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That sounds stressfull! It'd put me off a distro, too. I had something similar happen in the early days of Gentoo - multiple times. Those trials by fire did teach me a lot, and I'm now consequently far more sanguine about the boot process, and thank god these days we have smart phones as mini-backup computers to search for solutions! Still, we're in a time when PCs are not as indispensible, and having one down for a couple days can be a minor disaster.

Rolling updates or no, I rarely -Syu on my desktop more than once a week, and most of my machines get that TLC more like monthly. And sometimes I'll hold out packages that require rebooting, because FTN. It probably contributes to the fact I've avoided these types of dramas --statistically.

I had problems with CPU use; it has a polling model that wasn't very well tuned. The dev(s) are responsive, and suggested a work-around which helped the server, but eventually I went back to mosh. All my mosh connections are into tmux sessions, so the et benefits were not noticeable, and mosh is lighter on resources.

That's ultimately what I did. If the Razr improves, I may try that next, because Samsung's Android is mostly bloat.

Still, flip smartphomes satisfied that "pocketable" need.

There are distros that make it easy for non-techies to install and manage Linux, and if you have any computer aptitude at all, it should be pretty easy. The devil is in the details; if all your hardware is well supported, there's no reason why you should ever have to open a shell. Trouble usually happens with peripherals like printers and some extremely protective vendor chips like Broadcom. In those cases, it's usually still possible to make things work, but it can require researching, finding, reading how-tos, downloading, compiling and installing software.

I think 99% of trouble I've ever had in the past 20 years has been with printers+scanners or Broadcom chips - they're very common. I read about people having issues with graphics cards, but that seems to be mainly Nvidia; I've only ever had Intel or Radeon, and haven't had trouble with graphics cards in the past decade or so, myself.

Anyway, my advice is to do some distro hopping before you settle on one. Boot from a USB stick for a while; it'll be a bit slower, but it'll make playing with different desktop environments and distributions easier, before you commit.

I don't use gnome; can someone who does plz tell me what style that is? The color scheme is Everforest, but what's the rest of the style called? It'd look good on rofi & polybar.

Edit: I guess the theme is also Everforest Dark? I think it's this one.

Edit 2: Someone has already done most of the work for polybar, rofi, and some other tiling WM tools; dotfiles here. I haven't tested it myself yet, but it looks pretty good.

Remember the grub update fiasco?

No. Was there a grub issue? I've only been running it for about 10 mos, but have had no issues in that time.

I'd bet Willy could out-smoke Snoop. It'd be a fun contest, either way.

I wonder if they've ever hung out together.

Thank you.

If it doesn't work, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

This simple advice has saved me from countless analysis paralysis problems.

India and China have active space programs, and all other concerns aside, the more, the merrier. I really hope ESA starts demonstrating some progress; it's about the only thing that could shame the US Gov into properly funding NASA.

EndeavourOS is pretty good, too; also Arch-based with an easy installer.

The advantage to Arch-based-distros is rolling releases, and the Arch wiki instructions are more easily followed. And right now, the Arch wiki is probably the single best resource for Linux instructions and troubleshooting on the web.

I have a hard time imagining both those lines coming from the same person. Maybe, I guess? But I agree, 1 is loving and supportive; 2 is mean & hurtful.

What a terrible family op (greentext op) must have.