Thanks for the suggestion, bookmarked, will have a gander if I get stuck!

Oh yeah, I was thinking about that today, too; get a “for most stuff” distro as the baremetal, and VM specialist distros (like Kali or something) on top of it when needed.

I will definitely check out KVM at some point! I was just gonna chuck VBox at it, but your salespitch convinced me to try at it. Been mostly working with Azure and ESXi for the past 10 years, had no idea KVM was so advanced now, I saw something about it back in the day, but it was a tech demo -level back then.

Thank you kindly for the insight!

Aye, audio latency was a big question I didn’t find a good answer for during my research period. It is a headache on Windows as well.

You do make a really good point I didn’t think about the immutables for music stuff. Cheers for that.

Does the dickish attitude come with the package or is it extra? So sorry for asking questions after being out the scene for a bit, glad to see nothing’s changed in the past 20 years.

Thanks for the alternative take. Good to know that Fedora supports Flatpak that easily.

Blender has a video editor?! Geez, used it back in the day for 3D rendering, but didn’t even cross my mind for videos. Inkscape is a great idea!

Had a couple of recommendations for Ardour from other folks as well, will have to give it a go. Free is free after all.

Games fortunately I have the most experience with lately, was in another country with my ancient T530, and was bored, so did some gaming on Ubuntu, got mostly everything working pretty quickly.

Cheers for the music points. I got some pointers, that Nobara is great for music stuff, and Bazzite can be optimized for it, but takes some effort and fiddling. I gotta take a look at Ardour and Bitwig, see if I vibe with them. How are they with older (my keyboard is around 2010 I believe) MIDI devices, do you happen to have experience?

Thanks for the POV. Mint I tried back when it was step up from Damn Small Linux, like early 2000’s, no clue how it is now. I’ll keep it in mind.

I got interested in the immutable concept, since it wasn’t a thing back when I was more of a linux user, and I’ve gotten lazy and burnt out on fixing my OS when I just want to do something fun. But you do make a good point of sacrificing flexibility, and I might get annoyed at that later.

Sorry mate, not what I’m looking for.

I’d like my main recreational machine & distro to be low maintenance, I get to fix linux servers at work enough already, I don’t want to bring that home.

Cheers mate, never even heard of Kinoite, I was looking at KDE Plasma, but had some annoyance about it, can’t remember what. I’ll look into it for sure.

Bonus pics!

Massively overworked due to summer holidays starting, so everyone wants projects done before that.

Massive hematoma in my back thigh hasn’t healed properly even after 3 months, and still causing swelling and makes it hard to walk.

Considering upping my ADHD meds because they seem to be losing effectiveness (still in early stages of testing the meds, 6 months on them now).

Everything is getting expensive and even with higher than mean salary for my country, two working adults and no kids, we’re barely scraping by.

ISP lied to me and my fiber is getting installed in 2027 instead of summer of 2025, so I’m stuck with 5g, but at least the transmitter is 60m from my house, so it works pretty well.

Russia, The US, radical conservatism and the climate change causes me immeasurable dread and sense of impending doom, that’s causing my anxiety to get worse.

I never have time, energy and motivation at the same time to work on hobby projects I would really love to work on.

Other than that, I’m alright. It’s not as bad as it sounds, could be worse. Got a job, roof over my head, no drug habits, don’t really drink anymore after years of crippling alcoholism. Dog’s allergies are finally under control after a very long hassle of and a lot of money, so that’s good. Gotta focus on the positives.

Thank you for asking, apparently I had some stuff I wanted to get out, didn’t even really realize that.

How about you, how are you doing OP? (And everyone else of course.)

It’s been a while since I have disagreed so hard with anyone. With all due respect of course, can’t really debate taste.

I disagree with the story being awful or awkward acting. Story is the best one of out the 3 (if you don’t count Witcher 3’s DLCs, those were superb.) and has the most innovative story quests. Also, not to spoil too much, but your decisions in that game actually affect the entire world and story a lot, what you do in act 2 can change the entire story, my mate and I had completely different stories because of what we decided in act 2, and I have to respect that. Not like that Mass Effect kind of “you were evil or whatever, which colour do you want as your ending?”

I agree, combat is terrible, engine is terrible, everything is unintuitive and clunky. I’d say for the best experience, drop difficulty to the easiest one and play for the story. Also, change voice acting to Polish, I can’t stand Geralt in English in any of the games (Sorry Doug, cool guy, doesn’t fit as Geralt IMO.) and the Polish really adds to the atmosphere, kinda like playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in Russian.

After a dwarf in the slums told me that my mother sucks dwarf cocks in hell, I haven’t been the same as a person.

Good for you to give it a go even though it’s pretty rough by today’s standards. Totally worth it, love the game even with it’s massive faults.

Is that the probable cause? I did level it recently, and it barely vibrates now. Maybe I’m putting in too much at a time…

Also a fan of his lettuce.

Cool stuff man, gonna contribute with some of my own extras. Same deal, DM me for key or email. Extra humble bundle games mostly. First come first serve.

Overcooked

Worms Rumble - Armageddon Weapon Skin Pack

Worms Rumble - Captain & Shark Double Pack

ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West™ Premium Edition

GET EVEN

Katamari Damacy Reroll

Pac-Man 256

RAD

Splendor: The Cities DLC

Uurnog Uurnlimited

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

Oh damn, I was thinking of the scene where Homer is laying in bed, facing away from Marge and just going to sleep when Marge is trying to say she needs a vacation. Mixed the two up, this is Streetcar named Desire, Homer wasn’t interested in the play since there was no bowling in it, as someone else said.

S03E05 Homer Alone?

Well, not specifically because I want to make them feel included, it is to stimulate them and satisfy their curiosity. Also helps skittish cats and dogs to gain confidence by introducing them to new smells constantly in a safe way.

Smells are way more important to both cats and dogs than humans, and more than most people realize. Example: I see a lot of people around walk their dogs and not letting them sniff properly but just tug them along, thinking that the physical exercise and waste management are the sole purpose of walks.

We have a retired hunting dog, turned 11 on Sunday actually, and she’s still ridiculously hard to tire by physical exercise. The only way to get her proper tired is mental stimulation. Sniffing is a big part of that. 30min calm patient walk is way better than 60min of “COME OON” -hurried impatient walk.

Disclaimer: not all dogs etc., but… most dogs.

I thank various gods every day for only having about 20% of my job be end user stuff, rest is project work. End users seem to think the ratio is the other way around, though…