I could have missed something, but quickly scanning his job history shows he started as an intern at the beginning of AWS while getting his MBA, and then became a Product Manager. Didn’t really see any programming experience or knowledge, not sure he has the context and foundational understanding to be able to justify making claims like that.

Seems like most of the people who talk about AI eliminating programming jobs, haven’t ever had a job writing code or have a firm grasp of what those kind of roles actually do.

The cynic in me thinks all these articles from executives making such bold claims are to scare developers into thinking we don’t have as much leverage in the job market as we do, even after all the layoffs it’s still a workers market. The realist in me thinks they probably just like hearing themselves talk, and everyone’s guilty of talking about something they know nothing about. According to whoever’s razor it was, it’s probably the latter.

So flatpak or distrobox is the recommended way to install “user” apps, but if you need closer to the “system”, that’s where rpm-ostree comes in. Its recommended to limit the layers (the package manager works by layering the app you install over your current images), but the apps you’re looking to install is a perfect use case for it. Feel free to comment any questions you have about using “rpm-ostree” and I’ll try my best to help. Also I love bazzite too!

“This survey was conducted online within the United States from June 14-15, 2023 among 2,090 registered voters by The Harris Poll and HarrisX. Results were weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income, employment, education, political party, and political ideology where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents’ propensity to be online. The poll was supervised by pollsters: Mark Penn (Chairman, The Harris Poll) Dritan Nesho (CEO, HarrisX) Stephen Ansolabehere (Professor and CAPS Director Emeritus, Harvard University)”

2000 something sample size is pretty small, and the weighted and propensity score is “intriguing”.

Is there a specific part that you’re having trouble with? Is it more how it works under the hood, or more about using it to spin up containers? I can try to answer any questions and post some how tos for you.

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The author isn’t using thirsty, like you’re thirsty for water. They are using the slang version.

I can see how you would misunderstand without knowing that.

If possible it might help to have a couple demo PCs out so that they and try different desktop environments. Some might be more enthusiastic if they can not only play around with it when it's up and running (and gives people something to do while your helping others) but also if the DE matches their "workflow better" it also gives you a chance to show them how to do common tasks. Maybe different demos have different "suites", like here's the gaming demo, here's regular, productivity, etc

I agree with some of the other posts, I'd stick with 1 distro (whichever all the helpers are most comfortable with) so that you can speak confidently about it, and decrease the chances of something going wrong and you having to break out Google and the terminal. A DE is an easier choice to explain that different distros affecting and impacting things they can't see. Especially if you might have to provide tech support during the beginning. Maybe just say a throw away line or 2 about there being different distros, just like there's different kinds of cheese. Still same thing at its core, just different options.

I also recommend a couple spare external hard drives for them to back up their files.

I'd maybe do just a brief overview at the beginning. And go more in depth afterwards so they don't get overloaded.

Just in case you didn't circle back, the other commenter is correct. Just like Debian repositories, Arch repositories also haven't been poisoned like this . AUR has recently, but that's equivalent of like on Debian adding 3rd party repos, but AUR is just a meta collection of those unofficial user repos basically. Arch documentation even warns against blindly installing from AUR, and to read the pkg build first since it's basically the same thing as copy and pasting a curl command from a GitHub repo's readme.

It depends on what your metrics are for energy and resources. Are you talking about the end user hardware, or are you talking about developer time and effort. If it’s the former, you’re right, if it’s the latter you’re completely wrong. And while there’s merit to your point (if it is about end user storage, energy consumption, etc), that’s not really in short supply while open source developers free time is.

Set updates to auto, and then ignore anything that mentions rpm-ostree as a way to install anything (at least until you're more experienced with an atomic distro and learn when to and when not to).

Try to always go to flatpaks first for software (anything listed in their new Bazaar software store).

After your situated, spin up a "distrobox" container (they have a bunch of tools pre-installed to make it easy) of whatever distro you're comfortable with, and install any software you can't find a flatpaks for, in distrobox instead. I recommend sticking to just one, don't try to spin up a couple for different use cases until later down the line. So if you are familiar with Debian, you can spin up a distrobox of Debian or Ubuntu, and then use "apt" to install stuff just like you're use to.

The cli tool "ujust" has a custom script built in for basically any tinkering a user would want, and is way more reliable than following documentation and trying to do it from scratch. It's lacking extremely niche cases, but anything gamer related is should have.

Their discourse (forum) is typically friendly and has knowledgable people willing to help as long as you provide enough info and are willing to follow instructions.

So just to clarify, it’s recommended to limit they layers, but it’s not a hard rule or anything. The reason it’s recommended for a couple reasons.

One reason is that the layers are basically your “core” install, your “actual” os. One of the big benefits of atomic distros is the inherent stability, and by adding layers you are adding more risk and complexity, which doesn’t eliminate the stability but it does decrease the odds of it being as stable and reliable.

Another reason is that the more layers you have, the longer updates are going to take, and the more storage space used. Atomic distros usually keep multiple “versions” around (current and previous), so if you install 10 layers you’re really taking up twice that space. Atomic distros sacrifice disk space and update speed, to increase reliability stability and reproducibility. I think it’s a fair trade off, but a bunch of layers do shift the scales a bit more towards a net zero. Also besides have two versions (usually standard), you can also pin versions that you want to keep around, for example let’s stay you’re on plasma 5 and upgrading to 6, you can pin the version with 5 until you’re confident that 6 is working out for you. In the grand scheme that’s not a lot of storage, especially when cheap, but still worth factoring in.

There’s also concern about file conflicts, inheritance (a layer overwriting a config that’s used by the base or lower layers), etc. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, just in general it’s better to use distrobox or flatpak where possible, and only use rpm-ostree where it’s the only option.

Kind of. CBT is (oversimplification incoming) just every time there’s a negative thought, you make a habit of thinking a positive thought, so then your brain starts associating the connection. Basically retraining your brain to naturally go from negative to positive path, and over time your brain gets rewired to do it without consciously doing it.

Not much help as I use bazzite, and it’s worked (mostly) flawlessly on plasma 5 and now 6 (6 is amazing and so responsive). Could be something to do with the display session manager, atleast on regular Ubuntu and installing KDE afterwards. Do you happen to know the default on regular Ubuntu?

Which standard should I be looking into if I want a second AP/device that connects to the “main” router wirelessly, that extends the network range. I live in an apartment and can’t run Ethernet.

This documentation is for bazzite, but they have a lot of the same stack under the hood. “Broadcom’s WL driver can be installed since it is needed by some hardware. Disabled by default. Enter “just use-broadcom-wl” to use it.”. You could try to see if aurura has the same “just” options, that’s where I would first research. If not, then yeah, “rpm-ostree” would be how you install the package, just like you said, just not sure of the commands for local files. Also there is a tool to “roll your own” distro built on top of any of the ublue work, it’s basically how bazzite and aurora exist. So you can layer the packages like the other option you said. https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template

No worries! You’re doing exactly what’s recommended, so I’d say you’re on the right path! Main thing is that rpm-ostree is the built in package manager, so like rpm, dnf, apt, Pac-Man, etc. so if you’ve used any of them before, it’s going to be pretty straight forward. And yeah, just comment or message me and I’ll try to respond when I get a chance. I’m no expert, but I know a bit

I really appreciate your positive attitude about having to change your workflow when using a new technology.

Just a tip to help when you search for how tos, tips, or guides: since bazzite is built on top of ublue, and ublue is built on top of fedora silver blue/ fedora kinotie, you can use those as search options as well. For example, you can use “how to install goverlay on fedora silverblue” instead of “how to install goverlay on bazzite”. Since more people use fedora silver blue or kinotie, it will increase the possible results, and they SHOULD be 100% compatible as you can rebase to either 3 (as long as they use the same DE, can’t go from gnome to KDE or vice versa).

I’ll try to find time to provide good links for those 3 remaining programs (I know how hard it is to find and use a replacement, or be missing features).

Here’s one for now: NordVPN for Linux** this link seems like a good resource: https://www.answeroverflow.com/m/1153350314028695562

• I currently use proton vpn, but I’ve had nord in the past and believed I used the”openvpn” option mentioned. Openvpn is a common standard with lots of support, and most vpn providers offer it as an option.

(Not an expert) hosting your own instance will make you more identifiable to big tech than if you used a public instance, but it would still increase your privacy compared to giving everything to them, and also prevent you from giving a public instance your data. I currently use "priv.au" but do plan on hosting my own in the near future. Some people who host their own instance even intentionally open it up to the public to crowd source more data points so that their traffic blends in better (not saying I recommend that though).

Tldr: it should still be worth it

In regards to connecting, you should still be able to hop from other vpns to your home network, just keep in mind they you will get higher latency jumping from their VPN network back to yours. I don't recommend opening it up publicaly just to do that, unless you plan on going all in and having something in front of it like "fail2ban" and Anubis" another option is looking into "tailscale" and if you don't trust their central server you can selfhost with "head scale" or use a different but adjacent product "pangolin". These products basically let you creat your our VPN that spans multiple network.

Lol no worries, that's a great way to describe it.

TLDR: atomic are more "just works", and harder to brick or get in a bad state, can "self heal", but that comes at the expense of having less control over OS configuration (parts normal users wouldn't touch) but still have complete control over parts you do want to change. Other compromise is relying more on flatpaks and containers than traditional package managers like apk.

Long:

So the big shift atomic distros did compared to vanilla or traditional distros, is the idea of having different parts of the filesystem read only and other parts read and write. It works similar to how phones work, where the "OS" part is read only and gets changed during updates, and the "user" part is full access.

The benefit of this is that if you brick your install changing something you shouldn't, or the distro pushes out a bad update, your machine can boot into a previously good state.

The read only OS part is distributed through images or layers. When you update the distro it just download the new layers, and sets up a new boot entry with the upgraded layers, but keeps the old layers so that you can always fall or roll back to if something goes wrong.

The read write parts are all the stuff that users typically want to or would change.

Things like /boot, /usr are read only, the OS part. Things like /etc (lots of config files/, and /home (user directory) are full access.

OP, I had a similar issue, and I had to blow way the wine prefix.

Someone else will have to chime in, but I believe it's the "compat data" folder, but be careful because some games like to keep saves in there.

After you do that, as someone else mentioned, try GE-Proton.

Also I'm not familiar with your card, if it is older, I believe there is a certain gen where they stopped adding older cards to the newer drivers. A lot of the distros you mentioned are new, maybe roll the dice and if you feel up for it try Debian. If games boot, the. You either have to grab the open source driver or use an older version.

Also for the future (after you're up and running) you shouldn't skip the shaders. Steam crowd sources them from similar configs and build, and vulkan can generate them before playing so that game play is smoother. Direct 12 trys to generate shaders during game play, which results in stuttering.

Thank you for taking the time and providing some recommendations, I’ll check them both out! First one sounds perfect for me wanting to go in kind of blind, but some good puns are really tempting lol.