ReallyZen @ reallyzen @lemmy.ml

I have too many toothbrushes

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Then there's the spiders. The GIANT spiders.

Also "One day all will be yours" - short, fun and quite clever.

You shouldn't use flatpaks then

The Tumbleweed installer is beautiful, and straightforward. I am not sure how a newcomer would understand, or not, the partition setup if they need to keep windows and dual-boot ; if it's about to wipe the entire machine, it is one of the best, sleekest installers out there. Then package management can be a nightmare if you need to stray out of he beaten path unfortunately. Another argument for TW is the perfect integration of BTRFS, Snapper and Rollback (it is an opensuse project after all) ; I swear I'd still be on TW if it wasn't for some exotic software availabiity.

To me, debian does bring bloat: LibreOffice comes to mind. A default install will feature calendars, mails, weather whatever.

17 years and sometimes I still crave one

All that was said here, plus sometimes they don't work. I've reported a bug where the kdenlive flatpak version doesn't render titles or fades - and that's on Debian Testing, Arch, and Asahi Fedora. Native version works perfectly, but forces me to download an untidy amount of KDE stuff on my gnome installs ; flatpak would've been a cool solution to that.

I am yet to report another where Ardour nukes pipewire, at least on Asahi, but on Arch it was misbehaving also. Native, distro-provided version works perfectly.

I don't trust flatpak because no one single publisher can test every possible config, and I'm afraid distros become "lazy" and stop packaging native versions of stuff since it's a lot of work.

It's already on the AUR

Have tou heard of the sl command?

It's like with watching TV Series. Why am I going through Firefly again instead of trying something new? Or reading The Expanse again?

Newpapers are available in public libraries

Better management of the btrfs default settings and cleanup scripts. My install bricked itself because the root partition was 30G and it chocked itself to death (home and all data was elsewhere).

It's fixed by now I think ; I never update between projects, so sometimes would go a few months between updates and it hasn't happen anymore. When it did, the fix was simple enough while still annoying of course.

AFAIK now the keyring gets updated first if needed. In the middle of something here, can't try unfortunately - but at the time of the issue, while the first-level answer was "Update All The Things (all the time)", the problem was on the table, and acknowledged as in need of a fix.

Generated my grub configuration as grub.conf

This one took a stupid amount of time to debug - but on the other hand, when grub failed it did with "can't find any bootable thingy" and not "missing configuration file" as, in my later opinion, it should.

Life Linux is a harsh mistresses, sometimes.

Late to the party, but we're talking long-term feedback, right? My point of comparison is a 2017 8th gen i5 dell 7385 with 8gb of ram, running Arch/Gnome.

I'm just out of a huge project involving Ardour, Audacity, kdenlive, Jack, Wireplumber and many gigs of media files on my 2023, brand new, M2 Pro, 16gb Ram 14inch mbp.

I installed Asahi Fedora Remix straight out of the box after updating the mac side (mandatory!). Install is indeed super-smooth. I choose to conform to defaults, and installed the KDE desktop variant ; as expected, I didn't enjoy it and installed Gnome almost immediately. I'm a long time Gnome user fanatic tbh.

It Just Works, plain and simple.

• I was expecting to be blown away by the performance, but it just feels "normal', launching Firefox or whatnot isn't that different from Linux on an old i5. It is snappy, but it's not like Linux doesn't work very well on average hardware.
• Rendering video was admittedly faster, but I only worked on 1080p 45s to 4min stuff, so not a scientific measure here.
• Battery life is good while running the Ardour multitrack DAW for instance. I noticed on macos, gaming on steam, that I can drain it pretty fast if I just play obliviously in the middle of the day. So not a bad battery, really usable work hours out of it - within workloads limits.
• Sleep battery consumption is bad, about 50℅ a day. Better turn it off between things, and reboot.
• ...Which is what I do to my other laptop, it being plagued by S3 sleep issues. But booting the i5 is fast, so it's OK. Boot times of the mbp isn't that fast tho, again I was expecting more from the hardware.
• Some software isn't available on the Fedora repos or flatpak/flathub for the 64bits Arm architecture, but there's much much that is available, including for me the latest wireplumber / jack stack which I do need IRL for work.
• You will have to learn Fedora's dnf package manager tool, but it's "the same" as anything .deb, or about.

So there are minor annoyances pertaining to my use case, but it is more than bearable. I'd never have bought such device without the Asahi project, it is a great daily driver to live (and puzzle coworkers) with.

Now, 3 fingers swipe up, and Spin The Cube, Dude!

1. If it annoys you, you can filter it out by keywords. I use this to block anything "Musk" for instance.
2. Asahi is GREAT and the install process a breeze ; Coming ftom macos I suggest you select Fedora-Gnome rather than the default KDE desktop.
3. For your carriage return to work, you need to leave a full blank line between your chapters.

Connect does all that (Android) Free, no ads, frequent updates; dev support via buy-me-a-coffee thingy.

Or Connect (Android)

I fully don't get sync. It's drowned in ads (or, if you have custom DNS, full of endless black placeholders for ads), and feature-wise just like Connect. I haven't checked for a while, but I remember people asking for stuff that was already here on Connect.

Duh, we have high-speed rail in Morocco. It's called Al Boraq and is the best way to blast from Casablanca to Tangier.

And it is not overpriced like in France, where the tgv is more expensive than a taxi to the airport, your plane ticket, and then another taxi.