As someone who's always bought music rather than getting a subscription, welcome to the club!

Do make sure to back everything up, though, I remember when Google Play Music was shut down and I needed to download everything (fortunately it was announced well beforehand so there was no need to rush).

7digital is also pretty good, I've bought a bunch of Saxon and Rainbow albums on there. As awesome as Bandcamp is, many bigger artists don't have a presence there (although King Diamond's entire discography is on there, that's cool).

> Steam, like Origin, is one of the few that refuses to support 3rd party launchers due to DRM.

I think Ubisoft games would like a word. I can't finish AssCreed Brotherhood because the Ubisoft launcher wants me to use a 2FA key which I don't have any more.

GOG's anti-DRM stance makes it the #1 store in my book. Yeah, Galaxy not being available is a bit meh, but between being able to just download the installers and back them up as well as Heroic having first-class support, I have no problems playing my games.

I used to like Xfce until KDE 4 won me over. Since Xfce switched to GTK 3, though... if you put Thunar and the Xfce system settings next to each other they don't look like they're part of the same project and that's a shame.

LXQt is great, except for the fact it can only do 'regular, italic, bold, bold italic' for font weights even when a font supports medium (my preferred font weight, regular just seems so dainty now I've gotten used to medium).

I also like the fact that it allows use of any window manager and even supports Wayland now (so Wayfire is an option).

I kinda (but not really because I don't much care about tokens and don't really know anything about models) wonder about Common Lisp. There's probably far fewer examples of CL code in any training sets than Clojure or Python or whatever, but it could still be somewhat interesting.

When I switched back in 2012 I had used an Ubuntu live disk to rescue some files from my borked Windows 7 install. After reinstalling Windows 7 I was annoyed that it didn't have ethernet drivers so I decided to just install Ubuntu. When the Amazon lens controversy happened I started distro hopping and now I bounce between OpenSUSE and Arch. If I wasn't so insistent on cutting edge software I'd probably be using Mageia, which is stable as anything.

If you wanted to recommend a distro which is a bit more 'out there' (so not just the quadfecta of Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint), I'd much sooner go with Mageia or OpenSUSE than an Arch derivative.

In 2012 I borked my Windows 7 install by messing with the registry. I then used an Ubuntu live disk to back up my data. Then I reinstalled Windows 7, but when I couldn't access the internet because I hadn't installed the ethernet driver I had a thought: 'that Ubuntu thing didn't need me to install an ethernet driver to access the internet'. So I decided to install Ubuntu instead and I've been using GNU/Linux exclusively since then. I switched away from Ubuntu when the Amazon lens controversy happened and eventually wound up bouncing between Arch and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

I haven't had any issues installing AoE Gold under Wine. Furthermore, stuff on Steam is usually trivial to get running (just click and play). With Heroic same goes for stuff on GOG (and presumably Epic as well, IDK). PlayOnLinux and Lutris have good support for games you install from CD (I probably could have used either of them to install AoE Gold, but I've been using wine directly for so long I find it more convenient to do it myself).