Practice in a VM. Go from the base install to setting up all the apps to customizing the look of everything (commonly called “ricing”). That should give you a sense of what to expect.
When you think you’re ready, maybe give a few Live ISO’s a demo to see if there’s any immediate glaring issues when it’s running on bare metal. If not, then proceed to install when you’ve picked the one you like the most!
Almighty Algorithms, ew.
Tbh, people like him—the ones that thought racism and other bigotry were valid comedy tools—only helped normalize that stuff today. I lay part of the blame, for the rise of the hyper-masculine shock culture that’s currently worming its way through various societies and governments, at his and his collaborators’ feet.
So whether anyone thinks he’s a Nazi currently, in the past, or was/is just a stupid idiot, he’s still culpable for using his platform to help normalize hate. And in my mind, unless he’s used his platform to counter the bigotry he helped propagate, he’ll always be a bastard for it.
It depends what it is you expect out of it, from what I’ve understood from others. If you want touch to just be a replacement for a mouse, it will be fine. If you expect multitouch to work like most tablets or phones, you’ll be disappointed.
Feel free to refute that with your own experiences. I’m only speaking from second hand.
If you’re using Debian, do you really need to upgrade?
h/j
But seriously anything with an AMD CPU/GPU in it and an Intel wireless card is probably all you’ll need to be mindful of, provided it fits in your budget.
Also, don’t worry about touch-capable screens or HDR. The support for those is still a work in progress, and you’ll likely have a bad time with them if you’re using Debian.
Thanks!
Do you have any links to the alleged bad history? I couldn’t find anything, partly because the recent political theatre makes it hard to be informed.
You sure you’re not confusing TP-Link with D-Link? The latter has been the common attack surface I’m familiar with, and the former has been a staple for enthusiasts and as a tool for pentesters.
This is why it’s vital to get privacy tools now, while it’s easy and legal.
My company actually pushes referrals and even offers a bonus for a successful hire to whoever recommended them, but the candidate still has to pass a bunch of interview hurdles, so it’s rare that it all works out anyway.
I think referrals can work out, if your interview process is grueling to begin with.
And we’ve just handed charge of those networks over to a bunch of script kiddies working for a technofacist.
Surely, they won’t make things worse, right? Right?
You could absolutely rebase to Silverblue or Kinoite. Rebasing swaps out the core system files (basically, all the immutable stuff) and leaves /etc and /var untouched. So your home directory and other configs won’t change.
However, Universal Blue is not likely to shut down, since there’s many maintainers, and they have directions on how to create your own downstream distro, if you want. On top of that, BlueBuild has their own set of tools to roll your own distro downstream from the base Fedora Atomics.
So no matter what, the likelihood that you’ll be stranded is almost zero.
ETA: let me know if you want more details.
Oh good. The script kiddies will definitely not make Salt Typhoon worse.
Fix the system so people don’t have to make money by stealing copper.
And yet, here we are with billionaires in charge—robber barons v2.0.
Person of the Year is Musk, and the cover is him sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/media/time-magazine-elon-musk-cover-trump/index.html
I actually have it on a laptop, because I wanted something virtually bulletproof that my SO could have that just works. No worrying about broken configs or leftover cruft.
Just undecided if I want it on my main desktop. I’ve had a few minor but annoying issues with it, though nothing unworkable. Ricing is sometimes problematic, and that’s something I enjoy. I really like the build process, though, and how you can downstream your own version, and I like ostree backups (plus I can’t wait for bootc).
This has been my experience as well. Some people love it, but I’m not gonna rely on it for critical backup or recovery tools (also, there’s that whole binary blob thing, besides).
Fedora Writer is another one (also works on Windows and maybe Mac), and there’s also GLIM for multiboot, similar to Ventoy.
I’m still waffling between CachyOS and Bazzite. 😆
I know people have recommended Bazzite already, and I would too, but be sure to give PikaOS a look as well.
It’s a gaming distro, but it’s not immutable/atomic, though it uses a similar build process. Definitely one to consider if gaming is your goal.