That’s okay. Thanks to their insane pricing caused by covid, followed by more insane pricing caused by the AI bubble, many people are still running cards not getting any new drivers anyway.

Back then it was for many simply the first rolling distro they tried… to suddenly realize that without tedious (and rarely unproblematic) release upgrades the reasons for a new install (thus trying out yet another distro) also vanished.

Yeah, the majority downloads a random program to do it for them from some website. Which might or might not do what it advertised, sometimes even without installing a lot of trash ranging from ads to viruses…

I do manage them via git. But I only do it so have settings (and their changes) synchonised between 2 PCs and a laptop.

With just one main device I don’t even see a reason to “manage” anything… a basic backup strategy completely independent of just dotfiles aside.

None.

I use Signal for messaging. In fact I only use it on mobile devices for short stuff.

Any discussion that takes more time than typing s few short sentences (but is usually also less time-sensitive) I do on the desktop app already.

So Signal is definitely not the right platform for me to talk about hobbbies or other interests. That’s not what it was originally designed for. And that’s not what I will ever use Signal for even if it can nowadays cover that area somewhat.

And if you try often enough it maybe even be a working one…

Joke aside…

Who has not reached that “just say yes so they shut up”-point with some people?

You do a massive disservice to the overwhelming majority of computer users.

By explicitly telling the rest why Bazzite probably isn’t for them?

yes, it’s linux…

and never bothers me

For some time… but nowadays I would never go for anything not rolling release anymore.

Because those distro upgrades were traditionally when something broke (or there were just too many changes requiring my attention at the same time), triggering a fresh install… usually combined with trying another distro.

Same… but I also remember a single outage in the last 15 or so years.

At least in my experience the chances that I move or replace hardware are much higher than the chances for a power outage.

“Your system is reproduceable, but your personality unstable” 😂

I really love all my various Pis but at the moment there are so many refurbished servers available (thank Windows 11) as well as several small form factor x86 PCs that a Raspberry Pi 5 sadly is on the lower end of performance/cost.

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Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

Certbot’s default timer checks twice a day if it’s old enough to be be due for a renewal… So a change from 90 to 1 day will in practice make no difference already…

Nectcloud has always been incredible slow for me. (And that’s beside other issues like updates failing more often than succeeding…)

And as I was using it mostly for basic filesharing between my machines and as a CalDAV/CardDAV server I replaced it with Syncthing and Radicale now.

I’m learning about this one right now, so I guess I basically missed this one, too, while being online for hours…

Arch comes without socks by default. It’s up to you which ones you install buy.

That’s my point. It would often just run so they go out of their way to not support Linux.