FWIW each new install is faster, especially if you write down the “weird” steps.

My gosh people… this… this might be the year of Linux on the desktop!

(not even being sarcastic here, the reach streamers have is huge. I bet a lot of their audience is thinking now “Wow… if he did it, maybe I could!”)

Well I (a developer) collaborated with an artist (3D modeler) recently and… I did not ask them to install anything.

Instead what I did is a develop a Web drag&drop page. They’d visit it, drag&drop their model and… see if it worked (e.g. visually or running animations) as they expected. That was it.

IMHO finding the boundaries that are important, and thus how to collaborate, is more important than a unique reproducible environment when roles are quite different.

TL;DR: IMHO no, you don’t, instead find how to actually collaborate.

set up by non-programmers (such as artists) […] requires users to learn i3wm and possibly use the command line

Yes, and I’d argue to also reflect back on (long form) content, e.g. write down notes on books, critical ones, and if you watch a movie or documentary with friends, chat about it with them, reflect on your understanding of the topic, what was good, what wasn’t, develop a critical sense rather than just “consume” content.

Bonus : f*ck noise! Protect yourself when you are learning from distractions. There are myriads of things begging for your attention. Brush them off then in turn shape your environment so that you actually have a chance to learn. Learning is challenging, by definition, so you MUST make sure nothing and nobody gets in the way! Because plenty of people here have a technical side, here is a tool I built as an example https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/online-hygiene/src/branch/master/index.js which gives me daily quota of Websites I can visit, or not, and when.

When during your life where you at peak learning rate?

Was it as school? Uni? If so, what did you do differently then? Can you still do it now?

I’ll give few examples that honestly in retrospect are absolutely obvious and yet, few people seem to still do it :

• have a trusted teacher/mentor who can pinpoint your flaw
• do exercises that test your knowledge rather than read and assume you know
• repeat said exercises in with varying context and in increasing difficulty
• take notes (IMHO the biggest) that you gradually structure and index
• use said notes when exercises (which are safe spaces to challenge your understanding) gets tough
• have structured goals, namely you don’t learn about a topic, move on randomly, but rather have 6 months over a topic
• learn regularly, e.g. weekly occurrence on a very specific topic, again and again for months on end
• last but not least, do it as a group, build, grow and sustain a network of helpful peers whom you are learning from but also helping

So… yeah, none of that is secret nor even complex yet most adults seems to leave THE place to learn and somehow forget EVERYTHING they actually learned. It’s nuts.

Also most of that is free. Getting a notepad or a wiki or using documents in a directory on your computer is practically cheaper than a coffee in most places. There is no excuse to note take notes then organize them. Same for regularity and exercises, get a calendar then drill, again.

FWIW that works for pretty much everything, from an abstract field of knowledge, e.g. math, to a physical skill, e.g. welding or ice skating.

Very cool, thanks for the in depth explanation.

ROCm

I’m curious. Say you are getting a new computer, put Debian on, want to run e.g. DeepSeek via ollama via a container (e.g. Docker or podman) and also play, how easy or difficult is it?

I know that for NVIDIA you install the (closed official) drivers, setup the container insuring you get GPU passthrough, and thanks to CUDA from the driver, you’re pretty much good to go. Is it the same for AMD? Do you “just” need to install another package or is there more tinkering involved?

Torrent?

Debian… but also to clarify it’s not “old” at all. I’m using Debian on my servers, yes, but also on my desktop that use daily, to work and to play video games on, including VR. So… don’t think because it’s “old” and “stable” it means it’s outdated.

Specially the moment you open the browser

I’d be curious, did you profile if it’s for all pages or only some? I’d expect e.g. Facebook or Instagram to be more demanding than Lemmy or ProtonMail but to be honest I have no idea.