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Cake day: October 28th, 2023

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  • I started fiddling with toolbox and distrobox and really liked being able to install random stuff and build dependencies in those containers and then purge them when I was done. It keeps the system clean. The ostree distros take that mentality to the whole system.

    I also then found I liked the appliance like nature and the ability to rebase. I will sometimes rebase to the rawhide branch to try new stuff out, and then rebase back to stable. I see some people feel the read only file system is going to be an issue, but I have not had to screw with it since the very early days. I truly believe this is where most distros should be headed.








  • Organise Settings better, put common features front and centre?

    Why is finding my IP address so hard on a Windows machine? Its either open settings app and click down 3 layers deep or open a pwsh prompt and either ipconfig or Get-NetIPAddress.

    Linux click network applet in most desktop environments. Even MacOS option + click network icon








  • Any chances you guys could suggest me one setup that “just works” no ifs and no buts? Or does it not exist in the Linux world?

    You’ve given so little insight into your experience

    My most recent hardware has been fine

    • My framework 13 amd works perfectly with Fedora Kinoite.
    • My Minisforum UM780XTX has been a great Steam console with Bazzite
    • My desktop is a gigabyte x570 board with a ryzen 3700X and a 5700XT GPU, has been solid for years, running Fedora KDE and then Kinoite.
    • My workstation at work is a HP 845 G11 and it works fine, also running Fedora Kinoite

    In the past I’ve had thinkpads (an X1 carbon and a T485), also good choices

    Over my 12 years of using Linux as my daily for work and home (and about 13 years of fiddling with it on and off before that), avoid realtek hardware, avoid nvidia gpus, avoid switchable graphics, avoid strange OEM feature devices. Check hardware for compatibility before you buy it. Stick to mainstream distros, not niche 1 man community distros. I’ve moved to immutable/atomic distros because they are harder to tinker with outside of user space, as historically tinkering is what got me into trouble, now I do that in a container away from my base OS.