This! Set up virt manager or Virtual Box, then you can try all the distros you want

As a DWM user I won’t be moving for a long time. Yes I know about DWL, but it dosnt have half the patches I use yet.

I do like the lower amount of screen tearing on Wayland, but I’ve minimised it in Xorg.

Honesty at this point I don’t really care about Linux becoming mainstream. I mean call me elitist, but I feel like if it became a major desktop operating system a lot of the development would turn to making sure it’s safe for IT illiterate people to use.

Part of why I love Linux so much is as someone who actually has a decent idea of what I’m doing I feel like the operating system leaves me alone to do what I want with my own computer.

Do you really think if everyone started using Linux you’d still be able to delete the boot loader or wipe your whole installation with one command.

Of course not! They would have to fit 10 million safety features and limit a ton of what the user can do just like Windows and MacOS.

So as much as I love Linux I think it’s best being left as an advanced power users desktop operating system.

st. Fonts look great and I’ve even been able to add a vim mode for scrollback including selecting and copying text.

If I need something fast( usually on a new system) that’s in most distros repos and automatically installs all it’s dependencies( and doesn’t have to many like gnome terminal and konsole) I tend to use sakura, though xfce terminal is also pretty good.

Don’t you mean coreboot, as the point of Libreboot is that it’s a coreboot distro that’s as open and libre as possible

Could it be that the manjaro repos have older versions of the HIP runtimes then what blender 4.0 is built for? Just a thought. Either way I would report it to the blender devs so they can fix it if it’s a bug

• removes and mostly disables firmware level spyware
• runs spyware OS

Nitrokey would probably be my choice as both the hardware and software are open source( in fact you could probably build your own if you wanted to). I don’t trust yubikey as the firmware that runs on them is closed source so you just don’t know of it’s actually secure.

It looks like a cool distro if you want/need a highly configurable package manager that makes your system easily reproducible.

But if you’re just looking to learn more about Linux and learn more about how your system is set up then your average distro you might just want to go with Arch, Void, or Gentoo.

You could start with using dark reader

Matrix client

• iamb a CLI matrix client with a vim like interface

Bookmark manager

• BMKS works with or without dmenu and or fzf

Password manager

• Pass the standard Unix password manager

File managers

• lf like ranger but faster and written in go.
• vifm another terminal file manager with vim style key bindings

I think it’s a good move. It doesn’t take anything away from people who want to keep compiling everything, but now people on especially old laptops can enjoy the distro too.

Though I will probably continue being a void user this makes me want to use gentoo more then it did before.

That looks epic!

Please add the ability to view images with an external image viewer as I find a lot of social TUI apps seem to lack that.

Add that and you’re making my ideal Lemmy client

If you don’t need all the features of a full office suit then check out markdown and and editor like ghostwriter

If you want something that’s under £100 and don’t mind Bluetooth check out the soundcore life Q30s.

Honesty the first time I tried them I though they cost double what they actually do, and they’ve been my daily driver since.

For some reference I also have some audio technica ATH-M50Xs, but I find these more musical and they have ANC so I daily drive these and use my M50Xs for critical listening when needed( I’ve added that just so you know that I know what decent audio sounds like and don’t think that cheap beats knockoffs are good).

1. It feels great
2. Terminal programs run on a potato
3. They are almost always way more powerful then their GUI counterparts
4. They integrate with scripts and other tools for unlimited power and flexibility!
5. You feel like a hacker man
6. Your IT literate friends think you are cool
7. You can really do things your own way

So yeah I love using the terminal for almost everything

But at that point as much as I hate to say it you’re probably better off with a cheap windows laptop.

As at least you can get updates till the hardware no longer supports it.

That’s a lot less wasteful then making something and planning when it won’t work anymore.

I wouldn’t buy a Chromebook, but at least they let you use non web apps on it.

I still don’t get why every Chromebook has a preset expiration date for when it will stop getting updates. That really seems like a great way to make lots of ewaste. Especially since they lock down the bootloader so well.

Lolcat, yt-dlp, hyprland. Honesty though most of what I find cool these days wouldn’t make any sense to a Windows user. Like DWM, ST, XBPS, lf, ly, neovim, etc.

I mean Linux is for everyone. But I think the majority of users are probably straight males. I think the trans/fem boy stereotype is more of a community inside joke( not to say there aren’t people of those demographics in the community, and that they aren’t just as welcome as anyone else, but the joke being that Linux will make you trans/a fem boy).

Though I have seen legit trans people like you say they enjoy Linux so it could interestingly be a demographic that is particularly attracted to Linux for whatever reason.