Try removing all of them one-by-one and ignore the ones that are trying to remove plasma.

Whew, I was getting worried we were one day into 2024 and nobody said this yet.

Not at all, I don’t think anyone has ever gotten banned for using alternate launchers on Linux. I’ve been using Heroic for ~2 years now with no issues.

The only time you can get banned is if you try playing a multiplayer game that has anti-cheat that doesn’t support Linux. Just make sure when playing a multiplayer game that Linux is supported.

Why chromium is explained in the article (better support for many apps) but you can always change it to firefox, also detailed in the upgrade article.

I upgraded from 38 to 39 with no issues. It’s honestly not hard or dangerous, just copy paste a few lines then paste the last ones to prompt the upgrade. The only catch is that if you had KDE already you won’t need to remove some of the packages it tells you about. Don’t overthink it imo.

I know reading is hard but you realize this quote was reason #5 of the many reasons listed… I’m not going to copy-paste the article, it’s all relevant info.

Honestly you should just stick to Fedora.

Why?

You can upgrade, but it’s not automatic: https://nobaraproject.org/docs/upgrade-troubleshooting/how-do-i-upgrade-to-a-new-nobara-version/

Scroll down for 38 to 39.

Who said anything about Linux becoming Windows?

Dunno, but I suppose you can use piped: https://piped.video/watch?v=98kFh3JpIXk

If you mean solutions as in answers to questions I would be against it, LLMs have a habit of spewing wrong information that looks correct. This happens way more when you tell it to write code, it could end up unoptimized, misleading, or straight up wrong. I wouldn’t want an AI to answer my question and then feeling like I’m forced to triple check its answers and make sure it’s hallucinating.

There’s also the point of “if people wanted AI answers, they would be asking chatbots and not post on a community of people”

Good point, I can see how something like this could cause some shock especially in political posts. Having it be opt-in and choosing the communities to connect with would definitely be great.

Great read and I love the angle you’re taking, having the community vote for it is a great idea even if the answer is fairly predictable. Hope other instance admins follow suit.

but hopefully FB takes a while longer to implement federation.

I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Companies are pretty slow to implement big changes, and when they do federate I doubt they’ll initially federate with anything other than major mastodon instances and test the waters.

And it’s open source too, how nice.

God bless Wine developers for making Linux 10x more viable to use for me.

There’s a lot of back and forth on this question constantly in the community. IMO you should just choose a Linux distro that’s beginner friendly with sane defaults. Any of them can game, basically.

• Nobara Linux is made specifically for gaming, you might want to start here.
• ZorinOS is made for people who aren’t used to Linux. It’s got a great UI and good features. I used to play Elden Ring on it, it’s very reliable.
• Pop_OS is another great general distro. Lots of people gaming use this. They’re also making their own desktop environment which they’ll use here when it’s ready.
• Arch Linux only if you know what you’re doing. If you don’t, avoid an arch linux based distro.

If you’re going high end that does sound pretty good.

If you’re going to do AI stuff you have to go with Nvidia. AMD is quite bad at it and in some cases doesn’t support some technologies like Stable Diffusion at all.

I’d recommend a 3070 at least. You’ll need the vram.

In my experience the Flatpack version causes more issues than it fixes. Try installing it through Nobara’s package manager instead (I think Nobara uses dnf?)

I don’t use Nobara though so someone can correct me if I’m wrong.

Legally the internet archive isn’t allowed to let you keep books forever and I don’t think there’s an easy way to keep them. Whatever books you’re reading can be obtained through other means though, it doesn’t need to be from Internet Archive.

You don’t love being watched by everyone in your workplace? /s