I also didn’t like it for years. I used a tiling window manager (first i3, then sway), but tried the new plasma 6 and really liked it. Dolphin file manager was the thing that converted me.

And Magit

Super easy to use and the guest distro just works. Minimal interface which looks nice, but misses some features such as network settings.

Qemu is great though. Linux virtualization is the best in class. Basically the whole Internet runs on top of KVM. Boxes is just a UI on top of KVM.

Fedora is awesome. I use the immutable version Kinoite, and it’s fork with non-free extras Aurora. Dev container is with Arch just because there are a ton of packages. All the GUI apps from Flathub.

I need to add KDE to this mix. What a wonderful desktop it is. Like what Windows should be but is not.

Yep. You need to pay for the patent with certain codecs, that’s why operating systems with a company behind them usually do not distribute them. Same with a few Linux distros, such as Fedora.

You can install them and the packages for your os are freely available. Just not from the company making the product in the fear of patent trolls.

Opnsense. Been running it in my router with all the treats for years. Updates frequently and easily. You can do things like tailscale, wireguard, traffic shaping, or adblock in the firewall level pretty easily with it.

Awesome project.

Have you considered other distros? I’ve had lots of success with the immutable fedora variants, which offer great stability and NVIDIA drivers in the base system. If you need apt, you create a new Debian container in the box buddy and make that container be your default when opening a terminal.

Gnome variant: https://projectbluefin.io/

KDE variant: https://getaurora.dev/

Gaming variant: https://bazzite.gg/

They are all the same distro with different desktop setup and default apps. You can install one of them and seamlessly switch to another one without losing any data.

This. I keep following many kinks in the fediverse, but I’m just a quite normie gay cis man myself. It’s important to understand how different people are, and be ok with that.

In Germany you’ll get a fine and lose points from your license if you show a middle finger. Even if you’re riding a bike out walking (if you have a license)…

Not a sysadmin, but a programmer. My work machines have been:

• 2003-2008 Windows 7
• 2008-2011 Ubuntu
• 2011-2019 Arch
• 2019-2024 NixOS

Probably going to keep using NixOS. This is a very cool OS.

Yeah. Although what if half of the country is intolerant? What then? Divide the country into two?

Been watching a movie per day for quite a long time now. There are many great ones. Just watch all the genres from all over the world and from different decades, you’ll find them.

Steely Dan. The worst part would be I won’t stop talking about the drum solo in Aja.

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A big monitor with 100% AdobeRGB is going to be very very expensive. And if you want it to be 65", you just can’t find them…

And it is a monitor, meant to be watched from a close distance. It will not be such a great experience for movies and such.

That is correct.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x-9900x

Yeah, the perks of the Android ecosystem. There’s also a version for Android TV such as NVIDIA Shield. Again just works and filters out ads and sponsor segments.

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

I’ve been using this one for years, which filters out ads and sponsor segments:

https://newpipe.net/

Only for Android though. If you use iOS, switch to Android and you’ll also get a really Firefox browser with ublock origin that blocks all the ads compared to that 30something% what every iOS browser does.

A random hacker news comment. I’m in EU, where this kind of tracking is not legal, so I cannot validate…

If it is a Samsung tv, they have been automatically connecting to any open wifi, maybe your neighbor has one. And there goes the data.

Avoid Samsung.