To be clear this was not a recommendation lol I completely agree with you

If you want to do both at the same time without knowing which side any given task will fall under use NixOS

nixpkgs is still kicking off their build pipeline, they’ll be here in 4 days

That’s the thing though. If I’m going to need to be on-call tech support then Linux isn’t actually a better option then Windows. Sure it would be more private and less sucky but if the computer doesn’t actually work then that doesn’t mean anything. I’m willing to make ad-hoc workarounds to my own problems because I’m a software developer and don’t mind falling down a rabbit hole to get something like push-to-talk working with a custom pipewire script. My friends who want to play games and relax when they get home from work are understandably not willing to go through that hassle.

I’d love for Linux to be ready for daily driving but for most people I know it just isn’t. Maybe when Wayland desktops are more mature but I’m not going to make people choose between functioning shortcuts (X11) and functioning monitors (Wayland).

I could never get any of my friends on Linux (maybe I’ll be able to now that Windows 10 is dying) but I was able to get everyone on prism instantly because it’s just a better launcher than the official one in every possible way (it’s also on Windows and MacOS)

If it’s only for them then they shouldn’t mind getting their Wayland protocol veto privilege taken away 🤷

Ubuntu 18.04 (2018) -> Manjaro (2019-2021)-> Arch (2021-2022) ->EndeavourOS (2022-present on my desktop) ->NixOS (2024-present on my laptop)

If you are fine with having things on the same OS, look into distrobox. It would let you set up an Ubuntu environment/container on top of your Bazzite install. You could also use something like OSX-KVM for MacOS with GPU passthrough (assuming you use a compatible GPU) which would simplify your setup greatly. That way you could technically have all 3 environments on one OS with one set of hardware but now the only thing being virtualized is MacOS.

(You could also dual-boot with MacOS if you wanted and it would be slightly faster than a VM but also more of a headache to setup)

Edit: Missed that you mentioned Windows but the setup for that would be pretty much the exact same as MacOS except getting GPU passthrough to work on Windows is easier (again, same limitations as MacOS though, and games with anticheats would be able to tell that Windows is in a VM).

The Acela (faster one) is also several times a day now, but it’s more like every 2-3 hours instead of 1

Boston to NY is more like hourly - Amtrak has a lot of trains going on the line from Boston to/from DC (DC also has a very good transit system for the US at least from what I’ve heard).

The problem with those trains is that they’re expensive and slower - the Amtrak northeast regional costs $75-300 (depending on the date and time, as Amtrak is a company and charges more around holidays and during peak travel hours 🙃) each way from NY to Boston and takes ~4-4.5 hours. Driving can take 3.5-4 if you plan around rush hours in both cities.

which I regarded for how light and well optimized Windows 8.1 was

I don’t think I’m alone in saying “light” and “well-optimized” are not words that fit the Windows 8.1 experience.

Mediocre in almost all aspects is the best descriptor for 8.1 and honestly that’s pretty generous given how bad 8.0 was

I use refind also, there should be a setting somewhere to let refind scan entries from other EFI partitions. I have that setup and just created a second EFI partition for my Linux setup, so that Windows has no idea Linux even exists. I even have everything running off of the same drive (my laptop only has one nvme slot) and I haven’t had any issues.

Please don’t throw one of the only cities in the country with a semi-functional public transit system into the sun :(

The ghost doesn’t get a gravestone

Did some digging and I think it’s these projects:

https://github.com/BlackBoxMC/blackboxmc-rs

https://github.com/BlackBoxMC/blackboxmc

This works, thanks!

I don’t think it’s a process ID? I have 2 virtual pipewire devices (one called “chat-mic” and one called “chat-speaker”). Pipewire devices (nodes) also have ID numbers, but they are assigned when the device is initialized on startup and aren’t guaranteed to be the same between reboots

Kitty has multiplexing built in so it can also replace a lot of what tmux does (unless you’re using tmux over ssh)

… and are keeping the hate to the appropriate boards (X, I believe it’s called nowadays). Should we contract his work and apply it where applicable?

There is no “appropriate board” for hate speech, whether it’s antisemitism, transphobia, or anything else. If you wouldn’t want someone to be a nazi in your office, why would you pay them if you know they’re a nazi somewhere else? Is it fine as long as it’s someone else’s problem?

On another level, if you had to pay a developer, and you have reason to think they might donate the money you give them to an antisemitic cause, or directly use it to fund their own antisemitism, would you still want to give them that money? Or maybe look elsewhere, even if it means getting something slightly worse?

Pretty interesting how the number of active users per month has been fluctuating up/down but the number of comments and posts per month has been steadily going up