Fuck you man. If you don’t like my fuckin’ music get your own fuckin’ cab!

There’s actually a name for that…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law?wprov=sfla1

enigma-cli --homepath “/usr/share/enigma” admin reset-admin-password <new password>

Counterpoint: dick Cheney

Me, on proxmox…

Has it ever occurred to anyone else that Alan Moore and Richard Stallman are basically the same person in terms of personalities lol…

A bunch of shell scripts and Hyprland config masquerading as a distro, made by a white supremacist and used to promote their brand (Omarchy 🤮)

AntiX, fast, lightweight, and proudly anti-fascist…

not at all! SteamOS and Bazzite are pretty fundamentally different on the back end (one is arch, one is fedora) but on the front end, they both launch into steam big picture mode, and offer a KDE desktop you can switch to.

steamOS is available for download as a beta, but it is still a very handheld focused distro and does not include simple QOL things like print drivers, it struggles with things like wake from sleep, but it’s fairly stable and pretty usable

bazzite is a little more refined and a little more fully fleshed out, it includes more packages and drivers and is better suited as a ‘daily driver’ os

both are immutable distros, meaning you can’t really install stuff outside of the official app store/repository and a lot of terminal commands wont work out of the box. this means there are ‘nannies’ to make sure you don’t effectively softlock your os by running random terminal commands that chatbot told you were a good idea while troubleshooting.

the primary focus of these distros is gaming, so they are optimized for speed, performance, and compatibility with steam/lutris, and putting up safety rails to make sure you dont nuke yourself.

distros like cachyOS and nobara have the same focus, but do not have the nannies, so you can sudo whatever you want (but remember, #3 with great power comes great responsibility). its gaming focused, but meant for more confident power users.

in terms of what to install it on… linux loves team red, and redder the better! everything AMD is always going to work best, an intel cpu is going to work as poorly (hot and slow) on linux as it does on windows, but amd GPU is always preferred for any linux builds. ive never had a microsoft surface to mess around with, but youtube suggests there are lots of options for installing linux on a surface (although i dont know what hoops you have to jump trough… but if youre interested in linux, then jumping through hoops should be second nature to you lol)

If a company says they are not like Enron, it means they 1000% are exactly like Enron

im in that chart! i just built my wife a gaming PC, she is not a PC person and knows exactly nothing about linux as a whole, but she loves her steamdeck and bazzite means she never has to worry about opening a terminal (or even the desktop if she doesnt want to)

We need friction between us and the things we want to do, otherwise the things we want to do will feel meaningless and hollow

It doesn’t really need to be tedious… My notes are jokey, full of profanity, sarcasm, and self deprecating humor

for context, these are my personal notes for my personal machine. These will never be shared with anyone else, and nobody else has to try to read them or make sense of them (well… sometimes I make chatbot read my notes in order to train it on whatever I need help troubleshooting)

Before I started keeping a hot_log.txt file every single install of Linux I ever ran was a unique snowflake and no two systems were ever the same

I mean… We will learn to make our rigs last, do more with less, and carry on optimizing Linux builds. Anything you can run today, you’ll be able to run tomorrow. And there is enough backlog to keep us all busy until at least 2028… Be honest with yourself lol

30% was all Dougie needed for a majority in Ontario…

I used the razor blade trick and got everything more or less aligned and upright enough that the processor is okay booting up with a second stick of ram in the machine lol

Tech YouTubers to the rescue lol, especially Linus and jayztwocents

SMORT!!

I spent all weekend trying to figure out whyy system would only boot of I had a single stick of ram installed…

Yeahhhh… It’s suuuuper easy!

Nothing can possibli go wrong…

“All good things…”

Running the installer for steamos, bazzite, nobara, or cachyos should take no longer than 20ish minutes or so… Steam and bazzite will work with no additional setup or config, cachyos and nobara might takes another 20 minutes once installed to finish up installing steam or obs or whatever else you need/want…

I’m bad at PC building, so that took me about 2 hours to assemble and fire up for the first time… But if you’ve already have a PC or boight a prebuilt, you don’t need to worry about that step