I actually used bazzite as my first mainstream linux distro and I hated it because every second command I pasted in didn't work and I didn't understand why. I eventually figured out it was due to the immutable nature of bazzite and began telling everyone to never use bazzite because it doesn't work very well.

Now I actually understand what the actual upsides are and why it's different I will change to mainstream distros to actually get a hold of what it's usually like before considering changing back over.

OK that makes sense, thanks.

I feel like my story is a lot similar to yours almost a year ago now I saw a YouTube video about degoogling. It caused me to switch to Firefox with betterfox on the betterfox github pages there was a new oil link which I read and followed ultimately leading me to all of this and so much more.

How could pirating on Windows be worse for privacy?

Yeah ok. Maybe there is another alternative hiding somewhere else that I have not heard about. Or just try reaching out to customer support.

Appimmages seam a lot like reverting to the old way of downloading packages like the installers you see in Windows and macos are appimages somehow better or different?

https://tosdr.org/en/service/180 After checking out steam on tosdr it seems like the best option for games is piracy unless there available drm free...

For me at least I never considered a synology nas it seemed like the apple of home servers. Especially when I enjoy building machines anyway there was no point. Although I can definitely see the appeal for some people.

I wonder if there are more open solutions that don't require building a machine from scratch.

Thanks for posting that was really informative i was always intending on learning more about package managers at some point. What I wonder is when you want a package and it's available as both a dnf package and a flatpack which one should you chose?

I've never heard of infomaniak before thanks for showing me it looks really good!

As far as I know there is no good free way to use Thunderbird. Protonmail blocks Thunderbird behind a paywall and tuta doesn't let you use Thunderbird at all you will probably have to make a compromise there.

At that point they should be using h100's 4090's are far from efficient.

Finally starting my self hosted journey. I have everything I need I'm setting up a 6tb nas for linux iso's photos and files. And I recently got a "broken" laptop that works perfectly fine that I will use for running all my applications in proxmox such as immich, jellyfin and nextcloud. And probably many others in the near future.

Consider that with the latest hardware your processor is under 1% or 2% load running a bloat machine like windows even if you used the lightest weight distro without any desktop environment at all the maximum possible performance gain would be 1% or 2%.

Shouldn't torrents be used for large files?

Any word, if you look at it for long enough.

With you first point i disagree. I think public transport is often just fine or even preferable for people with mobility issues. If they are wheelchair bound then they cannot drive. And public transport has come a long way in terms of supporting disabled people such as most trains trams buses from were I come from now support wheelchair access.

Although I would be interested if there are any examples were taking public transport is infeasible or unhelpful to specific situations.

Oh your right I wasn't aware that box buddy is just a gui for distrobox. I thought it was a reskin of the boxes program built into fedora.

Although from my experience box buddy in bazzite doesn't work super reliably.

OK so a lot of people are recommending bazzite. I have been using it for a while and I do not recommend it. Mainly due to the fact you more or less can't install any program other than through the software centre unless you use a vm with the included "box buddy" program which for me has been very hit and miss for which programs work.

Go ahead and try bazzite for yourself but I would recommend either fedora or Linux mint both with the xfce desktop since a lightweight desktop seams to be what your looking for.

Mmm delicious.