Wine and proton are the same valve takes wine and adds some tweaks to it to work beter for games. Wine can work in a pinch but I wouldn’t rely on it for your workflow as wine could always be playing catch up when your software updates versions.

Wine/Proton is a translation layer that translates windows system calls Linux system calls. So if wine/proton doesn’t have a feature windows has for your knew version then it will break. That’s okay for games but for something you need for work that can be a deal breaker. If you can switching to something Linux native will benefit you in the long run.

That’s the thing though you really don’t have to deal with old packages. The ones that count are in the backports repo and for everything else there’s is flatpak. Plus I think the reason steamos switched from Debian to arch was the methodology changed from being mutable to immutable and making it more for a handheld vs installed on many systems. It had nothing to do with the quality of the distro.

I don’t know about the best but Debian has been going strong for 32 years and the backbone of many distros. Its MVP in my book.

I know it sounds stupid but i could be as easy as hitting alt+enter. It’s worked for me in the past

Yep i honestly think that’s why the steam deck is not available in retell in the US. MICROSOFT probably has a clause in place that would remove any license discounts from the big OEMs if their machines are stocked with Linux machines.

Very interesting I learned something new thanks

Ah that makes sense i know Brazil has laws to keep imports low. That’s why Brazil kept the saga mega drive active for so long. So having Linux on machines makes sense. Since it’s both an import and not an import at the same time.

Which country is that it sounds amazing

It just goes to show you. The only way to get the Linux desktop market share up is not building. Something better than Windows we have been there for a while. It’s make hardware, put Linux on that hardware and sell it in a store. Avg people don’t change operating systems. They change computers. Now if we could just get steam decks in retail stores. It would be a huge.

I concur it just works good choice

Qcad is a good one for drawing blueprints

Yeah a shell account is a standard term for getting a terminal access in a shared system going all the way back to mainframes.

Most universities at least in the US had a thing called a Sunsite that came with shell access sometimes.

Yeah they do

If you are planning on running an open shell account server. I would look up joining the tildeverse as a member server.

That’s the one thing idiocracy got wrong it wouldn’t be Costco it would be Rent-A-Center

@nous@programming.dev basically hit the nail on the head looking at available and subtracting from total ram will give you the closest answer to how much ram is being used.

https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

I both understood that sentence perfectly and sounded like a crazy person while reading it out loud.

The thing you have to remember is debian packaging is ment to be the most vanilla from upstream with only minor modifications to follow debian packaging guidelines. So tweaking for user friendliness would give you the same problems that debian’s children have. Plus 90% of that user friendliness came from bundling Nvidia firmware in the installer. Which debian does now by default. The only thing you have to do now is maybe install the nvidia-driver package and that’s it.

Debian is always the forgotten choice. You can install kde at time of install. It’s stable and can be upgraded in the background automatically even between major versions. Doesn’t have snaps making hell for the user. For any apps they need the newest version of Flatpak is right there in Discover software center.