Most Linux distros are already hardened. You can use “extreme” distros but as long as there’y no need, stick to a “normal” distro first. You can switch whenever you want.

Her third tip is gold. You don’t hear that often. Linux doesn’t have to be your life. It supports it but you don’5 have to live around it.

It’s free press if they post it in the windows/mac sub, not the linux sub.

You don’t need the fastest computer in order to open word documents or write clean code.

I’d like to make a counter point to this. I’m an enthusiast and I want an immutable server. Currently, I’ve got perfectly running systems but switching from fedora to coreos wouldn’t change much in my workflow but updates happen in the background and it’s slightly more “unbreakable”. Almost everything is containerized anyway

When do you guys outgrow mint?

I like fedora’s defaults (which are very different to ubuntu/mints) and I’d still recommend it to a seasoned linux user. (I use opensuse aeon btw, but I wouldn’t recommend it to starters)

Why is mint only for starters? When do you reach the point where you outgrow it?

I like paperwm or niri

Fwiw: there us a Gnome extension to add profiles to the top bar

flatpak > distrobox > nix > appimage > brew > .deb

I never installed any gui via podman. Not sure when it applies

If an app has bugs via flatpak, then don’t use the flatpak. Maybe it’ll be resolved in a year and then switch.

Edit: removed snap from list

Installing arch is not difficult. Difficult is to keep track on innovation in the linux space. You are responsible to install and maintain everything. You have to decide if you want something like selinux, at what time it is mature enough to use it, install and use it. You have to evaluate if selinux is better than it’s “competitors”. You have to decide which firewall you use today and as soon as a new system pops up, you have to read up on it. You decide at what time flatpak is mature enough to use it. All this and much more is done and decided by distro maintainers. They keep up with new stuff and guide you. By using arch, you decide that you want to take care of it and that is ok, but no “normal” pc user who uses her PC once a week shall be expected to read upon all the computer maintenance stuff that is just of secondary importance to her.

Distrobox is useful so you don’t have to think you miss out on another distro and don’t hop around.

I think it’s astonishing that people still recommend linux based on the DE. As if there was no other difference. The big distros all support the big DEs.

On atomic distros, you install stuff mostly via flatpak and distrobox. I’d even recommend using distrobox on traditional systems because you can just kill the box if you don’t want it any longer. You can have multiple package managers at the same time installed without problems, e.g. yay, dnf and zypper. I guess you could even take your box with you when switching to a new distro (e.g. when switching from atomic fedora to opensuse as I did recently) but I have not yet done that.

Yes, management could be more end user friendly, but it’ll get there

Yes, and Aeon would even be better. Anything is just a box throw away.

The tv os Webos is based on linux.

Hence, it’s weird to say that linux isn’t ready to play videos

The llm is written in python with huggingface. He connected it to minecraft. He did not write a llm in minecraft.

fwiw, I’ve got fedora and ubuntu on the server, I don’t interact much with the underlying os, everything is in a container. The user (me) facing differences are that I’ve got podman on fedora, docker on ubuntu. Selinux on fedora vs apparmor. Cockpit on fedora vs no cockpit preinstalled on ubuntu.

I could also use arch as a base, to me, the user, it wouldn’t make much difference other than that I would have to manually install and setup all the tools that are already setup on fedora. It’s all linux.

I don’t understand how someone concludes that working for them translates to being a fascist. I understand not wanting to support it but calling them a fascist seems dumb.

New #nixos board observer candidate (https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/pull/133), working for a US autonomous weapon company and paid by Thiel dollars, casually complaining that a proposal empowers minorities too much.

Sounds like a small backpack

Sounds like you may want to install them as flatpak and or distrobox to stop messing with the system like on atomic distros