stella

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stella,

Usually, yes.

A great way to breath new life into old hardware is to install Linux.

stella,

I use an Nvidia laptop, and none of the issues I have with Wayland are from the GPU.

stella,

It’s definitely ridiculously expensive.

stella,

Dang, looks like you got got.

stella, (edited )

Yikes.

Building everything from scratch is one thing.

Maintaining it is completely different.

stella,

Isn’t that what file system permissions are for?

stella,

That’s fine. We got our powerful computers to work with until then.

stella,

they’re hardly dead…

It’s a matter of perspective. Just like how microsoft is dead for a lot of us because we don’t use their products, the same can be said about IBM and red hat.

stella, (edited )

Maybe it’s just me, but if you’re doing something technical enough to require commercial support, shouldn’t you have a competent IT team that doesn’t need it?

Just seems weird to pay additional money for technical support of your OS when teams using Debian don’t have to. Are they just more competent on average than teams using Red Hat?

stella,

Eh. Not sure why people would go with red hat over debian these days.

stella,

Good for software that isn’t available any other way.

I never use flatpaks if something is available in the Manjaro repository or AUR.

stella,

Cinnamon is more unified, but I don’t think any DE has as many features as KDE.

stella,

I haven’t used Mint in years, but back in the day downstream distros from Debian often worked better for desktop users than Debian itself.

This is because of Debian’s ‘stability’ philosophy. This meant that bugs could stick around for years in Debian stable after being fixed upstream.

Of course, with each new stable release, there should be fewer bugs so this problem should become less over time.

I’ve considered switching from Manjaro to Debian on my laptop, but then I think about how great the AUR is. That’s pretty much the main appeal for Manjaro over Debian, for me.

stella, (edited )

Gnome3 devs prioritize what makes their jobs easier over what makes user experiences better.

I recommend switching to KDE if you want a DE with more features.

stella,

This is a lie told often enough it’s become true.

stella,

Buy it, install Linux, see if it works.

If it doesn’t, return it and buy something else.

Computers usually have 30-days no questions asked return policies.

If you’re listening to people that say to buy specific things, then odds are you going to be paying more for less.

Don’t let their theory replace your experience.

stella,

Utilities that manage packages on your system.

Graphical ones include Pamac and Synaptic.

The command-line ones are more known: apt (debian), pacman (arch), rpm (fedora), and yum (suse)

stella,

Fun fact: the scumbag Brendan Eich who made Brave is the same scumbag Brendan Eich who made Javascript!

Yay!

stella,

Yes, the main source of trust is in the repository and its maintainers when choosing a distro.

stella,

Not sure why you would want to.

Linux package managers are state of the art.

Am I going off the deep end by considering Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite?

I recently switched my server over to running Plex and Home Assistant in Docker. I like the ease of transfer (just move my compose file and one directory where I have stored all the configs and I’m set) as well as the simple permissions management to give access to directories....

stella,

Yes.

stella,

Love KDE. Hope they maintain their position as the ‘swiss-army knife’ of DEs.

stella,

Maybe it’s just me, but I love KDE5 so much I’m just not looking forward to 6.

stella,

desktop that represents my soul haha.

As someone who makes their KDE look as much like Windows 7 as possible, this hit home for me 🥹.

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