XFCE is seriously underrated.

By default, your instance will only know about communities on that instance and communities that users of that instance have intentionally subscribed to. Unfortunately, this causes problems for users of smaller instances unless the instance admins are running a federation helper bot, which basically scans remote instances for communities and adds them to the instance.

I found this out the hard way when I first tried Lemmy, since I picked a tiny instance due to the larger ones being overloaded in June. I had a hell of a time trying to subscribe to the communities for the new Lemmy apps I was trying out. I kept getting Community Not Found errors until I refreshed the page multiple times until it eventually found the community.

What VM software would you recommend? The issue I always run into is GPU acceleration whenever I use the usual virt-manager or VirtualBox.

Some of us do enjoy hot weather. I hardly ever use my air conditioner.

Hexbear, Exploding Heads, and Lemmygrad are cesspools.

Luigi can jump really high, so I like playing as Luigi as well.

I avoid HP at all costs because they’re a scumbag company that disables their printers if you don’t use them the way they want you to.

You should be fine if you just wipe the drive and install the OS of your choice. That’ll get rid of whatever they may have installed on it.

System76 and other Linux-oriented hardware “manufacturers” basically take Clevo laptops and rebadge and mark them up. I got one from System76 and have been less than impressed with it considering what they charged for it. The screen is awful (purple tint to it) and the hardware didn’t fully work with any distro for a while. I wished I’d just bought a refurbished Thinkpad.

Pop doesnt have snap installed in my recent install.

That’s good.

I don’t like gnome in particular but I am too lazy to setup a proper WM on my work laptop for fear of braeking and losing work. Have tried fedora gnome with their pop-shell it worked fine otker than a few differences. Some odd behaviors like move next workspace would move it to first or last.

I used Fedora for a long time because they’ve officially supported KDE, XFCE, and MATE for a long time despite being known as a GNOME distro. Unfortunately, the enshittification that came with IBM buying RedHat was too much for me.

Nvidia is a pita. It prevents my machine from waking from sleep and I can’t even close the lid because I cant turn off sleep on lid close.

I’ve owned two computers (secondhand) that had nvidia and it was a constant thorn in my side… when it worked, it was still glitchy because nvidia likes to use their own libs for GPU rendering, which may or may not be compatible with the rest of the system. And of course the sleep issues and the driver not working half the time. I have no fucking idea why System76 is still selling laptops with that garbage built in. Mine just has the integrated Intel graphics, and while the performance isn’t always that great, the video actually works 100% of the time.

Weird. I’m on three servers and haven’t had this happen.

I didn’t get that with btrfs either.

They add a lot of stuff on top of GNOME and ship a few extra packages to help with gaming. Not sure how they handle snaps these days because I haven’t checked in a while. It looks nice if you like GNOME, but it just isn’t my cup of tea.

I’m currently running Debian Unstable with KDE on my System76, but I’ve also used Fedora and Arch on it just fine. I don’t have nvidia.

My issue with GNOME is that it seems like it’s trying to be a weird hybrid of a tablet and desktop interface, and you have to install all these extensions if you want to change any of it.

It always seems like for the last decade or so, Linux fans have been all about GNOME or the tiling window managers. There aren’t really any distros I’m aware of other than KDE Neon that ship KDE as the default anymore, and some of the most popular distros, like Mint and Pop!_OS, don’t even offer a KDE flavor at all.

GNOME just didn’t feel right to me at all since GNOME 3. I can’t get used to it.

GNOME 2 was great. So great that it lives on today as MATE. But I just can’t get used to current GNOME at all and can’t understand why KDE Plasma isn’t popular.

I’m currently using Debian Unstable. I used Fedora for a long time, but it got noticeably worse when IBM bought Red Hat. I also like Arch, btw. I have tried a bunch of other distros too, but they all have some quirk that annoys me (*buntu has Snap, Pop!_OS and Mint don’t support KDE officially, OpenSUSE is based around YaST, Elementary is weird about software installation, Manjaro fails at basic security 101 and keeps DDoSing the AUR due to bugs, etc.)

I have not tried NixOS yet, but I keep seeing it recommended, so I’ll have to try it.

Woody was my first Linux distro ever! My family only had one PC with dialup at the time, and you could buy the entire repo on CD-ROM. I actually keep the CD images around in case I want to play with a VM and feel nostalgic.

I know the FSF wouldn’t approve, but I am glad that they include the firmware on the regular network install image now. I need it to connect to wi-fi.

I know they always offered one with the firmware, but you had to do some digging on cdimage.debian.org to find it.

I have a System76 laptop, but I don’t like Pop!_OS. Maybe it’s just because I don’t like GNOME.