ProtonBadger @ ProtonBadger @lemmy.ca

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Yeah, I’ve used Linux in some capacity since the late nineties and know my way around. I can’t be bothered to fiddle with an Arch install, I’ve moved on, I got better things to do. So I decided to try out EOS on my new laptop. A few clicks and it was running with proprietary NV drivers by default, which are updated as needed by yay. I was playing games within 20 min from my Steam Library preserved on another ssd.

Only thing I had to do was install btrfs-assistant, plasma-Wayland and whatever apps I need.

The most laborious bit was configuring various apps to use Wayland but that didn’t have to happen immediately.

Yeah and I'm not convinced a soldering iron is something everyone should have :)

We get tribal over everything. Countries, gangs, skin color, sexuality, religion, even bloody brand of smartphone makes us bicker or call the other person dumb. And the budding optimistic globalism that was happening have totally reversed in the last few years, it was an illusion.

I've stopped watching/reading news. I can't take it anymore. I lost hope.

Maybe in the extreme future but right now we've just barely started as a species, will we exist long enough to grow up?

Well, those of us who care all say that but I for one have to access government and banking websites in several countries, if they implement this I have no choice. This abomination must be prevented in the first place.

I tested both and ended up with EndeavourOS because SuSE have some restrictions and issues with codecs and the Packman repository that can get a bit iffy.. e.g. recently different versions of mesa on suse vs. packman messed up some applications, though it got fixed.

Also for some reason SuSE didn't support my vol up/down keys, etc. I didn't investigate.

So I grabbed EndeavourOS, choose [NVidia] proprietary drivers mode when booting the installer (the install will then automatically also install NV proprietary drivers). I picked the BTRFS filesystem with Grub (for snapshot support) at install and simply later ran "yay -S snapper-support btrfs-assistant" to get automatic snapshot support.

I do have Optimus disabled though, I run the Nvidia in Dedicated mode so I can't say how well Optimus works.

First start the process of getting a new wheelchair, my current one is 13 years old and leaves a trail of nuts and bolts.

Micro is a quite nice replacement for Nano: https://micro-editor.github.io/ but Notepadqq looks interesting too.

“Toll The Hounds” by Steven Erikson, it’s book 8 in The Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

For me that would be The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974). I love those movies and the cast is incredible.

I always wondered whether it's flora and fauna dependent to some extent, so some people have bacteria that don't damage the teeth and other have the nasty ones and have a constant battle.

I'm fine in general with most of them but I'm settled on KDE. I agree the software is great, I love apps like Okular and there are these little goodies hidden everywhere, like typing "fish://user@server" in the file manager url/path area and I get a folder open of the remote file system, I can even add it to "Locations".

I picked Endeavour because some friends were waiting for me to get online, so I had to hit the ground running with some good defaults. I could really have picked any distro, I'm flexible but Endeavour was lauded for a quick install and I wanted to try an Arch distrib. I was up with KDE, Steam, NV drivers and Discord in 20min so it was good.

I customized it more in the following weeks, like I'd do with any distro. Now I've heard about Garuda I kinda regret I didn't go that way. I'd like that BTRSF+snapshots option but I don't have patience to set that up for the time being - either converting the FS and setting up grub myself or reinstalling with Garuda, seems like a hassle for now.