Can relate, NixOS is still running great on my laptop. The day I'm ready to stop hopping is the day I export all of my nixfiles and home manager configurations to my main machine.
openSUSE is still on my distro bucket list. When I'm ready to hop I usually just start pushing my luck messing with things until my current setup fails. Then I pretend to be upset and inconvenienced while secretly excited to try something new.
Except for the fact that it can be dangerously unsanitary. At my store we sometimes throw produce into the same bag that our bathroom trash gets emptied into. There are toilet paper rolls that were used to clean syringes in there and everything.
Not to mention sometimes the syringes themselves...
If you have to eat that way I get it, but that should be last resort.
I have actually done this a few years back. The trick is to add in the Kubuntu backport repository to get later versions (at least back when I did it).
I called it Kupobop and changed the OS symbol to a tiny moogle from Final Fantasy.
Then my Arch friend annoyed me into trying Arch, so naturally I now use Fedora.
My PC repair teacher hated Gates. The first story he told us about him was about how he essentially obtained DOS for a literal pittance, turned a massive profit on it, and never credited the original creators.
I might've skewed the story over the years of trying to keep it in my memory, but if I did it just goes to show how much I hate Bill Gates.
You're probably looking for an abliterated model. Be sure you can run it, first, as localhosting models needs high VRAM. You'll want RAM, too, in the case of GGUF models.
I'd have to write a whole half a book here to explain how to use them, but that information is freely available online. If you don't have a beefy GPU, look into how to host GGUF models.
I agree. Too much handholding for me, imo. However, if I had a Steamdeck I might use it just for simplicity sake. If I wanted an immutable distro for my desktop I'd choose NixOS, tbh, but that's on the opposite end of the complexity spectrum from Bazzite.
This. I mained Arch for 2 years and still can't be completely trusted with sudo. Moved to Nobara, would recommend as well. Its a bit more advanced, but you don't have to touch the command line if you don't want to and setup is right there step-by-step when you first boot.
I did try Bazzite first. I just couldn't get used to living the Flatpak life. I know you can force install native packages, but at that point why wouldn't I just use Nobara, lol.
NixOS is well worth a try. If you know lua and json, its not too hard to pick up nixlang. I know neither and it only took me a few weeks to learn it. But once you get the hang of it, you can make a Linux reproducible on other systems. I made everything modular. GPU drivers for my old laptop? Imported nix module. Neovim? Imported nix module.
Yeah, I've done that. I've also deleted SCSI on my first Windows PC, lol. I still haven't learned my lesson and mess with things I can't handle. I was notorious for destroying my mother's computers growing up. Then I learned to fix the things I broke.
As of right now, I use Audacious. Its my absolute favorite music client and all completely modular. You head to the plugins section and add what you want. It doesn't even close to system tray without a plugin, so super customizable. If you can't tell, I love modular things, lol.
For a quick music shuffle list with a really sleek design, Amberol is a really close second. Especially if you use GNOME, since its designed by default in the GNOME style. I use KDE, so I stick with Audacious, but I did enjoy my time with MPD on XFCE using a plugin designed for that DE. If I went back to Hyprland, I'd probably use MPD.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of firewire, but back in the day it was actually pretty nice. 1.5A @ 30v was pretty nuts back then. I had a PC filled with pirated music I got from LAN parties in high school. No idea where that music went... probably destroyed in a Windows reinstall.
lol! I took a Linux class a long time ago and learned on Damn Small Linux. I came back to it years later with Pop!_OS then moved to Arch where I stayed for 2 years. Went to NixOS for a while.
But I never gave Fedora the time it deserved, so as an afterthought I tried it after I messed up my Arch system (yeeted my .local folder by accident). Went with Nobara for the ease of setup for gaming. I didn't think I'd stay here, but its just too good.
Haven't gotten around to it just yet, but I did tag all the music with the proper metadata. I can't rip anything off my iPod 1st and 2nd gens from my collection yet, but they're stuffed full of music. I just need the proper firewire, but they seem to be more expensive than the units...
I need to order the music by genre folders now. Today I just got the EddieVPN client for Nobara working. I didn't realize it was as easy as going to the Eddie site and getting the RPM; I've been too spoiled with the Arch AUR having everything I need in one place.
I'm almost there, though. I'll have the music up soon.
I see a lot of "just accept the gift" here, but that's a rough choice. If you accept the gift, then you would be expected to use it over the one that you like. Your wife may even go so far as to throw the other one away (depending on what it is). So I don't think accepting the gift was ever an option.
It really is a hard spot to be put in, and I would have probably done the same thing in your position, even though I hate denying gifts. The whole premise of gifting is flawed, imo, at least where I'm from. To me, the one being gifted is put more on the spot than the one gifting. I hate getting gifts for this reason.
So maybe this. Explain why you like the one you use better, but that you're very happy with the gift. Ask her if it's okay if you keep that gift as a backup if your first one breaks and store it by the first one "just in case". Its never bad to have two of something.
I just picked a couple apps. Obsidian is a good one, but you have to want to open it because there's no widgets. So my ideas go there. But I also have an open source app from F-Droid simply called Tasks that has a really sleek homescreen widget.
Now every time I open my phone those unchecked tasks taunt me and I MUST check them off. If I don't because I'm being lazy it starts to eat at me that there's an unchecked overdue task. Must. Do. Dishes.
Can relate, NixOS is still running great on my laptop. The day I'm ready to stop hopping is the day I export all of my nixfiles and home manager configurations to my main machine.
openSUSE is still on my distro bucket list. When I'm ready to hop I usually just start pushing my luck messing with things until my current setup fails. Then I pretend to be upset and inconvenienced while secretly excited to try something new.
Except for the fact that it can be dangerously unsanitary. At my store we sometimes throw produce into the same bag that our bathroom trash gets emptied into. There are toilet paper rolls that were used to clean syringes in there and everything.
Not to mention sometimes the syringes themselves...
If you have to eat that way I get it, but that should be last resort.
PC upgrades.
I have actually done this a few years back. The trick is to add in the Kubuntu backport repository to get later versions (at least back when I did it).
I called it Kupobop and changed the OS symbol to a tiny moogle from Final Fantasy.
Then my Arch friend annoyed me into trying Arch, so naturally I now use Fedora.
Hear me out. We start low and slow with:
Rainbow Brite - Brand New Day
Not too loud. Just enough on the annoying side.
No? Well, let's get the point across with:
Evanescense - Bring Me to Life
We've been pretty nice so far and no joy, huh? You asked for it, the worst(best) song in this kit:
This Diabolical Mashup
Ventrilo. Hobbles away on my cane.
Aside from the obvious like phone, keys, wallet, etc, I carry my pen.
It's a really nice EDC titanium one that fits almost every pen refill cartridge.
Because I love everything open source.
My PC repair teacher hated Gates. The first story he told us about him was about how he essentially obtained DOS for a literal pittance, turned a massive profit on it, and never credited the original creators.
I might've skewed the story over the years of trying to keep it in my memory, but if I did it just goes to show how much I hate Bill Gates.
You're probably looking for an abliterated model. Be sure you can run it, first, as localhosting models needs high VRAM. You'll want RAM, too, in the case of GGUF models.
I'd have to write a whole half a book here to explain how to use them, but that information is freely available online. If you don't have a beefy GPU, look into how to host GGUF models.
Because doubling down on idiocy has always worked in the past.
I agree. Too much handholding for me, imo. However, if I had a Steamdeck I might use it just for simplicity sake. If I wanted an immutable distro for my desktop I'd choose NixOS, tbh, but that's on the opposite end of the complexity spectrum from Bazzite.
Meditation.
This. I mained Arch for 2 years and still can't be completely trusted with sudo. Moved to Nobara, would recommend as well. Its a bit more advanced, but you don't have to touch the command line if you don't want to and setup is right there step-by-step when you first boot.
I did try Bazzite first. I just couldn't get used to living the Flatpak life. I know you can force install native packages, but at that point why wouldn't I just use Nobara, lol.
NixOS is well worth a try. If you know lua and json, its not too hard to pick up nixlang. I know neither and it only took me a few weeks to learn it. But once you get the hang of it, you can make a Linux reproducible on other systems. I made everything modular. GPU drivers for my old laptop? Imported nix module. Neovim? Imported nix module.
Yeah, I've done that. I've also deleted SCSI on my first Windows PC, lol. I still haven't learned my lesson and mess with things I can't handle. I was notorious for destroying my mother's computers growing up. Then I learned to fix the things I broke.
As of right now, I use Audacious. Its my absolute favorite music client and all completely modular. You head to the plugins section and add what you want. It doesn't even close to system tray without a plugin, so super customizable. If you can't tell, I love modular things, lol.
For a quick music shuffle list with a really sleek design, Amberol is a really close second. Especially if you use GNOME, since its designed by default in the GNOME style. I use KDE, so I stick with Audacious, but I did enjoy my time with MPD on XFCE using a plugin designed for that DE. If I went back to Hyprland, I'd probably use MPD.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of firewire, but back in the day it was actually pretty nice. 1.5A @ 30v was pretty nuts back then. I had a PC filled with pirated music I got from LAN parties in high school. No idea where that music went... probably destroyed in a Windows reinstall.
lol! I took a Linux class a long time ago and learned on Damn Small Linux. I came back to it years later with Pop!_OS then moved to Arch where I stayed for 2 years. Went to NixOS for a while.
But I never gave Fedora the time it deserved, so as an afterthought I tried it after I messed up my Arch system (yeeted my .local folder by accident). Went with Nobara for the ease of setup for gaming. I didn't think I'd stay here, but its just too good.
Haven't gotten around to it just yet, but I did tag all the music with the proper metadata. I can't rip anything off my iPod 1st and 2nd gens from my collection yet, but they're stuffed full of music. I just need the proper firewire, but they seem to be more expensive than the units...
I need to order the music by genre folders now. Today I just got the EddieVPN client for Nobara working. I didn't realize it was as easy as going to the Eddie site and getting the RPM; I've been too spoiled with the Arch AUR having everything I need in one place.
I'm almost there, though. I'll have the music up soon.
I see a lot of "just accept the gift" here, but that's a rough choice. If you accept the gift, then you would be expected to use it over the one that you like. Your wife may even go so far as to throw the other one away (depending on what it is). So I don't think accepting the gift was ever an option.
It really is a hard spot to be put in, and I would have probably done the same thing in your position, even though I hate denying gifts. The whole premise of gifting is flawed, imo, at least where I'm from. To me, the one being gifted is put more on the spot than the one gifting. I hate getting gifts for this reason.
So maybe this. Explain why you like the one you use better, but that you're very happy with the gift. Ask her if it's okay if you keep that gift as a backup if your first one breaks and store it by the first one "just in case". Its never bad to have two of something.
I just picked a couple apps. Obsidian is a good one, but you have to want to open it because there's no widgets. So my ideas go there. But I also have an open source app from F-Droid simply called Tasks that has a really sleek homescreen widget.
Now every time I open my phone those unchecked tasks taunt me and I MUST check them off. If I don't because I'm being lazy it starts to eat at me that there's an unchecked overdue task. Must. Do. Dishes.