Yeah. :) 100% tariffs on data transfers out of American Web Services…

Leta give it to Trump and Elon Musk, they will take good care of it… Lol.

Trump will isolate aws to America only, claiming other countries are ripping him off.

Aws becomes American Web Services.

Just ask people here, people just love anyone who switches over to Linux and want to learn about it. Because we actually love this operating system. Its so good.

When my kid started using Linux, once he knew how to start programs and install things, we went through where the files are on the file system and how to get there in a terminal. I think thats a good starting point so you understand the foundation of the system.

And then go though a basic Linux command line tutorial to learn about the common tools for listing files, filtering results, renaming and deleting files etc.

You can do that stuff in a graphical file manager too but you dont really get that understanding of how things work until you do it in the terminal.

You wanted a real arch distro?

I pretty much cant run anything else, i get so frustrated with all the workarounds that are simply not needed on arch. It has native packages for almost anything.

Thats great but im not sure its very specific to bazzite. Ive been gaming on arch for many years and all games work, pretty much. :)

Have you tried to install apps from the arch AUR? Im curious if they follow the system theme and if they are found by the system launcher as ordinary apps. They are running in a container so i wonder if that makes them behave differently. Flatpaks can have the same issues.

I think people just dont know how good it is. The apt system with fixed versions is super annoying compared to arch. I have never felt that i need to stay on some old version of software ever. Sure there has been a few times when some version is bugged and then I just stayed on a old version for a few weeks, which is very easy to do with pacman.

Im almost envious of you… I did that like 15 years ago and there is so many fun things to run and learn. So many desktop environments, tiling window managers, programming languages, ricing attempts…

I used arch almost all the time, with just a few times trying other distros to see what they are about. But nothing is as good as arch, mostly because of the AUR and its excellent docs.

Now bazzite is the new hot thing so could be fun to try that I guess, but dont want to remove my lovely arch.

Distrobox seems to be a container… I wonder how well that works with applications following system themes and being able to be seen in app launchers.

Its interesting but my experience is that usually you do get some issues with solutions where apps are not native.

Since its immutable, I imagine that a lot of apps may not “just work” and need special packaging or configuration. But I havent used it. What would you say? Apps just work or they need anything special? Will Flatpaks work?

I havent tried it but I cant see how it can be better than arch Linux with its AUR. Almost all software that exists is right there in its latest version.

Fedora feels a lot more limited. I think just because bazzite is novel, a lot of people are trying it now. I dont think the popularity will last. People will understand that they get many issues with it and go back to a normal Linux.

This thing changes versions faster than I can update my homelab… Lol.

Yup and it will never slow down with time or start to annoy you with ads or tracking like every windows version in existance.

If the general public understood how they should spend a few days learning a basic Linux distro… That would be great.

Yeah I think mint sits in a sweet spot there for people who want that window 7 experience.

I think you will eventually get tired of all the workarounds needed for immutable systems. Its a nice idea but full of pain when actually wanting to use the computer to do actual work.

But its ok! Everyone tries different things in the Linux world and we all just enjoy the ride.

I never thought of it as slow. More like very reliable. I dont need my data to move fast, I need it to be copied with 100% reliability.

Lol sometimes it feels like that here :)

This thread managed to make my head spin. Why do you make it so complicated to update packages. Are you from Microsoft? :)

You can store uploads on a different drive if you want also.

Nicely done. Im always too scared to break my machine by messing with grub. :)

There are entire sites dedicated to explaining why they dont like it, like https://nosystemd.org/

But yeah, basically its been replacing more and more separate tools with its own solution, in order to have better integration and one common pane of glass, so to speak. But it also means that it becomes a major target for exploits and bugs.