I used it for a couple of years, it’s great if you love customizability and want to run a very clean system. However, the last straw for me was when I needed to edit an image, realized I didn’t had Gimp, so I installed it (which took a long time since I needed to compile it), opened it and it wouldn’t open the image because it was a PNG (I think, or jpg, the specific format doesn’t matter) and that format requires a compilation flag to be enabled, I added that flag globally because why the hell would I not want to have support for it, and recompiled my entire system. By the time I had GIMP able to edit the image I didn’t even remember what I was going to do. I went back to arch not long after that, but always missed defining the packages I want in files to keep the system organized and lean.
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2·6 days agoI worked for almost 2 years at a company with my Linux PC, until one day I requested a laptop for travel and they were shocked that I didn’t had one, I asked for one with Linux but was told that that’s not possible, that they only had windows laptops. I thought, okays this is temporary, as soon as I’m back from traveling I’ll return the laptop and things will be back to normal… when I came back and wanted to return the laptop they said that that was my work computer that I should use for everything, I was like, “you do realize our work runs on a Linux server, right?”. But nope, I had to use the Windows laptop until I quit a few months later. I knew of at least a couple other devs who were running Linux, but didn’t say anything because then they would be forced to switch too, but at my exit interview I remarked that forcing me to use Windows was part of the reason I had left.
I guess my point is maybe don’t make a big fuss and don’t try to convince HR people about it, they just don’t understand.
This is usually the case, people make it a monster in their heads but it’s not bad as long as you’re willing to accept it’s a different OS to be used differently.
Let me guess, you might have tried Linux on n the past but only really started using Linux full time around 2021/2022, because every time I see someone saying “Linux only became user friendly around year X” is always around a 1 year mark after they started using it daily, because it’s a lot more a matter of being used to than actual usability. I have been using KDE since 2004, and while things have changed it wasn’t all that much, I don’t remember any big usability refactor or anything of the sort happening, I’m fairly confident that if I were to put you to use a KDE 3.5 UI you would feel right at home.
I disagree sort of. I find it hard to believe a new distro is easier to set up than mint or Ubuntu
Mint is easier to setup than Ubuntu, and not only it’s newer, it’s based on Ubuntu. Ubuntu also is easier to setup than Debian even though it’s newer and based on it. Being a new distro has nothing to do with being easy to setup.
Bazzite is special because it’s an immutable distro, so it’s highly unlikely you’ll break stuff by poking around.
NixOS would be ideal for a purely testing, if I were setting a test bench I would definitely use Nix. BUT they also need to use something that people watching might be willing/able to use, and Nix has a very steep learning curve.
It’s hard to admit as a Linux evangelist but windows works for some bloody reason where Linux simply fails.
Why would that be hard to admit? This is a bug in a specific hardware that has a crappy driver for Linux, Intel doesn’t care about Linux, if Linux was 90% of the market instead of 2% I assure you this bug wouldn’t exist.
OP is specifically asking for a power house PC to run a game on maximum graphics. As much as I love my Deck, that’s not what the Deck is.
Plex is an enterprise solution, if you need your tech illiterate grandma to access the media it’s easier to pay them. If it’s just a local network or you’re okay with going down a rabbit hole of setup, then Jellyfin does everything and does it better IMO (Plex requires you to be online to login before it shows you your local data, plus you’re sharing information on what media files you have to Plex).
I personally have been using Jellyfin for years, and my only complain is that the LG app is slow and I get some videos that stuck for a few seconds in it (probably some codec thing, that I could fix by transcoding the media but I haven’t been bothered enough to figure it out)
Not necessarily, maybe the main kernel has to keep running so you won’t be able to hot swap that (haven’t read the thing yet). In any case we’ve had updates without reboot for a while for a while, but it’s a pain to set up, there’s even a song about it https://youtu.be/SYRlTISvjww
I have, in fact I have migrated my home config to nix. The syntax is still a bit weird and still unfamiliar in some cases, especially around the inputs, overlays, etc. Next time I install a system it will definitely be NixOS, currently it’s only running on a backup laptop that I use for testing.