There were no flatpaks a decade ago.

downside that made me move from debian:

dist upgrades broke all the time, because I had software installed from PPAs.

the window rules one really fucks me up.

It stopped working at the beginning of the year for me and nobody gave a shit about the bug reports.

Now I have to keep juggling windows and their sizes every day like a caveman.

Bottles is a noun and not an adjective.

Also bottles has no IT related meaning, while immutable does.

“Immutable OS” is not a product name.

An “immutable” OS becomes mutable whenever a user wants to change anything on it.

Now imagine I keep describing my car as undrivable, because it only becomes drivable when somebody gets in and drives it. - You’d think that this is a completely deranged statement.

The main difference to your examples is that an “immutable OS” is in fact mutable, while none of your examples describe themselves with an adjective that is contradicting with their function/inner workings.

Flatpak is a pretty good name, because it makes software flat in the sense that it avoids having a (tall) dependency tree.

I print from my phone just fine

Ah yes, the immutable OS, except for all of the various mutable parts.

We should totally not call it anything less confusing.

How could you install anything or change any setting if it “doesn’t change” ?

How could you install anything or change any setting if it was truly immutable?

Immutable OS makes sense in certain scenarios, but not in home computing.

I recently got a Minisforum V3 and put arch on it.

Not only has it never crashed so far, but sleep and waking up worked out of the box, which was a huge surprise to me.

Nice!

If this is a HDD you could recover it.

If SSD - no.

https://lemmy.world/post/20491286

I use borgbackup with borgmatic.

Backing it up to a local hdd and to a hetzter storage box.

Since you say

change the path the .wav audio file

fyi, the sys BAT paths are also different per laptop. Just in case it doesn’t work for somebody else or for you on a different laptop.

Just fyi

a storage controller on an USB stick also has programmed “Gb” for addressing the flash storage. For example if you want to remove one of the flash chips, you could be asking how to reprogram the controller to use only half of it’s initial capacity. Thats what I was confused about.

But you actually meant Gb/s.

What kind of controller and what kind of Gb are you talking about?

Storage controller for USB sticks?

Or gaming controller with an advertised Gb/s USB bandwidth?

Depends on their specific needs, so they should probably jump into some Linux community and ask for themselves.

My anecdotal evidence includes vastly different experiences.

I have a friend who hates Linux desktop and exclusively uses it for running dev related stuff via WSL.

Another who uses Linux desktop primarely, but dualboots Windows for certain games.

And I am on Linux single boot and rarely use KVM (without GPU) for running my CNC or other software.

Minisforum V3 is 12” and less than 1kg.

But it is not quite a laptop, expensive and very powerful - not sure if that suits you.

Linux wise, most of the stuff works (sleep, power profiles, volume buttons, fingerprint reader, face recognition, pen, touchscreen). Things that don’t work are automatic rotate/accelerometer.

I’m super happy with it, running arch, doing development and using VMs.

Let me be more concrete then. What I am used to is the following:

• Open the relevant Jetbrains IDE
• Click on new project
• Find the correct template (e.g. Spring Boot Web Starter) and follow the wizard. (Alternatively the steps before can be replaced with cloning a repo and opening it with my IDE)
• I can click “Play” to start the app
• I can click “Debug” to debug the app
• Bonus: when doing Android or Web development, I can create the GUI by drag&dropping building blocks into a preview (contrary to manually typing out textfiles that describe the layout)

Every step is a button click or a entry field in a dialog. These steps also work on every major distro. And I wish for a similar experience when developing KDE Plasma.

For completeness, I will try to do the same dev things and list the steps for KDE Plasma development later (in about 8h).