So your head is stuck up your arse and you refuse to exert the effort to extract it.
God help us if the majority of the country matches your level of apathy, 'cause we’re all fucked six ways from Sunday if so.
Anecdotally, I have a Baja. Replaced the head gaskets two years ago this past summer. Then past March, I thought the HGs failed again. Waited until summer, bought a cheap Outback to drive around in the meanwhile, then threw a canopy up (I don’t have a garage). Pulled the engine and discovered the threads in the aluminum block had failed on one of the head bolts. Drilled it out, threaded it, and popped a steel insert in (Time-Sert kit).
I’ve owned enough Subarus over the years to love the boxer engines. Won’t touch a transverse mounted engine, personally. They’re always a pain to work on. Having a bed available, small though it may be, fits my lifestyle perfectly. Until another mfg puts out a small “ute” EV, I’m gonna keep wrenching on the Baja for as long as I can.
I’ve been running Gentoo on my desktop for twenty years (it’s survived multiple changes in hardware, even going from Intel to AMD hardware). It’s fine for my laptop, too.
But my NAS/media server? KUbuntu. Easy peasy, slap it on there, update regularly, and I don’t worry about it.
Been in the Valley of Despair (Gentoo) for twenty years.
I think I like it here.
“Modern journalism is useless”, but when Jerry Nixon said “last”, you’re telling us he really meant “latest.”
Go on, pull the other one. No really, it’s got bells on it.