The first time you do a presentation and forget how to add an external display, that was what made me stick with a full DE.

How to backup their home directory, even if it is a basic method like mounting an external drive and drag and dropping files.

I have a seemingly yearly tradition where I manage to convince myself to try out KDE then am usually back on GNOME after a week. I genuinely don’t get the hate for GNOME. It looks clean, has great defaults (especially the keybinds) and mostly stays out of the way. I don’t hate KDE, it’s just not for me and that is okay.

As someone currently deep into Nix (even contributed to nixpkgs), I’m currently in the process of migrating away and am planning on just running good old Debian stable with docker compose for my home server. I wouldn’t waste your time learning Nix, it isn’t a transferable skill and totally locks you into the ecosystem.

Problems between them and the steering committee, there is a post about it on their discourse

The entire moderator team just resigned

Yes, if anything it seems easier to handle on linux. Just bake golden images that already have a static list of required packages.

I’m a little surprised that they are planning on testing downstream distros like bazzite. It would make more sense to just stick to the biggest upstream distros like Arch/Debian/Fedora for benchmark purposes in my opinion.

Integrated brightness control for multiple monitors is awesome!

I have an HP printer

Just use open source software?

This has been the biggest drawback of 10" for me and my primary reason to switch to full size. I believe some 4 bay models will just fit on a shelf, but that is about the max you will be able to fit.

As of the latest release (21), you can simply install microG on regular LOS and no longer need to install LineageOS for microG since it now includes the necessary signature spoofing support.

Ubuntu -> Arch -> Debian (stable) -> Fedora Silverblue -> NixOS

I’m curious, why do you use LVM with BTRFS and not just use BTRFS built in subvolumes?

btrfs snapshots are still useful on immutable distros to recover accidentally deleted data.

Framework. I’ve run Debian, Fedora and for a while now NixOS, all of which have worked flawlessly.

I did have to replace the heatsink/fan part on mine because the fan bearing started clicking, but I’m sure that was just a first generation product issue (I was one of the first batches). I was glad to be able to do the replacement myself at relatively low cost and the process couldn’t have been easier (took about 30 minutes).

My previous machine was a 2013-ish ThinkPad X series and the Framework absolutely blows it out of the water. I’m looking forward to upgrading mine to a Ryzen motherboard sometime in the not so distant future.