I haven’t been to a fast food restaurant in ages, most restaurants I do frequent are because the food is good and I want to support them. I think I’d be fine as long as there were still grocery stores.

So I love Debian but it prides itself on stability so packages tend to be older. I think this is good for a server but probably not great for a desktop. Ubuntu came along and was like we’ll be like Debian but newer packages. Everything was cool for a while but then they started doing shitty things. The first that I can think of was ads in the terminal. This was not great for an open source app. Then when you did apt install firefox it installed Firefox as a snap. WTF?!?!? (apt should install .deb files, not snaps). Because of this, lately I’ve decided to avoid Ubuntu.

I used Gentoo for a while and it was great but configuring and compiling everything took forever. I’m getting too old for that. Arch seems like a good alternative for people who want to mess with their system. So it’s become a way for people to claim they know what they are doing without having to recompile everything. (Note: I haven’t used Arch, this is just my perception)

Recently I got a new laptop and I had decided to put Linux on it and had to decide what distro. Arch was in consideration but I ended up going with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because it’s got the latest but I don’t really have to configure anything. If I had more time, I might go with something like Arch but I don’t really want to do that much fiddling right now.

Yeah, I actually just started looking at running windows in a containet on Linux and then using RDP, hopefully I’ll get a chance to play with it this week… would let me run windows things without rebooting!

Yeah, I’ve tried it and it kindof worked last I tried. I had an issue where the browser in the upper left just wouldn’t expand and it keeps giving me warnings about direct x expiring. I was hoping to use it but I don’t know if Fusion on Wine is really ready for prime time. :(

Oh, I’ve been a Linux user for a long time, mostly on the server, not as a Desktop. Unfortunately Fusion 360 kindof runs under wine but not really so it’s still the one thing I have to reboot for.

The big thing for me is a hotkey which launches a window I can put in an application (partial is fine) or command and it starts or runs the command… so I do <Ctrl>+<Space>dark and it launches darktable. You can also have plugins that do things. So for example, after I upload my .torrent files, I delete them locally. So I have a rm command which just runs rm ~/Downloads/*.torrent.

Yes, I could click on the menu, type in the command I’m looking for but this is a little quicker. Plugins also allow you to do complicated tasks quickly.

I dunno, I’ve gotten used to it.

Seriously, Ubuntu used to be my goto distro but Canonical’s shenanigans have caused me to look elsewhere. So far I’m liking OpenSUSE tumbleweed.

Seriously, I thought I’d need to install something or configure something, nope, one toggle in Steam. I think everyone who uses Steam and Linux should know about this!

Yeah, I’m just so used to Fusion that it’s hard for me to make the switch. I’m probably going to get tired of rebooting and start looking at FreeCAD 1.0.