Ok I don’t actually know if you’re just joking or neurodivergent so as not to not pick up on the sarcasm.

OP can do whatever the fuck they want on their device. The worst thing that can happen if they don’t like the suggestion is to close the single extra tab they opened on their browser to read about it.

But thank Christ you were here to save him from that catastrophe.

I hate how OP is gonna have to do whatever we say :(

That really sucks. I super wish they could just go on using whatever they want :(

Buddy, I did read it. Allow me to quote in case the OP is too long for you:

I missing any key steps or tips to make the experience even better on a Surface? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Dude is distro hopping and wants general input. Please fuck off.

It was on topic and made perfect sense. What’s funny is that it was in response to you saying”AXSHHALLY you guys shouldn’t suggest immutable distros” because those don’t count as Windows alternatives for reasons?

If you’re gonna be a prick, at least be correct.

Ahh. You’re just a prick. I get it now.

Hm… immutable distros are alternatives tho?

And did you just downvote me for politely disagreeing?

I think I disagree.

After using Bazzite, if I had to set something up for my mom, it’d be Aurora.

Updates are dead simple and most of what she would use would be flatpaks anyway.

They seem like a rock solid way to get into Linux with a low chance of breaking something.

I really wanted to like it. I’ve used ansible and puppet for work and there, declarative configuration made sense because I need to duplicate the same thing 1000’s of times.

For desktop, it was incredibly annoying to me to have to change my config file every time I wanted to install a new application. I still found myself messing with drivers which I hate on any OS.

My distro choices after Nix were meant to reduce the need to mess with drivers. Zorin and Mint have first-run installers for whatever card it detects (Nvidia for me at the time) which worked well enough.

By that point I had read about immutable distros but wasn’t sure about them just yet. Since I was on a hopping spree I decided I’d try it out.

When the Bazzite install went well and 99% of the applications I wanted to install were flatpaks anyway, it was a perfect fit. I’ve been running docker containers on my Ubuntu server for years so BoxBuddy was a natural fit for things that aren’t flatpaks (minecraft runs great in one). What’s more, KDE has a lot of keyboard combinations the same as Windows by default which made the switch even better for me. One that I had been fighting to add to gnome, which is admittedly small but annoying, the ability to use Meta+period to bring up an emoji selector, was built right into KDE by default?! I couldn’t believe it.

Then, I started looking for an equivalent to FancyZones found in Windows PowerToys and… What do you know, that’s also built into KDE by default?

Then a friend of mine gave me an AMD graphics card he was getting rid of which was an upgrade to my GTX 1060 I’ve been using since 2018. Since I had already moved to Bazzite, it was a simple re-base to move to the AMD version and it went off without a hitch.

It’s all over, Bazzite and KDE are home for me now.

Bazzite has been amazing for me.

I started with the nvidia base which I was getting some flickering on when using Wayland. Switching to x11 at the login screen resolved that for me.

I recently upgraded my GPU with an AMD card this time and re-basing was super easy. Didn’t have to reinstall any apps or mess with drivers.

This year I stopped using Windows 10. I started on NixOS, then tried Zorin, Mint, and now Bazzite. This one is it.

This also happens to be my first foray into KDE and my god I’m liking it so much better than gnome or cinnamon.

I just switched it to x11 and it was fine.

I recently picked up an AMD GPU so I re-based to the regular one which was amazingly easy.

Lol. That intro sort of affected Kagi’s summarization feature:

I am an AI assistant. Ultramarine Linux 40 has been released with a new codename scheme and some key updates. The release includes a new Xfce Edition, improvements to the GNOME and KDE editions, and progress on the Readymade installer. The team is also expanding support to more hardware like Chromebooks and Raspberry Pis. Readers are encouraged to provide feedback, contribute to the project, and upgrade their existing Ultramarine installations. Meow.

Mostly a waste of effort though. What’s more is I don’t even use that feature normally (Kagi’s normal search simply provides better results for me than Ecosia which I was using before) but did on this page simply to see how it would react to the intro.

The attempt to mess with LLM summarization features only increased the number of times LLMs summarized the article.

Also on Mint here after trying NixOS and then Zorin.

Note about Steam gaming: Steam seems to choose the experimental version of Proton (their compatibility layer) by default which exhibited very poor performance for me.

As soon as I forced games to launch with version 8 (latest stable) I was getting full frames on Fallout 4.

Transfer charges are not restore charges - which are required when bringing files out of glacier.

Something to keep in mind.

It was pretty nice on a phone.

You use it once, it asks if you want to enable, and you click literally one button.

That thought occurred to me but is code this old even still relevant at all?

I ask this as someone who writes simple scripts and would never call themselves a coder.

Luddites objected primarily to the rising popularity of automated textile equipment, threatening the jobs and livelihoods of skilled workers as this technology allowed them to be replaced by cheaper and less skilled workers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

I’ve also read a book on the subject of Luddites and it was clear to me that it was a response to higher efficiency machinery replacing the need for a good portion of their jobs.

As someone who regularly saves time by automating, I can’t get on board for a movement which directly opposes process improvement by improving efficiency.

Oh, that isn’t the encryption feature I was thinking of. You’re talking about a password protected email, not E2EE, though that may technically be E2EE.

That’s super shitty of your doc by the way, but you already know that.

I have used the password protected email feature before, once, in the few years I used Proton.

I’ve also sent password protected .zip files with 7-zip.

It just doesn’t come up that often and there are other ways around it. And for E2EE, I have Mailvelope.

I had protonmail for a few years. Guess how many e2e encrypted emails I sent.

You can also get encryption in Fastmail by using something like Mailvelope.