I got my laptop from system76; but I think it will be tuxedo next time

i want to believe that the democrats could have won; but they’re so good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory that they still would have let trump win again.

yes. use the arrow keys to modify it before hitting enter

careful with it; i need the thing that you asked for too and crtl+r has been effective enough to prevent me to creating it.

i have a need for something like this too; but i’ve been making due with crtl+r and that’s been good enough to prevent me from taking action on it.

They also help with producing logic if you’re stuck on a part of your project. Even if they don’t get it right, they give you a good explanation and and a better idea on what to do.

i now use it at the start of every single project and task that i work on.

i suspect that’s why google and microsoft jumped on it so quickly; their search engines become useless compared to chatgpt and i wonder how they’re going to enshitify it in the future to squeeze out more profits.

besides the head socket; this was me in 2005 as a lowly IT analyst with an entire laboratory’s worth of screens displaying glxgears 6 days per week making sure all of the workstations’ display drivers were working correctly before deploying them to the engineers. that 6th day was me coming in on a saturday or sunday to take advantage of the REALLY nice and expensive hardware to try out the few games that worked on linux at the time. lol

All tech companies eventually enshitify and we would never be able to remember all of them if they all became slurs. Lol

be sure to leave out sensitive things like passwords, names, etc.

can you type the command history into your terminal and share it with us because it’s important to know where the package comes from since it’s unlikely that any of proton’s products are already in your repository list.

the proton package was already in your repository list?

are you able to share your yum repo configuration?

this and also this sounds like a project ripe for teaching yourself configuration management with something like ansible &/or terraform; which will get you paid since they’re in such high demand right now.

is support a factor in your decision? if so i would go with opensuse since it has options to let get enterprise support should you end up needing it. (anecdotally: redhat & canonical’s support are better; ESPECIALLY landscape since you mentioned nvidia & proprietary codecs, but it is very pricey)

thank you for doing this; lemmy has been a godsend for me and it’s turned me into a donor and i’ll start contributing eventually.

Lawyers cost A LOT more than developers

I sometimes have macbooks from work; but I gave to my last one in favor of a Linux laptop from a Linux company and the sailing has been smoother than any of my macs in the past.

In the future I’m going to insist on Linux laptops or they can find someone else to do the job and Linux is the only reason I have the leverage over an employer to make such a requirement and the best part is that they bought the high end Linux laptop since it was so much cheaper than the macbooks.

Did you download it using yum or dnf?

i too merely flirted with linux for years until my windows me started boot looping and then i was forced off that fence 25ish years ago and has been the biggest reason i’ve been able to stay employed since then.

the video is right about the reasons why people don’t want to switch and part of me wishes he used a sink or swim story like mine since the worst case scenario is trying to swim again later on when it comes to linux.

a quick place to start would be the systemd services that get automatically started when you boot your system. when i did this in the past, i would google each service that was running to determine if i needed it and remove the associated software if i decided that i didn’t.

(since you’re using debian): if it’s a fresh install, it would make more sense to start with a minimal install first like the netinstall image and then pick and chose what you want to put on top of it.

if your issue is that the distro is too bloated: there are other minimalist distro’s out there (some are based on debian) and they’ve already gone through the hassle of figuring out what the bare bones minimum is for fully functional distribution that can serve a viable daily driver.