Mint is a great choice, it is very stable, and it really holds your hand via the Software Center.
However, stable also means old: it does not support the latest hardware.
If you have hardware that released after (rough estimate) April 2024, consider something based on Fedora, such as Bazzite, instead. It comes with modern drivers and should support modern hardware much better.
Finally, the end of “it doesn’t work on Wayland” is in sight. Just in time for Windows 10 EoL too
Is privacyguides wrong?
While the company has a questionable record and a controversial business model, Brave Browser is an open-source browser with good privacy features.
The “Peter” bit reminded me: Years back, there was a viral trend on Dutch socials where women shared a hashtag “I am Peter” to raise awareness that there were more people named Peter in Boards of Directors than women.
After years of fighting pip and conda, I got a job where “we work with Python but also still have some .NET Framework apps”.
NuGet seemed just as bad.
People shit on JavaScript (for very good reasons) but npm is amazing compared to all these. You can have one dependency needing PackageX v1 and another dependency needing PackageX v3 and your project will just work!
A modern statically-linked language with a first-class package manager, like Rust or Go is ideal. No fighting the dependency manager, no issue with deploying on different systems, just “run this binary”.
I think this image on the Felidae wiki sums it up pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae#Phylogeny
Note that everything in this graph is extinct, except the 2 circled subfamilies at the bottom.
EDIT: I basically know nothing about biology and paleontology and am just an amateur wiki-binger, but it seems that the half-whale was further away philogenetically from any live mammals.
I’m guessing that the fact that this is not just some bones but a very well-preserved mummy is what makes this find special.
Ah yeah that looks perfect, just get WayBlue Hyprland then! That sounds like exactly what you need.
No need to mess about with user services in systemd and display manager config.
NixOS
Alternatively (speculating here), you might be able to use Nix to install Hyprland onto an existing immutable distro like Silverblue.
Nix people please chime in!
The most mind-blowing moment I’ve ever had was the course Relativistic Electrodynamics.
If you assume static electricity (charges attract or repel), then apply special relativity to see what the situation looks like to an observer travelling by, you get magnetism!
Turns out half of Maxwell’s laws is a direct consequence of the other half once you know about special relativity.
I have never heard of WattOS but that sounds terrible.
It seems like antiX is a systemd-free Debian flavor.
If you want systemd, why not just use Debian? Or, if you are looking for a nice preconfigured DE/WM, any of a number of Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.
Mint for best out of the box setup, Pop!_OS for tiling, Zorin OS if you’re looking for a funky styling, any of the Ubuntu derivatives for the major DEs: Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.
The meme is great, but I don’t understand the bottom text.
Is OP saying they’re completely unaware of systemic sexism in academia?
I wish I had a fraction of that positivity.
Great post! Completely agree! I will add that for filling out PDF Forms, Okular is amazing!
SMB is originally Windows tech. So it might not play nicely with file modes?
Sure, some probably do. And you can be sceptical and discuss why that’s a dangerous and undemocratic direction. Effective Altruism is a question, not an answer. In thr community, asking for and being open to critical feedback is encouraged as the main tenet of good culture.
But if you look at the amounts, most EAs donate most to helping the poorest people alive today. Because it is so obviously good, and proven to work with high certainty.
If you are interested in learning more about Effective Altruism, check out https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism
Source for distribution of donations: https://80000hours.org/2021/08/effective-altruism-allocation-resources-cause-areas/
This is excellent! Each step can be Googled but for a quick summary:
A wine or proton prefix is like a small Windows filesystem inside your Linux. This is how you run most games. Steam normally hides this from you, but it does this exact thing: one proton prefix per game.
On Nobara and Fedora, you will not need to worry about duplicating files and wasting space at all: they use a very advanced filesystem which (among other things) does not actually repeat files but just goes “this file is the same as the earlier one, just read that” and saves on disk space that way. You don’t see this in the file explorer, you can just copy a file a hundred times but it will not consume a hundred times the disk space. Very cool stuff. And very useful with proton tricks.
This is the perfect answer. Complete, free, open source and secure!
If Mint works for you, just stick with it. No need to try a different distribution to compare. You’ll know when you need it.
I would only go to Fedora if you need it. For example newer drivers (kernel, mesa). Don’t go change the kernel and/or mesa on a distribution, probably better to switch at that point. Or if you need KDE or GNOME for some reason. Wayland is disabled in Mint by default, but can be enabled. It’s been over a year IIRC since they added experimental Wayland support so it may be fine by now.
Differences between Linux distributions are exaggerated.