Astronomer

Welcome, Idiot! Congrats on joining the clan. See ya on the battlefield!

Sunspot!

Steam has a good choice of Linux games, but there are more for Windows and not all games will work under Linux (unless the game developers natively support it). Video drivers are improving, but they're not equal to Windows yet. Yeah, Wine and its derivatives will run some Windows software, but I've never had a need for it. The open source equivalents of most applications have been more than good enough. I like Linux (I use Mint for PC's) as a general personal machine OS. At our house (just the 2 of us), we have Windows 10, Linux, OS X, iOS, and Android on the personal side, and my servers are BSD (FreeNAS), Linux (Ubuntu, Centos), and Windows Server 2012 R2. For gaming, it's Windows 10. You can dual-boot your PC to have your cake and eat it too. I tend to do this on my machines. That's my pre-caffeine ramble on the topic Cheers!

I heard a cardinal outside my window this morning, and there she was, not at all concerned about me:

WOW! That is an awesome shot. Well done!

Hi @@SGTSmeg, Thanks! I used a Canon 70D DSLR, a Sigma 150-600mm "Contemporary" lens at 600mm, and a very stable Bogen tripod with a Manfrotto 501 head. The image was cropped by about 50%, and no sharpening applied.

Accidental selfie!

F1.8, ISO 10,000 (to get a really grainy look)

Wow! We only had rain just west of London. Sorry to hear that you bore the brunt of the storm.

Ummmm...yeahhhh.. Nope. Nopenopenope.

I found an abandoned homestead today as I rambled through the countryside, looking for interesting subjects.

Very sad news to hear. My sincerest condolences go out to his XI friends and family. He was a fun person to play COD5 with.