Start by running vim and typing :vimtutor. You might have to install the vimtutor package. Its a good way to learn. Once you're through the vimtutor tutorial you should be good to go, you'll get better over time. I second recommending neovim over original vim. The command is nvim to start once installed.
Yes, cinnamon is its own DE. Its similar to KDE in layout, but iirc it's a fork of a very very old gnome version. I remember seeing a benchmark at some point that Cinnamon was less resource-intensive than GNOME or KDE
I'll second the onboard storage, and add that any >3-button mouse should have buttons that map to actual key/character presses. I got a Razer Basilisk Pro on clearance, and it does have onboard storage, so once I turned off the RGB in the windows software on an old laptop, I could get rid of it. What I didn't realize til later is that the nice little thumb lever can't be remapped by anything but the Razer software (which has to be running all the time) because it doesnt register as any key combo, it had to be processed through their app to be used. Damn it.
Edit: Have you tried looking at what keycodes the side buttons on your current mouse are mapped to? Sometimes you can intercept that input and make it perform correctly. I haven't done it on linux yet, but I'm sure there's an equivalent to AutoHotkey for Linux.
Honestly I tried Silverblue, and had a much better time after I rebased to Bluefin. I would recommend going for Aurora over Kinoite. Of course, you can always rebase.
Ahhh gotcha. The websites don't give a good indication of that, unfortunately. Trying to find the differences between OpenSUSE flavors was surprisingly hard. Thanks for the info!
From OpenSUSE there's also leap micro. Never used it, but maybe worth looking at.
If you don't like fedora it might still be worth trying one of the fedora atomics, depending on what you didn't like. For instance, I could never get used to dnf, but it's largely irrelevant on an atomic distro anyways.
I would love to see a true atomic Debian-based distro, but I think that's a long way from maturity.
Edit: opensuse aeon will also be released soon, but at least the comments on this post seem to think that there's some important things missing from Suse atomic.
Yeah, and in the last couple decades the NIH and NSF have become more applications-focused. If you can't show a commercial application for your basic research. It's less likely to get funded. Now, the DOD is the easiest way to get true basic research funded, which isn't ideal; only basic research which the DOD thinks is important will get funded.
Fun fact, the NSF was founded after WWII to fund basic science just in case it found something with applications.
Unfortunately, the driving force behind it was the DOD, whose idea was that if even 1% of the work funded eventually became relevant to weapons research, then it would be "worth it". But hey, at least basic science got funded.
This is very true! The structure of scientific revolutions is an interesting perspective on this, although it focuses on the huge leaps. It talks a lot about how incremental progress and huge leaps into new ways of understanding a science are mutually dependent.
That is true, but software is a much newer field overall than academia -- journals like Nature are over 100 years old, and the way prestige of journals works in academia and publishing hasn't changed significantly since the 50s. Academic publishing has a lot more momentum to change than tech, and academics have very little power to do so on an institutional level, it kinda has to come from administrators, who don't understand the problem or care.
What happened with all the privacy invading stuff which Audacity went through a couple years ago? I never heard whether it got reverted or not.