Once you have experience in a variety of languages and frameworks, and you’re used to switching to the right tool for the job, picking up something new takes a couple weeks. Everything has it’s quirks and right way of doing things, but spaghetti code and bad patterns will always stand out.

If the engineer only has experience in one language, I’d be concerned about hiring them outside of a Jr position at all. But after they have experience in 4+ languages, asking them to learn a new one should be like asking a painter to use a new color. I would expect a good sr engineer to have used many languages over the years to satisfy different requirements.

And thanks to all the new LLMs, picking up a new language has never been easier. You don’t need to go through all the tutorials anymore. You can just ask ChatGPT to give you examples of all types of loops in Python to get a feel for them.

So if I’m interviewing somebody, I care less if they’re an exaxt match on exactly what we think we need and more if they’re capable of learning.

I use xanmod since I use debian based distros. Makes things feel much more responsive to my input, which is what I’m after.

Run some hardware tests and make sure you’ve got the latest firmware installed from framework. I have never seen that on my framework laptop (11th gen Intel) and I’m also running pop.

Sometimes you get the opposite too. Like an 8pm slack message stating the head of engineering has “decided to step down effective immediately” (aka: forced to resign). Which is a nice surprise cause you had a meeting booked with them for tomorrow.

You may want to try pop_os if one of your main uses is gaming. But debian is very straight forward after you enable the non-free repos.

The is a setting in steam to allow that to happen in the background.

I think this depends on the GPU and drivers, I know some professional/enterprise ones can be divided among multiple VMs and a host. I haven’t had to deal with this because it seems like a headache to try. And everything I use works on Linux anyway.

If you depend on a piece of software for your career, you shouldn’t try to force it to work on another OS or some hardware it doesn’t have support for. Just run Windows.

You could try using a Windows VM, or even doing GPU passthrough. But do you really want to troubleshoot that for 2 days when an update breaks everything?

Pop_os for my laptop and desktop. I use these machines for dev work and gaming. I want to spend as little time as possible doing maintenance. Debian for all servers and containers. Very stable, maintenance doesn’t take much effort.

If I was running a pure gaming system I’d probably go with Arch.

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I haven’t had this issue in Linux with my g703 or g903 using my powerplay mousepad. I’ve had it for a few years at least, and used it on 3 different machines.

Have you tested it on another machine yet? Are you connected directly to it or through a hub?

I’ve never tried to do that but probably. It might require you to have a recent kernel and Nvidia drivers installed.

Have you used the fancontrol script from lm-sensors yet?

I can’t remember the last time I had to use the command line to do something that wasn’t me writing/publishing code or managing a server. It may have been years.

Maybe give some full spectrum CBD tincture a try first (legal almost everywhere, including all states). CBD can lower blood pressure by relaxing blood vessels. Which can prevent migraines somehow (maybe similar to getting more oxygen into your brain, some migraine medications work that way too).

Different strains can make a huge difference if you ever try it again. Most sativa’s give me a headache, even in edible form, so I avoid them. A few indica strains work really well for me and I microdose every day with those.

Hope you find something that works well for you. Migraines suck.

Caffeine can help. What really helped me was I started using cannabis to treat anxiety years ago. It ended up curing my migraines at the same time, which was a pretty nice surprise. I went from having 2-3 a week to 1-2 a year (and with way lessened symptoms).

I used to run debian testing, but as the branch name implies you will experience the occasional break. If you’re doing straight gaming, Arch seems like the distro to be on. I game and work (dev stuff) on my machines so I run pop_os (with xanmod kernel).

I love javascript and how loosey goosey it is, I must be the odd one out. Then again my apps tend to be database driven so it’s mostly just a UI and very thin API layer.