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  • rozodru@pie.andmc.catoLinux@lemmy.mlGentoo experience?
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    2 days ago

    if you have the time for it, then go for it.

    Keep in mind and i’m sure you already know this but you have to compile everything yourself so it WILL take time. I have it on a sort of hobby machine and I remember just getting Firefox to compile/install took awhile. The benefit of this is you get an extremely custom tailored system for yourself. But like I said it’s going to take you awhile to get to that point. If you want something immediate to daily drive and want more of a custom system as opposed to Arch then maybe give NixOS a shot. I switched from Arch to NixOS on my main machine and I love it, won’t use anything else. But if you’re patient and have the time to dedicate to Gentoo then go for it, it’s fun to play around with on a Saturday afternoon.





  • because nearly 100 years ago someone else did it to their people and now they’re saying “it’s our turn.”

    This is purely about extermination and vengeance towards a people that had NOTHING to do with any of Israels previous issues exactly like the Jewish people in German had NOTHING to do with the issues Nazi Germany felt they were experiencing at the time. The Palestinian people are simply there, on land the Israelis perceive as rightfully theirs and they want them gone JUST like Nazi Germany.

    But Zionists won’t admit to the correlation. Oh in their heads they know fully well WHY they’re doing it, they just won’t admit to it. They won’t say “this is payback.”




  • no. and why does it matter to you so much? If someone wants to say they switched to linux then awesome, have at it, good job, have fun and all that. but then you roll in with “ok…how are you using it? show me!” who cares? you’re literally gate keeping an operating system.

    you don’t have to commit to a damn operating system, it’s a tool. If I had a Brand A hammer and it really sucked I’d swap it for a Brand B hammer that was suggested to me. Now if Brand A suddenly started producing a better hammer and admitted their previous hammer was garbage then I would consider going back to Brand A.

    If Microsoft came out tomorrow and said “you know what? we were wrong. We were wrong about AI, we were wrong about 11, we’re going to provide you with a better OS” I would consider going back to it. I’d at the very least try it. Or if someone came out with something brand new that wasn’t Linux or MacOS or Windows and it was a better tool than all of them I’d switch to that.

    The point is I’m not going to lose sleep over someone wanting to switch and then not, why do I care? I got more stuff to worry about than some random stranger on the internet not using a specific OS. What DOES bother me more are people replying to comments where someone is having issues with Windows and says “just use linux” that isn’t helping anyone and you come off as a basement dwelling asshole that’s waiting on their chicken nuggies to finish heating in the microwave.




  • for non-techie users that want to switch it’s great. Yes the updates are slow and few/far between but I mean if you go the paid route you get tech support and a few other software packages/themes.

    I think for people who just want to keep older machines going and simply want to do work and browse/stream it’s fine. beyond that? good luck. I’ve heard that upgrading it is worse than Ubuntu and it’s based on Ubuntu so…

    But Zorin has pretty good PR so that’s what’s going for them. Honestly though if you want a new user on linux that isn’t comfortable with it just yet I feel there are better options that “just work” like Bazzite or Mint.




  • rozodru@pie.andmc.catoLinux@lemmy.mlSystem keeps freezing
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    17 days ago

    looks like a bad Nvidia driver that isn’t playing nice with Niri since it looks like Niri triggered it. Try installing temporarly another Wayland WM like say River or Hyprland and see if it still happens. Bet it’s not going to happen on River, bet it will happen on Hyprland.

    Reinstall your Nvidia drivers, update your kernel, update Niri if it isn’t already up to date.






  • I…I don’t understand. Why would you use Bazzite for software development and not gaming when user is not a gamer but just likes KDE?

    you can literally put KDE on anything. Bazzite isn’t friendly to installing anything that isn’t a flatpak or whatever.

    Just use a different distro. you don’t need Bazzite. Switch them to like Fedora KDE or something.

    And to people in this thread trying to push a camel through a pin hole…why? you’re talking about setting up VMs and Distroboxs or just using flatpaks on Bazzite when the most painless solution is to just switch distros.

    You picked the wrong distro, just switch them to something more appropriate for what they want to do.