I keep a list on my backup partition:

$ cat packages.list

appimagelauncher
base-devel
aws-cli
aws-session-manager-plugin
bat
bob
direnv

discord
docker-compose
dog
dotnet-sdk
erdtree
eza
fastfetch
github-cli
httpie
k9s
krita
kubectx
lazygit

mariadb-clients
megacmd
minikube
mpd
mtr
mumble
nvtop
obs-studio
ollama-rocm
qalculate-gtk
restic
siege
speedtest-cli

steam
terraform
tig
timeshift-autosnap
tree-sitter
virt-manager
virt-viewer
yazi
yq
ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd
ttf-liberation
ttf-meslo-nerd-font-powerlevel10k
ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols
ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-common
ttf-roboto
wine
wine-gecko
wine-mono
winetricks
playerctl
php
php-gd
php-sodium
streamdeck-ui
speedtest-cli
zoxide
zsh
ripgrep
fd
dry-bin
kitty
xdotool
tmux
tmux-plugin-manager
sublime-text-4
trash-cli

It also has a good cli interface for mass processing via scripts.

I’m not saying you’re entirely wrong, but holy crap does that ever come off as a whiny and entitled sentiment.

I have a 3090 in one machine and a 7900XTX it my primary desktop. Pretending AMD “works fine and has no issues” is pure hogwash. When I primarily ran the 3090, I had no issues other than than the same standard ones I had with AMD (tearing in Xorg without picom, hardware playback in Youtube, etc).

Every person who parrots “AMD good Nvidia bad” is the same type that believes “if it ain’t open source, it sucks”, and usually is in the “I run some gaming focused, Windows-like distro so I can play my non-open source games” camp.

All I want is a simple questionnaire when someone signs up. “Would you run Linux on your desktop if it didn’t have Steam/Proton support?” that would just lock all you XBox lobby/Windows refugees into a LinuxGaming community.

Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?

As long as you’re not using Nvidia.

removed please.

Probably because the party politics of a particular country do not ever justify the military invasion of said country.

https://youtu.be/L2xWQr4VaUA

Nothing good ever comes from ‘mainstream adoption’ though.

“Two wrongs make a right”.

People are best served by the facts, not competing biased opinions. What they deserve is another thing altogether…

“I want to be king!” “I want to be pope!”

“I want to be king of the popes!”

If it works for somebody else, let them.

If it was just another method of distribution I wouldn’t care. When it becomes the only or preferred method, then I care.

If market share is your only metric for success, then I don’t know what to say. Look at the amount of threads/people stating “this basic thing didn’t work so it had to be the distros, switching distros solved my problem rather than trying to diagnose it”. Your idea of a “net positive” is a group of computer-illiterate Windows users who are now computer-illiterate Linux users, congratulations.

And Gentoo? I remember drobbins from when we were on the Stampede Linux team and he was a dick then, apparently he still is. I wouldn’t touch Gentoo with a 10 foot pole.

Native, Containers, Appimages. Flatpak not in a million years.

I really don’t know how to feel about all the Mint/flatpak supporters. It feels like a swarm of Windows refugees that have no interest in learning about the existing culture.

Flatpaks, Gnome, KDE, they’re all just bloat. Back in the 90’s, Unix/BSD/Linux were everything that Windows wasn’t. Fast, stable, infinitely flexible. I cherished grepping for Exim config settings in /etc rather than searching through 250 management console tabs for MS Exchange.

I run Arch and nearly everything I need is available as a package or in the AUR, except for the real niche apps that I can grab via cargo/pip/npm/podman. Occasionally however I find some app I’m interested in and they only support Ubuntu or Flatpak, and I feel like it’s getting worse so it’s not like I can just ignore it.

Do you know what the median age in Gaza was in 2020 (before this recent escalation in genocide)? 18 years old. In my opinion 20 years per election might not be an ideal timescale for a democracy.

It feels a little insane to argue about democracy and representation when it comes to people who have spent their entire lives in an occupied state. It’s like pointing out there’s a brown spot on your lawn while your house is on fire.

I just use restic to backup my home (to a local disk as well as weekly remote syncs). Then whenever I switch distros I just restore the files I want.

That would be the common sense answer. In reality, we know the prices will shoot up on existing inventory once the cost to restock goes up.

And then it will never go back down again.

Linux has plenty of users who appreciate it for what it is, not how you can make it look and act like Windows. Linux doesn’t need those people.

Personally I’m tired of people telling disgruntled Windows users to switch to Linux.

Linux is not your backup plan, it’s not a “Windows alternative”. Yes, there are projects out there that try to make Linux easier for Windows users, and honestly they can fuck right off. Way too many people are trying to dumb down this incredibly powerful operating system to expand the market into the “gamers” and the “grannies who want to browse the web and send e-mail”.

Just… just stop.

As a web/devops dev, I 100% agree with your statement. I use GitHub Copilot in Neovim, Zed, Emacs, most of the time it just finishes my sentences or generates comments/docblocks/unit tests, I’m not using it to generate features.

On the flip side though, the company also went all in on Microsoft Copilot, and holy fuck it’s obnoxious trying to use Excel or Outlook with it shoving itself into your face every time you try to do something. And I have no way to disable it.

And now we’re even further into fantasy land. Governments don’t make tax laws targeting specific individuals or companies, you don’t want them to do that. They don’t target Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, they target yacht sales and capital gains.

God I love the “it’s so easy!” crowd.

It doesn’t work like that though. I (Netflix USA Ltd.) do hereby grant a license to you (Netflix Ireland Co.) for my complete catalog for $0/year. You’re not even charging people to watch my content, it comes free with their monthly subscription. If you want to advertise your service just buy some impressions from Facebook UK. All hosted by AWS in the EU.

I’m sure there must be some taxable services, I just can’t think of any examples, and I’m pretty sure it’s not the people that you’re thinking of.