My piece of advice if you have 2 drives, and this goes for any OS not just Linux.

1. drive for your OS
2. drive purely for storage. never store anything in the 1 drive except for user installed programs or updates.

that way you can wipe the first drive whenever you run into anything or you want to change anything without being worried about losing data

make sure your browser is using a password manager so stored passwords don’t vanish

Yeah. it’s dogshit but they certainly have the capacity to improve. it’s clear where their priorities are: milk users for profit

I think Windows could be a far better OS than Linux if Microsoft gave a single shit. Instead they want to add AI and recall and various invasive updates.

The only thing windows has going is the market share.

Reductionism when “it isn’t murder I just deleted your row from the national health government database”

A mistake people make very often is to conflate the distro with a “look” or “theme” to the UI, and it’s not their fault.

Distros bundle a desktop environment which contains many applications used to navigate the computer graphically with things like “file managers” such as Windows explorer for example.

A DE can bundle lots of programs or very few and these programs differ in looks and functionality, not only that but these programs can be installed / uninstalled regardless of what distro you’re using.

In short: distro doesn’t affect DE but must distros bundle a DE based on things like philosophy, functionality or maybe just looks.

There are many DEs which is why I suggested installing CachyOS as part of the installation shows you options, you can try them out rewipe the drive, try out another one in less than 3 minutes. So it’s the perfect sandbox environment to try new things. I guess you can use VMs as well, not sure how well cachyos works on VM.

As a personal note on DEs when I first used Linux about 5 years ago I used KDE plasma because I thought it was the most windows-like. But I had many issues with KDE, chances are if you use your search engine you’ll see similar complaints about it which I likely share.

5 years in the future my favourite DE is basically using Sway and a file manager like Nautilus. Sway has Swaybar as a status bar and that’s really all I need.

Not sure if Sway counts as a DE though, I think it’s a window manager first and foremost.

but on the other hand if we tell you to use an used Thinkpad you won’t like that either right ?

RX 9070 when it comes out, Mint is good but there are so many good options. I suggest using cachyos and trying out all the DEs so you pick something you like. Although you don’t have to stick with CachyOS if you don’t want to.

Right wingers are extremely stupid and don’t really understand what the left stands for, they fall for all fox news strawman arguments and rage bait.

Maybe it’s a personality thing but for things I care about I can’t just not try. I have to try. People that don’t try in their hobbies are pathetic to me. You mean to tell me you’re here stuck on this rock with me and you’re this bad at the one thing you claim to love the most ?

I was expecting “I love fucking” somewhere in there

for the longest time I thought that line had way more to it, but nope, that’s it. it’s just a reference to Hitler.

I only thought there was more to it because classic Simpsons always had fantastic writing with multiple underlying references.

XPS15

I stopped reading there. Congratulations, or sorry that happened.

me when doing serial experiments (I’m using uart from a pico to a desktop)

what kind of bass do you recommend? I mostly play prog rock, rock fusion and metal/power metal

I mean id probably go all out and get something in the $750 range ish. I’m a musician and I play many instruments, just haven’t gotten to bass yet.

is it possible to change tunings on a bass from say E to Eb without needing to take it into a shop? I say this because it is possible on guitar but I’m not sure if the giant bass string tension will make this process different and more difficult.

I should buy a bass

me as an arch user when I have to use ubuntu for work: arthur-fist-clench.gif

damn you just made some gears spin in my head

I think capitalism promotes “individualism” because the alternative is selflessness which means more money spent for the greater good of society

suits buy into the corpo crap so hard

it’s just amazing that they can convince themselves into thinking that a video like that would make your day

the video is so funny to me. showing a canned response to an employee they’ve never met has me in hysterics