Home server! Not sure how CUDA support is, but exo/petals node for AI and stuff? Immich for photos, Nextcloud for files, homeassistant!

Agreed here. On CPU side, don’t go with Intel 13th or 14 th gen, mostly due to the manufacturing defects, check gamers nexus on YouTube if you want to catch back up to speed, the new Intel stuff is fine manufacturing wise, terrible performance, check if the prices are good. GPU, NVIDIA usually has kinkier/ more annoying drivers, but if you want to play with AI or anything like that, NVIDIA is still better.

Took way too long, but finally some support from the top leadership for rust?

Yes and no. You need custom deivers for keyboard, backlight, speakers, webcam, touchpad… basically everything that isn’t the CPU and display

Well, right now I’m experimenting with an old mini PC, and using a couple of USB HDDs im creating a ZFS pool to serve as storage for an email server

What’s the model, just for starters

Tell that to the average computer user, and they’ll crap their pants. I’m all for the command line being there for power users and people who actually have to manage complex systems, but if you want Linux to go to the moon, you have to consider the average Joe

Wow. This is kind of idiotic, hope that both implement a gui option

Linux appears to largely be done with the transition to the modern tech stack (wayland/Pipewire) and can now focus on getting more features. Packaging hasn’t improved (flatpaks largely stagnated, snaps barely evolved and kept the same issues, so did app images and system packages. On the gaming front, while steamOS has gained users, market share is still somewhat anemic, and support for multiplayer games is now worse than before. Desktop usage did show some ok growth though and now has a solid 4%

Man is great to check quickly what something does. I use atuin as my shell history to make it a lot easier to search

WPS office is proprietary but works, so is FreeOffice. OnlyOffice, I think the desktop editors at least is FOSS

Define normal? More like Ms Office? (Under tools if im not mistaken, you can select user interface and there you have the tabbed one)

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Well, I’ve been using it as my daily driver for the past year and it has been fun. I’ve watched support gradually increase for the hardware, with it now having support for speakers webcam and Vulcan!

It runs great (am on KDE) although of late I’ve been having some graphical glitches on flatlpacks.

Also of note, the battery life is worse (a “mere” 10 hours on a 13” M1 MacBook Pro) but still perfectly acceptable (depending on your use case)

While PSU doesn’t matter for Linux compatibility, please, please buy a good one from a reputed brand. If you’re going high end, get at least an 80 plus gold PSU