Generally hardware compatibility should be identical across all distros, as most drivers are baked into the kernel

The exception being Nvidia drivers, you have to install those yourself pretty much everywhere

Lowest maintenance possible is probably gonna be bazzite as people are saying

The anticheat thing is a pain

What is the actual evidence trump wants to end democracy? I've only seen an out of context clip so far

You could ponder the meaning of life, the universe and everything

Not an option for OP - think they're talking about TV

Are you able to do contactless payments with that os? That's the only reason I haven't switched

No, I apparently missed that but

Nix is the best solution anyway imo

And this is why you don't update your system while in the middle of something you need it for

Seems pretty similar to Reddit to me, besides the whole decentralised nature which is a plus anyway

What are people complaining about?

As far as I understand it currently people host their own Lemmy instances just for the hell of it or out of the goodness of their heart

But the larger instances will end up costing more money and I'm doubtful that will be sustainable with no income

I'm sure someone will correct me but I believe 90% of professional Linux is done at a commandline, DEs are mostly for personal use

It's a useful skill to have for a number of different jobs but usually not the primary one as most techies have some working Linux knowledge anyway

Developers, pentesters, system architects and similar

It was going so well until it started talking about white privilege and the Holocaust...

The ability to have multiple displays at different scales is a godsend when trying to use a laptop with a 4k display connected to 1080p monitors or vice versa

Both ryujinx and yuzu are open source, there are loads of forks

Was unaware UPSes even talked to the computers they power, thought they were just backup batteries

I'm sure as shit trusting proton over some random public network in a cafe setup by some random open reach engineer or something

IIRC that's the whole point of flatpak, snap and appimage

Docker can probably do it too, distrobox puts a useful wrapper on that

Nix does that kind of, nix packages aren't isolated in that they can't access resources on your system but all dependencies are stored in the nix store, hashed and isolated from eachother, and wiped when you collect garbage

Programmers don't get given the leeway to make the work they do of good quality if it doesn't directly lead to more profit

That said people who use buildings typically don't have or need the blueprints to said buildings

Waydroid is better than bluestacks imo

Oh no, there are 5 package managers out there and they're all wildly different

I know! I'll make a standard, universal package manager that'll be better than all the others that everyone will use!

There are now 6 different package managers

It sucks when forced on you by Microsoft but when the suffering is entirely self inflicted it's way more fun

I don't think old=good is a good mentality though, lot of people seem to have it

All the old software I know and use is exceptionally good, however I've heard about and chosen to use it because it's survived the test of time (also because it's still actively maintained and has had thousands of bug fixes over the years)

Vscode and obsidian are pretty good and they're electron, discord's alright, pretty sure steam uses some kind of web wrapper as well.

Real issue is electron is very accessible to inexperienced developers and easy to do badly, but I imagine people back in the old Unix days got an equal amount of shit bloated software

Nvidia drivers. You beat it by ripping out your GPU and casting it into a volcano

Boost was my favourite Reddit app, couldn't tell you why off the top of my head because I've been using it for so long now

Think a lot of people are excited because it's the same app they're used to which was pretty damn good as far as Reddit apps went

Also I think for a lot of people it's closure to the whole leaving Reddit thing, at the moment I think the experience is more or less equivalent to what Reddit was but the interface can still be unfamiliar and janky sometimes. Makes Lemmy a drop in replacement for old Reddit users

Damn this is really sad to see for the longest time LMG was one of the few companies I actually liked and trusted

Not sure there's really much point in trying to push people to use Linux if they aren't interested in computers.

Imagine if someone came up to you raving about switching to a new car brand that has a 5% higher top speed and 10% more fuel efficiency for your money but the handbrake is in on the roof, you change gears with buttons instead of a gear stick and you fill the tires with water instead of air

Most people don't care about what software runs on their computer and just want the default because it works the same way everyone else's does

Only way Linux gets into the mainstream is if consumer hardware with it preinstalled gets popular, the steam deck is a good start

As much as people don't like Ubuntu, for users who aren't enthusiasts they don't want a million different options to choose from

If we keep changing the standard it'll drive people away and leave behind support

Not really the case anymore because of proton, game devs develop for Windows and proton and then it'll run on anything that can run proton, Linux, android, Mac or otherwise in the future

From what I hear thanks to proton it's incredibly easy to develop for Linux, as long as you don't use one of the anticheats that doesn't support it or intentionally prevent it from running in proton you're fine

NixOS. You can change DE by editing a couple lines in your config, running sudo nixos-rebuild boot and rebooting

What did you get banned for?

On nixos i managed to uninstall nix (package manager), remove my user account, git, ls, WiFi drivers and basically everything else

I can't remember how I rescued it now but managed to get it back without a reinstall

I'd jump on the bandwagon of nixos, I use it myself and love it, does exactly what you're asking for

However judging on some of your other comments it might be a better idea to just suck up having to manually rebuild until you understand the basics of Linux a little better

(nixos more or less requires you understand programming syntax for writing your system config)

"powerless" just use Lemmy it's not like there's really anything meaningful to hold you on Reddit, afaik people don't really make friends on Reddit or anything

The thing that's making me kinda want to leave is it feels like even more of an echo chamber then Reddit was, especially when you see someone calling for the death of someone at least once a week or so

Quite often see people getting downvote bombed and dogpiled for having different political opinions

Because the options are firefox, chrome, or chrome in a moustache and glasses

All of which I use because X thing doesn't work on Y browser

If you absolutely must use windows for whatever reason you can actually get it pretty good with WSL, Windows Terminal, FancyWM, autohotkey and scoop

That said windows updates still suck, stuff still takes several working days to open and you're still being spied on

Jetbrains IDEs are not free though are they?

I also quite like the light touch feel you get from code, I can use it for any language and am not going to have to navigate through hundreds of language specific features I don't need unless I install them myself

Kate might do similar but I can't imagine the extension pool is big enough to compete and I think at that point I'd just use a commandline editor instead

Kinda tempted to embrace the chaos and put every single one on my laptop

I have distrobox... That counts right?

Waydroid works at native speeds for me and on NixOS installation constituted adding virtualisation.waydroid.enable = true; to my config, running waydroid init -s GAPPS and then registering it on Google's website with the code it gives. Might be able to do it with just the nix package manager and not full blown NixOS but not sure about that

Unsure of the difficulties installing it but when it works it works flawlessly