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In the real world, I love music 🗣️

  • Industrial Metal 🔩
  • Aggrotech 😡
  • Deathcore 💀

Also…

  • Long walks or hikes 🚕
  • Custom keyboards 🫦
  • Writing 🥶

Student, studying mechatronics.

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Joined 11 months ago
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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • It’s a spam bot? But you just posted on it. I don’t promote cycling out the back of my ford truck. What is it with these fellow penguins taking such offence from corporations anyway? I’m as anti-capitalist as the next person but embrace reality, they’re not going anywhere for a while.




  • I’m using Fedora Atomic Budgie right now, and I’m of the viewpoint that I want my system to be my system. That is why I used Arch / Artix for so long.

    Eventually however, I tried out Atomic distros in VMs and initially disliked their “restrictive” nature. But after too many random breakages on Arch, I went for it on my desktop as I imagined it’d be good for reliability.

    That was about 2 months ago, and the very same install is still going strong on my desktop and now laptop too (which I’m writing this on). That is hands-down the longest a single instance has continued to exist for me. I love it.

    I think we need to reconsider everything about the “Linux desktop” we all dream of. Let’s say we get 60% of existing Windows users onto our side in the next 5 years. That is a lot of people. Too many people for us to assume they’re all willing to embrace the total freedom we advertise. This is where we need to go, we need more standardization across the board. I’m almost at the point where I’d only recommend Atomic distros to new users, as new users are going to be scared off if something spontaneously breaks. New users are also going to be inquisitive, so they may cause breakages.

    Wayland is just overall the next step, X.Org is older than me, older than many of us to be honest. If projects are left abandoned due to the complexity of Wayland, oh well? The fraction of the userbase that used those projects are just gonna have to get with the times I’m afraid.

    Linux needs to grow-up a bit, Windows is getting more and more enshittified by the week. Sooner or later it’s gonna reach a tipping point and people are start dropping off and coming to us. We need to prepare for an influx of “normies” essentially. Because of that, I welcome Atomicity, Wayland and other evil evil oh so terrible things that “corpos” are doing.







  • I can’t wait for COSMIC, not so much because I’d use it, I quite like Budgie and so will need to do extensive test-driving to switch, but to just see System76 back onto the stage.

    Pop! OS hasn’t been updated in a couple years now, making it an absolute relic. As far as I know none of the Pop! OS apps have been either. I get why they’re doing what they’re doing but it’s gotten to the point now where I, and many others I’d assume, are forgetting about them. Pop! OS was huge, now I hardly see it anywhere.

    I don’t use Pop! OS nor any other System76 products, but the nature of our community means any developments anywhere grow it. I would recommend Pop! OS to my friends as a first-distro, but I can’t throw them two years into the past, no small amount of time for Linux, to give them a feel for how it is today. I currently refer them to Fedora, but Fedora is far from perfect for a total newcomer.





  • The beauty of Linux is that it’ll run on almost anything. I recommend second-hand office desktops for your use-case, you might find a good deal and get peripherals with it. If you somehow manage to come across GPUs at your price bracket, avoid Nvidia; poor drivers, support, corporate hostility etc.

    My first distro recommendation is going to be a bit different from the usual, purely based on my experiences with other popular go-to distros. I’d recommend you try Fedora KDE, Fedora is a wonderful distro that always makes you feel welcome. KDE is a lot less resource demanding than Gnome, and is the desktop that ships with the steam deck. Personally I don’t like Gnome since it’s a bit Fischer-Price my first DE for me, but I encourage you to try everything.

    I’m using the Budgie DE by the way, it’s a good middleground between Gnome and KDE. Fedora provides “Spins” for all major desktops.

    If you’re feeling brave I’d like to quickly mention a version of Fedora called Fedora Kionite, it’s whats poorly named an “immutable” distro (Atomic is a better name but don’t worry over that right now). Very basically these distros restrict access to the core, or base, system files; which massively improves security and reliability. I use Fedora Onyx which is immutable with the Budgie DE, Kionite is KDE. Immutability is very new in the pseudo-mainstream and very much in it’s infancy, so it will annoy you at times if you choose this path. But it has massive benefits and, I think, is the future of the Linux desktop.

    I’m assuming this is your absolute first adventure into the FOSS world, which I know is probably wrong since you’re on Lemmy, but I’m also still going to mention you should use the Firefox web browser as you said you were doing JavaScript. Firefox is the absolute most popular browser on Linux and has amazing developer features.

    We’re all eager to help budding penguins on their journey, so feel free to message me directly anytime for support or make posts right here.