Oh the 80s. What a fun time for interior decorating. It was like everybody was high while making design decisions.

I was not concerned about cleaning. I was wondering what the hell that shape is 😂

Adorable cat and all, but…the real question I have is what the hell is wrong with that sink?

Honestly Lemmy and Piefed looking like Reddit from 10 years ago is a feature, not a big, to me.

Why? It’s a desktop distro based on Debian. Just use Debian.

This isn’t an AI. Kit is just the name of their redesigned mascot. They literally said in the article that it wasn’t designed with AI and isn’t an AI chatbot.

I’d appreciate that! Signal messenger support is honestly the biggest thing I can’t live without if I’m going to convert away. I’ve been considering a move to GrapheneOS soon without any Google Play Services and just using Aurora/F-Droid, but I’d REALLY love to move to a full Linux phone that isn’t Android-based, as I view GrapheneOS as just a stepping stone still beholden to Google’s whims.

Never even heard of that device before. Can you get Signal messenger on it?

Perhaps not, but there is no GNU/Linux distro that is “ready for primetime” as a mobile OS right now. I WISH there was, but UBPorts, PostmarketOS, etc all either have significant features disparity or are straight up still marketed as “developer experimental”.

GrapheneOS is a solid choice for now to provide an alternative, whether a permanent replacement or a stepping stone.

I use Debian on servers, because stable.

I use Fedora on desktops, because I game and I like having fixes for mesa, the kernel, and amdgpu for my latest gen AMD GPU. My laptop is for work, but it’s just easier having consistency.

Yeah I’m sure it was an outlier. I’ve never had such a hard time installing a distro before.

I tried CachyOS. Took three tries for the installer to install without bombing on an error. Third time I got it after changing file system type to ext4 and not using full disk encryption.

Then I updated everything post-install. Black screen. No boot. AMD CPU and GPU.

Installed Fedora KDE. Works perfectly. Haven’t looked back in three months since leaving Mint.

I, too, don’t understand it. I’d rather install straight Arch. The archinstall works fine.

“The K in KDE stands for Korrect”

You’re goddamn right it does.

Almost guaranteed a Flatpak thing. I know you said X11 versus Wayland was your issue, but likely some quirk of the two window managers was allowing it to work.

Adding the drive path in Flatseal or installing non-Flatpak Steam would likely fix it.

Know what else supports KVM as a backend? virt-manager

If you want to JUST game, SteamOS is great, like for a handheld, a living room gaming PC, etc.

If you want to do software dev, look elsewhere like Nobara, CachyOS, etc.

Luckily there is no way to install it either.

I mean you can unlock Linux terminal and application access on Chromebooks. I have installed GIMP and Krita on Chromebooks for students that were in art classes.

Does it kind of suck? Yeah.

Anything with Cinnamon Desktop or KDE Plasma is going to be the most ‘Windows-like’ in how the UI works.

If they’re coming from Windows, but they prefer macOS-like interfaces, GNOME or COSMIC fit that bill.

It doesn’t matter what distro you select, for the most part, as Linux is Linux. The only differences are immutable or not, desktop environment, and package management type, for the most part.

That said, Mint, an Ubuntu flavor, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE…all good options.

Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS. The packages aren’t THAT out of date. Most people don’t give a shit if they’re running the bleeding edge of kernels or what version of mesa is installed. If it works with their hardware, they’re good.