I dual boot fedora with plasma (it has all my laptop drivers without me having to install anything) with Windows and it’s pretty great, but I was out of Linux for a long time and there’s things I don’t remember. So I’m missing stuff and don’t have the time to relearn what I knew 20 years ago.

It works well enough for day to day tasks and dev work. Windows works well enough to run some games.

But still, a smaller, more caring community is better than a gigantic crowd of strangers, isn’t it?

I think it depends on what you’re after. I like to bullshit, but mainly I’m looking up product reviews from real people instead of professional reviewers, how to do some niche crap in one of my million hobbies, and getting technical info. Speaking only for myself a big ol’ group is better.

For someone who wants to build and participate in community, make connections with folks who share the same interests, and talk to the same folks all the time a small and caring community is going to be much better.

With all that nonsense being said, I’m not going to be upset no matter how it turns out. I’ll hang out, talk about drinking and whatever food I want to make, and try to find my answers here first.

I loved iGoogle. I had my feeds set up just how I liked them. Then I moved to protopage when that went to the graveyard. Then a bunch of things (not everything) stopped updating.

I went back to check it out a few weeks ago and even fewer things were updating. A lot of places just let RSS fall by the wayside.

I’m enjoying this whole thread of sandwiches, so thank you for making it! If I want practical I’ll do ham and cheese with greens and tomatoes on sourdough or one of those BLTs you mentioned with fresh tomatoes right off the vine. But you asked for FAVORITE.

So now I’ve got to smoke a prime rib this weekend. I’ve got a 4 bone out in the deep freeze that I’ll need to pull out tonight in honor of this thread.

I read this after I posted and now I feel bad for my ridiculously involved sandwich.

My favorite was invented by a friend of mine as far as I know. It’s a modified cheesesteak. Like a Tex Mex cheesesteak I guess.

Start by smoking a prime rib. The method is outside the scope of this discussion but I’ll happily share another time. Slice it super thin, season with SPG and cumin. We don’t smoke a prime rib just for the sandwiches, but we always have them when we have leftovers.

Separately, make some smoked queso. Again, this is outside the scope but don’t just do Velveeta and Rotel, make a bechamel sauce add your cheeses, and use fresh tomatoes and peppers, then pop the pan on the smoker to get the smokey flavors infused.

Pop some butter, onions, bell pepper, jalapeno, garlic, and mushrooms in a pan to saute. Once they’ve softened add the thin slices of smoked rib roast and cook for another minute or two.

Put the mixture on a toasted hoagie roll and cover liberally with smoked queso and a sprinkle of grated Oaxacan cheese. Enjoy your delicious heart attack.

Note: this can be done the poor man’s way with cheaper or easier cuts of beef (try it with a chuck eye steak which is several dollars per pound cheaper) or chicken, and can be done with Velveeta and Rotel queso that more people are familiar with. You’ll get no judgement from me. I just love it a specific way and wanted to share.

That would be fantastic.