caseyweederman

Once a yay

That’s weird.
To share a contrasting experience, I run KDE on Wayland on a laptop with two physical monitors with different rotations and three virtual monitors with different resolutions and it all Just Works.

Some people are gonna go to New Londo first.
And that’s hilarious.

Serious question, why aren’t flakes enabled by default

Pop! at the OS

I’d say Debian with KDE would perfectly fit your use case and level of experience.

It’s a “compatibility layer”.
Wine tricks Windows programs into thinking they’re running in Windows.
It sets up a fake C: drive and intercepts requests for built-in Windows features with Linux equivalents that are wearing Groucho Marx glasses and T-shirts that say NORMAL WINDOWS FEATURE.

That’s pretty good.
I’m gonna piggyback your analogy:

Ubuntu is like an aftermarket car company that put in their own engine. They’ve started putting locks onto things, and when you ask them to install certain options, they say “yes, here you go” but secretly put in a worse version of that thing that only they can fix.
Then you take it to a shop and say “please fix this part, it’s one of these” and they say “that’s clearly not what’s in here, you’re on your own”.

KDE and Gnome are like different consoles and steering wheel, if you could bring those with you into your next car. If you’re used to where the buttons and knobs are, you have the option to bring the whole thing over into a different car.

There’s no reason to choose Ubuntu over Debian these days, and plenty of reasons to use Debian over Ubuntu.
For context, Ubuntu is based on Debian, so most of the stuff under the hood is the same, but Ubuntu keeps forcing background decisions about things that are not always in the user’s best interests.
As for user interface, if you’re used to Ubuntu with Gnome, try Debian with Gnome. If Ubuntu with KDE, try Debian with KDE. That way you get a familiar desktop environment and a sensible base OS.

I usually do 60GB for OS and that’s plenty. Gotta watch out for things like /var/cache though.

Yeah, I went back through this reply chain and I couldn’t find any explicit evidence that they’re talking about shell scripting at all, and perhaps think that the “bash programming language” refers to a general style, i.e. “to bash stuff together until it works”.

I… think they might be misusing the word “bash”? Maybe?

I remember Lego Robot Comics. Weird, this is the second time they’ve come up on Lemmy in as many months.
My favorite was the one about CANDY?? FOR BREAKFAST???

Do whatever you want, as long as you put your home directory in its own partition.

Straight to jail.

Doom door/elevator woosh

Bobcat growl

Sure, blame it on your ISP!

Wait, is Gnome really still default?

Some friends at work started up a patient-gamer-style Pokémon book club. It’s been four months and we’re almost done Pokémon Black/White (which may sound impressive except that we started with Pokémon Black/White)
My point is: there’s basically an unlimited number of good games that run on old hardware. Not that retro Nintendo hardware is cheap these days, but if you’ve got some lying around…