Reaper is awesome.

Nice

Why does it need cloud saving?

New and exotic to me.

That’s a shame. I’d love a new exotic OS to try.

Is it still worth using? Say, for a web dev? Or is it less supported?

Mint or Debian.

Xfce as desktop environment.

I gather that not everything is compatible with nixOS, and it’s better as a server than for development or as a general OS.

I didn’t know Alma was declarative.

Oh nice. This looks promising. I’m guessing it’s not totally ready yet?

Yep

Give me immutable, declarative Arch.

I want all the redditors. I just want them on a more open platform.

I absolutely did NOT leave reddit because of the users. I left because of the changes to the platform.

I love reddit users and lemmy users.

I’m using pywebview, a cross-platform python web view GUI framework. I like it so far, it’s fairly straightforward. I just wanted a python API around my database, and I’m building most of the app in the front-end with vanilla JS and html.

I didn’t want the (alleged) bloat of electron, and I didn’t want to jam async/await onto everything in the backend, so I found this alternative.

The 3rd contender was Tauri, but I didn’t want to bother learning Rust for a simple API. But it was very tempting, and Tauri is an option you should consider.

I haven’t finished my current project so I can’t completely vouch for pywebview yet. But so far it’s great and I recommend it if you don’t mind using python (I do long for a statically typed backend TBH).

Fair.

Good guy Turkey?

It’s waaaay too polite and clean, to the point of self righteousness. Twitter is still more fun, but it leans too far in the other direction.

Lemmy was too self righteous at first too. People acting like we came here because reddit users were bigots… no, it’s because spez is a greedy bastard who ruined the site.

So I think bluesky might become cool like lemmy when people finally relax.

Twitter > BlueSky > Mastodon

Personally I think we should all use the kbin microblog.

I’ve heard that newer Ryzens play nicer with Linux.

Linux runs great on most hardware. What you described will function fine with a 4-year old laptop or desktop with integrated graphics as long as you have a decent processor (i5/i7 or ryzen 7) and enough RAM (16BG) and an ssd. Two ssds, one for OS and the other for storage is also a good idea.

I suggest ubuntu.

Side note: for photo editing, GIMP or Krita are the go-to apps but neither offer good CMYK color space of you’re printing stuff.

These are fair warnings but increasingly exaggerated toward the end. Ubuntu will work just fine with a minimum of “getting basic things to work.”

The most important item in the list is that proprietary software is often just better, and not available on Linux, and wine sucks.

I suggest Ubuntu. It’s heavily managed and takes care of basic stuff. I’ve heard the same about Fedora but I never used it.

On the T16 I have one soldered RAM slot and one replaceable. Of course the SSD can be upgraded too.

The P16 (not the P16s which is just a T16) has four upgradable RAM slots and two slots for SSD.

So that’s not crazy amounts of upgradability but it’s something.

I actually got a Legion Pro 5 instead because it’s a lot cheaper but still has 2 upgradable RAM slots and two SSD slots. My only complaint is that the keyboard is less stable than on a thinkpad and it looks like a gaming laptop.

Someday I’ll get a P16 though… or else one of those Eurocom laptops, if only they had 16:10 screens and nice keyboards.

I love my T16 gen1. The P16 is more upgradable but also much more expensive. But basically yeah, you just have to pick the right model and specs.