2022-10-10 Update

After knowing how poorly Windows & KDE implemented external display, there is just no comparison. If you don’t game, MacOS is your only logical choice.

Now that I’ve used all 3 of the operating systems (more if you count the different distros of Linux) extensively, I’m finally able to make a comparison.

I’ve been using Linux desktop exclusively for about 3 months. It’s really great, much better than I thought it will be.

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I’ve read some Hugo Award for Best Short Story winners, and only like 1 is good, others are either mediocre or just straight-up trash.

To be fair, I didn’t really read the winners of Hugo Award for longer stories, because most of them don’t have Chinese translations, and reading them raw would just take me so much time. Short stories, on the other hand, are really really short, like I could finish most of them in 30-40 minutes, sometimes less, and book publishers often just post them for free on their websites, like a blog post, so reading them is really a fast and convenient way to absorb some Hugo Awardees.

Unfortunately, although reading short stories in a quiet room with some chill music on really gives me some precious peaceful time, most of the stories are very bad, or at least don’t deserve the award. The following is what I’ve read:

See my personal book wiki entry for more.

I finished the prequel, Words of Radiance at 2018 January. At that time, Oathbringer had just been published (2017 November), and I knew I would have to wait perhaps a year or more if I decided to wait for the Chinese translation. I was also pretty confident about my English skills at that time, so, I decided to just buy the original version online.

I thought I would finish before the translation was out.

I was wrong.

Author: Philip K. Dick

It’s not a long story, but it still took me quite some time to finish, because I have no idea what Philip K. Dick is trying to say, especially toward the end of the book.

author: Amal El-Mohtar

year: 2016

2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story

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Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2014) LMFAO

You can read this piece of absolute garbage here.

author: John Chu

Author: Frank Herbert

Finally finished Dune. I’ve been reading it for like half an year.

Really cannot understand how “great” the book is. But tbf, what Dune is to sci-fi is like what The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, and you can’t really too critical with these foundational works with modern eyes as many of the later works kind of iterate on them, so many of the groundbreaking elements at that time just becomes unoriginal and repetitive to you.