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Imo must have specs include SSD (2 TB preferred), and at least 16 GB RAM, but more is better. Also a decent GPU. I still do okay with my old RX 580 but sometimes run into issues and need to turn down settings to get better fps.

I know there are distros meant for newbs and distros meant for gaming, but if you’re just starting honestly I would go mainstream with a Debian or Ubuntu, so you can easily get support from others who have asked the same questions.

Debian stable is rock solid and while it might not have all the latest versions of everything in the default repos, it will NOT break. Ever. I’ve ran it for about a decade now on various machines no issues. I did manage to also get steam and VR working with Debian, but iirc while steam itself is easy and mostly out of the box, the VR needed some installation.

Ubuntu is mainstream but has Snap and snap sucks, but it will also have easy to find solutions if you search for help. But I’ve also ran into problems with snap versions of programs and tools having odd problems.

My daily driver for gaming had been Archlinux for 7 years, but that broke a few times. Do NOT recommend for newbs as the install was also very manual. Right now I’m on Garuda and have been for probably 4-ish years. If you grab the right installer it actually has a very newb friendly install, but it is Arch -based so while I view it as easy, and I’ve had no issues whatsoever in those 4 years, I’m reluctant to recommend it for a first distro right off the bat.

So if I were you, I’d start with a distro like Ubuntu or Debian stable, do the stock install but pay attention to what it says about partitioning at the beginning. If it offers to put /home on its own partition, select that, make it as large as reasonable (1/2 to 3/4 disk size). After you get comfortable with your Ubuntu or Debian, then learn about partitioning and look into distro hopping and dual booting. Keep a LiveUSB on hand just in case you break your bootloader, never hurts to have one or more recovery USBs.

I never set up the actual bank sync, I think what I did was basically a CSV export and then import, rather than the bank sync.

But it’s been about a year so not remembering exactly how the import was.

I use actual as well.

The docker compose works really well, basically set it up once and then it works, even with running updates by pulling new container versions.

I used the account importing to start but now input everything manually and don’t do live sync.

Never heard of the other options so didn’t know about them to compare before setting up actual. I do like the methodology of actual, where it has you only budget money that actually exists in your account, that feels very sane to me.

For what it’s worth I was able to migrate my docker of gitea to a docker of forgejo by just changing the image to be forgejo and remaining some if the environment variables. It uses the game data and database so it’s basically a drop in replacement that they have instructions for on their website.

Makes trying it out pretty simple, not sure about migrating back to gitea from forgejo though.

The lots of work and stressful pushy deadlines etc points probably also apply to IT too. Or software engineering or many other positions where you have to deliver something on time. I wouldn’t expect that to go away when just switching to a different field, but what you have to do to meet the deadline will change.

Worse than that, the issue the article states isn’t that it’s a flat pack, it’s that fedora is pushing their rebuilt flat pack of obs that’s buggy instead of the official obs one from flat hub that works, and then the obs project is getting bug reports for a third party distribution that’s broken.

Because fedora isn’t just pushing flat packs, they’re pushing made by fedora versions of them instead of the official builds from the maintainers.

The proxmox interface let’s you make the containers, but you have to install the software you want to host in that container after creation.

These scripts let you run a script that makes the container and also installs what you want to host within the container and does the setup.

I used their script to set up a home assistant vm, you run the script and it downloads the HaOS install media and does the install in the VM for you, preconfigured, and starts it so all I had to do was go access the web interface.

Just switch to visual mode and select the text and yank it.

Press v where you want to start the selection from (switches to visual mode), hjkl (or arrow keys) to move the cursor to the end, then you can yank it from there. It’ll highlight what you’re selecting just like you’re using your mouse, but you’re using the keyboard.

If you want to get really fancy there are 3 different kinds of visual mode, but lower case is the most often one that I use because it’s char by char, V is line by line, Ctrl+v is “block” (you can select chunks across several lines omitting things at the beginning or end of lines).

Ctrl+V to do the block mode is nice if you need to edit the same part of several lines that all line up vertically, you just Ctrl+v, jk to select the lines, then I (shift+i) to insert on all those lines (if you’re in vim you can delete things in insert mode also, if you’re in vi you’ll need to delete first then insert)

Agree, also confused because Debian seemed to get security updates rather frequently when I’ve used it.

That’s like their whole thing, stable and security updates. I would be curious if there are examples of exploits that weren’t patched quickly on Debian stable.

Emoji are defined as part of Unicode, so they can be encoded alongside other text:

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

Counter strike 2, released recently and runs on Linux, I can’t say that the people you’ll meet on that will be that great all the time, but you may be able to meet people there.

You might also be able to meet people in RuneScape or old school RuneScape, or other MMO type games, usually they have clan features where you can join a group of players.

Not sure if it’s still busy with players but kingdom of loathing also at least used to have players you could chat with live, and could join a clan or something like that in there.

Just install the DE you want on the distro you want… You aren’t limited in your DE by your selected distro, and you can have multiple installed. most of the time you have a drop down when you login that lets you pick your DE.

I should look into how to do the rollbacks, I’ve noticed it doing snapshots but haven’t needed to do that yet. Still should know before I do need it.

My worst problem so far was dual booting to Debian and having the efi entry for Garuda disappear and then not being able to get back easily without modifying debian’s grub. Not fixable with snapshots but still simple enough for me to fix.

I’ve used arch for 7-8 years. I’m currently using Garuda for gaming, on year 2 or 3.

My recommendation is that if arch is working for you just fine, then don’t bother switching. I only switched because I had a breakage and it seemed time to switch (only 2 significant breakages in those 7or 8 years)

If you hadn’t started with arch I would in fact recommend Garuda first because the initial setup is much more hands free, start it and install stuff and it just works. Also Garuda comes preconfigured with an AUR setup and installers for that and for the glorious egg roll proton.

That is all crap you can simply set up yourself on arch, so there’s no need for you to switch, if you’re fine with the arch and slightly more manual configuration then you’re all set with arch and have no real reason to change that.

I think white roads could be a problem with snow, usually the only good way to find the road in a snowstorm is to look for the darkness, no darkness and you can’t tell the road from the ground covered in snow.