I want a distro that’s hard to understand, hard to make work, hard to update and gives me superpowers like being able to move box to box by taking a file or two with me.

Ohh, i fully agree. but the second someone does a convincing fake of him saying stuff that would make him big mad, he’ll go off and start denouncing AI :)

One way, or another, that revenue stream will go to shit, they’re just doing a smash and grab while they can.

Man, are they gonna be pissed when people use this against them as well. Collectively we have more time to do stupid shit :)

yeah ever since bookworm, they seemed to sort it out…

The NixOS, it callllssss usssssss

come in they ssssaid, itssss delcarativvvveee they ssssssaid.

Wait i just put an environment variable in conifguration.nix and moved home manager back out of my home folder to a central spot why does sddm take 5 minutes to give me Wayland now?

edit: OMG 6 hours later and I have it working. I have a configuration.nix that i re-grew with my 2025 backup and a configuration.nix.slow that is still broken if i switch it out. SDDM timeouts all over the place

the diff between them give 0 indication why sddm would fail.

I kinda want to go back through line by line and find out what did it, but I kinda also want to sleep, eat and go to work in a few hours :)

and stop it when I’m busy. I want some astrophysics news, some people cooking some shit. All those people are solely there because they can afford to stop their day jobs and make something interesting. I want to see som

edit: edit: no rest for the wicked. I ran it through Meld, and there was very little there. Best I can tell, my home manager was synlinked to the wrong config in the store. I’m running it modular, so the nixos-rebuild “should” have moved its configs. The defunct home manager somehow broke QT6 and I lost my file/edit menus in qt apps, the fix for that was a template override env var in configuration.nix. When i fixed the borked home symlink, that failure stopped being a failure and the QT override somehow gave SDDM heartburn. I hadn’t seen it because I rarely change home manager, and whatever was wrong sat that way since 25.11.

Removing the line for QT to ignore the template stopped SDDM/Portal from loading and crashing for 5 minutes straight.

Careful on your uninstall, once my wife uninstalled from her phone*, all of a sudden her account can’t re-connect to delete her data. There’s lots of talk about this on the forums. Delete your account and uninstall all at once.

• my brain said the work i was thinking it wasn’t

The vague part is:

say uninstalls are 1000 / day, so that’s 100%

up 150% is 2500 / day, so 250% of nominal

or is it :)

It depends.

A 2-5 year-old laptop, you want to web browse, maybe watch some videos, use google docs or open office, you probably never need a terminal

If it’s a really new laptop or you want to get the most out of video drivers and push it harder, you’ll probably need to be ready for some light terminal crap. Gets a little janky if you have a dual-video-card setup. Nothing hard to handle, but if you’re not looking to have to handle anything…

I think the numnber of available packages is better on the Debian side. Mint or Kubuntu run newer hotter stuff, debian runs older more stable stuff.

Ying and Yang. You don’t give us what we want, we don’t buy into it.

We’ll buy POS chinese laptops before we rent a desktop from them.

I don’t understand, we had this in the 90’s and it didn’t work then. No company or user wanted their whole desktop to be offsite.

It’s the blanket name for their security architecture. The thing that makes sure your kernel is blessed, tries teo tell if you’re rooted, then sets a fuse flag if anything is off. It also provides a secure, encrypted profile for your phone that bifurcates apps, data, blocks screenshots. The data from the flag is available to apps to tell that your phone is potentially insecure. For the most part, they only block Samsung banking/pay apps and make your secure partition inaccessible.

My next phone will be something degoogled. hopefully something linux.

I’ve already wiped an old disconnected android phone for use with my drone/cameras that require a mobile device.

That means they were making money by people running their os.

If they spend the money on re-engineering their devices not to allow it, there was a cost advantage to selling your data.

2023/4 was steam but it was also before Microsoft started losing their mind thinking forcing people into AI would just blow over.

I expect 2026 will have a couple more percent as a load of people are trying to escape and some of them will make it.

why is the acceleration still slow?

1. There’s no marketing

2. Fear. Linux used to be a lot more complicated. It has a reputation. Windows is still far better at getting you to a gui if you really fuck it up. Checkpoints on updates and safe mode save a lot of peoples bacon.

3. Game performance is still markedly slower, and anti-cheat titles are unplayable.

Games are getting better, ease to install is getting better. Title availability is slowly getting better, but a lot of it is electron, so the titles themselves are getting worse. Wine/Proton is amazing and improving every day.

They want the key, verifiably off the box, in clear text. Any usb stick. any sd card. Not great, but not any barrier that’s worse than needing to setup a microsoft account.

it’s default in that it’s the top item on the list, but I can’t actually fault them much here, that dialog is crystal clear and you have to log into a Microsoft account to save it there. They don’t really push you very hard to put the key into their cloud.

I fault them more for not using zero-knowledge encryption to protect the user’s key.

Grey area, user chose to store the private bitlocker key to their online Microsoft acct, it’s optional. It’s still a dirtbag move, but probably less illegal.

Yup, I know just where that happens. It’s probably a joy to work in your IT. They probably have a keyboard macro for “no”

Not accounting for any interesting custom choices you made under the hood, the default file browser for both os’s use libfuse3 for MTP. My point is, it shouldn’t have crashed, there are open issues in libfuse3 for possible crashes, so you might just have hit one at the wrong time, but at that, it REALLY shouldn’t have f’d over your journaling filesystem enough to keep you from logging in. A breaking read/write to fuse should not have been able to f your journal over beyond a simple automatic recovery. Most of the design choices in Linux over the last decade have been made specifically to prevent that kind of thing from happening on a healthy system. One can argue that one distro is more stable than another because they take, or refuse to take newer packages, but for your specific issue, they use the same piece of software under the hood.

The wipe and new OS might have just moved the problems to a less visible area.

My primary anger with Wayland is the security issues that broke AHK that they’re just now considering. There’s been lots of finger pointing over the years, but now that most OS’s are ditching X11 support all together, we’re going to see a lot more compatibility coming in the next year or two.

I like to know when a package arrives, and when someone has stolen it.

Doorbell cams are just too convenient. You already have power there. There’s footage and audio.

Of course, I’m technically inclined…