Blaster M

Used DELL 5310. Intel 10th-gen, 60Whr battery (goes 8+ working hours on a charge) often 16GB RAM and at least a 256GB SSD at that price range. Upgradeable (DDR4, NVMe) too.

I would have loved to see elementaryOS as a viable option, but the whole “reformat to install new release” hurdle is a mega huge downside.

Gentoo and LFS exist as concepts. The users are compiling their project car linuxes from scratch themselves.

Debian exists. Ubuntu wants to go Pro. Mint is squished in the middle. Fedora is doing mad science, and OpenSuSE is in full “We have Fedora at home” mode. Arch arches, and Bazzite is in an existential crisis over the coming x86 32-bit apocalypse. Also Nix is nixing, I guess. All the inbetweeners are trying desperately to be relevant and up to date.

The greatest OS according to lemmites

Edit: Having an update bork your desktop setup unless you do a specific set of pre-upgrade tasks is the kind of problem people ran away from Windows over.

The comments section beautifully demonstrates the linux problem. Everyone’s a master chef in their own kitchen, but to cook for the public, you need to meet public standards. And linux people always cook at home.

For the person that diehard refuses to switch development to Wayland

Fedora KDE

Thunder, Android

top-aligned taskbar like a heretic

When they fully commit to an x64 client

Snap is Ubuntu’s sandboxed app packager. It’s like flatpak but designed more for server software. Since Ubuntu keeps their snap implementation proprietary, they control its use. They also are slowly packaging everything in Ubuntu as a snap instead of deb packages.

One diamond might give conflicting or incorrect info if there’s several things that would react to logically correct answers when firefighting. Last thing you need is to start a reaction when everything is already on fire because while it lists one reactant, it supercedes another reactant that would have been displayed on a secondary diamond.

While I run straight Fedora on some of my systems now, I do agree the Atomic versions are a boon for stability.

Used to use Ubuntu and Mint for desktops, but they are a bit too vintage with the kernel and package versions, and everything is moving very fast with Wayland replacing X11 and lots of kernel driver improvements for modern hardware (especially AMD hardware), so being on Fedora is the next best thing to the bleedingest edge Arch when it comes to uptodateness.

So in that building there’s a nonflammable reactant that’s super dangerous to life and reacts with water, and a flammable chemical that is quite toxic.

Same exeperience a few years ago, but modern Fedora (post-39) has been better than debian-based and much more up to date.

This is my answer as well. As an American, I have trust issues with Fedora being both US based and IBM owned now. That said, Fedora has been a very good OS and more reliable than Mint/Ubuntu with regards to cutting edge stuff, like VR support, drivers, and Wayland. Debian/Ubuntu/Mint and other derivatives may be ol’ reliable for servers, but as a desktop, it’s too “vintage” to keep pace with modern stuff, and I’ve had more problems with trying to get new stuff to run on them.

Leave it as is. Some people go tin foil hat about Secure Boot being insecure, but that’s like saying “don’t lock the bottom lock on your door because someone can use a lockpock in 2 seconds”.

Fedora works fine and automatically with Secure Boot, and that is an important defense against on-boot malware injection.

Better FS

I don’t see anything on being able to upgrade to a new release. Are we stil doing the nuke and pave installation every major release?