There’s some controversy around him–he has a history of anger issues and it’s impacted his work. But his contributions to the open source community are practically unquantifiable.
Overall, I’m incredibly grateful for him and his work, but still hope that he continues to work on his personal issues and becomes his best self.
I guess I would classify features like variable refresh rates and fractional scaling as “advanced”, but that’s fair. I moved from Cinnamon to Gnome because wayland was working better for me, so fair point. I imagine it won’t be too long before Cinnamon catches up, though.
For now, I’m just using a handful of extensions to make Gnome feel more like Cinnamon. Can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of KDE, but that’s just me.
Fedora is a good option. I’m surprised to hear about hardware incompatibilities with Mint, though. Do you have obscure or bleeding-edge hardware?
I’ll +1 the Ventoy suggestion. Lets you try lots of things easily. Try at least Fedora KDE, Ubuntu, and Mint. Go with whichever feels good to you when you try them out.
Cachy user here. Nope.
Anyone who says Cachy is good for a newcomer is taking their knowledge for granted. Most people getting into Linux for the first time are climbing several learning curves all at once. There are simpler distros that allow you to learn at a more reasonable pace.
The only time I would recommend CachyOS to a newcomer is if they have bleeding-edge hardware and aren’t afraid of a challenge.
This is more nitpicking. Yes, there’s a difference between partition and disk. But if we want to get technical, it’s not disk encryption unless you’re using a HDD. SSDs don’t have disks.
At the end of the day, FDE would generally imply that all partitions with user data on them are encrypted. So it would generally include root and home partitions, and generally not include the boot partition, and would likely include partitions like /var and /opt, though not necessarily.
To add to the other comments: it’s “full-disk” to distinguish it from “per-file” encryption. And “full-partition” didn’t catch on, probably because functionally an unencrypted boot partition makes little practical difference.
“Uh yeah, I do have pink furniture…”
And apparently installing the Windows client in a Bottle works well too, or so I’ve read. Can’t say I’ve tried it.
I’ve been using the web player for Qobuz, and it appears to allow for high quality output–I’m streaming at 24bit/96kHz at the moment (though I’m no audiophile, so I guess I can’t confirm that’s what I’m actually getting).
And apparently Qobuz pays the most per track of any streaming service, which is cool. The only thing it doesn’t have is customizable “radio”, but otherwise it’s solid.
There already has been. But it turns out the ones that value “freedom of speech” and “libertarianism” all end up relatively small and isolated, or turn into Nazi bars.
The majority of us are fine with letting instances and communities censor what they want. You can always create your own if you don’t like the way others do it, or you can join one of the instances that have been cut off from the rest of the Fediverse.
I’ve used Armbian and DietPi. Currently running a magic mirror on a Rock64 and a NAS on an ODROID HC4. Of the two OSes, I think I’d recommend Armbian. Skip installing a DE and just get a basic X session with a simple web browser.
Note that MagicMirror is web based, so the setup steps for putting up a web browser would be similar.
I mean, a show like Star Trek couldn’t possibly do well pushing a progressive worldview, right? Definitely it would have to appeal to bigots conservatives, or it would tank. No progressiveness on Star Trek, no sir.
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If you want something more capable that will handle more experimentation, go for the mini PC. If you know exactly what you want to host and you want to prioritize low power consumption, the pi might be a better choice.
Can confirm, I have an EQ12 I’m using as an HTPC. Performance is great and sound is minimal (aside from coming out of suspend, the fans fire up for a moment).
If only I could remove OneDrive… IT expects us to use it for everything.
When I was getting a PC upgrade, I explicitly told them that I had already handled backing everything up (as they repeatedly said I needed to do). Most of my projects are synced with our version control, so I have a projects folder with a few hundred GB in it that I didn’t need to explicitly transfer to my new PC (I would check out projects as I needed them). I wrote in the ticket that they didn’t need to transfer any files, I had already handled it. And I told the IT person who took my old PC. They said my new PC would be ready the next morning.
Lo and behold, it wasn’t. I called and asked, they said they were still working on it. The following day, I went to pick it up and the IT person explained that it took so long because they had to transfer over hundreds of GB of files. And they reminded me that if I had been using OneDrive, I could have had it a day sooner.
You know, because they had to copy over my files. That were already in version control. A system they admin. And that I told them about like 5 times. After they said they wouldn’t be responsible for file transfers.
Ah well, guess I got paid for their ineptitude. I wish this was the worst they’ve done, though.
Linus himself sees his own behavior as problematic and has put significant work toward changing it. Call it whatever you want, I guess, but just because it doesn’t result in physical bruises doesn’t mean it’s not problematic.