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The fighting scenes were pretty badass. Though it had me wonderin if i have ever scene a game were you can time revives. Which i dont think i have ever played a game like that.
I read this series, though i stopped so it can get more volumes as i had caught up to the recent one at the time. Its gonna be interesting to see an anime of this.
One of my favorite clip of dale was when he was up against the zoning board for the tower of power.
Most desktop enviornments work with most distros. There will be a selection of linux users that say it doesnt matter because though its true you can make any distro look like each other. The navigations can change depending on the distro you use. I agree with most of the comments here, since you are starting out, mint is a solid choice. You get the backings of ubuntu, + its very user frienldy. A gui for packages/drivers and good sweep of software for daily usage. Im using it now since my arc 380 gpu is supported on it to use as the host for my virtual machines. ( i virtualize other distros/BSD and windows [for those pesky windows only games/programs])