IngeniousRocks (They/She)

Historically yes, but this appears to not exactly be the case any longer.

Reference https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues/284

There does appear to be a way to do it, from a cursory glance at the above it seems that Fedora and Windows need to have separate EFI partitions, I’m not all that invested though (I don’t use these distros nor do I dual boot) so I don’t really care to look much deeper.

People seem to love bazzite, is it all its cracked up to be?

I’m happy with my lmde htpc/server/gamingrig/clusterfuck so I’m not planning on changing, but I’ve been in the market for a handheld gaming PC and its been on my list to try.

LMDE (mint sans ubuntu) user here, gaming is a dream, but sometimes a nightmare. You may need eventually to manually update the graphics card driver If you’re on Nvidia, as the debian repos it pulls from are hella out of date. Otherwise, smooth sailing.

You’ll likely only encounter problems on native games, Feral ports specifically seem to assume people have a libraries that they don’t, so I often find myself launching their games in a terminal a million times to figure out what libraries are missing and manually link them or just copy them into the game lib folder.

OP specifically declines to use Linux mint, per their final point in their post. As a 2 decade user who is currently using Mint, OP is right. The windows experience is so handholdey that new users often aren’t familiar with even HOW to research to fix their problems. Mint, a distribution that gives you training wheels but will not hold your hand is not ideal for someone who has already broken it several times, doing activities they didn’t feel were necessary to share.

OP needs an immutable distro.

Based on your last paragraph, you might fall in the supernoob catergory. You’ll want an immutable distribution, you can’t break those Unless you tell it to let you break it.

As a windows user, you’ll find familiarity in Fedora Kionite.

If you prefer a touchscreen oriented experience consider Fedora Silverblue.

There’s a few other options on the page I’m linking, I haven’t tried and therefore can’t recommend either of the others.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

Edit: my formatting was 🗑️

Edit 2, electric boogaloo:

OP in your post you state you want Wallpaper Engine to work, unfortunately, you’ll have issues there. Depending on what you’re trying to accomplish with wallpaper engine you may be able to do the same using KDE Plasma. I personally use a VLC command line call to enable animated wallpapers on my rig, there’s not exactly a standard for it on Linux so many of the solutions you find will be clunky. Just remember if you go around messing with your xorg.conf file you need to have a backup of it so you can undo changes easily in a terminal.

You’re welcome to DM me if you need assistance.

Havent needed them in months, I’ve been at 30 days remaining in evaluation period for 3 months.

Please confirm that sleep is configured correctly for your hardware.

Read this article from the Arch Wiki then refer to Section 3 after you’ve familiarized yourself with the content to make the changes necessary.

Many hardware implementations of the various sleep types are borked due to workarounds for the way Windows would prefer to handle sleep. The information in this article should allow you to mitigate this.

My Blu Ray player has never been connected to the web, its region free, but doesn’t do 4k-BD. My Linux HTPC is configured with an ASUS libredrive, and has MakeMKV installed. The Linux variant of MakeMKV is borked right now, in a good way! The 30 day trial period doesn’t expire!

If I wanna watch a 4k bluray I have to rip it and watch it on my PC, because I’d rather do that than get a BD player that needs internet

This doesn’t seem accurate — what about the basic, non-oled, steam deck?

(Yes the em-dash was intentional, I like them better than hyphens for division in sentences, don’t @ me I’m not a bot)

They just open sourced WSL ahead of this update. They’re scared 🤣

Sounds worth a watch, thanks friend!

YOO is that the one where one of the LLMs gets stuck in a loop of existential despair because it must complete its task but has literally none of the tools to do so?

Just an aside that it tangential related.

If you are one of those muppets (I was) I implore you to spend a couple hours learning to Roll out an llm on your own machine (not leveraging someone’s GPU farm, use your own hardware at home). It only takes a couple hours of fucking around with prompts to realize these things are dice rolls with heavy weights on what Rolls can come next. They’re dumb as rocks, don’t think at all, and even so called “reasoning” models can’t solve even the most basic logic puzzles.

I used Deepthink for an hour guiding it to proper solutions for logic puzzles and it consistently hallucinates new information to result in the puzzles being easy to solve.

LLMs are NOT intelligent, they’re (much like diffusion models for images) literally just making sense from random noise.

to be sandboxed

If you gotta have em, at least keep them in flatpak jail.

I can’t think about Slartibartfast without thinking of Slutty Fart Blasts, dammit dyslexia and too much porn

While I don’t recommend it for a first watch, I have access to a copy of the fulcrum cut, a super-cut of the last three episodes of Clone Wars and Revenge of the Sith.

You can DM me if you want it

I use the Kotatsu android app, available on f-droid (unless it got banned) and github.

Pulls from hundreds of providers. Some of the sites don’t work without captcha, so ymmv.

Also, turn off notifications for the app, lest you recieve a hundred notifications about a site needing a captcha.

Can’t use libreOffice and translate the Q code into whatever language libreCalc uses?

This is completely unrelated to your problem:

The calibre website recommends extremely strongly against using their software packaged by anyone else other than calibre themselves as they are often (see usually) buggy or extremely outdated.

It may be worth it to manually “install” the app from their website somewhere in your ~/.local/ and see if you have less issues using the official package.

200 pounds of hydrazine is a shitload of monopropellant for a probe that should almost never have to make major adjustments to its alignment.