Ubuntu at work since it’s well supported and we can expect any IT people to be able to deploy our packages.

Pop 24.04 because I think it’d be cool to see how performant and maintainable and customizable a desktop that isn’t GTK or QT based. Something sparkly without the legacy choices of the past to consider in the codebase. Plus even though I’ve never touched Rust, it’s so hyped that I’m interested to see how it all works out. It’s my gaming desktop that also has a Windows VM for occasional trying something out. Also process RAW photos with Darktable. Every now and then use Alpaca to try out free LLMs, handbrake, ffmpeg, image magick, compile something

Fedora, stable to me and it goes on my minipc. I run Jellyfin on it and occasionally SAMBA or whatever. I like to see how GNOME changes.

On a Legion Go, Bazzite with KDE. Steam and seeing how KDE Plasma progresses over years. Bazzite introduced me to distrobox and boxbuddy which I now use on the gaming pop_os machine too.

An old laptop with Linux Mint on it. I like to see how Cinnamon is. Used to favor it when I first tried Linux from Windows.

It’s been a long time but I also used to really like Budgie but I feel like everything is pretty solid at this point and I no longer care to chase modern GNOME 2 or Windows XP/7 UI design

Deckard save us

Upgraded my minipc to it the other day from 40. No problems. Fedora is consistently stable for me

Don’t buy Ubisoft

GIMP 3, Krita, Darktable, Inkscape, Kdenlive

I’ve never put any money in this game. I remember I feel like a decade+ ago they had that ship hanger demo that was the only thing available at the time. I think I installed that. Whatever. If people fund this game and it ends up solid someday I’ll enjoy it

Switch to Linux. Don’t use Microsoft email. If possible don’t use MS Office and if you currently need it, encourage Libreoffice, OnlyOffice, etc

Depends on how performant this VM is especially if it can utilize the phones GPU well. If the GPU passes into the VM well then that opens up a lot

You get access to desktop Linux applications which can be very good. May really enhance Android devices ability to be a laptop replacement. My personal laptop is an Ultrabook from 2017. Practically every phone released these days are more powerful than it

Like say if you had a video that was 1920x1080 but the actually something by something. If you googled how to detect what the dimensions inside the black border are and crop them, you’d probably find ffmpeg commands to run and crop it. With the VM just run the ffmpeg commands

Maybe it’s a really good VM and you could use desktop Linux applications well. Now you can get access to desktop Linux Davinci Resolve, Krita, Ardour, Audacity, etc. Last testimonials I’ve seen is that GUI applications don’t work yet but that’s a work in progress

If you’re a software developer now your phone can conceivably be solid for work. gcc, g++, npm, javac, etc. Maybe it’ll make developing Android apps on an Android phone very viable. Java/Kotlin compiler

Maybe this may help make your old android phone age well like using a phone to be a Jellyfin media server or some home automation computer, voice assistant, rather than buy something from Amazon

I haven’t tried it but there’s a lot of computing power in modern phones that are wasted. Phones have been more powerful than Raspberry Pi’s since forever and those are the backbones of so many things out in the world you’d generally never notice

Desktop Linux has a lot of familiar software that people use on Macs and Windows machines. Android getting access to desktop Linux applications makes it seriously usable as a dockable PC

No country, no non-American company should capitulate to American demands currently. Let dementia Donald and friends flail for a bunch of hollow victories and have their obituaries become holidays

That’s a clown makeup moment for Zorin OS

Could try to integrate what the Firefox web browser uses for web page translations. Just as an alternative to Google

https://browser.mt/

All these weirdo billionaires building bunkers

Realistically, I would probably try a google free Android long before I’d try a more pure linux phone

Eventually I’ll try one. I feel like it can be like desktop Linux where it take a very many many long years until it starts to chip away at single digit values of market share

I played that and Red Alert 1/2 constantly early 2000s. Really exciting

I’d be more than happy with 1GB/s drives for storage. I’d be happy with SATA3 SSD speeds. I’d be happy if they were still sized like a 2.5" drive. USB4 ports go up to 80Gb/s. I’d be happy with an external drive bay with each slot doing 1 GB/s

I’m sure there are data science/center people that can appreciate this. For me all I’m thinking is how hot it runs and how much I wish soon 20TB SSDs would be priced like HDDs

I’m not expert in sed or awk. I always have to Google. For me though, it’s generally that you can do a great deal in just one line of awk or sed. They’re standard on any Linux distribution I’ve ever used. When building out pipelines, scripts that you want run from an installer you built post install and when removing, sed and awk rather than needing python.

All really nice when you have strict configuration management and versioning and there’s something deployed but it doesn’t have the python packages installed that would make it easy in python and you can’t just pip install it on hundreds+ of computers without going through a process of approval and building a new tagged version release but sed/awk/etc can do the job. If it’s hard enough, python and whatever packages you can install. If simple enough to do in a small bash script, no python just what’s standard in your Linux distro

I use nvme enclosures. Very fast and very hot. I also got some fikwot ssd based flash drive that’s about the size of a common flash drive. I’ve seen it sustain around 500MB/s very well. Some type of metal enclosure. At this point I’m probably only buying enclosures and small NVME drives or USB sticks where the enclosure is metal and reviews seem solid saying it’s hitting SATA 3+ speeds sustained well

It’s appeasement but until projects complete it can end up being a political boondoggle that by the end of spending $100 billion (if even) just gets them the political sway they needed at the time while not compromising their domestic production advantage