I checked out Lapce and I like it a lot, but I can’t really live without my Jupyter Notebook extension 😕

Yeah seems like it could be ragebait.

You have a lot more negotiating power once they give you an offer because of the sunk cost.

Good to know! I do hope to eventually re-enable SELinux on my flagship server, so I’ll keep this in mind. As for my friend’s server, I think he migrated to Alpine a while back.

Respect! I too often take it for granted that it’s a privilege for my gaming rig and my homelab server to be separate boxes.

My server is Almalinux, my laptop is Mint, and my gaming rig is Nobara. But if I had to consolidate everything in to one machine, I’d pick Nobara.

I honestly don’t know a ton about immutable distros other than that they let you front-load some difficulty in getting things set up in exchange for making it harder to break. I was just surprised that the distro of choice was Bazzite, since its target audience seems to be gamers.

Any reason you chose Bazzite for your homelab distro? First I’ve heard of someone doing that!

Honestly, I don’t know what happened, but it was unreachable via SSH and the web console. There shouldn’t have been a ton of files to tag since it was an Almalinux system that started with SELinux enabled, and all we added was a container app or two.

I use podman-compose with system accounts and I don’t have a ton of issues. The biggest one is that I can’t seem to get bluetooth and pip working on Home Assistant at the same time. Most of the servers I manage have SELinux and it works fine as long as I use :z/:Z with bind mounts.

A few years ago, I set up a VPS for my friend’s business; at the time, I didn’t know how to work with SELinux so I just turned it off. I tried to flip it back on, and it somehow bricked the system. We had to restore from a backup. Since then, I’ve been afraid to enable it on my flagship homelab server.

Hey my wife uses some of them too!

And then try turning on SELinux!

Yeah, that’s a fair take. I’ve only been frustrated once by the release schedule, and that’s because I was stuck on a very buggy version of podman, which I rely fairly heavily on for development. That said, I think the only games I’ve played on my Mint machine are Factorio (which ran fine) and Wizard101 (which ran like shit). Nobara has definitely been a better experience for gaming, but it hasn’t been quite as user-friendly.

Also, I thought most of the hate that Ubuntu gets is because of sketchy behaviour on Canonical’s part…

I don’t get why everyone and their mother has to shit on Mint. I started my Linux journey on servers, but my first home computing distro was Ubuntu 16. It wasn’t what I needed so I stuck with Windows 10. After migrating my homelab server to Almalinux 9 and realizing how much better life could be if I just purged Microsoft from my household, I installed Linux Mint on my laptop and have used it ever since. If I had any less of a warm welcome into Linux for home computing, I might have just stuck with Windows 10.

I consider myself somewhere between a layperson and a power user. I’m pretty comfortable with BASH since I work with servers a lot, but low-level stuff is still black magic to me. I’m aware that KDE Plasma has a ton of cool bells and whistles (I use Nobara on my gaming rig), but other than KDE connect for sharing clipboard, I don’t really need any of that fancy stuff on my laptop. And I think the typical layperson probably won’t even set them up in the first place.

I haven’t used Bazzite, but comparing against Nobara, Mint’s updater and graphical software store are way more polished.

Also, every once in a while, I find that some application that I need is only distributed as a .deb (such as the AWS VPN Client), so it’s nice to be on a Debian-family distro when that situation arises.

I use both Mint and Nobara. Nobara is on my gaming rig, and Mint is my daily driver laptop. I agree that KDE is better than Cinnamon, but I do feel like Cinnamon is more streamlined for folks who don’t want/need all the bells and whistles that come with KDE.

Also, I read somewhere that full support for Wayland on Cinnamon is slated for this year.

The Flatpak drag-and-drop thing I’ve seen before (even on Mint) and I think it’s because of permissions. Try installing Flatseal and monkey around with your Flatpaks’ permissions; it may help.

I’ve been daily driving Mint for about 2 years now and I still love it. I do a lot of work with Python including some data science, and it works well for all that. The one bug I can’t deal with is the fact that fractional scaling causes screen tearing in the Cinnamon DE because it still uses X. Because of this, I use Nobara on my gaming PC. My experience with Nobara has been that every update is a coin flip on whether or not I’ll get a new bug, but they’re mostly just minor inconveniences. Otherwise I like it a lot.

I swear I just saw someone on another comment thread doing this, and it was a first since I’ve started using Lemmy.

I’ve got a buddy who swaps which ths are voiced and which aren’t. “ðank you”, “some for me but not for þee”. I think he does it to mess with people.

I personally use Nobara for gaming and streaming. I don’t remember why I ended up going with Nobara over Bazzite, but I love it!