I think getting the base DE and ‘adding modules’ (extensions) is great. And some distros like Bazzite add around 10+ extensions by default.

This. I find that most extensions don’t break as gnome isn’t making radical upgrades.

Ah my mistake, I must’ve installed it shortly after installing CachyOS.

I have a specific use case for CachyOS but I see two categories:

1. Bazzite, not intending to use the terminal much. Also less frequent updates which ought to be very stable. Atomic.
2. CachyOS, using the terminal and frequent updates. Rolling, and good support base.

Both use flatpaks which will keep apps sandboxed. A lot of users don’t seem to like snaps being pushed by Ubuntu so flatpak is the big choice.

I’m a teacher and I make Linux work for me. Open doc formats get converted to pdf for the shitty windows 7 running the printer in the printing room, and the Android/Windows only app for communications I just run on my phone. PPTs run fine. When there was a problem with the projector, ‘IT guy’ went to my laptop, got confused (it’s Gnome), I told him not to interfere with it because it’s Linux. He proceeded to say ‘Ah, not working because it’s not windows.’ Later that day he actually came to fix the cable to the projector.

A motorbike. I’ve had a few close calls in a car, I don’t think it would have worked out well on a motorbike.

Well, I think Einstein was a genius but much of his work was built on Minkowski spacetime, so the conclusions about relativity could have been reached at some point when physicists were starting to work with it. I am in no expert position to judge this, but new developments in science do genuinely build on new insights, and Minkowski built the mathematical and theoretical platform that was evidently available to physicists like Einstein.

Fantastic, I thereby absolve chairs of their duty like most of the people here.

My external drive is NTFS. It might randomly cock up occasionally but there are guides online on how to fix drive errors, usually just using the native disk management tool. Or just plug in to a windows computer to fix errors. Never an issue, and you might want to keep it NTFS should you need to plug into a windows computer.

And it doesn’t work on water.

Making coffee like a barista is infinitely more satisfying. A combined coffee machine: grinder and pressured hot water is bound to be cheaper than a fully automated one. You can push the grains down yourself, and make the coffee as strong or weak as you like.

Damn right! You don’t need therapy to disconnect from people, unless they were a focal part of your life.

Doesn’t it have an eMMC drive. A card like that might be slow as hell, but it would load up a live iso eventually.

You could still distrohop a bit if you want. Debian (as well as mint) is stable, loads of deb packages out there. I really like Fedora (less packages for my use case but COPR is similar to AUR in that there are thousands of packages outside of the main repositories). Ultimately like they said, Arch is really out there with the rolling releases, but sometimes you’ll need to reconfigure. Recently firmware packages got split up and that required manual intervention. Haven’t had any breaks so far, so EndeavourOS is a good choice imo.

If you’re new to arch, I think maybe go endeavouros. A new install has update scripts and whatnot, and EndeavourOS has good documentation. Going straight into arch involves a lot of reading the docs just to even get a desktop environment running. You probably want to start with the full package.

I’m using endeavoursOS gnome.

Kubuntu will get you familiar with package management, though it could well be managed through a desktop app so you may well barely touch the terminal. But you will discover that there’s a fair bit of bloat - not in the windows sense - but apps that you may not necessarily need.

I’m a freefall sleeper so even no pillow works, otherwise a pilloe has to be flat and manoeuvred under my chest to stop my neck bending.

Freefall sleepers may have a slightly lower life expectancy but I’m like ‘meh’. Sleeping is nearly half my life.

I see it as ‘This is our house but lovemaking needs to happen elsewhere. The child moves out at 18 and does whatever they want.’ Of course, the child prior to 18 needs to understand consent and the use of contraception.

It’s a pretty good movie, might watch it again.

To be honest this doesn’t sound like a good workplace. As a teacher at my school, we just get on with the job and the last 50 minutes you can join in conversation or just get on with something else. When a teacher is busy with something (even if they’re reading) we don’t interrupt them except if someone has a school related question they can answer.

If a coworker runs in and says WTH?! and it’s no news, I don’t think they’d be popular either.