I pay myself 10 dollars everytime I watch a pirated movie.

Thank God! That’s a relief. I thought I was going to have to redo my entire photo library hosting stuff.

GNOME is great for Mac refugees. Fedora might do.

Yeah, I was so confused for a few seconds, then I realized what they are talking about.

Can you elaborate?

I was using it, switched to hoarder, then readeck. Now I’m thinking about moving back to linkwarden, so this is bad news for me.

Then, I think you should be using Archive Box. Maybe you already do.

You can mess up android by installing third party apps, using shizuku, or rooting. If there is a distro as strict as vanilla android is for the average user, then you are right. I’m talking no root, no sudo, only official flatpak apps can be installed and only user’s home directory is r/w.

Even for an intermediate user, immutable might be a good choice, but it is extra unneeded complexity for a beginner, according to my experience with those type of distro in the past.

But people are different. Some might feel right at home.

Developers, yes. Beginners, I don’t think so.

My advice would be, only use vanilla/default/official versions of the most popular distros. Ubuntu, not Ubuntu Studio, Fedora, not (I don’t know what variants there are) Fedora. Do not use specialized distros, for example a gaming distro. Do not use 3rd party repos. Do not manually install any packages from anywhere. If you want something and official repos of your official distro cannot do it, just don’t do it. Do not try to find a workaround and make it happen.

After using Linux for a while you’ll become more comfortable with it and you’ll slowly start moving outside the above limitations. The best and worst thing about Linux is that your OS is yours and you can tinker with all of its parts. But you shouldn’t, at the beginning. If you were to tinker with Windows like that, it would also break.

Went to see my profile…

I could never get it to work without problems. Some games have sound but the screen is black, for some games the screen flickers, some games get slower over time and need a restart.

Started with git bare repos, moved to stow, now on chezmoi

started exactly the same, now using YADM and loving its simplicity.

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Yeah. I see. Thanks for the replies.

But people can keep developing an open-source version, right?

Why assholes?

It seems to work just fine on OnePlus 9 Pro but says “Warning unsupported device” when it starts.

In my experience, the only quirk of arch is its installation. pacman and the AUR are great and I really did not have any issues with stability. First time I tried arch I used a tiling window manager, custom menu bars and all that “hackerman” stuff, which was not stable at all and forced me to reconfigure and tweak my machine all day every day. Now I am using a full blown Gnome desktop environment and it is rock stable. My only wish is to have an /etc directory just like Intel Clear Linux.