Never got Genshin working on any distro, even the “anime game launcher” launcher

I drove Alpine a while back and the docs are amazing for getting every little thing setup. LabWC, Wayfire, and River (now river-classic) all ran perfectly with a fully custom EWW bar/launcher/notifications ontop of them. I only ever played the OG S.T.A.L.K.E.R games and Anomaly on that setup but they ran without hiccup

Its still installed on my laptop but I haven’t really touched it in quite some time, and my desktop is on Bazzite since its mainly a gaming machine. I dont recommend Alpine as a desktop distro because of the amount of setup/configuration needed, but I find it much nicer to use as a dev system than Arch

To everyone asking who linux breaks for: me. My desktop? Wont wake from sleep half the time (motherboard issue, fuck you ASRock), I have a laptop that wont load its wifi drivers unless you sacrifice 12 children too it(it legit just had wonky drivers being an older intel wifi chip), audio and video issues out the ass on those old dell office pcs

Just because you won the hardware lottery doesnt mean wonky devices dont still exist. And sometimes people shop by price of hardware not its linux compatibility

Thanks for sharing that project I had no idea it existed and it looks super cool! Although it isn’t a maintained distro/real alternative as said by the creator themselves in the talk

One big diffrence between NixOS and Guix not mentioned is NixOS(the operating system only, the package manager is agnostic) is directly tied to systemD. Nothing against systemD but if your also interested in crafting/learning everything about your system your have more freedom with Guix and the NonGuix repo (nonguix is like an unofficial AUR for guix)

Funny enough my old cat only had an issue with being cradled, absolutely hated it, but had no problem being held out like a gun and pretend fired

Your lucky she’s content with the desk instead of laying fully across your keyboard like my old cat lol

KDE plasma wayland user since 5.20 specifically because the x11 version would bug out on me having a 240hz monitor alongside my 60hz drawing tablet. Plasma 6.7 has fixed basically every bug with refresh rate/animations I’ve had at this point including that frame rate one(which I think was caused by the animation reading from disk instead of ram?)

iirc Debians reasoning is that on a desktop you dont really have any ports exposed anyway, so theres nothing to firewall. And on a base install your expected to follow the documentation that includes a guide to setting up a firewall

As someone else mentioned the framework pro is a good pick and also the cool new kid on the block with the repair and upgradablity(however you spell that). However spec and build quality wise, any high end business laptop will have full linux support since their be used for IT/software dev and robust enough construction to not break in a few years

That Dell looks good, ive heard good things about the new Lenovo too, really just go with whichever option is cheaper

OP this is a great laptop if this commenter is selling at a reasonable price since Dell has official linux support on this laptop since dev work is one of its main purposes

GOG? They’re objectively more in line with Linux ideals then Steam will ever be, considering GOG games are 100% usable without the launcher and they didnt pioneer micro transactions

A lot of people overblowing this in the replies right now. Machine-id is mainly used by fleet admins at companys to manage individual devices, to generate system application keys, or tag logs (and yes systemD provides this file, but so does dbus and many non systemD applications depend on it). Chrome and Firefox might access your machine-id but their also tracking you in much worse ways by default aswell, if you care about privacy your probably already using an alternative browser that dosent use your machine-id

The problem isnt windows or linux having a machine-id but that your applications are not properally sandboxed (flatpak does not sandbox /etc by default, so no, flatpak is not a solution) or that your using applications that handle security poorly

Actaully super nice using it with KDE or a independant window manager- But then you just have all the desktop packages installed anyway so my resource useage is the exact same as my arch setup…

Alpine is amazingly small compared to other bare bones distros, but that saved 10mb of ram doesn’t mean much when your desktop and browser are using a gig

Havent used it but from what I see it looks like a configured guix setup, like how fedora atomic desktop is to ublue

Adhd “hack”, sams club mattesses are relativly cheap and have a zipper to take the top layer off to wash. Saved my ass when I was cleaning my room after a deperssive episode and could make the bed feel like new again

KDE is commited to keeping the desktop itself SystemD agnostic. Their new login manager does depend on SystemD, but you can run KDE Plasma from any login manager

SystemD isnt exactly a program but more of a group of projects, the only “core” SystemD software on most distros is the init system… Which you can run completely without SystemD’s UserDB system (the part being talked about in the post).

Basically this means you as a user dont have to do anything but switch away from projects that depend on SystemD’s UserDB (like Gnome), not SystemD as a whole

However if you do want to move away from SystemD as a whole you can replace your init system with another one, gentoo’s wiki is a good starting point for learning a bit more: wiki. Personally I love using openrc but of you have no need to touch init files… Dont switch

For me I can largely minimize this by working full time and having a time consuming hobby. Recently I’ve opened up to my roomate and we’ve gotten really close, but when I feel like I’m becoming obsessive I try to sidetrack myself on working on 3d print models or coding or some long story based game. It’s not a perfect solution (definitely hard to peel myself off of them sometimes if I’m already around them) but I’ve at least gotten to “not annoying enough to cut off” levels lol

Defaults are good for me but I like mounting my secondary drive to ~/Storage with subfolders media, projects, games