IMO you shouldn’t look at it as “should I become an x user”, because that sort of implies you’re getting married to that distro. Instead, you should be asking, “should I use x to solve y?” For instance, I use RHEL, Debian (Raspbian), Fedora (Asahi), Fedora Atomic (Bazzite) and Arch. I also use Windows, macOS and FreeDOS. All solve different needs and problems. There’s no rule saying you should only stick to one distro/OS use whatever suits your needs, hardware and environment the best. :)

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It’s easiest to just register a domain name and use Couldflare Tunnels. No need to worry about dynamic DNS, port forwarding etc. Plus, you have the security advantages of DDoS protection and firewall (WAF). Finally, you get portability - you can change your ISP, router or even move your entire lab into the cloud if you wanted to, and you won’t need to change a single thing.

I have a lab set up on my mini PC that I often take to work with me, and it works the same regardless of whether it’s going thru my work’s restricted proxy or the NAT at home. Zero config required on the network side.

This shouldn’t even be a question lol. Even if you aren’t worried about theft, encryption has a nice bonus: you don’t have to worry about secure erasing your drives when you want to get rid of them. I mean, sure it’s not that big of a deal to wipe a drive, but sometimes you’re unable to do so - for instance, the drive could fail and you may not be able to do the wipe. So you end up getting rid of the drive as-is, but an opportunist could get a hold of that drive and attempt to repair it and recover your data. Or maybe the drive fails, but it’s still under warranty and you want to RMA it - with encryption on, you don’t have to worry about some random accessing your data.

Although not the same, this has been going on for about two years now. Jensen Harris, a former MS engineer, criticized the ads as well as the design of the new Start Menu, over here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1564399431545667585.html

Syncthing, it was made exactly for situations like this. And unlike DropBox etc your data stays local.

And it is exactly stuff like this that keeps me away from NuShell - deviation from long-established standards. Heck, even PowerShell, which FLOSS folks love to hate on, supports standard redirection operators like 2>, so it boggles my mind that NuShell decided to just throw away standard convention.

Mercury is worth checking out - it’s based on Librewolf but has additional privacy and performance patches.

Arch Testing got it before NixOS: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra-testing/x86_64/plasma-desktop/

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Run sudo fwupdmgr upgrade from a terminal and check the output - you’ll see much more detail there and you’ll know immediately if runs into any issues.

Not OP, but Wayfire has all the old-school effects plus some new ones too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MR7Qh9ECE

Distro defaults perhaps? I’m using Bazzite, which is optimised for gaming/desktop use.

The AMD EPP driver is already enabled for me and works fine out of the box. As I said before, I’m getting both excellent battery life and gaming performance without needing to tweak anything.

I never had the need to run CUDA/ROCm though so can’t speak for that.

Once again, I didn’t have to install anything special to take advantage of any features. Sensors worked out of the box for me. AMD is excellent with their Linux support and Linux users don’t need to “hope” for anything. I get a consistent 60 FPS on Forza 4 at ULTRA settings on my ThinkPad, without using any proprietary drivers or doing anything special. I’m quite happy with my setup and don’t feel the need for any extra special monitoring or tweaking. Plus I get a 10+ hour battery life with moderate usage. What more would I need?

Buy Linux-compatible hardware, ditch nVidia, no need to complicate your life. :)

All AMD here, didn’t have to get anything special installed to make stuff work, no special kernel flags or proprietary modules.

• Desktop: Ryzen 5 3600 with Radeon RX6600 XT, on BunsenLabs
• ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1: Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U with Radeon 680M, on Fedora uBlue (Bazzite)
• Minisforum UM780 XTX: Ryzen 7 7840HS with Radeon 780M, on Arch Linux with x86-64-v4 optimisations

Moral of the story: avoid nVidia, buy Linux-friendly hardware and you’ll be all good.

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ZorinOS. My elderly parents have been using it for years without any issues, so I can guarantee you that it’s very noob-friendly.

However, if you’d like to game, I’d recommend using either Pop!_OS or Nobara instead. I’d recommend giving them all a try regardless, just create a bootable USB using Ventoy and chuck all the ISOs you wish to try.

Yep it does restore application state as well, but it’s a bit of a hit-and-miss. Notepad is restored surprisingly well - including unsaved text and multiple windows; Firefox and Edge browser tabs are restored; unsaved Word docs are restored as well but oddly enough, Outlook’s state isnt restored (although it does save any unsaved drafs).

I’m guessing some sort of resume/restartable support is needed from the app as well for this to work properly. I imagine modern “UWP” apps would just work, but some additional coding might be needed for traditional win32 apps. Like Adobe Reader for instance, it doesn’t get restored at all.

This is incorrect…ish. Windows, yes even 10, has had a feature for a while now called Automatic Restart Sign-on (ARSO). You can enable this feature by going to Settings > Accounts > Sign in options > "Automatically save my restartable apps and restart them when I sign back in".

After enabling it, a reboot will restore… some apps (hence the ‘ish’), these apps being mostly Microsoft apps (Edge, Word, Outlook, Notepad etc) + some third-party apps (I know Firefox gets restored, not sure about others).

You can also use the shutdown /g command to test this (after enabling ARSO):

/g Fully shuts down and restarts the computer. On restart, if Automatic Restart Sign-On is enabled, the device automatically signs in and locks based on the last interactive user. After sign in, it restarts any registered applications.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/shutdown