Although, it’s kinda ironic that Windows, a fully closed environment, is less restrictive in terms of app dev and distribution, […]

I think the reason for this is mainly historic.

Me with an older notebook that doesn’t support av1 decoding: 😭

I’m using the same arch install on my home server for 10 years now.

what happened to op is pretty common if you stop reviewing your updates one by one for a week or two

This is just not true. Its pretty rare that you have to manually intervene when updating.

What does this even mean? I had more problems with Fedora on my Notebook in the last few months (wouldn’t randomly boot anymore?!) than I had with Arch Linux in 10 years.

I use the same arch install for 10 years on my home server, and its really solid.

Git/Linux

Oh, yeah. If it’s your primary work environment I can see how you could use such features. I use the terminal maybe 1-2 per day, so it’s not a priority for me. Thanks for clarifying!

Is it crazy that I just use the default provided terminal emulator (Fedora/Gnome)? Why would I use something like this?

I bought a cheap one in 2012 and it has an Ethernet port.

I do this too. Folders in the bookmarks toolbar. If I’m not done with a topic I just drag-and-drop these tabs into a folder. If you middle click one of these folders every bookmarks opens in a new tab for quick access.

I was searching for this a few days ago and was stunned that you aren’t able to just create an empty file in the gnome file manager.

In the terminal you can use touch file.txt to create an empty file, but it should be possible to do this in the file manager.

I think Bitlocker isn’t even supported on Windows 11 Home. I was shocked when I wanted to set up disk encryption on my wife’s notebook.

I can agree with downloading and sharing movies and media from the internet not beeing theft.

People just don’t learn.

Don’t worry, I’m using an over 10 year old on-board Atom Mainboard, and it works fine with several services running.

Yeah, I’m not sure what happened. I reinstalled it now, maybe it won’t happen again.

Atomic distros should be good in that respect, including atomic Fedora distributions (Silverblue/Kinoite/…)

I’ve now tried Fedora Silverblue in a virtualbox VM. After the first update, GDM wouldn’t start. I tried to restore to the older installed version and then updating this version, but now both versions are borked. Oh well …

Which distro? I’ve upgraded Mint on the weekend. The installer failed with an error where i couldn’t get good infos about online.

Then i just rebooted the system out of frustration. Surprisingly it seems to work fine.

Is there a distro where upgrades just work? Maybe Fedora? Or i just install arch on the system, it works great on my server for the last 10 years without reinstall.

Does this controller support Bluetooth? I’ve had more luck pairing Xbox controllers in desktop mode, it wouldn’t work in the Steam interface for me.