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Your rationale for going Pop was my exact one. I knew I wanted the bleeding edge, but this was a device I was going to (mostly) daily drive. I wanted it to be reliable. And Pop fixed that for me and didn’t force my hand with shoving Snaps down my throat.

Glad to have another join the ranks!

And yet so many people store personal files on their corporate devices…

Tbh no clue. Never saw it again, never heard about it again haha.

There definitely is a reason to collect telemetry with user consent. Not everyone will go out of their way to report on issues, or there may be features that are underdeveloped that users may use more often than they expect and they want to move resources from focusing on one aspect of the OS to another. As long as it’s done with consent and is an opt-in system it’s fine. I get that this not the case for this Intel one, but I’m speaking generally for development as a whole.

There are reasons for data collection. But having it be opt out instead of opt in is the more evil of the two choices.

Fedora, from what I last heard, is doing the same thing for new installs. You gonna go send your pitchfork over that way too?

I’m still using Windows on my gaming rig, and Pop on my laptop, and each have their own quirks.

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You made me exhale heavily through my nostrils. Well played.

Ah good ol Grafo. Chloevely was short but good.

The holy trinity.

For personal use, Flatpak when there’s no native option, in most cases. They always seem to work and with Flatseal, you can more finely control permissions and local filesystem access of them.

For servers, if it’s a single-purpose VM (like I do with my PiHole/AdGuard servers), I’ll also go native. Otherwise, Docker for compatibility and ease of management.

I am. Mines a 3, so idk how that translates over. But I would likely be using Pop as well, so that’s promising.

Hell freaking yes! This was like…the only major barrier preventing me from permanently moving my desktop over to Linux from Windows. Now I need to check if I can get my Mbox to work and I’m golden.

Yeah. At that point you can just rely on save states.

Wow, what a collection. Out of curiosity, do you back up the games you own in case the battery dies or something happens to the cartridges?

Yup. S76 drew a pretty clear line in the sand when they went all in on Flatpak. I’m glad some derivatives have the backbone to not back Canonical’s decision making.

I fall firmly in the Ubuntu/derivative camp for the most part. My laptop is on Pop, some of my virtual servers are on Ubuntu. Only exception is UnRAID, which is technically Slackware.

Shouldn’t be a problem if users are promoted, and it’s an option in system, not opt out.

Interesting project! My wife used to play, so I’ll have to show her.

Console, no. But somehow my parents convinced me to give away my copy of Pokémon Blue to one of my cousins. One of the dumbest things I’ve done, even if It wasn’t entirely my fault.