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Seconded. My birth control works great for me, so I don't have any particular need to talk about it unless directly asked. If I was unhappy with it, I'd be much more likely to complain about it and ask other people for advice.

Totally agreed. When I left college I was convinced I'd never work for a startup because of the terrible stereotypes about startup culture. I love programming, but there is nothing I love so much that I want to do it all day every day and never do anything else. Even if you're a founder and would actually make a life-changing amount of money if the company was acquired, I really believe it's counterproductive never to take breaks. That's how you end up with code you take one look at and rewrite the next morning.

Ironically I work for a startup now, but one with a shockingly sane approach to working hours. I specifically asked about that in the interview and it turns out they were telling the truth, they really do care about work life balance.

I recently switched to Mint from Windows 8.1 and it's been shockingly easy. I run triple monitors at work and I was worried getting them all working was going to be a terrible experience. A coworker who runs Ubuntu offered to help me get it set up, but in the time it took for him to get a cup of coffee and come back, I had installed the driver Mint recommended and everything just worked. It runs great on my laptop too, so far I haven't had any driver issues.

Not all of my steam games run under linux but quite a few of them do and the ones I've tried so far have run just as well as they do under windows.

Me too. I'd be really unhappy if I could only talk about my day with my husband in terms of "the computering went well" or "the computering went badly."

Seconded, transcripts are really helpful!