I suppose it depends on the OS. But the Universal Blue OSs, Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora are the ultimate tinkerer’s OSs even though they are immutable.

Because they are one of the most consumer hostile gaming companies. The only redeeming quality is their games are usually top notch. I personally refuse to give them any more money.

Instead of Bazzite, Aurora or Bluefin great options. They’re from the same people, but more general purpose. I use Aurora dx (developer) and my non technical wife uses Aurora.

That was one of the things that drove me away from Windows. Coming to my desk in the morning to see my computer on not sleeping because it woke up to apply updates or some other shit pissed me off.

Just one of the many ways that with Windows, my computer didn’t feel like I was in control of it anymore.

With Linux, I’m in complete control and it feels so good. Also knowing that I’m not giving out data just by using my computer is great. And FOSS is just cool.

I agree. HDD to SSD was a huge leap. NVME was a small, sometimes noticable upgrade. Past that, I can’t tell a difference. And it’s hard to get excited about the hardware updates when the software can’t use it.

I have never once been about to tell a real world difference in SSD speeds. Until OS I/O code improves, faster SSDs don’t excite me.

I’m on Aurora. I don’t have to use rpm-ostree (bootc in the future). I can use it, but I don’t have to. Most of my software needs are covered by flatpak and homebrew. I also don’t have to update packages in my distrobox containers. Those are managed for me, too.

I love tinkering with stuff, but updating packages is nothing more than a chore. I’d rather be doing the fun stuff.

The most badass package syntax: never having to use any because you’re on an atomic OS.

I have a similar Plasma 6.3 issue. I use a software KVM to control my work laptop. Now I get a pop-up notification when my controls are being captured and sent to the other computer. Yeah, I know I’m doing that, it’s deliberate. I’ve been using a software KVM for 8 years. No way to turn it off that I can find that doesn’t also turn off all pop-up notifications.

Because automation, containers, and VMs are fucking cool. I can run computers inside other computers. I can run tiny little computers that only do one thing. How fucking cool is that?

Because of Proton and also how shit can just break on Linux (see the current glibc fiasco), it might be better to have just a Windows version.

I when I play a game, I don’t even notice if it’s Linux native unless the game specifically tells me it’s a Linux build.

If you want Steam OS on a desktop, install Bazzite. It’s the closest your going to get and it’s great.

Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, you chose to be confidently incorrect about this?

It’s a contracting agency. Not individual contractors. Unfortunately we have lots of rubber stampers on our team who approve code while you’re not looking. And let me be clear, we have on shore who contribute awful code, too.

It’s all a mess.

Our off shore contractors produce some of the worst code. But it’s impossible to get work done and also be vigilant enough to reject their bad pull requests. So basically you’ll end up looking a code one day that is godawful and think, “this is off shore”. And yep, git blame tells you you’re right.

So, slightly tangential, but I have a failed home automation project this past week.

I have been using an unofficial integration for my mini-splits for a few years. The guy who wrote it likes to disappear for 6 months at a time and it seems like it may be abandoned. It finally stopped working after a home assistant update.

I had bought some ESP based replacement dongles about a year ago and decided to finally use them. Well, not all of the features worked, so I set about writing my own firmware.

That ended up working even less well. I wasted a lot of time and effort trying to get my firmware to work before giving up and just moving to the fork of the original Home Assistant integration for the official dongles.

I hate being beholden to third party stuff like this because I have robust automation setup for my mini-splits and updates can completely break them and be a massive pain to fix.

I’m not sad I tried and failed so much as I’m just sad it didn’t work. I may try again sometime in the future.

I’m sorry, is this some joke I’m too atomic to understand?

The fucking Okta verify app and its “cannot find trusted route to whatever” error popup that covers the approve button that cannot be dismissed except for just waiting for it to go away. Love that.

Oh! I finally got tired of swiping away the “setup express login” or whatever they call it and set it up. It’s not any fucking faster! In fact, it’s slower! It’s the same process, but now I have to also use my fingerprint at the end. And there’s enough of a lag that I often forget I have to do that so I’m starting at the login screen waiting for the approval to go through.

And, I have to use the thing twice to get on GitHub or the corporate VPN. It is so fucking tedious and stupid.

I had never seen the original until right before watching the sequel. While I really appreciate the original, I had no real expectations from the sequel, but it still blew me away.

I honestly can’t say I’ve ever seen a better sequel. Especially not so long after the first one came out. It’s pretty amazing.

The first movie I saw with Gosling was Lars and the Real Girl. I didn’t get his appeal then, but I do now. I should watch that movie again because as weird as that movie is, I think his performance is stellar.