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I finally nuked windows

I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I...

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This is why I stay away from Flatpack and Snap (and anything node or Electron). If I get a gig with my weevly Arch update, I think it’s a lot.

Can’t avoid it with some programs, but if there are options, there’s a set of technologies I avoid like the plague.

I'm so frustrated rn.

I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro....

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EndeavourOS is pretty good, too; also Arch-based with an easy installer.

The advantage to Arch-based-distros is rolling releases, and the Arch wiki instructions are more easily followed. And right now, the Arch wiki is probably the single best resource for Linux instructions and troubleshooting on the web.

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Remember the grub update fiasco?

No. Was there a grub issue? I’ve only been running it for about 10 mos, but have had no issues in that time.

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That sounds stressfull! It’d put me off a distro, too. I had something similar happen in the early days of Gentoo - multiple times. Those trials by fire did teach me a lot, and I’m now consequently far more sanguine about the boot process, and thank god these days we have smart phones as mini-backup computers to search for solutions! Still, we’re in a time when PCs are not as indispensible, and having one down for a couple days can be a minor disaster.

Rolling updates or no, I rarely -Syu on my desktop more than once a week, and most of my machines get that TLC more like monthly. And sometimes I’ll hold out packages that require rebooting, because FTN. It probably contributes to the fact I’ve avoided these types of dramas --statistically.

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I know I should be smarter about them like you are

TIL being lazy is “smart”.

Nokia 3310!! Those were the days. When you had drive over to your hosting provider (some guy’s garage, who was paying for a T1) so you could sit at your server (a tower you’d built) to fix something that an upgrade had broken. Those experiences with dependency hell put me off Redhat forever.

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I was going to say, be careful: that’s where they keep the shotgun shells.

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The Honeywell HomeAssistant integration works pretty well, and has been around for a while, but it works through a web API. I’d prefer to have a fully local connection, but I’m not going to replace the entire HVAC control system to get it.

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A royally abused heat pump.

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My head canon is that this was many people, over time, not one person.

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I prefer the retro aesthetics of the TOS Type 1, especially for the integrated Type 1, but regardless, it’s an excellent choice for the reason you state: it’s a very versatile tool!

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Yah, editing typo. I meant the TOS Type 2, which had a removable Type 1 in it.

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It always bugs me a bit that all ST handgun-like phasers are “Type 2”, regardless of which design. I get what they’re doing, it’s just confusing. There are more than one TOS Type 2 designs, and obv. TOS Type 2 are radically different from TNG Type 2, of which there were several variations. The toxonomist in me wishes they’d been given at least sub-types; as it is, they’re categorized by (in-universe) date of introduction. But the shows and props department were sort of all over with them, making tweaks between seasons, so it can be rough to talk about without having memory-alpha up in a window.

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I have so many questions!

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Hahahaha! Fantastic!

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I’ve had this ErgoDox for, like, 6 years. It has underlights, but no backlights, but also no home row keys. The entire time I’ve owned it, in the dark I’ve struggled to find the home row, often taking seconds to find my finger placement by feeling the edges of the keyspace. It’s been a constant source of irritation, but it never occurred to me to just buy some home row caps.

Anyway, I was tidying up to office the other day, and found a little packet that came with the keyboard containing home row caps. FML, but with a silver lining, right?

In the process of swapping out those two caps, I completely broke the J switch. So now I’m (temporarily) using a Kinesis Gaming keyboard and learning an object lesson about how utterly miserable row stagger is.

My point is that backlighting would probably have saved me a lot of grief; not as much as home row keys, but still better than nothing.

Looking to make the switch

Hi everyone, looking to make the switch from windows. I’m reasonably technically apt but not a programmer by any means. I’ve been doing some homework on which distro I would like to use and pop_os kinda feels like the right direction. I’m running an Nvidia 3060TI on a Ryzen 5600 chip set on an Asus tuf motherboard. Any...

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There are distros that make it easy for non-techies to install and manage Linux, and if you have any computer aptitude at all, it should be pretty easy. The devil is in the details; if all your hardware is well supported, there’s no reason why you should ever have to open a shell. Trouble usually happens with peripherals like printers and some extremely protective vendor chips like Broadcom. In those cases, it’s usually still possible to make things work, but it can require researching, finding, reading how-tos, downloading, compiling and installing software.

I think 99% of trouble I’ve ever had in the past 20 years has been with printers+scanners or Broadcom chips - they’re very common. I read about people having issues with graphics cards, but that seems to be mainly Nvidia; I’ve only ever had Intel or Radeon, and haven’t had trouble with graphics cards in the past decade or so, myself.

Anyway, my advice is to do some distro hopping before you settle on one. Boot from a USB stick for a while; it’ll be a bit slower, but it’ll make playing with different desktop environments and distributions easier, before you commit.

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I’d bet Willy could out-smoke Snoop. It’d be a fun contest, either way.

I wonder if they’ve ever hung out together.

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Zojirushi anything. High quality stuff, that.

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You could do it in Wayland, too, it’s just that every single Wayland app would have to re-implement the rotation and rendering themselves.

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If it doesn’t work, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

This simple advice has saved me from countless analysis paralysis problems.

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If a person has to work to pick fruit from a tree so they can eat and not starve, does that mean Nature is slavery?

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Yes.

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Oh, they know. They know.

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Neither is Madonna. Those aren’t pictures of dead boomers, just famous ones.

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It cracks me up that they’ll sell chainsaws to anyone.

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