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  • tl;dr:

     
        
    dnf list installed > $anydir/meow
    
      

    On new computer, with fedora installed and the meow file;

     
        
    dnf install $(cat $anydir/meow)
    
    
      
  • You are in an environment where the downvote button exists as a self-validation/relief method rather than flagging off-topic/unrelated/low-effort/etc content as "bad".

  • The majority are simpletons which (also) love simple stuff. That's why.

  • One word:

    Recall.

  • A "ez" solution would be simply stay on Windows and leave Linux as a novelty. A somewhat complicated solution -- double booting (apparently Windows can be a privacy nightmare even while dual-booting). A quite hard one would be installing Linux and running Windows on a VM with GPU passthrough. The "are you bleeping kidding me?" approach would be buying another PC just to run Linux while leaving your "main" PC for Windows.

    "Is there a sane approach for this?" -- yep, there is! Which is, buying a console and use it solely for gaming while leaving your main PC for daily browsing and everything else (i.e Linux).

  • Orange pi zero 3 is arm-based and can be really viable for daily usage if you are into tinkering.

  • In a serious tone:

    Attempt to do a minimal yet optimized install instead of a standard one while making it fully functional.

  • I use both nano and vim, so eh

  • I'm typing this on my rpi 4 w/ 2GiB (with three tabs open on my brave browser w/ also a youtube video playing on the background) and its good enough as is for daily tasks.

  • Is it possible to use Linux without the command line? Yes. Should you do it? Definitely not.

  • A contrarian take, but nextdns. It may not block youtube ads, but eeeh it works really well for most cases.

  • Yes! This is more like it. Thank you.

    Now to figure out a package that acquires the latest news out of a rss link and prints it in the cli.

  • Is there really a performance benefit to a gaming distro over a regular distro?

    No. Gaming distro is a "regular" distro preconfigured for gaming.

  • Thank you for your explanation, but what I had in mind "in depth" was to "store" the latest news acquired from a rss link into a variable (say, $NEWS), and then display it all way down with -vf drawtext=text="''$NEWS':fontsize=etc:other:attributes" followed by a scroll effect (to the left)... which I'm pretty sure its possible, but I don't know which package is appropriate for the former.

  • ZorinOS > Ubuntu > Debian and then Arch. I even tried Alpine linux recently but got "filtered" by the lack of gpu packages. Looks like I need to get my "googling" improved a bit.

  • "I don't value my time. I value my braincells."

    -- Me, every time someone says the "...value your time" argument.

  • In a nutshell,

    Zorin > Ubuntu > Debian > Arch, while (always) pestering google about trivial stuff, "How do I install something on Linux?" -- "Oh look! A package manager! Which package manager is the best?" -- "Distros have their specific packages? Cool!", etc.

  • Just tell him, "Give Linux another shot when you are bored.".

    t. Used to be a Windows tryhard w/ baby duck syndrome, told myself exactly this. Took me a while, but I became a penguin a couple years after.

  • Eh, just you wait until Bill implements AI into it and/or a xz-like backdoor and then says its "for your own good".