For me it started going south just after Windows 2000. XP started ‘thinking’ for you, forced online activation and hid all the settings away in little fluffy Fischer Price boxes. That was the point that your computer started not belonging to you, in my opinion.

Yes! Exactly how you describe. They were going through certain repos and parsing every commit. I couldn’t block them because there were loads of different residential IPs and random user-agents. :-(

Hi. Looks very nifty. What license is this under? GPL?

Also a suggestion: it might be worth putting the screenshots you have here inside your README.md so people can see what they are getting.

So they can push and pull at the same time, silly!

Agreed. Bloody fantastic for general purpose. Seems like a well kept secret. A lot of people assume Bazzite is just Steam in Big-Screen mode.

So, I’m an all-around Bazzite fan, but it does have a bit of an odd learning curve. It’s easy to use for a beginner, child, or grandma. However, if you’re used to fiddling with your system, it might be a little harder to get into because you have to navigate the immutable nature of the OS, which can complicate some online tutorials and potentially lead to frustration for an intermediate/experienced user migrating from Windows.

So my suggestion would be:

Child - Bazzite

Grandma - Bazzite

Gamer - Bazzite

Experienced Windows user - Fedora or Mint, then once you’re used to Linux, Bazzite

Developer - Bazzite

I personally use the Gnome version. It’s really polished and pretty.

En garde!

Not specifically a joke, but more intended to make thought processes skip a little and to amuse:

My friend: “Didn’t they teach you grammar at school?”

Me: “no, she didn’t go there.”

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…and, if anyone ever tells me to check my pronunciation, I snap back quickly and say it should be pronOUNCEiation, while acting as serious as possible.

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In around 20 years I have gotten about 30 blank stares and one giggle, once. It was completely worth it.

Haven’t personally the need to connect tv boxes remotely- all of my mobile devices are handheld, so cell phone, laptop, steamdeck etc, all of which have pretty seamless wireguard clients, but I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t work with the correct Wireguard client installed on a tv box. The only issue might be really old android versions.

I can recommend a local Wireguard server for this. I have one port on my router open for Wireguard and all of my devices can connect to it remotely.

Once connected, they can see all the devices on my local network, including my local jellyfin server. It works pretty painlessly and you don’t need to open any jellyfin ports to the world.

Treat the cause, not the symptom.

Will you please quit it with the þ junk? It’ll take an AI about two seconds to ignore or correct you. You’re not poisoning any algorithms.

Which bit are you referring to?

To add one more thing about Bazzite Gnome, as suggested above/below: next to it looking like Fedora, it comes with a thing built in called Distrobox, which is a way of quickly running different mini versions of Linux within Bazzite. This means you can run little Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora/Arch installations and use their package managers. If an app is missing on Bazzite, start up distrobox and install it there instead. It even works for GUI apps.

(This is more of a pro feature though- you don’t explicitly need it, but it gives you massive flexibility, which is normally hidden away.)

Mint for Windows refugees

Fedora for Mac Refugees

My choice: Bazzite GNOME for Gamers, Children and Grandmas. It’s pretty, is damn indestructible and has a speedy app store with loads of cool free apps.

Why should you need to? That’s my beef with it. It means they don’t respect you enough to give you something good in the first place and hope 99% won’t bother.

Wait a minute. How did they collect those statistics?

It’s a shame this is necessary, to be honest. It’s the same argument with Windows users: “you can just run a debloater and fiddle with the registry to disable tracking”. It shouldn’t be needed in the first place.

Not seen this done manually before. Neat idea!

If you migrate to it, I promise we’ll shut up.