Fonzie!

I’ve found it needed a lot of extra steps, plus fidgeting with the OSTree defeats some of the safety/stability of it all. Bazzite, at least, recommends against using OSTree blindly as that’s meant for sysconfig and recommends using Homebrew instead, as this lives in your user space and touches very little; but even installing libqalculate gives memory issues. Most things I attempted to install did, actually. The Ruby interpreter installed just fine, and was the only CLI program that installed just fine IIRC.

Now, I feel like it’s less of a hassle to Just Use Mint®, especially since I’ve got it installed anyway.

Funny you say that, I dual boot Bazzite and Mint, for gaming and everything else including programming, respectively.

Bazzite is a pain to install and use CLI applications in, but it’s got a great default setup for gaming!

I didn’t have terminal transparency available OOTB, and it didn’t find my Nvidea GPU drivers, either.

Ubuntu-based Mint does, for me.

I interpreted your message wrong, now I get it, thanks!

If I found the correct repo it seems like it’s MIT licenced which is very permissive, as well.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils?tab=MIT-1-ov-file

Ah that makes sense, thanks!

the laptops mostly use Intel x86 chips

I mean, I’d be happy to see them ship ARM laptops in the vein of Apple’d M chips or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So their laptops were running Android?

Reading the article it was a closed source OS, with their own closed-source Linux-based kernel.

I once freed 28 GB using find ~/Downloads/ -mtime +30 -delete

Honestly, I could do and have done Unreal, Unity and (easily) Godot development on less!

But that’s the minimum to spend for a very comfortable experience, I’d say; RX7900 and GTX 4090 are only there for bragging, while an on-board GPU would not be comfortable running game graphics in my opinion but I’ve seen people do it and not complain :/

Off-topic but:

Linux Mint
GPU: AMD RX7600XT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
RAM: 16GB DDR4

That’s surprisingly mid-range, I don’t think I ever see that; just budget specs or bragging-level specs. As someone with almost the same build (Ryzen 7 4700GE, RX7700XTX, 16 GB DDR4) I’m positively surprised!

Checking their profile, they do seem to be a furry, yeah!

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop, after all ;-)

This is not a good place to recommend commercial services.

That’s not art, that’s a tool. Tools can be made better through a confident statistics box.

Adding that this would work even if OP uses full disk encryption, as it’s encrypted with a passphrase; just double-click the drive in the file manager and enter the encryption passphrase when prompted (NOT a sudo password!)

It’s more like, the distro is the actual “under the hood” OS and the DE is the looks and user interaction.

I would say XFCE and Cinnamon; no two XFCE’s look alike and Cinnamon can easily be molded into something very different as well.

I see a lot of people recommending KDE and Gnome; I’ve found those surprisingly rigid, although there are more guides on how to “rice” KDE into the most non-KDE things so there’s that.

Ah I guess that makes more sense!

Now if it was Debian with the Gnome DE vs Ubuntu, that would’ve been ironic!

I never had good luck making hardware work right with ubuntu Debian, […] always worked way better out of the box on bare metal

Oh the irony!

I’ve been running Mint on my Dell XPS 9370 (methinks) for years and it’s always worked just fine. Only the fingerprint scanner just won’t work, not even with fprintd; it can set up a finger but never to use that same finger afterwards.

I love the customisability of KDE

I read this often but found KDE so difficult to customise. XFCE or Cinnamon is what I’d consider extremely customisable, KDE doesn’t even consistently listen to what theme colour I set :-(