Death is not specific to individuals.

I run Rancher Desktop on Windows… But only because my company won’t let me use Linux, and I only use it for Dev and testing.

All that to say, I have no idea why else you would be running a container engine on a Windows host.

+1 for Ubiquiti, but I’d suggest one of the cheaper models with built in WiFi unless you plan on having an intricate network.

If you’re not on it already, join the discord. Lots of helpers there. I recommend sticking with Bazzite and learning how to use it better. It has the tools you need to run anything you could run in any other distro. You just can’t always copy and paste commands from a Google search. But that’s where the discord can set you straight.

Yeah, but classic Windows move: it’ll work for a while and then it will randomly stop working.

This was one of the big things that pushed me to Linux. Not feeling like I was the one in control of my PC.

Bazzite > Bluefin > Aurora in usership from what I’ve seen. I started on Bazzite KDE but ended up staying with Aurora.

I can’t stand GNOME, but I understand that other people like it.

People who say Bazzite isn’t for tinkerers just misunderstand it. It’s extremely tinker friendly, just not in the ways people are used to.

I’d say it’s actually a lot more tinker friendly because it’s super easy to revert changes.

I chose the middle option for things I’m not hosting, but could see myself hosting in the future.

TBH, I think it’s mainly a toy. Something to tinker with. It would be fun to have, but I’d never have a reason to use it.

TBH, I think it’s mainly a toy. Something to tinker with. It would be fun to have, but I’d never have a reason to use it.

Wayyyy better.

The worst part about quadlets, IMO, is that they don’t use the same key words as podman run does. So turning a working podman container into a quadlet can be challenging.

My team just got forced off of Slack and onto Teams.

Teams is so much worse than I’d feared.

Despite getting ragged on for it, I really enjoyed the game. It wasn’t spectacular, but I found it fun.

Check out Tailscale. It uses Wireguard under the hood, but it’s magic.

I did the same, but kept the account, just never log into it.

containers should be immutable and not be able to write to their internal filesystem

This doesn’t jive with my understanding. Containers cannot write to the image. The image is immutable. However, a running container can write to its filesystem, but those changes are ephemeral, and will disappear if the container stops.

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.