Well, that’s kind of his personality though. Just reading the message it seemed like quite an event though. The mailing list is generally very transactional and uneventful.

Meaning as vanilla/neutral as you can get from the stock packages and configurations.

• Ubuntu has become a slop of Canonical choices and ads for services everywhere.
• Mint does a lot of non-standard stuff, which is fine if you want to use Cinnamon.
• PopOS has a bunch of custom tooling

And so on.

If OP just wants to get on board at a base level without a HUGE amount of edge-cases or one-off customizations, Fedora is the way to go.

Once a user starts performing merges and trying to fix conflicts by hand, simplicity goes out the windows. It’s not git, but any tree system that has to track and merge content. Same thing would happen with any other tool if the user is trying to “recreate” revisions that had bad merges.

WHOOOOOA. If Linus is not mistaken (doubtful), there wasn’t an intrusion in the repo, or there wasn’t some fucked up merge somewhere, this is crazy as hell. This is a huge deal. Good on Linus for catching it.

OP wants to LEARN Linux. Immutable distros are not lock and stock built to learn Linux at all. They are built to operate one specific way that is confusing for beginners. Some really basic reasons it’s not for newcomers:

• everything is an edge-case BECAUSE it’s an immutable distro
• vanilla docs (Arch Wiki for example) don’t cover immutable distros
• learning package management isn’t possible
• altering the system as docs or projects would describe isn’t available
• learning to build and install things from source is not stock available

Just because YOU like something, doesn’t mean everyone needs to subscribe to your idea of it.

Also, what is the model of this laptop if you don’t mind sharing?

I never suggest this for brand new beginners because of the smaller user base and less “vanilla” docs when searching for stuff. The available customization can also be a bit overwhelming for some people that aren’t expecting it, though yes, the memory footprint will be lower as you mentioned.

The different spins are just different default desktop environments with the same underlying system otherwise.

Gnome or KDE are the two most popular desktop environments. Gnome is more like MacOS (simplified, smooth, and minimal), while KDE is a bit more like Windows (verbose, menus laid out how you’d expect).

You choose whichever and just run it. You can just run a LiveUSB of whatever to try out for a few days and get a feel for both, or just dive in and install something. If you find you don’t like something, just switch to a different distro spin. Either way works.

Arch is NOT for beginners. Immutable distros are NOT for beginners. Do not let anyone suggest otherwise.

Go with Fedora for the smoothest and least polluted experience of any beginner distro and work from there.

The best way to learn is just by getting started 👍

You just KNOW this fat bitch is thinking of launching one while he still can.

Fedora.

I will if it’s an obscure package that has a recipe, otherwise I avoid it to keep my paths as clean as possible. It can end up making a confusing mess of things if you accidentally install something via other means that also gets installed by brew as a dependency, as an example.

Ice Cream, cheesecake, syrups for cocktails, fermented drinks…

They also freeze really well. Dehydrating them isn’t really an option as they’ll disintegrate, but if you want to take that to the next level, they freeze dry fairly okay for later use.

It depends on what specifically you like about it I suppose. The main things that hit in Thai cooking are the aromatics: galangal, ginger, lemongrass…etc.

Understanding which of those flavors you like in the restaurant version is key to making it well at home, so maybe understanding what type of curry paste is best for you is the best way to go about it.

Check this: https://thewoksoflife.com/thai-curry-paste/

It’s not “standard practice”, it’s the least problematic way to distribute example templates for mass consumption without needing extra steps for the user to configure. It is assumed that anyone looking to run something in production would follow best practices and harden where needed.

Nice, good to know

Remember when everybody was making “smart” toasters and fridges and shit with cameras or WiFi for absolutely no reason.

This is that all over again.

Nobody needs “AI” in their water kettles, dryers, or dildos.

Like it or not, any self-hosted project can not be successful if there is no one to appreciate it…

Absolutely wrong. I’ve had multiple I’ve kept going for years because I’ve created them for specific use-cases that literally nobody else touches, and I’ve run and contributed to multiple huge public projects. Never once did I ever think of abandoning the former because nobody else was using them.

This sounds like musing of someone who is new to the scene and thinks it works like social media influencer BS.

It does not.

Beginning is always Fedora.

Don’t fuck with Immutable anything.

Don’t let anyone convince you that Ubuntu and Snap isn’t bad.

Just try Fedora. Skip all the bullshit.