Does what I want and gets out of my way.

I wish he didn’t feel the need to be so defensive about his choices. Bazzite is perfect for this use case

Yeah, I’ll probably switch eventually I’m just trying to talk myself out of it because I don’t have the time to learn right now

I have a desktop, laptop, and a few VMs and servery things. Dotfile manager (yadm, which is a git wrapper) to sync personal settings, everything else I just do manually. The system-level configs are either different enough that standardizing them isn’t very helpful, or no more complicated than installing packages and activating services.

I like the idea of nixos, but I feel like it makes a bunch of daily sacrifices in order to optimize a task I do once every few years? I hardly ever get a new computer, but I install/uninstall/update/tweak packages on my system all the time. With a dotfile manager and snapshots, I get most of the benefit without any of the drawbacks.

The desktop environment is all the stuff like the taskbar, the settings menus, the application launcher, the login screen, that kind of thing. It’s the system level user interface.

You choose which one by which distro you download. Linux mint uses cinnamon, Ubuntu and fedora use gnome. There are “flavors” of Ubuntu and fedora that use KDE. That’s why I suggested ventoy: you can download a few different ones and boot into them without making a new thumb drive.

If you don’t feel like bothering with any of that, just use Linux mint. It’s good.

• before you switch, sort out your apps. Look at what you use on windows, see if it runs on Linux. If not, find a replacement that does and test it out.
• Most Linux distros can boot into a desktop from a thumb drive. You can play and test without touching your windows installation.
• in that vein, ventoy is neat. You can make a bootable drive and drop ISOs in a folder to boot from. No messing with etcher or whatever it’s called
• desktop environment matters as much as the distro. Check out gnome, KDE, and cinnamon.

It’s true, I’m completely broken. I can’t even use a stacking window manager on Linux, I’m instantly pissed off

Yeah, when someone is interested in switching I always advise them to sort out their apps first. Many Linux applications also run on windows, the reverse is rarely true.

Oh nice! Does the fact that it’s an appimage mean I don’t need developer mode?

That and the need to learn a bespoke, weird programming language that will only ever be useful for this one thing have really turned me off of that distro.

Probably getting hammered by ai scrapers

That’s a lot of the reason you buy it, but RHEL is a paid product that you buy copies of.

https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux/how-to-buy#online

You haven’t heard of red hat? Or Ubuntu pro?

NAS at the parents’ house. Restic nightly job, with some plumbing scripts to automate it sensibly.

Shout out to nushell for building an entire shell around this idea!

Have you considered karakeep (formerly hoarder)? It does all of this really well - drop it a URL and it saves a copy. Has lists & tagging (can be done by AI if you want), IOS & android apps as well as browser extensions that make saving stuff super easy.

https://karakeep.app/

Dude, the same people made nine parchments which got me and my friends through the pandemic. It’s such a good game and I don’t think we’ll ever get a sequel :(

It worked for us because you could do combo co-op: my wife and I sharing a switch at our place, friends (also a couple) on their switch at their place.

It’s a bit like a very simplified Diablo, with friendly fire. Minimal loot and a 5 6? I’m pretty sure it’s 6 color elemental system. Mostly achievement based unlocks. Has a permadeath mode where if you wipe as a party, you have to start the campaign over. Fun, whimsical art and the music ain’t bad either. My only real criticism is that they put so little effort into the plot I wonder why they bothered at all, but it does stay out of your way for the most part

Broadly similar from a quick glance: https://www.amazon.pl/s?k=m-disc+blu+ray

My options look like this:

https://allegro.pl/kategoria/nosniki-blu-ray-257291?m-disc=tak

Exchange rate is 3.76 PLN to 1 USD, which is actually the best I’ve seen in years