Fonzie!

Sure, ok, that’s still my daily driver, it’s incredibly stable (and no, it’s not fucking outdated), but other than that it doesn’t help so much against accidentally borking your system.

So in this context, I’m recommending @sockpuppetsociety@lemm.ee NixOS.

May I introduce you to my lord and saviour NixOS?

And not somehow break it more from there? Impressive!

I’ve found it needed a lot of extra steps, plus fidgeting with the OSTree defeats some of the safety/stability of it all. Bazzite, at least, recommends against using OSTree blindly as that’s meant for sysconfig and recommends using Homebrew instead, as this lives in your user space and touches very little; but even installing libqalculate gives memory issues. Most things I attempted to install did, actually. The Ruby interpreter installed just fine, and was the only CLI program that installed just fine IIRC.

Now, I feel like it’s less of a hassle to Just Use Mint®, especially since I’ve got it installed anyway.

Funny you say that, I dual boot Bazzite and Mint, for gaming and everything else including programming, respectively.

Bazzite is a pain to install and use CLI applications in, but it’s got a great default setup for gaming!

I didn’t have terminal transparency available OOTB, and it didn’t find my Nvidea GPU drivers, either.

Ubuntu-based Mint does, for me.

I interpreted your message wrong, now I get it, thanks!

Thanks for the clear explanation!

If I found the correct repo it seems like it’s MIT licenced which is very permissive, as well.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils?tab=MIT-1-ov-file

• ability to rollback to previous versions

I think apt handles this, as well, no?

All the other reasons are very valid, though! Especially the transactional updates!

And they give you more control over the permissions that you give the application; packages from apt, yay, etc. get full filesystem access by default even if they contain a bug or malicious code, flatpaks can be walled off by you very well.

Ah that makes sense, thanks!

the laptops mostly use Intel x86 chips

I mean, I’d be happy to see them ship ARM laptops in the vein of Apple’d M chips or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So their laptops were running Android?

Reading the article it was a closed source OS, with their own closed-source Linux-based kernel.

I once freed 28 GB using find ~/Downloads/ -mtime +30 -delete

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Honestly, I could do and have done Unreal, Unity and (easily) Godot development on less!

But that’s the minimum to spend for a very comfortable experience, I’d say; RX7900 and GTX 4090 are only there for bragging, while an on-board GPU would not be comfortable running game graphics in my opinion but I’ve seen people do it and not complain :/

Off-topic but:

Linux Mint
GPU: AMD RX7600XT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
RAM: 16GB DDR4

That’s surprisingly mid-range, I don’t think I ever see that; just budget specs or bragging-level specs. As someone with almost the same build (Ryzen 7 4700GE, RX7700XTX, 16 GB DDR4) I’m positively surprised!

Checking their profile, they do seem to be a furry, yeah!

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop, after all ;-)

This is not a good place to recommend commercial services.