But giving advice with Linux is hard. There are so many options.
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do I recommend Linux mint, where the packages are rock solid and tested, and upgrades work pretty well, but it is also very outdated, limited and relies on XOrg?
or Fedora Atomic Desktops, where there are some presets I would always need to change, and where I would always need to layer packages to have a base OS that I can live with? Which is rock solid and great, but the packages are still often too new, online tutorials will often be useless, and you may have some missing package support (okay Distrobox)
or traditional Fedora, which also has often unstable packages, dnf is often unusable, but it is more versatile and supports dual-booting (with Windows)
or Ubuntu, which is very opinionated and I would run unsnap and more, deviate from the defaults, but have more tested packages, I hope? But there will be no chance for a no-snap atomic/image-based variant?
The distro part is actually kinda easy. In my mind there’s only a few distros that should ever be considered by a new user. Fedora, or Ubuntu/Mint/Pop!_OS. The last three are effectively the same thing under the hood and all of them will do the job.
The real hard question is which desktop environment. Plasma is generally my go to suggestion. I feel it follows a tried and true paradigm for UI and UX. It’s incredibly polished, fast, and very full featured. The one that really sticks out as odd to me is gnome and is the one that I would never recommend. I wouldn’t discourage, just not recommend.
It was our own fault for hinting at the fact with names like worm and bug but no matter. The plan is already in motion and cannot be stopped. Bow down peasants, bow down to your supreme software engineer overlord. We will abolish all mennial jobs with our computers and calculators. Soon you will all be forced to work from home, and you will like it.
This truck is on to something. I asked my dog if she put a nano chip on my body and she said no, but it sounds like something the huskies next door would do.
I’m afraid your dog has lied to you. We had a pretty husky back when I was a kid, before she became a farmer, and I can confirm that Huskies are incredibly stupid. Your dog wants to use the Huskies as Patsy’s for their own nefariousness.
I really hope he just has the worst injector in the world and this isn’t permanent. If it’s a face lift, it’s what he deserves, but I’m not sure the rest of us should have to look at him like that forever.
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