I actually have a solution for your problem. Change distros:

https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=docker

all kinds of docker versions and you don’t have to do any manual steps

Don’t download .exe files, the video files have a different extension.

I’d have to also back up /etc/apt/preferences.d

Much easier to just copy and paste a block of commands when I get a VPS up

I want to conveniently share setups between my desktop and laptop. If you do this manually you will find out one both have small differences

At the same time, I may document that this computer works better with pipewire (or with pulse, depends on which one has issues) and commit to the repository

But then you need the pins and repositories you had before. I end up pasting a long ass chain of commands every time I get a VPS up just to set it up.

Me too, the windows drive is in the garage

I always have Google if it’s natural maps

Yeah, like if they did something crazy, like sponsored Kayak links

East Slavic languages only differ by the choice of i/y letters and Belarusian’s short u, Ukrainian yi and ye letters (and technically the apostrophe). You can have a combined Ukrainian and Russian alphabet keyboard. I have it on Heliboard

Bulgarian uses the er golyam/hard sign as a vowel, which it used to be in every Slavic language in the past. Macedonian is mutually intelligible, but uses an alphabet similar to BCS Cyrillic.

Pirate it

You thought so, but in year 2525 they will still be complaining about TCP congestion mechanisms

This space definitely needs competition

I like Matrix, but I do run into issues, like messages not being decrypted even though I verified my session. The average user is not ready for it. Or rather, it’s not ready for the average user

I use NixOS FWIW

Or, why not use something that’s neither of the three?

I just don’t want to associate with anything Canonical or Red Hat if I can help it

Fuck Red Hat and their closed source bullshit

Nah, I hate snap much more. Can’t even install the normal version is Firefox anymore on Ubuntu without hunting online for an installer

Nobody is forcing you to install system applications on NixOS. I use flatpaks on it all the time

If you have a root exploit I doubt Silverblue will save you

I’m not really running it for security reasons either

Couldn’t reproduce modifying the store as root, but the users thing is true

Not sure which things are not in the store though