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    My computer is too powerful for Linux!

    This does sound like a nice feature. I'll take another look at QEMU and give it my consideration. : ) Thank you @f33dm3bits.
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    My computer is too powerful for Linux!

    Thanks for the suggestions @stan and @f33dm3bits. Donating some of this power to GOOD sounds ... well ... good. :) I'll be referring to those links soon, I think.
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    My computer is too powerful for Linux!

    Thanks @wizardfromoz. That's a lot of Linux. A lot more than I'm used to, anyway. I don't think a multi-boot environment is what I'm looking for, although maybe I could be talked into it. Rather, I think I'd like a stable host system for basic web serving, remote access, etc., and a handful...
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    [crontab][not-working]command='redshift':

    Nope. I should read more carefully. You put your script in /bin, and if your $PATH doesn't point there, you've got bigger problems. I'm not too familiar with redshift, but does it work on the GUI? That is, if you never booted into a graphical environment, would redshift do anything? Because...
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    [crontab][not-working]command='redshift':

    Double check your $PATH. I had a similar problem with a script that wouldn't run in cron. Turns out that cron wasn't looking in /home/<myhome>/bin, which is where the script lived. So I needed to add something like ... $PATH=$PATH:/home/<myhome>/bin ... to my crontab and it was off to the...
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    My computer is too powerful for Linux!

    I have the most wonderful problem. My stepson (bless him) give me an amazing PC as an early Christmas gift. It's got an 8-core CPU (liquid-cooled), 32GB of RAM, a monstrous graphics card (I forget the make and model) and a 1TB WD NVME drive that promises to boot anything I load on it in the...
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    FreeBSD and Debian can't dual boot.

    This was my first thought. Curious to see if it does the trick.
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