and it broke all my theeeeeeeeeeeeeeemes! \o/

Fwiw, about the zéro expérience thing, I hope you know that plenty of women would enjoy helping their partner explore how to share pleasure and day to day intimacy with them. Being inexperienced and realistic about it also means you won't have that overconfidence that leads some men to disregard their partner's personal likes, needs and body quirks, and that can be a very reassuring premise.

Source : this old crone was that woman once.

To be fair there was less to compile, but that still sounds like a lot...

I'll add: Back up your data and have fun! :3

Your new best friend: https://linuxjourney.com

There will be lots that will make you feel lost, because of the design language differences and the widely different philosophy, but you got this. Just take it at your own pace, one web search at a time and you'll be grand!

Du hast mich

Not op but we do magic cookie shenanigans at work to run a graphic app as another user. I believe that's not a thing in Wayland.

WAIT THEY DON'T ???

I'm well aware. I was being facetious.

Mint is solid. I hope you have a great time on it!

I'll also add that sometimes people project a lot and have a hard time understanding that recommending advanced stuff to beginners is counterproductive more often than not, no matter how much they like said stuff. It's frustrating. It's important to meet people where they are and take their needs and goals into account.

Wait, I remember Mate being a Gnome2 fork but Cinnamon? The more you know... :o

Can confirm. As an engineer I'm an absolute dumbass when it comes to advanced economics.

Foxit still provides a free version that's linux compatible. Its been a lifesaver at work to do document signing without messing everything up. It may take a little tweaking to run, but it's worth a try for forms.

How the f does that even happen ._.

The website https://linuxjourney.com/ is often recommended to new Linux users, for good reasons. Since you're already experienced in CS and WSL you'll find a lot of things you already know, but there's always things to learn for everyone in there. Cheers! ^^

This is really cool!! :o

Thank you so much! <3

I'll be honest, it was a struggle, especially with yarn this thin, and I almost gave up, but I'm glad I didn't! ^^

Also don't feel bad for failing to pick up crocheting, that happened to me too the first time. It was such a disaster that I didn't touch a crochet for about 25 years lol

Yeop, you can say that again. Can't read the Arch wiki on a Nokia 3310 for sure lol

Tbh I'm not too careful about updates, I have regular backups and grub exploding wasn't enough to stop me, so eeeeh, if something really goes awfully wrong I have enough free time to deal with it and use it as a learning experience. I know I should be smarter about them like you are, but on my personal computer I just cannot be asked. ^^

You could switch all your repos to the core Arch ones. I did that by accident once, and it was fine (although, I did switch them back eventually). Maybe it’d add release stability? I’m not really clear how the EOS repos vary off the baseline, except by adding some custom packages.

They don't afaik. EOS uses Arch's repos directly, unlike Manjaro. Just adds its own on top for all the fancy EOS stuff. Which is why EOS was immediately affected by the grub meltdown and not Manjaro. (which kinda digs a few holes in the stability hypothesis, though Manjaro is another kettle of fish tbf)

Snapper sounds really interesting, and I didn't expect "super easy" to be the feedback there. Sounds a bit overkill for my use case at home but I might look into it for work. Thanks for the info!

Oh god a borked BIOS is my nightmare... I don't even know how you'd go about fixing that on a modern PC mobo... Let's not jinx it shall we?

Gotta love terminator. I also always greatly appreciated how uncluttered and to the point its ui was, while being modern and configurable.

Depends. That's about what I paid for my previous phone second hand and it lasted me 7 years and I loved it to bits. But I was pretty broke and only could afford that. New phone, I decided to buy a brand new fairphone, because i think that the moment I get enough disposable income, I have a moral responsibility to use it in ways that encourage more ethical practices, for all the people who can't. Doing that is bloody expensive, but if it somehow helps make this dystopian hellscape a little more bearable, I'll invest.

It's the same yeah

Beat me to it :V

Aha! Gotcha, that does bring back dome distant memories.

An excellent place to start is https://linuxjourney.com/ to get you started!

Nono, arch breaks too, with no pebcak involved. Been there. Dude's just been lucky.

Not if they ban tiktok too ;)

Oh yeah, absolutely. It, unfortunately, a reality.

To mine as well, I'm with you on that one.

How have I been using zsh for this long yet never heard of that? I gotta give it a go, thanks!

I'm confused, why French?

Have a tuxedo machine with TuxedoOS at work. I needed an NVIDIA card for cuda so I had a few kinks to iron out (NVIDIA I stg...) but the tuxedo customer support was here with me through it all, treated me with respect at all times and forwarded all issues to NVIDIA immediately, and they got fixed soon after. Solid team, sleek machines, nice distro.

Any time! Can't say much about the robustness if the hardware though, as I tend to take stupidly good care of my machines.

No offense but this is highly anecdotal. When my Linux systems broke, I've always found good leads to solutions on the internet with a good search. On the other hand, every time Windows broke on me, it's been near impossible to find relevant information as everything is drowned in a sea of basic nonsense, and the built-in tools that were supposed to help me, e.g., revert the system to a previous state, either errored out or did nothing, leaving me only with reinstalling the whole system as an option. Absolute nightmare.

This reads as some kind of weird bait

Well I think my video card just died... So do with that information what you will ig? ^^'

Edit: video card is fine, the screen controller seems to be the issue

Wow when you out it that way it sounds even dumber

more confused french noises

Im on EndeavourOS like a lot of other folks here, which is basically Arch with an awesome installer, a handful of convenient extra tools, a sensible default confuguration and a fancy theme. It's been awesome so far, hell I've just been able to install and run an EA game from steam with minimal fuss yesterday, just the help of lutris to install EA Origin to authenticate. Shit just works.

That being said, Arch can occasionally blow up at your face for no fault of your own and it's a very different environment from fedora (love fedora btw), so there's a bit of a learning curve that you're gonna have to accept to climb if you want to maintain your system.

This may not be the place but would you mind sharing how they compare in your opinion ?

Wow, thank you so much for the very thorough answer! I've been interested in both and having the point of view of someone who has experienced both is extremely useful. I appreciate it a lot.

Hopefully i can grab some time to take both for a spin soon!