I love ShellCheck! It’s one of the biggest FOSS projects written in Haskell.

Flatpak’s benefits mostly exist for the developer. Apt is more tightly integrated with the distro, which is generally advantageous, but also means more work for packaging. Flatpak’s benefit is that it’s a compatibility layer for lots of different distros. In a perfect world, every distro would have a large library of packages in the official repo, but that’s a lot of work for devs, and flatpak lets them avoid that sprawling support.

Yeah I wouldn’t hate snaps if it wasn’t for canonical saying they wouldn’t force them on people, then making apt install snaps instead of .debs without the user asking for it.

AUR users fuming at this comment

It sounds like at least part of your bad experience with the install was your motherboard’s fault.

For the issue with video in games, sometimes the codecs are missing from WINE/Proton. If possible, try using GloriousEggroll’s Proton fork

A distribution is basically just what packages come pre-installed. This can have a big impact of course since it can change what package manager is used, the C libraries, and a lot of default system configuration. But the underlying Linux kernel and GNU userland are going to be basically the same across all GNU/Linux distros

KDE. Looks great OOTB. Looks better if you spend an hour or two setting it up on day 1.

No idea, but I bet you could get some ideas by figuring out how sudo and time do it.

Is the desktop using a wifi card? You could plug it into the router to shorten the journey and halve the number of wireless hops.

The correct way of saying it out loud is “pop exclamation point underscore O S”

I don’t follow this stuff at all, so I have no idea what the advantages are of Wayland that I’d actually see and benefit from in my daily use. That being said, I saw everyone saying it’s better, so I tried switching to it. After rebooting, my PC just showed a black screen. I needed to use a TTY to revert back to xorg. So no, as of right now I’m not using Wayland.

Yeah if you don’t put bash in European mode, it is a lot more dangerous.

Not me but a colleague of mine wrote a bash script that had something like this and ran it on a server:

FOO="/home/bar"

... Many lines later ...

rm -rf $FOOT/*

Reminder that bash will resolve uninitiated variables to the empty string.

Luckily he halted the process after it had only nuked /boot and /bin. If it had gotten to /var and the mounted data storage within, we would have been in trouble

I’m unfamiliar with the difference in nomenclature, but the UX OP is describing is pretty much the same as what I’ve used. Eg. R-Alt + " + i = ï

On KDE I found a keyboard called something like “US English international with AltGr deadkeys” which does what you describe

Can you try cropping the photo? A few pixels around the outsides might make the difference since it’s only 10% too big.

You should look into how Docker works. It, or something like it, is probably the better tool for the job.

I’m a big fan of Condaforge for this sort of thing. Keeps my development software separate from my daily driving software.

It could be that hardlinked files are being double-counted. What software manages that snapshot folder?

Anyone using Ubuntu