Admittedly, I have not used AI, but that probably would be overwhelming compared to everything else you have listed so far. (In other words, the time spent learning it would overshadow the amount of gain you would have from it)

But I believe everything else you’ve mentioned is probably achievable, even if it’s not all at once. I do not use that social media sites, so I don’t have an immediate answer, but I can assist in thinking about the problem. (Programming is all about solving problems you don’t know how to solve yet) It’s also iterative, you don’t have to have a complete solution to make your life a lot easier.

Let me ask some questions that may help:

• What are the most common kinds of formatting that you do?
• What are the various syntax tools that these social media sites use?
  • I honestly could not find an easy answer to this, which surprised me.
• Is there a formatting syntax that can already be converted to other kinds of syntax that you want to do?
  • My go to for that is Markdown, which is usually promising, but I do not know your needs.

It’s always good to break your problem down into smaller problems first, and then solve each small problem, one at a time.

Let me know if that helps, and feel free to provide more details.

There are a few open source game projects I follow. I suppose the most famous one is the Freespace 2 source code project. Although it didn’t start open source, the original devs open-sourced it later. It has great support, and a great modding launcher called Knossos. To play the game, even with the source code, you either need the original disks or a copy of the installer from GoG, but it’s really cheap. Getting it working on Windows is pretty easy, but Linux is only slightly more complicated. (Fortunately, there’s a new launcher that makes it way easier).

If you’re interested, let me know.

I have a lot of PCs for different purposes, so this answer could probably be considered cheating. It really depends on what I am doing. I’ll go in order of Highest usage to Least usage, and separate professional usage and personal usage.

Personal

• Future gaming PC: PopOS
  • Maybe breaking my own ordering rules a little bit, but this will see the most use when I’m done.
  • I am currently in the process of building this.
  • I am finally going to try to not use windows for gaming, it’s possible it could be futile, but Valve’s work on Wine/Proton has made amazing strides.
• Previous gaming PC: Dual boot Ubuntu 22.04/Windows 10
  • This is likely to become almost primarily an Ubuntu machine soon.
  • Not compatible with windows 11, the windows part is around only to preserve files at this point
    • Once I copy everything I want and need, I will see if I can move my filesystems around, this will probably be a huge pain.
• “Gaming” Laptop: Windows 10
  • This is merely my most powerful laptop, it would never outperform my future gaming PC, but it’s certainly a lot more convenient.
  • I’m considering switching over to some flavor of linux at some point, but I’m not ready to do that yet. (Plus I have to see what works with this laptop)
  • It is compatible with Windows 11, but I’m not sure if I want to do that. (I may do it just to get the free license, if I need to)
• Media laptop: Windows 10
  • Originally a “gaming” laptop, it can’t keep up nowadays.
  • I converted it into a streaming platform for my console games
  • Not compatible with windows 11, so when it goes out of support I will need to find an alternative.
    • This will be tricky, the last time I tried to install Ubuntu on it, I got kernel panics during the install process. I’m sure there’s something I’m missing to make it work, but I don’t have the time/patience/urgency right now.
• College Laptop: Ubuntu 22.04
  • I used this primarily for college when I was continuing my education.
    • It made connecting to the University’s Linux servers a lot easier.
  • Has a development environment set up on it.
  • The least powerful “general purpose” computer I have
  • I’m not sure what to do with this computer now.
• “Pi Hole” Raspberry Pi: Raspbian
  • Used as my personal DNS server.
  • Kind of single purpose at the moment.
  • I’m not sure if I should use it for anything else?

Professional

I’m not going to list every computer here, so I’ll just categorize them by purpose.

• Development: Windows 10
  • I’m a .NET Developer
  • Visual Studio Enterprise requires Windows 10+
• Server: Windows Server
  • For deploying web applications
• CI/CD : Various Linux OSes
  • Used for version control servers and CI/CD Pipelines

I personally find Operating Systems to be situational. I wouldn’t say one is really better than the other. However, I’ve been moving away from Windows for personal use lately, as I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with the overall user experience. I know that custom shells for Windows exist, but I don’t know how good of an idea it is to use them.

I am trying it out just to understand it’s nuances. I think the concept is solid, but I feel like the federated part could use a little more work so it’s more possible to use whatever lemmy instance you prefer. Signing up on any particular instance is fine (Though I wish it had more options), but if I cannot get onto an instance that I prefer, it’s tricky to curate my experience.

That being said, I think it is a fixable problem, and I have ideas to fix that based upon other websites I’ve used, but I have no idea where to submit them.