Either you’re lying, or you’re being pedantic. I mean fiat currency in general.

Uhuh…would you take Monero if it could never be exchanged for dollars?

I have Beelink mini PC with the same processor, and while this form factor is really cool, the value isn’t as nice.

The Beelink cost me $160 and it has 16gb ram and a 512gb SSD. Plus it has adequate active cooling.

It makes an amazing home server, though. With 16gb ram, there’s enough resources to justify Proxmox.

With Frigate NVR and a Google Coral USB plus everything else I run on the server, it averages about 25% CPU usage.

People aren’t born on Twitter.

Barring that, something like a Google Voice number would work, too.

Update: I love you.

It took a couple tries to get my desktop and laptop connected, and I don’t know why, but it definitely works.

I’m going to really miss clipboard sharing, but I can make do for now.

I don’t think I mentioned it, but my work laptop is Windows 11, so I’m happy to report that this is working great even on Windows.

Ublue are based off of Kinoite. If you want something less “bloated”, try that. You can even rebase from Bluefin to that, I believe.

Keep in mind there are two versions of Bluefin/Aurora. Regular, and “-dx” which is more developer focused with more developer tools.

I will give that a shot. It definitely looks like it fits the bill.

If it works, I love you.

Any software KVM like Synergy.

I work from home and Synergy has been a core part of my setup for many years.

It lets me use my personal PC and work laptop from one KB+M seamlessly.

I’ve tried so many different things. Input Leap, installed on Aurora by default, is supposed to work with Wayland, but doesn’t work out of the box.

I’m resigned to using Windows during the week so I can use Synergy and switching back to Linux over the weekend because I prefer it now.

I think KDE is doing the heavy lifting of being like Windows. As a long time Windows user who would every now and then try Ubuntu and hate it, it was Gnome that really turned me off. KDE is so much nicer, IMO.

I started on Bazzite as my first real Linux desktop. After a while I rebased to Aurora (Bluefin but KDE instead of Gnome) and I really liked it. I ended up rebasing back to Bazzite for a while.

My only issue is around a very specific piece of software that has issues with Wayland. That’s why all the rebasing.

Being able to rebase so easily like that is so freaking cool.

I see you’ve never worked with SOAP services that have half a dozen or more namespaces.

As a Java developer, and someone who never learned Python or other scripting languages, Node is my go-to scripting language. I’ve only come around to it for that in the past year or two. But it’s great.

Why Kinoite over Aurora or Bluefin?

Alright, alright. This is getting out of hand.

We need to make a list and then do like a reverse Kantian calculus to figure out which ones are doing the most harm and start from the top in descending order.

And then when to do learn it, it pisses you off when something doesn’t have a freely available image.

I just sold my 3070 and bought a 7800XT for the same reasons.

I’m going to up vote and ruin this, but document for posterity.

I have a very similar story, only I went with Bazzite, and now Aurora.

I was using 11 and honestly didn’t hate it, but I could see the writing on the wall. The Steam Deck showed me what I could do with Linux, do I just did it.

I had dabbled with Ubuntu desktop in the past, but it was the Steam Deck with KDE that really sold me on Linux for the desktop.

I do not like GNOME. KDE is great, though.