I did the same thing for my wife. She lives almost exclusively in the browser. I put her on the same atomic OS I’m using, and for her the experience is pretty similar to her previous Chromebook.

I was a Windows user for around 30 years and loved it. But I got so frustrated with Windows that I switched. My computer didn’t feel like I was the one in control of it anymore, and I hated that.

I’m very happy on Linux, now.

I’m sure I would like Bazzite on my Deck. But I don’t use it a ton and Steam OS works fine. So I’d only install Bazzite if I was bored and wanted a project.

Jorge Castro of Universal Blue (Bazzite, Bluefin, Aurora) likes to say that normal people don’t install operating systems. And he’s totally right.

You’ve only cut out the roaster, which does nothing to solve your supply issues.

I don’t get that at all. To me it feels like there’s so much progress happening right now.

COVID really did destroy the flow of time for me.

Depends on which stream you choose. Latest and stable-daily have it now. Stable will have it tomorrow.

A hard line angled up at about 45 degrees.

So, slightly tangential, but I have a failed home automation project this past week.

I have been using an unofficial integration for my mini-splits for a few years. The guy who wrote it likes to disappear for 6 months at a time and it seems like it may be abandoned. It finally stopped working after a home assistant update.

I had bought some ESP based replacement dongles about a year ago and decided to finally use them. Well, not all of the features worked, so I set about writing my own firmware.

That ended up working even less well. I wasted a lot of time and effort trying to get my firmware to work before giving up and just moving to the fork of the original Home Assistant integration for the official dongles.

I hate being beholden to third party stuff like this because I have robust automation setup for my mini-splits and updates can completely break them and be a massive pain to fix.

I’m not sad I tried and failed so much as I’m just sad it didn’t work. I may try again sometime in the future.

One of the incredibly cool things about Bazzite (and all of the Silverblue based OSs) you can very easily rebased to another flavor. The only caveat is that apparently the Gnome flavors will cause issues with the KDE flavors or something. It’s a Gnome issue from my understanding.

Rebasing takes a few minutes and a reboot, and you can easily revert it.

AMD isn’t doing high end cards any more.

No reason you can’t use NixOS in a VM on Proxmox.

My container host OS is another immutable, uCore, which I run in a VM on Proxmox.

I did this recently. Opendrive is free up to 5 gb and works with rclone. All I’m backing up is the config and data needed to recreate my containerized services. I’ve even had to recreate them from the backup, once.

The N100 is such a little powerhouse and I’m sad they haven’t managed to produce anything better. All of the “upgrades” are either just not enough of an upgrade for the money, it just more power hungry.

I do a lot of gaming, too. But I wanted some of the developer features in aurora-dx. Very happy with it.

My issues were minor, too. I just wanted to make things as smooth as possible, and to also sell my 3070 while it still held some value. I ended up being able to transition to a 7800XT for only $200. Now, it really wasn’t much of an upgrade, but I’m happy to be off of Windows and Nvidia.

I had a similar arc this year. I did go through with switching from Nvidia to AMD. I started with Bazzite, but ended up on Aurora.

I’m very happy ditching Windows.

Bazzite gets drivers quickly since it’s a rolling release with updates once a week. I’d assume Pop OS might feel better on Nvidia because it hasn’t switched to Wayland, yet.

Nvidia isn’t a bad experience on Bazzite or other Universal Blue OSs. But AMD is better.

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