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So I also had this 22 inch Dell Inspiron whatever all-in-one outfit that I've been using as a monitor for my Mac Mini, like for months. Because when I originally got it, it had an issue. It had a hard drive issue, so I replaced the hard drive, put a one terabyte drive in it back I don't know a year or a year and a half ago maybe. And it didn't work. I tried to reinstall it, the hard drive worked, and I upgraded the RAM from 4 gigs to 8 gigs in it. And I tried to install Windows back then and I kept throwing errors on Windows, throwing errors, throwing errors. So I figured, okay, there must be something wrong with the RAM or something. So I just left it alone. It had an HDMI input, I decided I was going to use it as a monitor, which was fine, absolutely fine. So I popped in that Magic Linux installer, the same one I used on the Mac. And lo and behold, it installed. And this one is a touch screen. So now I've got Ubuntu 24 on this thing as well, but I don't even need a keyboard and mouse connected to it. I enabled the on-screen keyboard and all this kind of stuff. So now it's like a 22 inch tablet sitting on my desk that I can control with full touch screen, no mouse, no keyboard, just like a friggin tablet. I can draw on the screen with my finger, make notes, man, fantastic. Linux is out of this world these days. And anybody that's got an old piece of Apple hardware kicking around, an old iMac, Mac Mini, an old Intel MacBook, you would be doing yourself an injustice not installing Ubuntu on this thing. If you've got any of these things kicking around, like I mean an injustice. Like this thing, this Dell Inspiron, it supports multi-touch, it supports, if you're using a pen, it will support pressure sensitivity. When I got a login, I mean the pin number pops up in a touch screen. It's like incredible. I couldn't be happier. The only problem is I don't have keyboards and mice for all these bloody things. So when I want to switch from the iMac to my Mac Mini, I'm having to switch to keyboard and mouse. And I wouldn't have room on my desk for one anyway, like multiple keyboards and mice. I do have multiple mice on the desk. I do have a mouse that needs connecting to the iMac. And what I need to get eventually, a KVM. Never thought I'd need one of these things. You plug in your USB devices and a cable connects to multiple computers. And that's what I'm going to have to do. That's going to be the solution. The friggin' things are $60 here, man. $60 bucks. But this one with the touch screen, this is definitely staying in my setup. This iMac has to stay in my setup here somehow.