Great advice!

gnome-software, it can also tell you whether the app you want to install is available natively.

Yes, same here. That is why I read on Lemmy to inform myself in advance and reduce the amount of tabs.

I am in the 5 to 20 tab range depending on the solution I am searching for. At around 5 I usually use LLM to help me and cross-check with more searches. If it is longterm, I subscribe to related communities on Lemmy and interesting podcasts.

Regarding your question to virtualize Windows: Use virt-manager if it is just for you and Proxmox if you want to provide virtualized services. Certainly, you can use Proxmox just for yourself, it even works with nested virtualization if you want to learn things before commiting to additional hardware. I am there right now. Many more tabs will be opened to learn about Proxmox, I am sure.

I recommend Debian stable or Fedora if your aim is to get things done. NixOS is maybe a thing you can try out and learn about in a VM on Proxmox or with virt-manager.

One can dream about practical rollable or slidable displays so that it fits in my pocket. And no, I don’t look at foldables. The part where it gets folded just looks ugly.

For me the Palm Pixi was the peak expierence: small, touch friendly, hardware keyboard, relatively open OS, integrated headphone jack, wireless charging and very good battery live.

iPhone 13 mini user here; I can relate. Anything bigger than this is too big for me. I will use it until it breaks or security updates stop. After that I will have to see.

Older, smaller phones with PostmarketOS come to mind. But this OS is not ready for day-to-day-use, just yet.

Nice to read that more and more people are using btrfs on LUKS. I went for the debootstrap route from within a booted debian live iso to omit the debian installer entirely.

I rather do ${line%% *} and avoid awk.

Yes.

For a long time I considered Gentoo the best, because I know my things around there. A month ago I said goodbye to my last Gentoo installation in favour for Debian trixie (the next stable release). Gentoo was too time consuming despite the binary repo.

If it would be my job to maintain a Gentoo system I would gladly accept, but there should be a need for it by the users. Otherwise I would just recommend Debian stable or Fedora.

My favourite is Debian over Fedora, because I often don’t need the latest versions of a software. And there is flatpak.

In 5+ years, when I may have HDR on my desktop, Gnome will be more than ready. (:

I remember a time, when you have to wait for hardware support. But maybe monitors just aren’t the thing you buy every 2-5 years. Mine is more than 10 years old and very sufficient.