is :)

first step is to get your bootable ISO, some instructions if you need them: here. some guides suggest balenaEtcher, but there have been some privacy issues raised with that, so Rufus as shown in this guide is a better bet.

once you've got that, boot into the BIOS configuration screen. this is explained in most linux distro installation guides, an example from linux mint's documentation: here

now you've selected your USB, you can boot into the live environment! for some distros, this is automatic once you've selected the ISO in the previous step -- in others, you might get a screen asking to choose between going straight to installation or running the live environment. another example from linux mint's documentation: here

you're now in a session of your chosen linux distro without installing it! if you want to get back to your currently-installed OS, you can reboot your computer. or you can carry on to installing the distro you're trying out :)

instead, all her brainspace spent on that song would be replaced with the vivid memories of roman gladiator, taylaurius velox. she's able to hide this at first, but her music begins to take on a gradually romaner and romaner tint. at first, people are like "damn, she's getting REALLY conservative, huh" and other people are like "wow, she's so deep, she knows what a rubicon is" but eventually travis kelce leaves her out of nowhere (he wasn't sure if dating someone possessed by a roman gladiator made him gay or not and anyway he was getting sick of being like "we're going to play the lions" and taylor being like "LIONS? WHERE?") and taylor publishes an entire brutus themed album about this betrayal and it's beginning to weird people out

and so eventually travis kelce is getting like, bomb threats sent to his family for leaving taylor and eventually he's like "okay, okay, i left her because she kept having all these vivid nightmares of gladatorial combat and she kept saying that football was giving her the ick because we never actually killed anybody for the glory of rome" and then he just gets more bomb threats because he left a struggling woman during a mental health crisis

and eventually taylor is writing music about her forbidden roman senator lover and her fanbase is either whittled WAY down or WAY up because people want to watch this trainwreck happen (or maybe she influences culture so hard that we're just all really into rome now) but she's being super cagey about the name of this roman senator. until. and now here's the twist:

weird al has been getting all of the same vivid memories of taylaurius velox. and he still has all his memories of her old songs. so he's writing all these detailed song parodies of taylor swift songs that don't exist anymore including specific details about their shared gladiatorial reality that taylor has never shared with anybody else. including that her lover's name was publius, and she's been calling him Poob for short

at this point a lot of original swifties are leaving. they could do the brutus stuff, but they really can't survive poob. taylor makes a clapping back at the haters song including the lyric "these bitches don't know publius" and it ends up all over all sorts of merch. there's a renewed archaeological interest in roman gladatorial combat

most importantly, the internet discourse is the best it's ever been. does this make taylor swift transmasc? is travis kelce problematic for leaving his fiancee while she gradually morphs into a roman gladiator? is this good queer representation? if taylaurius velox was a gay man, does that mean the gaylors were technically correct? is weird al morally wrong for capitalizing off of her music if she cant remember it anymore? was weird al sent by god to torment taylor swift?