Fonzie!

Ah that makes sense, thanks!

the laptops mostly use Intel x86 chips

I mean, I’d be happy to see them ship ARM laptops in the vein of Apple’d M chips or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So their laptops were running Android?

Reading the article it was a closed source OS, with their own closed-source Linux-based kernel.

I once freed 28 GB using find ~/Downloads/ -mtime +30 -delete

Honestly, I could do and have done Unreal, Unity and (easily) Godot development on less!

But that’s the minimum to spend for a very comfortable experience, I’d say; RX7900 and GTX 4090 are only there for bragging, while an on-board GPU would not be comfortable running game graphics in my opinion but I’ve seen people do it and not complain :/

Off-topic but:

Linux Mint
GPU: AMD RX7600XT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
RAM: 16GB DDR4

That’s surprisingly mid-range, I don’t think I ever see that; just budget specs or bragging-level specs. As someone with almost the same build (Ryzen 7 4700GE, RX7700XTX, 16 GB DDR4) I’m positively surprised!

I can speak for Nord’s client sending requests to Google for some reason, maybe not great for privacy thus not great for piracy either.

I can speak well of Mullvad, but advise against sending hundreds of bucks in one go as paper mail is not exactly well secured. There’s another VPN that happily accepts cash as payment and doesn’t need your info but I can’t find it atm…

Dumb answer: Just use a VPN, my guy.

Checking their profile, they do seem to be a furry, yeah!

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop, after all ;-)

An adware whatever should also be avoided.

This is not a good place to recommend commercial services.

Adding that this would work even if OP uses full disk encryption, as it’s encrypted with a passphrase; just double-click the drive in the file manager and enter the encryption passphrase when prompted (NOT a sudo password!)

Ouch fair 😅

Even though this is an old one, going by the ID.

Okay but programing or Unix jokes are whole different cake than openly admitting piracy unless you’re Meta.

It’s more like, the distro is the actual “under the hood” OS and the DE is the looks and user interaction.

Hold up is this real?

EDIT Holy fucking shit it’s real: https://xkcd.com/488/

I would say XFCE and Cinnamon; no two XFCE’s look alike and Cinnamon can easily be molded into something very different as well.

I see a lot of people recommending KDE and Gnome; I’ve found those surprisingly rigid, although there are more guides on how to “rice” KDE into the most non-KDE things so there’s that.

Have you checked software links from the megathread from the sidebar?

I know there’s a lot of links, but that makes it all the more sure at least some of them will have what you’re looking for.

Ah I guess that makes more sense!

Now if it was Debian with the Gnome DE vs Ubuntu, that would’ve been ironic!